Update from Philippines 2

Everything in the Philippines is going great. We are now on Tuesday afternoon and I am speaking 5 hours a day. It will not take them long to realize that after one day, I have exhausted all of my knowledge on ever topic under the sun.

I am teaching on spiritual maturity and once again I find Gods sense of humor great. Most people wonder if I am even saved let alone spiritually mature. We are beginning each morning at 5 am and we are not finished until about 9 at night. Thank God I only have to speak for 5 of those hours.

Each of my services is being recorded to distribute all over the Island. The tapes will help to help train the pastors that cannot make it to the conference. These men have walked 5 hours through the mountains to get here! It really humbles me to think that anyone of these great men of God would walk across the street, let alone 5 hours to hear me preach.

My secretaries have been working long into the night translating my writing. They are very special young ladies and I truly do appreciate all that they are doing for me.

I have a group of young preacher sons who are watching me out side the window. They sit around me and we have become real buddies. Many of the little girls will come up and sit on my lap and let me hold them. None of them are as special as my grandchildren, but they are very special children.

The food is great. I am probably the only missionary that comes to the Philippines and gains weight. Thank God for expandable pants.

Dr. Loqueous has invited me back next year, and every year to the Pastors training. I agreed to help him train 500 preachers and I guess he is going to take me up on it.

While I am here I have been looking into the Radio Broadcast "Life is for Living Philippines" and it looks like it will become a reality soon with one small glitch. We are checking into starting a radio station to broadcast 24 hours every day 365 days a year. He wants the station called CBCBC (Central Baptist Church and Bible College), I want to call it Goens Radio, and I think the Filipinos agree with me. They voted with a laugh.

Thank God for his goodness and protection. This is Pastor Steve Goens reporting from my luxury office over looking Davao City.

Update from Davao, Phillipines

I have of course been very busy since I have arrived. Less than 12 hours after I was picked up at the airport I was speaking to a group of people on marriage. Today, I have already spoken two times and I am getting ready to speak again. This morning I spoke to the camp kids and several of them got saved including a woman that was against the church coming into the school to teach the children and have the feeding program. But this morning she was in attendance, and even though I was speaking mostly to the children she came forward to trust Christ. I just finished preaching to the "bridge people" These people have been displaced from the mountain region and have nothing. They have built a shanty town out of the items the poor people threw away. They eat the garbage out of the poormans trash can, and yet I, a rich American was received with open arms and I had a great time with the children. It was everything I could do to walk away without taking those beautiful children home with me. Some of them were saved as well.

Tonight I am getting ready to leave here and preach to some of the government people. I will be speaking to the city government leaders later on this week.

Next week I will be teaching 5 hours a day. Thank God the next week we will take a vacation and I will only be speaking 3 times a day on marriage and the family.

I am somewhat rested, but tomorrow will be another busy day. Pray for the success of the meeting, I am invited back again next year to help train 500 preachers.

Who would have ever believed that a high school flunky and Bible college would be "Professor Dr. Steve Goens" God does have a sense of humor!!!!!!!!