Ranch Christian Fellowship

  Last Sunday night Joyce and I were privileged to attend the going away party for Lawrence and Karen Yinolang at the Ranch Christian Fellowship in Yigo. Lawrence founded the fellowship and has been leading it for the last three years since he and Karen were transferred to Guam by the military. They will be heading to North Carolina for their next assignment. Lawrence is from Yap and was one of my students at Emmaus High School in Palau back in the mid-1980’s. After high school he went into the military and worked with a Micronesian church group in San Diego. When he came to Guam, God gave him a vision for building a discipleship ministry with the many Micronesians who live on the north end of Guam. This group has now grown to a large group of young Micronesians (almost all of them 20 and under) who are intent to “not be transformed by their culture, but to be transformed by Christ and then transform their culture.” RCF has already had a real impact on this island and has been a good partner ministry with PIU.

In the going away service Lawrence symbolically passed on the responsibility  for the leadership of the fellowship to a group of five PIU students (2 of them graduated in May) – Matthew Fanoway, Grace Neth, Jesse Hartt, Everly Ngiraikel, and Ceci Pedro. It was an inspiring service and I am looking forward to seeing how we can continue the partnership between RCF and PIU. I was privileged to have just a small part in the service. It is very encouraging to me to see my past, present, and probably future (there were a lot of children there too) students doing well in life and ministry.

Jesse Hartt was the MC for the evening service.