Day #8 - Friday, August 31st

Friday morning we took the entire team to visit the chapel service at Zion Bible College. Len Lagestee shared his testimony during the service, and Jamie Cunard preached during the service. After the service, we toured the campus with President Cruz Lapura. President Lapura (pictured to the right, along with myself and Jamie) also shared some of the details of the college. They used to run more than 80 students, but due to a foundation that used to sponsor 80 students only being to sponsor 20, many of the students had to leave. Currently, the school is running 57 students. The students who are there are so passionate about their call! I asked one young man what he would do after he finished his final year in the fall, and he said, "I will plant a church!" He said it with such certainty, and conviction that I almost felt stupid for asking the question, but he certainly did not mean it that way! He was just so sure about what he was to do for God! Imagine that there is a college that prepares these young men and women of God to go into the harvest for only $48 / month! Please watch the video I have connected to this post!

Zion Bible College of the Philippines

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After the tour, we ate lunch, and then went to the job site for the day. It was sooo hot, and we did more of the same...moving dirt! We used the "bucket brigade' to move the pile of dirt near the road over to where it could extend the church grounds out to fit more people.

Eventually it began to rain pretty hard, which made it hard to slop around in the mud. Randle took us into town because he needed to purchase a generator to help with the welding for this project, and for the ones in the future. While he was looking for the generator, we went shopping for souveniers in Tacloban City.

After our brief shopping experience, we went back to the job site. Pastor Vadin asked if we could send part of the team to minister at the youth service, so Jamie, Matt, and Samantha went. The rest of us spent the evening at the job, trying to get the welding finished. As we ended our time there, the Filippino guys doing the welding stayed well into the night, to keep us on schedule.

One more thing...before we left for the hotel, we had dinner at the site..from MCDONALD'S!!! We had Quarter-Pounders and McDonald's Fried Chicken. Weird getting Fried Chicken at McD's, but AWESOME at the same time!