A lot of things to cover today so I’ll post up pictures with short descriptions of each. Okay here goes…

[Visited a village pre-school with holes in the roof. Teachers said they had to move parts of the classroom around when it rained so the teaching materials wouldn't get wet. The kids performed a number for us and an outgoing girl sang her heart out to us while raising her arm with her palm up to emphasize high points. So cute.]

[Pastor of the village excitedly took us on a tour of his container farm. He was explaining how to breed earthworms to make organic soil for farming various vegetables. Incredibly helpful for the livelihood and morale of the community.]

[We took a 12 hour drive  in "Jeepneys" over mountains, visiting various rural preschools and pastor trainings along the way. Here are some of the highlights of our long journey...]

[Monthly Pastor's THRIVE conference for the Southern Region. When asked who traveled  the furthest, everyone pointed to a mountain pastor that traveled three hours one way to attend.]

[Mountain Pre-school where Mike Reed and I had a dance off for the kids. For some the reason, Filipino children don't appreciate my moves =( ... oh well]

[For lunch, we stopped at McDonald's arch nemesis Jolli Bee. All the Filipinos described Jolli Bee as being "sweeter" than McDonald's. I must admit, their burgers are pretty decent and they do have a sweeter flavor to them.]

[Randomly went to cavern on the side of the road. Dale almost Enough said]

[Scenic view coming down the mountain]

[Sugar Cane fields are white at harvest time. Sugar cane field workers need Jesus. Matt 9:37-38-Then he (Jesus) said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.]

[Pre-school in a fishing village right on the beach. We arrived nearly three hours late (after it was dark) expecting that the kids would have gone home. They waited for us and greeted us with songs and scripture reciting. The kids all counted to one hundred in English and spelled out one through twenty (one-o-n-e, two-t-w-o, etc.) Afterward, we found out that we were the first white people the pre-schoolers had ever seen! This was probably my favorite place we visited.]

[Pakito, ICM's CEO greeted us with a late night dinner with all the local ICM staff. We were so incredibly worn out at this point but we loved talking with the staff. I told Mike read that two of the guys sitting next to me were olympic swimmers (for entertainment purposes, obviously). They didn't speak any English. Pretty good laughs after a long day.]

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