March Prayer Requests

Dave's Prayer Requests..

1. PIBC is submitting a substantive change form to add a master's degree program to our curriculum. I am putting the finishing touches on it and it needs to be to our accrediting agency, TRACS by March 20. This will enable us to offer seminary level courses on our Guam campus and better prepare pastors and other church leaders for the islands. Please pray that our application would go through and we could begin this program in Fall 2008. This will also be the first step in developing a teaching facility in Hawaii to reach out to the Micronesians (more in Hawaii than any other place in the world except Chuuk) and other island people there in Honolulu.
2. We have submitted an agreement to the Chuuk Department of Education to help bring their public school teachers up to the needed standards. It would involve remedial English classes, providing them access to our Associates degree in Bible and developing a Bachelors degree in education at PIBC. This is a tremendous opportunity to have a biblical influence Chuukese culture for a long time to come.
3. Our Yapese students are struggling financially because Yap state is no longer allowing their state money to be used for students who are bible majors. Please pray for God's provision for our Yapese students.
4. Please pray for Joyce as she makes some decisions about where she will be doing ministry here next year. She needs to make these decisions soon.
5. Please keep me in prayer as I work through all this paperwork for Chuuk, Hawaii, accreditation etc, teach two classes, and lead the school that it will continue to be done in God's power and God's way and that I will be able to be an example of a servant leader.
6. We have urgent needs for a couple to run our cafeteria and student store on Guam, a maintenance director and business manager in Chuuk and Bible and English faculty members.
   

Thanks Dave