Dear Brothers
and Sisters in Christ,
I greet you in the
precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom we
serve. I trust this letter finds you in good health and in
the joys of the Lord.
I am sending to you a picture of my family that was
taken many years ago, as well as the pictures of my
two associate evangelists and missionaries brethren
Denny Orongan and Jonah
Badilles.
While on the right
side is my picture as well as picture of one of our missions
located in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines. There
was a split happened in the mission there and those who
sided with me come out of the building. And now they gather
together every Sunday in the house of one of the members of
the mission that I lead. Those who remained in the building
affiliated with the New Lighter led by
Edward Byrd of
Harrison, Arkansas and Sharrel Ford
of
California who were the caused of the split.
The other pictues on
the left side are our mission in
Santa Fe, New Corella, Davao del Norte, Philippines,
New Bantayan,
Asuncion, Davao del Norte, Philippines, Malabog,
Paquibato District,
Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines, and Toril,
Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
The Supreme
Court of the
Republic of the Philippines awarded the building of
the
Davao Missionary Baptist Institute & Seminary as well
as the 3,481 square meters lot back to its
owner the Philippine Mission of Bethel Missionary Baptist
Church, Inc. Some of the so-called brethren went to Court
against us because they squatted and wanted
to get the property owned by the Philippine Mission of
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Inc. and they
wanted to dislodged us from being members and
officers of the Philippine Mission of BMBC, INC. but
lost their case filed against us with the Lower
Court from 1991-96 led by Roy Culley. Another
group of squatters which has connection with the first group
squatted in 1997 and lost in 1999. But.because they
could not accept the verdict of the lower court, they
went to the Court of Appeals in 2000 and
lost in 2002, and finally they went to the
Supreme Court 2003 and lost
their case against us with finality in December 2004
led by Ricardo Tabanyag.
But in 2005 a third group which is connected with the first
and second group, squatted the property in 2005 and went to
court against us led by
Shinji Amari and lost their case on April 10, 2007
and the writ of execution was promulgated on June 13, 2007
and the rest is now history. The squatters will have to pay
civil liabilities imposed on them by the Court amounting to
around P600,000.00 in Philippine Currency.
The property
of the Philippine Mission of Bethel Missionary Baptist
Church, Inc. is located in Zabate Village, Bangkal, Talomo
District,
Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines. And we
tookover the said property on July 4,
2007 with the assistance of the
sheriff and the police force
deputize by Regional Trial Court of
Davao City. The turn over has been successful and
peaceful, but on July 13,
2007 the squatters went back and squatted again the
property but were driven by the police force outside the
fence and instead of putting them to jail because of my
intervention not to do so, they were scolded only and warned
not to do it again. But Amari attempted to squat the Bangkal
property for the 3rd time on
September 10, 2007
and ordered his more than 20 men with security guard to
fence our house and church building and took position of the
property for 12 days but were driven out by the City
Government of
Davao on September
21, 2007 and have two criminal cases in court for
grave coercion and contempt of court.
The
Davao Missionary Baptist Institute & Seminary was closed
for many years already, but its re-opening will start as
soon as we will receive financial helps
from individuals and sister churches in the United States of
America. In doing so, they are helping Bethel
Missionary Baptist Church of
Davao City, Philippines who supported us of our
church planting ministry. This church is our sending
church and sponsor of our mission works in
the
Philippines RIGHT NOW.
Brothers
Denny Orongan and Jonah Badilles will help me in
running the school as well as in serving
the school as teachers. They are highly
qualified because they were called of the Lord to the
ministry and have college degrees as well as seminary
degrees at Southern Philippines Baptist Theological Seminary
in
Davao City, Philippines.
The photo
on the right side is the picture of one of my
baptisms in the past. It remains as my mission work
right now to be organized into a church if they have already
own a church lot and building. And if the
baptized believers of the mission
point reach 50 members.
The location of this mission point is in Baganga,
Davao Oriental,
Philippines..
We hope and pray
that there are 100 churches there in the
states of America who will become our
supporters, partners, and
our sponsors in fulfilling the great
commission in preaching, baptizing, teaching the all things
that the Lord has commanded, and organizing missions into
New Testament Baptist churches in this part
of the world.
We need the
help of about 100 sister
churches of like faith and order in the United
States of America who will help us in our church planting
mininstry and sponsors our mission works in the
Philippines, if led of the Lord to do so, we can do
great things for the Lord.
