{"id":1096,"date":"2015-05-16T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vxbd7vrmeo.wpdns.site\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:27:36","slug":"two-trips-six-nations-ten-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/two-trips-six-nations-ten-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Trips, Six Nations, Ten Ministries!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ministry Blessings<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Here is one of those obscure \u201cinternet research\u201d facts:<\/p>\n

People do not typically click on a link or a file in an email to open it.<\/em><\/p>\n

If the information they want is not in the text of the email, it will not be read. However, long emails\u2014like this one<\/em>\u2014don\u2019t get read, either.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s really discouraging for folks like us who want desperately to share about the amazing work that God is doing through\u00a0BCMW\u00a0and who work diligently to create the file that is, well,\u00a0attached<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Since the\u00a0attached Update<\/em>\u00a0(that\u2019s your cue to open it now) covers two trips involving six nations and ten ministries, it is mostly just basic, factual information and some pictures.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already opened the attachment\u2026<\/p>\n

Click here to open the BCMW Insiders Update<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Human Interest Stories<\/strong><\/h5>\n

So here are just a few stories that add some \u201chuman interest\u201d to the newsletter vignettes\u2026<\/p>\n

Two extant ministry locations in the\u00a0Philippines<\/em>\u00a0grew to three in January. And although this was our first time in\u00a0Davao (click for pics)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, God blessed our work at\u00a0Soli Deo Gloria Christian Church<\/em>\u00a0in wonderful ways. Susie, who never gets sick, had a bit of a medical problem while we were there. But our training program included several doctors who came to her aid and resolved the issue. Following the training we \u201cretreated\u201d to a nearby resort for a couple of days. Susie and I had the (not so) bright idea of taking a hike in the jungle. We promptly got lost and had to be rescued! It was only after we left that facility that we discovered that we had been uncomfortably close to an area of civil unrest!<\/p>\n

Our gracious and far-too-generous partners in\u00a0Cebu (click for pics)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0determined to take us on a gastronomic world tour during our days with them. It\u2019s just a little embarrassing to mention that we ate at restaurants representing nine\u2014yes, nine\u2014different nations. Crazy, huh? We loved spending time with\u00a0Mel Caparros, Lead Pastor at Living Word<\/em>, and his sweet wife,\u00a0Marie<\/em>. Their church has nearly one hundred \u201coutreaches\u201d\u2014ministries we would call church plants\u2014not only in the Philippines but also in various other nations. In fact, in just a few weeks we\u2019ll be going to the UK to connect with two Living Word churches to discuss biblical counseling training in England and Scotland.<\/p>\n

Our final stop in RP was in\u00a0Manila (click for pics)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0at one of our partners\u2019 churches,\u00a0Higher Rock Christian Church<\/em>. The\u00a0Update<\/em> contains the story of their extravagant preparation for the 400 people who attended our Module 2 program.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an overnight flight from Manila to Sydney, Australia, from which we jumped down to <\/span>Melbourne (click for pics)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Our Lord allowed us to begin another new training program there in cooperation with\u00a0<\/span>Biblical Soul Care Australia<\/em>, this one at another international partner church,\u00a0<\/span>GraceWest Bible Church<\/em>. And Susie was given the privilege of teaching a special Ladies Evening program.<\/span><\/p>\n

On page two of the\u00a0Update<\/em>you\u2019ll find pictures of the two graduate classes at\u00a0Kyiv (Ukraine) Theological Seminary (click for pics)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that kicked off our second trip of the year. And on the weekend between those classes, I had the privilege of serving the staff at\u00a0Word of Life, Ukraine (pics in KTS slideshow)<\/em>. Although both the director and I suffered with a cold, God was good to give us a great time.<\/p>\n

During the second week of KTS classes something else of special significance happened\u2014we hired a\u00a0Russian Director for BCMW, Stepan Pavyluk!<\/em>\u00a0You\u2019ll be hearing more about this soon, but it is a really exciting development in the expansion of our work in the Slavic World.<\/p>\n

Our modular program in\u00a0Egypt (click for pics)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0was next, with another exciting development\u2014 one of our MBC graduates assisted in the teaching. This is a really good program being done in partnership with\u00a0New Renovare Ministry<\/em>, a biblical counseling training ministry under the direction of Dr. Yasser Farah.<\/p>\n

My teaching in that modular program finished at\u00a010:30 a.m.\u00a0on a\u00a0Saturday. Then we were whisked from one conference center (in the desert) to another (near Alexandria), and I began teaching in an academic program\u00a0(for NTCGS; click for pics)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a04:00 p.m.\u00a0\u2013 until\u00a09:50! What a day!<\/p>\n

The most challenging, and yet in many ways the most wonderful, days of ministry on this trip took place in\u00a0St. Petersburg, Russia (click for pics)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Challenging? I taught nearly a whole module of new material by myself and had some difficult conversations. Wonderful? We \u201cgraduated\u201d more than 50 folks and began to plan future ministries in Russia!<\/p>\n

Finally, Susie and I and our BCMW colleagues Don and Elizabeth Roy stopped by \u201cThe Motherland\u201d (have you seen my family name?)\u00a0Amsterdam, Netherlands (click for pics)<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Our one day\u00a0\u201cIntroduction to Biblical Counseling\u201d<\/em>\u00a0seminar was designed to help us assess the wisdom of initiating a modular training program, a ministry Don would direct, there. We were pleasantly surprised when 55 people from 21 churches attended, an indication from our Lord that we should move forward! Personally, I\u2019m thrilled!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ministry Blessings Here is one of those obscure \u201cinternet research\u201d facts: People do not typically click on a link or a file in an email to open it. If the information they want is not in the text of the email, it will not be read. However, long emails\u2014like this one\u2014don\u2019t get read, either. That\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sq_banner_image_id":1507,"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-news-ministry-updates"],"meta_box":{"group_4rft1b1l2tt":[],"video_id_or_url":"","itunes_url":"","language":"","duration":"","type":"post","featured":"0"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}