My year of teaching at the two seminaries here in the Philippines ended this week, except for a couple of final exams I have to give next week. The Philippine school year goes from June-October, then November-March, with a summer break in April-May and a month-long Christmas break.

It had been a hectic year of teaching, made more hectic by the long commute through crazy traffic. Only because of positive feedback from both administrators and students that I feel that my labors are being rewarded. One administrator told me, “You’ve had a good influence on the students.” And many of my students have been asking me what subjects I’ll be teaching next year.

Speaking of plans, here are some things that are developing for us:

• Our application to move from Wycliffe Bible Translators to Action International Ministries might yet be completed next month. If that happens, I might be back in the United States for orientation on the second week of April.
• My wait for a call might be nearing an end as one of our churches is already finalizing a proposal to call me as an Associate Pastor serving as a missionary to the Philippines. The areas of my involvement are church planting, pastoral training, and teaching at seminaries. Lord willing, this call may also happen early next month, so Evelyn will also go to the States for this ordination service.



• Oliver will be getting married to Nem Ngaihte in October, so we’re still weighing a couple of scenarios for our furlough: (1) May-October, going back to the Philippines after the wedding; and (2) October-January, going to the States for the wedding and staying until the second semester starts. Nem is a senior Art major at Biola University and also the daughter of Overseas Missionary Fellowship missionaries in the Philippines.
• We looked at a much smaller house today that will be available in June. It’s a two-bedroom, one-bath house, a big change from our present three-bedroom, 3-1/2-bath house. But the rent and utilities would be halved, a great help to us because of the 25 percent decline in the value of the dollar and the general decrease in our financial support.

To those of you who have supported us financially (and with prayers) through these many years, we send you again our heartfelt thanks. We’ll update you when our move to ACTION is final, so you can change our mission’s address and telephone number. Wycliffe, by the way, will give us a 90-day transition period during which time we can send notices to our supporters.