February Highlights
Construction progress: Roof on hangar is up! Working on hangar sliding doors now. Helicopter will be moved into the hangar tomorrow!!! Getting ready to begin airstrip. Houses are more livable everyday! 
Our first joint effort with 4 different organizations: Palawan Adventist Hospital, Adventist World Aviation, PFM, and PAMAS (that’s us :)! See pics of the medical mission to the remote PFM Tagbanua 2 project in conjunction with their contextualized evangelistic meetings. Some of the things provided: Doctors, Nurses, circumcisions, consultations, meds, vitamins, toothbrushes, health education, and Tagalog sharing
pamphlets.
The helicopter has been flying more frequently during this busy Malaria/Typhoid season, bringing patients out of the mountains that need blood transfusions or more care. Multiple supply runs and bringing visitors for the missionaries has also given opportunity for more experience (in the heli) for Andrey. 
Muslim ministry begins! Thanks to Danny and Rovelyn Henson who recently arrived back from the states with their new baby, we were able to enjoy a very beneficial Muslim training seminar. Following this God has opened up doors to meet weekly with an Imam (Muslim priest) and neighboring families to study the Quran and Bible together! 
On request by the Muslim families, we have also provided a Muslim friendly children’s program lead by Tonya (Andrey’s wife). This has recently branched into 5+ other programs in conjunction with Bible studies which is keeping us hopping. We also provide medical help and health education after the programs in the poorest areas. 
Brooke’s Point youth and classmates reach out with some literacy programs in our area (Limbasan and Lapiak) Church members were especially targeted so they could learn to read the Bible and Hymbooks. 
Dorcas/sewing ministry by Michel (tailoring donated clothes to kids and patients sizes): Thanks to the donated sewing machine and boxes of used clothes, Michel stays very busy in her free time sewing, organizing and distributing clothes to the very needy. She has started one poor, SDA “widow” (her husband is in prison) learning how to sew and sell or trade clothes to the very poor people in her village, which also gives her a little profit and food to help her own family survive.
Motorcycles donated for Bro. Nitz (Bible worker) and one remote PFM project: This seems like a relatively small thing ($800-$900) but such a huge help to Bible workers in this country. We’ve seen first hand how it really enhances the evangelistic work.
Sponsored students to Palawan Adventist Academy get compliments from their teachers and classmates: Several are top students in their class. Joanne was voted pastor for her class. Darlene, a very sweet and God-fearing student has spent all her free time when at home (near our place) doing Bible studies with her family--often leading the studies herself. She was asked to speak at late notice for their school camping trip. She was so nervous and didn’t want to do it but everyone kept cheering and pushing her to accept. So, she prayed and asked God and her dad (Bro. Nitz) for help. It’s so touching how she tells the story. . .
“I said ‘oh lord please help me’. . . Oh how great I made it! I am thankful to God he didn’t let me alone in the time that I need his help. He is always there if we work for him. He says in the book of Jeremiah, my favorite verse, that I am going to get force to go on. He says ‘I am going to put my words in your mouth even you are a child’. We don’t need others to lead us to get support. No other than Jesus is our refuge. We pray and ask for help to God and he always hears our prayer if it is in the bottom of our heart.”
Others relate that after she spoke the teachers said “Wow, these Brooke’s Point students are really amazing!”
And God has really blessed her family because of their dedication to God’s work. With the new motorcycle and now another sponsor, they are going full time doing Bible studies and leading the new Limbasan church.
A guitar was also donated for their little church, which they are very excited about, along with English/Tagalog hymnals. They have been responsible for multiple baptisms--even just a few weeks ago--with more on the way. Darlene will be on summer break soon so she can join in the work again.
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