Fall Semester Prayerful Review

As we head into the last week of the semester I thought it would be a good thing to look back and praise God for some of the exciting things that have happened at PIBC over the past few months. Please join us in thanking God for …

The great progress in the student outreach to the University of Guam. The Guam Evangelical Church has changed into the “gathering,” a student-led relational outreach to Micronesian students in the dorms at UOG. I am especially thankful to see the way the students involved in the ministry have grown. As one student said, “I hated (at first) to go to the ministry at UOG, but through praying to God for help I came to realize (that I needed to) accept God’s call for me to help reach others… and not give up doing my ministry at UOG.”

The growing openness among the students to share their heart issues with us and trust us to help them.

The great unified team spirit among the faculty and staff.

The successful launching of our distance education program. Students from Palau and Guam interacted with one another and, I think, learned a lot in our first ever Distance education class – “Cults, Sects and Heresies.” This Spring we plan to include students from Chuuk and Yap with those from Palau and Guam in “Survey of Wisdom Literature.” I am really enjoying having the opportunity to teach and fellowship with the students in both the actual and virtual classroom.

God’s wonderful provision of a new dorm room and kitchen dining room (Quik space cargo container conversions), dorm furniture (from a sale at the Hilton), and other assorted physical needs being met at very low cost to us.

Provision for the financial needs of the students, especially the recent reception of the Chuuk State scholarship checks for most of our Chuukese students.

Prayer Requests

1. For good rest for students, staff and faculty over the Christmas break.

2. For the student mission trip to Yap to lead children’s ministry. 10 students and 3 staff members will go there over Christmas break.

3. For the acceptance of the revision of the “scope of work” list for our distance education grant from the USDA. This would provide all the equipment we need to make all of our sites into distance learning centers. This would be the first step in our plan to have a center in every island group for Bible and ministry training.

4. Many of our students struggle with family issues, addictive behaviors and other such problems. We will be starting counseling/accountability/encouragement groups on the Guam campus in January.

We appreciate your prayers and support for our ministry. We will be back in the mainland from around June 1 to August 9. It’s not too early to schedule us to speak in your church, Bible study, mission group or just to hang out together and fellowship.