Following the update forwarded from Pastor Dimver Andales in Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao, Philippines, I was able to talk with my other pastor friend, Ruben Sulapas who is in Iligan City. These were the two hardest hit metropolitan areas.

Ruben’s church building was literally wiped off the map. The assistant pastor who lived on the property with his family lost his wife in the flood. Several other members of his church are missing or have family members who have been killed.

Ruben is not only a pastor but has headed up a team of brethren who have translated the Bible into Cebuano. One of the translators is among those missing.

They have a large quantity of scriptures and tracts in storage and miraculously that was spared with the water coming within inches of the boxes.

Both of these dear pastors have suffered as their people have. I know they would appreciate your intercession. Most likely their people could use temporal help also. The government is calling for outside help at this time also.

The best thing I can do at this point besides asking your intercession is to give you their contacts so if you wish to have more information you can get it from them directly.

Pastor Dimver Andales, Lapasan Baptist Church, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.

dimverandales31@yahoo.com. Bro. Andales is sending out e-mail updates. If you wish to contact him I am sure he would put your address on those updates.

Pastor Ruben Sulapas, Riverspring Baptist Bible Church, Iligan City, Philippines

rpsulapas@yahoo.com. Bro. Ruben will be making some e-mail updates for those of you who are interested to contact him. We worked with Ruben when we lived there. He was finalizing some translation on our behalf when this happened.

I am absolutely certain that there are other good men who pastor people who are affected by the flooding but these are the ones I personally know. Please pray for them.