services and met for lunch at the local Shakey’s pizza place, except for Mark who had been taken to lunch earlier by his church hosts and then dropped off back at the hotel for a delightful nap. We had a short break in the day before our scheduled Advanced Conference. Eddie and Pastor Noel went on an errand to do a needed money exchange which took several hours. The Advanced Conference is well attended by 35 leaders in the church and the team looks forward to a bit of rest before busy prison ministry again tomorrow. Dinner at Kenny Rogers Restaurant tonight!
Monday, April 15 th Calamba Jail and Binan Jail and GVT flies off the island: 3 Services today The team experiences a rare PFC Mission Trip occurrence as GVT and Pastor Noel with Pastor Peter leave the group to hop on a plane on a three-day reconnaissance trip to the island of Mindanao. GVT has had the prison ministry expansion idea for Mindanao for many years and now is the time to check it out! A schedule has been prepared for this additional mission of prison services and a Basic Conference. GVT has to be up at 1:30 a.m. to drive to the airport for a 4:00 a.m. flight. Back at the “Homefront”, the rest of the team start the day having breakfast at Jollibee’s – a popular fast food place in The Philippines. Mark led devotions and Kathleen receives a surprise gift from Dee. Oh, and, it’s Dee’s birthday. Jaycob noticed a couple of women holding babies at the window behind us asking for food, so we bought them breakfast. Arriving at our first prison visit of the day, we were informed we have a tight schedule per the prison staff and had to call an audible – meaning the prison service assignments had to be changed by the Team Leader right before our start time. Mark graciously gave up the long sermon and everyone was efficient in their presentation. Today is a big program with planned baptisms and a boodle fight. One officer has agreed to take
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