Willy spends much of his time as the director of the ministry to students at the Diliman campus, but he is here today as a trainer in the Great Commission Training Center in Manila. In other years, people trained at the Manila GCTC were from India, Indonesia and Bangladesh, and each of those new staff members returned to his or her country to help bring others to Christ. Boonma Panthasri is another GCTC graduate. He finished training in 1980 and returned to his home in Thailand. Since then he and those he's trained and discipled have helped start more than 11,000 home Bible studies totaling more than 99,000 members.
Most members are from Buddhist families.
The high goals of the training center and Boonma's successful completion of the training are what prepared him for his ministry in his home country. With this session's graduation only four weeks away, Willy wants to make sure Leo is equally prepared. Willy focuses on forming a relationship of trust and acceptance with Leo. I am Willy, and I want to be his friend. During the early months of the session, Willy and Leo reviewed material together and fulfilled training center requirements.