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Flood Update

  Flood Update – The waters have mostly receded, leaving a thick layer of mud and silt. Many of the transitional homes,built less than a year ago and just given a coat of protective Valspar during our November trip, sustained damage as you can see from the photos taken today. Many people have been hard at […]

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A Balilihan Christmas

  The team enjoyed a very special day last Saturday. We traveled over to Balilihan to have an early Christmas with our friends Patricia, Urbana, Essencio and Victor. We picked them up at the barrio hall and drove the short distance to the three sibling’s new home, which was built and furnished by One for […]

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A little Filipino eye candy

  A little Filipino eye candy   A man plows a recently harvested rice field with his Carabao in preparation for planting a new crop.   The rice fields are planted with a new rice crop.     The Loboc River    

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Friday at Calunasan Sur Elementary

        Yesterday at the school, was a beautiful, memorable day. The municipality’s priest officiated their monthly mass. Next, the children performed a short program for us and honored each one of us with a medallion and thank you notes, written and read by the students and teachers. The teachers at Calunasan Sur Elementary […]

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Magdelena

Thursday afternoon we hosted a ladies (iced) “tea party” and viewing of the “Magdelena” film produced by the Jesus Film people. Women from the surrounding three barrios attended and watched the film. Afterwards we were able to chat and share Linny’s homemade donuts, Enday’s cupcakes and iced tea together in fellowship.          […]