2/21/11 - Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your prayers and words of encouragement. You're really going to be blessed with this prayer letter and the pictures and stories on our blog. Just click on the link below to go directly to our pictures - no passwords or funny business - click on the pictures and they enlarge nicely. You can also download them and use them in a PowerPoint or slide show.
Deaf - Lencio smiled a very special smile this morning as he could see his mother praying to receive Christ as her savior...see the story on our blog - click the link below and see more Deaf stories and pictures.
Your missionaries,
Dave & Ivette
http://batangas-batangas.blogspot.com
2/7/2011-
Deaf Church Planting/Leadership Seminar - Ivette trains our Deaf leaders in Nasugbu, Rodel and Thess, in the same church. See all these on our blog...click the link below.
Jenifer - is a Deaf leader in the town of San Nicolas. Lord we pray that you will strengthen her and encourage her heart as she works so faithfully to evangelize her Deaf family members in a house church in her home. Strengthen her faith we pray and give her wisdom to lead...in Jesus' name - Amen.
Jessielynn - a Deaf cousin of Jenifer and neighbor has been prohibited by her family from attending church at Jenifer's house. She suffers physical abuse from time to time. Recently she was struck in the mouth and a tooth was knocked loose. Lord we pray for Jessielynn and ask that you encourage her heart through this persecution. We pray that You will bring an end to this mistreatment soon. Please strengthen Jessielynn and raise her up as a strong leader among the Deaf community...in Jesus precious name we pray - Amen!Lord we thank You and praise You for all Your mighty works here in Batangas. Though we rejoice at the fruit You are bearing in people's lives, we are reminded again that Batangas is still a very, very dark place spiritually. Please continue to remove spiritual strongholds of unbelief and resistance to the gospel. Lord we also know that because of fear many people believe that what we are trying to accomplish will ultimately bring a curse on their family members. Please remove this fear and replace it with faith...in Jesus' powerful name we pray - Amen!
Your missionaries,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.
blogspot.com
1/31/2011 - Dear Praying Friends,
Again we are so grateful for your continued prayer support and words of encouragement as we serve here in Batangas.
- Church Planting - some of our activities this week include...a survey trip to 3 mountain villages...Starting a new work in the home of Elly...starting a new follow up Bible study with Deaf ladies who recently professed faith in Christ.
- Ivette - "I always feel so relaxed around the Deaf and enjoy ministry with them so much!" We were in 3 Deaf schools this week with Brian sharing the gospel and arranging follow up in these schools as well.
- Brian (our Deaf volunteer) - "When I meet Deaf adults who can't talk to me because they have never learned Sign Language I can see the pain in their faces." We were in the homes of several Deaf adults this week surveying to see how we might minister to them in the future.
- POPs - Thank you for praying that we will meet Persons Of Peace. We reconnected with a government official this week who has asked us to partner with the DEAF schools of Batangas! Please pray we can have a productive, straightforward conversation about doing this God's way and that he will support Biblical standards in the school currently under his supervision.
Lord Jesus, thank You so much for Your grace and providence in helping us to reach more Batangenyos with the Gospel of Christ, discipling them and training them to lead their own churches all over this province. May we continue to meet Person's Of peace like Timothy who was discipled by the time Paul met him and ready to go on to the next level in ministry. Lord please bless our Church Planting Seminar this Saturday in Nasugbu. May the pastors and workers there be open to learning new strategies that will help them plant healthy, reproducing churches throughout Batangas...in Jesus' name - Amen!
Your missionaries,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.
blogspot.com
1/9/2011 -
Dear Praying Friends,
Deaf - See pictures of Ekek and read his amazing story on our blog. Lord help us to reach more Deaf men throughout Batangas...in Jesus name - Amen!
Deaf - Thank you for praying for the removal of a spiritual stronghold that has plagued the family of and including one of our Deaf leaders for years. This is the first week since we mentioned it to you that we have not received a text regarding this problem. Lord thank You in advance for a great victory in this family's spiritual battle. We continue to pray for this spiritual stronghold until it is acknowledged and renounced and this family comes to Christ...in Jesus' wonderful name - Amen!
Yours for souls,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.blogspot.com
DEAF OF GUANGZHOUC CHINA
More than 125,000 Deaf live in and around this megacity in southeast China. Deaf from around the country come here to work and provide a livelihood for families for nearly 50 weeks per year. These migrant workers have no access to the Gospel stories but could, if reached, take the Good News for workers to go and share His story of love and hope.
What Happens When You Pray For Your Missionaries And Their People Group
Dear Praying Friends,
On Our Blog
Thank you so much for praying for Bro. Noel. Read how God has answered his prayer for healing!
Thank you for praying for our first values formation seminar with the city employees of Tingloy. Click the link below and continue to pray.
Join us for worship in Dagatan Keystone Christian Church.
Deaf Teaching Deaf - see and pray for a faithful servant of the Lord as he volunteers in a public school.
We had several opportunities to share the gospel this week including with 7 bar maids in Nasugbu. They invited us in to where they stay during the day. We were amazed how quietly they sat as we shared a gospel tract in Tagalog. One lady wept as she heard the words of life and prayed to receive Christ.
One day a boy carving wooden idols in his family's business asked himself, "If I am making this idol, who made me? How can this thing be my god when I'm the one making it?" Lord we can't speak to every lost person in Batangas, but you can. We pray that, like this boy, people here will begin to question their false beliefs, traditions and superstitions that keep them in bondage to darkness. May Batangenyos seek you as their only hope, In Jesus' name.
Your partners in the harvest,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.blogspot.com
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4/12/09
Happy
Easter
Dear Praying Friends,
Sebastian is doing well and growing! We now have the 1
liscenced Filipino
Dentist!
Dagatan
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Aleng
Edna - "One thing I
am thankful for this Easter Sunday morning, God
has never forsaken me!" These are
powerful words coming from a 60-year-old woman who has
lived her life in what we would consider dire
poverty. Proof?... she almost always
wears a smile every day.
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Lourdes
- "I'm grateful for new
life in Christ. Even though Noel
has suffered so many setbacks in his health, he really is
improving over time and God
is showing us His ways
through all of our trials."
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Jun
- "I'm thankful for what the Lord is
doing in my life through this fellowship and
getting to know Him more and more." See
Dagatan's first Sunrise Service on our blog
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Please
pray for Jun a 22-year-old man who admits, I'm
going to have to understand it for myself, I won't
become a Christian by someone just telling me how."
I gave him the book this week Know
Why You Believe. "I really love that
book especially the chapter on creation," he says. See Jun on our blog
Deaf
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Madhel
- (a 15-year-old Deaf girl in San Nicolas has had a
change of heart) "I want to get baptized!"
See her picture and
read her story on our blog.
Also read how God is answering
your prayers for the Deaf to be able to meet in
our absence! Also pictures of their first Lord's
Supper.
Youth
Witness To Hundreds
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"Are
you a Baptist?" a man asks when handed a
gospel tract. See pictures on
our blog of our youth climbing Mt. Makulot and sharing
their faith through handing out hundreds of
gospel tracts to holiday climbers. Also learn
why so many make this trek every Holy
Week.
Revival
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Mercy
- "In 1991
I was not a Christian and my sister sent me a Tagalog
gospel tract entitled Pagsisisi (Repentance).
The Pinatubo volcano
was wrecking havoc in our nation at that time
and even though our town experienced a 7.1
intensity earthquake on the island ofMindoro that same
year, I had no time for my
sister's attempts to convert me. I
stuffed the gospel tract into a book on a shelf and forgot
it completely.
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In 2009
one Saturday night in March, that same gospel
tract came tumbling out of the book I'd placed
it in so many years ago. Only this time I was
preparing a message to share in
church the next
morning. I began to study the tract and
take notes. After sharing the word of God on
Sunday morning about repentance
and forgiveness, our young people began to cry
uncontrollably but this time they had nothing to share as
they usually do.
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After
the service one young person
shared with me a deep scar from their past and added,
"Others of our youth have suffered similar abuses
in their lives, I
only learned it last night!" Thus began the journey
to healing which, by God's grace,
is off to a good start. Imagine four young people, not
yet 20 years old, having been able to open up their
deepest wounds for the first time and apply the"Balm of Gilead"
- the word of God. As the healing process continues imagine
the years of normalcy and service to God that
will be restored to their lives,
which the "locusts" might have eaten! Thank
You Lord for these stirrings of revival!
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Please
pray for a deep sense of Holy Spirit CONVICTION
to permeate this province - Batangas.
The stories our young people shared are very dark and
disturbing. We believe their stories are being
repeated daily in the lives of Batangenyos.
They heartbreaking! We realize we
are way in over our heads. If we don't
see God move here in power - nearly
2,000,000 men, women and children of our
beloved people group will certainly suffer eternal torment
in Hell!
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Please
cry out to God on the behalf of Batangenyos -
one of the most unreached people groups in the
Philippines, still barely 2%
evangelized. Please
pray that the power Easter
- the power of the resurrection
will quicken the hearts and minds of multitudes
groping in spiritual darkness.
Your missionaries,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
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