Philippines Preaching Conference
On Saturday I travel to the Philippines for a week, along with fellow pastors/close friends Mark Mitchell and Rob Hall. There we will put on a preaching conference for 100+ Filipino pastors. My component of the conference includes lecturing on Gospel-Centered Preaching and Preaching the Parables. On the way there we will spend a day in Guam visiting with friends at Pacific Islands University and Seminary.
This is going to be a great trip. I can’t wait. I love serving at a church that cares about preaching, training pastors to preach, foreign missions, and sending its pastors on adventures such as this. I love that our church here in the Bay Area is full of Filipinos who love the gospel and want to see it advance in their home country.
I’d like to ask all of you to pray for this trip.
- Pray that God would use our teaching to equip and inspire the pastors we will be training, most of whom have never received any preaching instruction before.
- Pray that God would teach us much through the friendships we form with the Filipino pastors and our stay in their culture.
- Pray for the Philippines, that the gospel would advance and local churches would thrive in this country of 7,107 islands and 92 million people (the world’s 12 most populous country).
- Pray for our wives and kids while we’re away.
- Pray for our safety, sleep, and stomachs.
- Pray that we’d have a lot of fun.
Thank you for your prayer.
I’ve decided to fully unplug during this trip: no computer, phone, email, etc. So, unless I pre-write some posts to appear while I’m away, I will not be blogging next week.
so cool. will definitely pray!
Hi pastor, would like to know which part here in our country? I hope that i could could attend or you will conduct one here in Cebu City. Indeed, this is what the churches needs here and pastors, a revisit of the gospel. The churches, ministers and christians thought of the gospel as for the uncircumcised but nothing of the circumcised. I can’t even see a gospel centered church here. I am also praying that the Lord will plant one and make that church a model to the philippine churches. I hope you can drop by our city. What church that invited you pastor? would love to know and connect with them?
I’ve been reading the books and mahaney, harris, dever, your blog and other articles from the gospel coalition. My prayer is that the Lord will start a gospel churches movement here in the philippines.
Blessings.
That’s awesome, Justin. Have a great time. I spent two weeks in the northern part of Luzon a decade ago and long to travel back sometime. Lift Jesus up! You’re in my prayers.
Justin -
I will definitely pray for you , your family and the pastor’s seminar. Have a great time in the Philippines!
We’ll be praying for you, Mark and Rob and your families, Justin. May God be glorified!
Just wanted to also respond to Julius Bungcaras as I studied at San Carlos University, Cebu City :-). Julius, the conference will be at Laguna (so it’s quite far) but I believe the pastors are from all over the Philippines. SCCI (Servants Channel of Cares International) is the organization that Justin and CPC partnered with. To connect between us here in the Bay Area and SCCI, we’ve spearheaded a ministry, http://www.pinoyministries.org/. Send us an email and maybe we can get you connected with SCCI.
Hi Justine! thanks for coming to us together with Mark and Rob. you did a wonderful ministry on preaching expository sermons in the gospel presentations. We at SCCI ar so grateful to God for your coming. Hope to see you back again here in the Philippines.
Every delegate expressed their grateful appreciation for your wonderful ministries to us! They are expecting for a follow up conference to enhance their calling! God bless… with Ellen and whole SCCI Staff.
