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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=120 BGCOLOR="#FFCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0443f781egdyul.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Proclaim His Praise in the Islands - the Hallowells</B></FONT> <B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Proclaim His Praise in the Islands the "><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=360 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> 080723PL</div> <bR> <div> July 23, 2008</div> <bR> <div> Dear Prayer Partner, </div> <bR> <div> A part of our role at the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines is to help students gain a deeper Christian understanding of the grinding poverty that is so prevalent here in the Philippines.  A strategic way we do this is to take students to see various kinds of poverty caused by injustice, corruption, and sin.  We also do our best to show them how to bring good news to the poor. </div> <bR> <div> On July 11 Jay took his Urban Missions class to visit a ministry to some of the approximately 1/2 million female sex workers here in the Philippines.  Here are comments from a few his students after the trip:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"I didn´t know what to do or say.  But I learned that they are also people.  This was really important." </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"I was able to talk with [former sex worker´s name deleted].  Her transformation by the gospel is a powerful example that really challenges me."</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"I had mixed feelings before going there.  I didn´t know how to act.  I really felt the stigma.  God opened my eyes to how evangelism should not always be the same in every instance."</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="322cae90.gif" border=0 width="202" height="233" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> [Photo credit: www.samaritana.org, the web site of this ministry.]</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="malabon_plans"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>On August 1-3 Jay will lead this class on a two-night mission trip to a squatter area.  It is near a heavily polluted, ugly, smelly river that easily floods during heavy rains.  It is rainy season, so floods are possible.  None of the students in this class have ever slept overnight with families living in squatter shanties.  We will be working with a pastor and local church in the neighborhood. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The trip is for the students to learn.  Jay has trained the students to find informants and do interviews in order to grow in understanding the poor, their life, their world views, and what it takes to minister with them.  May the students learn all that our Lord wants them to learn!</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The trip is also for the students to serve.  With the pastor and church, we will be distributing clothes, doing evangelism, helping with Bible studies, giving testimonies, teaching and preaching.  May our Lord use these times of ministry to bring good news to the poor</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7014000990000.gif" HEIGHT="21" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Spiritual warfare is common in such squatter areas and on such mission trips.  Would you please pray for Jay and his students each day August 1- 3?  And, again, on August 8 on a similar trip to another slum?  Thank you.</div> <bR> <div> Please pray also for all the classes we teach (Romans, Inductive Bible Study, English, Urban Missions), the students we mentor, and all the other associated ministries God has involved us in around the edges. Thank you very much.</div> <bR> <div> It is still a war, even when we know the winner,</div> <div> Jay and Amor</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> by Jay and Amor Hallowell</div> <div> Last update: July 23, 2008</div> <div> --------------------------------- end of Hallowell content ----------------------------------------------</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>