trip recap

September 4-14 I joined 24 children’s pastors from across the nation to launch Character Connex (a public school assembly program) in Davao City, Philippines. We worked with Assembly of God missionaries Darrell & Sandy Blatchley at Family Circus Ministries to train the Filipino ministry team to be able to continue the program once we were gone. Character Connex is designed to build relationships with the schools through offering character based education assemblies.
While we were there our teams conducted assemblies in 32 schools, speaking to about 30,000 elementary students. We were also able to hand out Christian comic books with the church’s information on it to each student.Family Circus currently ministers to about 3,500 kids through 6 weekend services and are on the verge of explosive growth once they complete their new facility in late October. God is doing some amazing things there and is changing many lives.
One of the greatest blessings from the trip happened a couple days after I returned when I received an email from one of the Filipino members of my team. She was requesting prayer because the next day they had Character Connex assemblies at 10am and 3pm and hoped to remember everything we taught her. It is exciting to know that we are barely home and the ministry is continuing. We left them with 6 kits that have everything they need to do the assemblies from sound systems, microphones and video projectors to drama props and other supplies. Their goal is to be in every school each month.
It was an incredible experience for me and I am truly thankful that God allowed me to be a part. Thank you to those that prayed for the trip, you had a great role in making it a success.