July-August Updates

 Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you for taking interest in our happenings and ministries. If you would like to receive or be a part of our regular, normal, correspondence via email, just send me a message and I can add you to our monthly news and prayer letter.

Here are some news and prayer updates in bullet format:

1. Please pray for a retired lady who has shown interest in attending our church services and even open to having a Bible study. Her name is Wilma.

2. Please pray for our public school guidance counselor (Ms. Sharon) - she suffered a stroke, and is in the hospital and still has not woken up from her comma. She was supposed to recommend to the Principal that we may host a Bible club in the public school. Pray that she would snap out of her comates state and that she would recover. ALSO pray that the Lord would open the door to host a Bible club in the public school.

3. Please pray for fruit in our gospel tracts distribution and also our Monday Jailhouse ministry.

4. Pray for our up-coming afternoon special Youth Service at 1PM, this Sunday, Aug. 31. We are excited to see how our young people will serve the Lord and His people, as they will take over the afternoon service.

5. Pray for the Adult Bible study and Children's Bible club at Candelaria, Quezon Province. Pray for souls to get saved and for believers to be edified. We are praying that a solid, Biblical, Baptist church may be started and established to the glory of God, and for His great commission in Candelaria to be accomplished. Pray for the two families from our church that labor for the Lord to see a church planted in the municipality.

6. Pray for our guests, and returnees. We praise the Lord for those who visit. We pray that they would get saved and follow the Lord's will for believers in becoming true and good disciples.

7. Finally, do pray for Marcia and the boys, they have started the Homeschool Year 25-26! ALSO pray for a new installment of lectures for our Baptist Institute (An Intro to Biblical Languages). I am also one page away from finishing the first draft of my 200 page thesis for a Doctorate of Ministry degree. So praise God from whom all blessings flow. AND May JESUS CHRIST be praised!

June Blessings

 

The photo above was taken by Sis. Tess as we were conducting a Bible study at Sis. Ruth's house in a village outside of Taguig City (this is in District 183 in Pasay City). There were at least 11 visitors besides our team. We are praying that the word of God would be understood, and that the Holy Spirit would convict hearts and that many would turn to the Lord and trust in Him as their personal Saviour. A tremendous blessing is that they would like to have us back in July - AMEN!

A couple of other blessings to share:

1. The Candelaria church planting ministry is now moved to a Sat. The missions team is made up of two precious families. They are holding a children's Bible Club in the morning, and an evangelistic Bible study in afternoon. Please pray for spiritual fruit. We desire to see a Biblical, Baptist church established in this municipality (Candelaria is a municipality in the Quezon Province region - about 65 miles south of our Tuktukan, Taguig City immersionist assembly).

2. A public school in Ususan village (right next door to Tuktukan) may allow us to have a Bible club. This would be a wonderful blessing and great door of opportunity opened to us by the Lord.

Thank you for your prayers. Please pray for God's strength and power and for souls to be saved, and for the saved to became true and good disciples of the Lord Jesus.

 What a blessing to share a testimony in song today and to offer our voices in praise to God for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ who took our sins upon Him on the cross - "not in part, but the whole." AND "I bear it no more - praise the Lord, oh my soul!" Then, the message of the song looks forward to the day when "the faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back as a scroll, the trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, "Even so" it is well with my soul." Just a well done choral piece by Ms. Potter. BUT to God be glory, He surely is worthy of our praise!

The song is "It is Well" written back in 1873, by Horatio Spafford and put to the classic hymn format we now love and sing (music by Philip P. Bliss in 1876). This song is now public domain.

The arrangement we sang was produced by Ms. Julie Jones Potter, published by the Bill Rice Ranch Music for SATB, 2002.

Sing a-long with us - it isn't that hard to do! Here is a link to a better recording. Be well!

VBS and a short update

Dear Faithful Friends,

God is good! We wrapped up our VBS this summer with two classes (girls and boys). The girls learned more about the Armor of God (as that was their theme) and the boys learned about Creation (vs. Evolution - as this was there theme). Additionally, the Candelaria, Quezon province VBS turned out really well, and now they are converting their VBS into an an ongoing Saturday Children's Bible Club. There's about three or four adults and a number of children who are interested in joining us for an evangelistic Bible study. Also, this Monday (June 02) is an important meeting with another family that may potentially be part of the start of having a regular Sunday church services. God is putting together the true potential of planting an Independent Baptist Biblicist church in Candelaria soon. Please continue to pray for spiritual fruitfulness and growth in both the Tuktukan, Taguig City church plant and the Candelaria, Quezon province church plant. May Jesus Christ be praised!

Sincerely,

Bro. Bill

1 Jn. 5:7

A short recap video highlighting our 8th Year Anniversary in Tuktukan, Taguig City.

 Glory to God, indeed and a huge "Thank you" to Sis. Tess who put this video presentation together. Amen!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AKCLqC9mp/

Be well,

Bro. Bill

A Couple of Important Events

This Sunday (03/30/25) we will be offering praises and thanksgiving to God for eight years of ministry work in Tuktukan, Taguig City. We are rejoicing at the many souls that have gotten saved, and the few that have spiritually grown into mighty fine disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Please pray for the Lord to bless His words to our hearts and to the hearts of many who will be in attendance on this "special" Sunday. Our guest speaker is Bro. Dan Tessin, and accompanying him will be his wife, Sis. Raquel. Both of them will be ministering to our people in the Word (Bro. Dan will deal with the men and boys in our Sunday school hour, and Sis. Raquel will deal with the women and girls), and then Bro. Dan will be preaching and teaching God's words in both services. We desire to see souls saved and disciples made. AMEN!

This Tuesday (04/01/25) we will be inviting many young people (13 yrs. old and above), and many of our church family and friends, to join us for a day of special Bible study - we call it "Youth Focus." This year we are studying Hamartiology or the Doctrine of Sin (part 2) - last year, we did the same topic. We long to see many repent of sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have asked our church people to pray and fast for these two special events, and I trust that you will help us by your prayers, too.

It sure is a blessing and an honor to worship and serve the LORD in sincerity and with gladness!

Bro. Bill

P.S.

We are also doing some evangelistic work in Candelaria, Quezon province. This is about 64 miles south of Taguig City. Bro. Kenneth and Sis. Sherie, and her mom, Sis. Alice are praying that a Biblical Baptist church could be started in their community, and Bro. RJ and I are praying and working towards that end as well. Please pray with and for us about this wonderful church planting missions opportunity.

A Simple Update for 02/26/25

End of Feb. update:

We praise and thank God for a great module week at Cornerstone Baptist Church and Cornerstone Baptist Ministerial School in Quezon City under the leadership of Dr. Jed Raquintan, Pastor. Dr. Thomas Strouse was able to instruct students on Book 2 of Psalms (Pss. 42-72). Dr. Raquintan was able to teach Amos. I am working on my 200 page dissertation as the final step towards a Doctorate of Ministry degree.

We will miss our dear sister in the Lord, Sis. Elena. She went home to be with the Lord on Mon., Feb. 3. The Lord allowed me to speak at her burial and I gladly presented the good news of Jesus Christ to her family and friends who were gathered around the cemetery. We do ask that you would continue to pray for her relatives and friends for both comfort for their loss, but also conviction from the Holy Spirit about their future appointment with death and judgment to follow.

We are praying for opportunities to open up for an evangelistic outreach in a village that is about 65 miles south of Metro Manila in Candelaria, Quezon province (not to be confused with Quezon City). We know of a precious husband and wife that would like to see a Biblical Baptist church planted in their village (Bro. and Sis. Guillas). They have been faithfully attending our Sunday services since November of 2024. And we believe this is our next challenge to plant a work in their village.

Our Sunday church ministries are carrying on well: The children's Sunday School and Teens Class and Adult Class are well attended. The Teens are learning about the Pauline Epistles this semester, the Adult Class just finished the book of Joshua - 11 of them passed their final exam and received a wonderful Bible study tool as a gift. They are now learning about the book of Judges. On Sunday morning, Bro. RJ is preaching/teaching through the book of Haggai, on Sunday afternoon, I am teaching/preaching through the book of Matthew. On Wed. nights we are going through the book of Proverbs (having finished Job). I praise God for raising two Godly and Biblically qualified men to help fill in for me since I have gotten sick with a terrible cold - Bro. Kenneth is working through the book of 1 John and has been preaching/teaching that when he gets a chance to speak. Bro. RJ has covered some great topical studies on laziness and on suffering.

We are praying that I may wrap up our new Bible Institute course: New Testament Survey. I am working at finishing a couple more lectures, and finalizing a re-print of a text book for the class. Please pray that our people would add this to their daily Bible reading and study for their edification. Some are taking it for credit (this is a 3-credits course for those who enroll and do the work required of the class). I am hoping this week to hear from the publishers to finish the text book re-print for the students.

I am also hoping to hear back from a different printer concerning our latest order for our Gospel tracts: The Way to Eternal Life - this is a bi-lingual Gospel tract (English and Tagalog) so that the readers are without excuse. I am told that the publishers just need to finish printing and then they will be able to ship it to us. We are excited to have Gospel tracts which we use all the time.

Please pray for our upcoming 8th year ministry anniversary on March 30. We do have a special guest speaker (Bro. Dan Tessin) and his wife (Sis. Raquel) who will minister to us on that special Sunday. We desire to see souls saved and disciples made. Please pray for their safe travels, health, and power as they minister to our people and potential guests.

Sincerely,

Bro. Bill