From the moment we stepped in our rented bus until we unloaded our stuff off the bus for the last time, God's presence was evident on Living Waters Asia's yearly mission trip you came to know through the years as "The Gospel Buzz".The trip was our most expensive and most difficult to date but it was all worth it. From Oct. 26 to Oct. 30, the team composed of young evangelists braved the heat of the sun, the height of mountains and fought physical exhaustion just to deliver the biblical Gospel message to the people of Oriental Mindoro. People of both the lowlands and the highlands heard the Gospel preached the way Jesus did. People of a section of the Mangyan tribe understood the Gospel and were challenged to deliver it as well to other members of their tribe. There were programs for children, Gospel tracts and copies of the Book of John for everyone, open-air preaching sessions, one-to-one witnessing sessions, evangelistic film showings all throughout the stay of Living Waters Asia people at Mindoro.
And not even an impending storm could tarnish what God had meant to be a successful trip. On their way home, the team faced the prospect of being stranded with very little funds left for more than 24 hours at the Calapan, Mindoro pier because the coast guard declared it unsafe to let any vessel leave the port due to a storm set to enter the area in a matter of hours. It was a good thing the pier administrator heard the Gospel through one of the members of the team who shared it to him. When a ship was cleared to leave the port after several hours of waiting, the team was given priority to board it. It turned out later that evening that our ship was only one of very few vessels that were allowed to sail and as a result, 4,000 people got stranded at the Calapan, Mindoro pier that day.
Thanks to everyone of you who prayed for and gave to this trip. Whatever was accomplished was because all of us, including you, obeyed God's call to be a part of this trip. We're looking forward to Gospel Buzz '10. We hope you'll again decide to be a part of it.
