The church continues to equip members with the Condensed World Mission Course. Three hundred of our members nationwide have completed the eight-day course. We have at present five missionary families serving in several communities. One woman now serves as a teacher-missionary in China. A worshiping community has grown up in one cultural minority group in Bicol, an area in the southern tip of Luzon.
Mission work is a priority of the church.
As God provides the means, we continue to reach out to people groups who have not yet heard of the gospel. Incidentally, another kind of equipping was extended to the larger Christian community in the Philippines in July. A number of our pastors and members helped organized the seminars. As of this writing, God has added to the church about 270 new people this year. This was made possible by the greater involvement of our brethren in personal and group evangelism.