Project Life Subic

Last week was very fruitful and BUSY! We started out with a Community Development Seminar, taught by Alycia Wiebe from YWAM’s Foundations in Community Development School. Over 50 missionaries, pastors and city workers attended. We held the seminar at Church of the Risen Christ as our Project Life Center was too small to accommodate that many people. We learned about a biblical view of poverty, the 5 stages of development, and how to help without hurting. There’s a lot of data that proves many missionaries have good intentions, but many keep the nationals dependent on them, not God. Our goal should be to raise up Godly leaders in the communities and empower them to change their neighborhoods. We want all projects to be self sustaining and able to multiply. We gathered our 12th St. leaders that attended the seminar to discuss and assess how well we apply these principles to what we do at Project Life. We’re happy to report that we have been doing ok in developing the community in a healthy way for the most part! Our next step is to take a deeper look at areas we might want to change so that we can strengthen the ministry even more.

We also hosted a mini DTS (Discipleship Training Week) at the project Life Center that was attended by 20+ Project Life leaders and youth. Our visiting YWAM team from Perth, Australia taught on topics such as “The nature and character of God”, “Evangelism”, and “Destiny and Purpose”. It was so exciting to not only learn (head knowledge) about these subjects, but to experience moments of deep understanding (heart knowledge) as God moved in our midst. It was a special time for our leaders and youth as we grasped some of the biblical principles and gained a deeper understanding of Christ and how to share that knowledge.
The team also led a sports camp in the afternoon and our interns and visitors helped with that. They had a fun time reaching out to the community!

We also partnered on Wednesday with our friends at Mercy In Action and an American pediatrician and held a medical outreach at the 12th St. lot. Over 90 patients were treated and prayed for that day in the extremely humid, hot weather. Our visiting team blessed everyone with treats of water and bananas and there were smiles and grateful hearts all around!!