Regarding the distribution, more than one hundred pastors and other Christian leaders of the different churches in Central Luzon (Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Zambales and Bataan including Metro Manila) who came to my warehouse to ask for your materials were all tremendously blessed by the excellent books, DVD & CD tapes, cassette tapes, Bibles, hymnals, devotional and Sunday School & Vacation Bible School materials and said they cannot forget the blessings that they received from you. Of course you cannot blame them if they crave for more, but then I told them that depends upon the kindness of Brother Steven of Love Packages.
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We have many testimonies of recipients of your materials - the Adults, Young people, especially the children were also blessed and saved. The growth of the pastor's churches have increased in numbers because of the free materials they got from you. Besides the many books, the Christmas cassette tapes that you sent were also prayerfully distributed among the many churches for this Christmas. I am sure all of them will have not only a bright Christmas but indeed a right Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Sure was glad to hear from you! The Bikes that you gave have really been a blessing to all of our Pastors. The books are being used by all of our Schools but still it seems like there is never enough, Dictionaries, or Commentaries. The Sunday school literature has been distributed now all over the Islands, and the children are so happy in all of our churches.
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We have received the 20 foot container filled with the Word of God and also 12 bicycles. We loaded up our old gospel boat with about a ton of materials and 3 bicycles. We drove to the islands whree we had just finished 3 powerful crusades. It felt so good to follow up all those souls with bibles and to asswist our Filipino missionaries with Sunday school materials as well as visual aids for the children. Praise God! Thank God for the ministry of Love Packages. Because of their assistance we are able to make a greater impact on the islands.
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1) The bicycles that you have sent which were distributed among my co-pastors are indeed a blessings to the recipients because pastors can now visit church members with no expense at all even in the remote and rural areas in their places of assignments; the two computers are now being used by two of my pastors;
2) The recipients of the good books, tapes, CDs that you sent were a great help not only in the personal libraries of pastors but also in their respective churches libraries;
3) The Bibles and Hymnals were also distributed among the pastors in their churches who cannot afford to buy these excellent materials inspite of the fact that they are all in the English languages;
4) The VBS and SS materials/devotionals were being used in their respective churches among the Youth and Children and these are very helpgul in nurturing the new believers in Christ; Outdated upper rooms booklets were also distributed among the adult and the young people;
5) Church attendance has increased in numbers in all churches where your materials are distributed both the adult, young people and children as well since they received these materials for free. I can also say that many souls are being saved after sharing the Gospel to them.
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Our medical and health teams have been active this month of January. 4 medical missions were conducted in Aringay, La Union, Tabu, Dalupirip, Itogon, Benguet; Matibuey, San Emilio, Ilocos Sur and San Feilpe, Binalonan, Pangasinan. A total of 568 people were treated and provided medicines and vitamins as well as spiritual counseling and prayer. Literature provided by LOVE PACKAGES of Illinois, U.S.A. were given to each one that came for treatment. Most of the people that came for treatment were poor and needy, and 412 accepted Jesus into their hearts. As you can see by the testimonies our literature played a significant part in the salvations and discipleship that is taking place in Fiji and the Philippines.
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For sometime we have planned to write to you, to express our thanks to you, for the containers of literature, books, etc., you have sent for the Filipino churches. We have distributed many boxes to pastors and Christian workers in several areas of the Philippines over the years. Even the deaf students at the Bible Institute for the Deaf have benefitted, The recipients have been very grateful to get the materials. Most of them have very few such resources.
We went to minister at a children’s ranch on the island of Cebu. There were 33 children there, ages 6-19 years old. A new container from Love Packages had arrived not long before that. We opened several boxes and from the wealth of Sunday School materials were able to find a teachers quarterly and project packet that matched. Since the children we were going to minister to were all abused and abandoned before going to the ranch, we decided to use materials on Bible Heroes. In each service we told stories of these heroes, and stressed that the children could be Heros for God also. In the last service, we went to each child and put a sticker on their shirts from the packet which said HERO on it. The children were so excited, not only about the stories, but the stickers that called them a hero! What good timing for those materials to arrive, and what a blessing they were to those children. Lastly we went to the Central Luzon District Council Convention. We took with us several boxes of Christian Education materials to give to the pastors for their churches. The District CE Directors organized the materials in stacks for distribution at the rear of the meeting room. This activity nearly disrupted the whole meeting as the pastors kept looking toward the back of the room wanting so badly to rush back to get the material! Thank you so much for your ministry to the people of the Philippines and around the world.
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Thank you for making us one of the recipients of the books, VBS, magazines, devotional, materials, and Sunday school materials. The National Christian Education Department of the Philippine Assemblies of God received these materials. Here is how they were distributed. The VBS kits were given away at the monthly district minister’s meetings. These will be used in local churches. Some books and magazines were given to the Southern Tagalog District and then distributed to the School of Ministry and the Mindoro Bible school. The Sunday school materials and visual aids were distributed at the Luzon Regional Childrens conference. Hundreds of children education workers and students from Bethel Bible college received these materials. The remaining books, magazines, and devotionals will be distributed this week at our General council, it will go out to all 19 districts and Bibles Schools. As you can see the material has been given a very wide distribution. It has been and will be a great blessing to the church in the Philippines. We are expecting our local pastors and district leaders to send their reports with pictures as soon as possible. Thanks.
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Billy Taylor is a modern day apostle and one of our literature distributors in the Philippines. In the past several years he has trained leaders and pioneered 153 churches. Billy has a large boat that he pilots to remote islands and takes our literature all over the nation of the Philippines. He called me a couple of weeks ago to update me on how the ministry was progressing. In a previously sent container we had included a number of VBS kits. He was pleasantly surprised and blessed to see that we had sent exactly 153 kits - one for each of his churches. (we didn't plan that, God did) He told me that thousands of kids had come to VBS and that hundreds had come to Christ. He and a team of workers, had also taken one of the kits and went to a small island where the gospel of Jesus Christ had never been preached before. He later sent me an email with a picture attached. It was great, 400 kids sitting there on the ground with the little crowns they made on their heads, hearing about Christ for the first time.
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We sailed our old boat into the Don Islands, with approx. population of 3,000, these are a chain of Islands we have been working for Lord in the past 2 -3 years. So far we have planted 6 new congregations in these islands which are located just about 100 nautical miles north of our general headquarters in Cebu. We anchored and the report from our advance party was that the people of the island was excited to hear the gospel. Over 50 people were healed in this crusade, 937 people said sinners prayer, and 36 new bible studies were opened. Praise God and to God be all the Glory!!!
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Thank you for asking if we want another shipment. The answer is YES, YES, YES! Your generosity and kindness in sending us books, bibles and other materials is a big and tremendous help for us Filipino servants of the Lord. Many, many pastors are able to establish church libraries. We thank the Lord so much for you. You were indeed answers to our prayers in providing us materials for our use in our ministry as we continue to serve Him during these endtimes. All pastors and churches that took materials are now conducting Vacation Bible schools with them. Our fervent prayers for you, your donors and supporters and all that help are that God may continue to bless you richly as you share your blessings with us.
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We held simple Christmas parties for all the children in our feeding centers jointly run by Bethesda Ministries ans the Department of Education - 2,564 children. We fixed a bag of candy, a little toy, an apple and some snacks to give to each child. It was so good to be able to hand each child a piece of Sunday School literature. What amazed and blessed me so much was that in ALL of the feeding centers, the children IMMEDIATELY opened the reading materials and excitedly read stories about Jesus. The response was terrific as the children saw pictures and read the stories. (NOTE FROM LOVE PACKAGES: We received pictures with this testimony and to see all the children looking at the pictures on their SS leaflets instead of playing with the toy they had received at the same time was SO encouraging to us we knew you would be blessed to read it too! Come visit to see the pictures!)
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I apologize for this late mail. The 20 foot container was finally delivered to Baguio City and unloaded last Saturday - November 25. Praise the Lord. Although the container was released the evening of Friday - Nov. 24, the truck had trouble pulling the container up the mountain and broke down twice. At one time it lost its brakes and almost fell off the mountain. When we unloaded the container we were overjoyed at the items that were in it. Foremost were the Bibles. Then the Vacation Bible School kits, then the thousands of reading material. The container arrived just in time for a large Women's conference we are having next week, and then successive medical missions, school crusades and outdoor evangelistic crusade from January to May, 2007. Thank you
also for the bicycles and sandals. The children here in the Orphan Home will enjoy them.
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Regarding testimonies, yes we have many among church members of pastors who are getting materials from my warehouse. Many were saved by reading the materials you have sent especially the children who have gone through Sunday Schools and Vacation Bible Schools. And many pastors were happy that even their membership grew as a result of your materials.
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