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.