Located in an area of the world where Christianity is
rare, the Philippines is a strongly Christian nation where the Message has
been readily accepted by thousands of souls who were searching for something
a little more than a denominational view of God’s Word. Brother Jeremiah
Villagracia, VGR Office Manager in Manila, continues to find fertile ground
to plant the Lord’s Seeds. The following is a report of Brother Jeremiah’s
and the Filipino staff’s recent work in their country.
From a little over 200 Message churches that we were
serving in October, 2005, the work has increased by nearly two-fold
to about 600 Message churches to date all over the Philippines. From
a Message church in the Ilocos region at the northernmost part of
Luzon down to the southernmost church in the Saranggani province in
Mindanao; from a church in the easternmost province of Davao
Oriental to the westernmost church in Palawan; from a church in the
mountainous area of Bukidnon to a seashore church in Sutton,
Malimono down to a church in a very small Talim Island of Rizal
province, the congregations of end-time saints in these places
already had the blessed opportunity to hear and listen to the Voice
of the Seventh Angel himself through the Lighthouse MP3 players that
have been placed into the hands of the precious ministers of the
Message. The Message has gone forth and continues to go forth and
reach out from our office in Manila to almost every city or town in
the country, where each known Message church is located.
Overall Distribution Facts and Profile
To date, we have made a total of 7,919 mailings and
distributions, 2,245 of which were picked up by the
ministers/believers themselves from the VGR office and by direct
distributions or via our regional librarians and distributors
involving 329,589 Message books to date. The details of the
materials that had been given out are shown below.
While the focus and priority of our distribution are our brothers
and sisters in the Message churches spread out all over the country,
we also try our best to bring this Message to those who have not
come to know about It, much less about the Messenger. Some of the
things that the Lord had led us to do in this aspect were through
the prisons, government public libraries, direct mails to the
denominations, actual house to house distribution, etc, which shall
be briefly mentioned in this report.
Translations
We have submitted to date a total of thirty translated Messages,
half of which had been printed and published already. This makes a
total of 53 translated sermons from the Philippines thus far. There
are 75-150 native languages spoken by Filipinos although, 6 of these
75 so-called mother tongues are major languages. The Tagalog (25%)
and Cebuano (24%) of these major languages are majority spoken.
We will post a breakdown of the missionary efforts in the Philippines
in the days to come.