Missions Night on Guam

Last night we at PIBC, along with several churches and ministries on island celebrated "A Night of Missions." It was a get together of these ministries to report on summer mission trips and be challenged to reach those who have never heard the Gospel. Our PIBC contingent reported on our summer mission trips to Thailand and Palau, and sang a couple songs. Recent graduate Kalvin Assito, pictured here, was our team leader for the Thailand group. Kalvin shared how God has given him a heart for Thailand and he is committed to going back there in future summers to continue the summer evangelism work he has done there the last two years at two major Thai universities. Though he is serving right now as assistant dean of men on the Guam campus, his long term plan is to do mission work in Asia. Elilai Haruzi, who was part of the Palau team, also shared with the group. She talked about how God taught her to be "FAT," flexible, available and teachable. Both Elilai and Kalvin did a great job sharing what they had learned from these mission trips and how PIBC had prepared them.

Besides being proud of our students, the missions night was also great because so many churches of many different denominations were able to get together to celebrate missions. We were challenged to unite in order to go out to Asia to do mission work where many have never heard the name of Jesus. I believe that Guam and Micronesia can play an important in this effort. We were also able to celebrate the good work that God has done through many other churches and ministries on Guam. It was also fun to see so many people we had not seen for a while. Back in the mid-90's we had worked together with many of the same churches, ministries and people to run an AWANA club in Yigo. Now we are seeing the same people doing evangelism and relief work in Myanmar, youth evangelism in the Philippines, and other exciting ministries. It has been exciting for us to see the Micronesians move from being a missionary receiving church when we came in 1984 to now becoming a missionary sending body. Keep praying with us that the vision of the local churches will continue to rise to reach out to the rest of the world.