'Untold Filipinos still untold'

The title for this post was taken from a banner viewed in a video a source sent us from the Shiloh Bible Baptist Church in Ozamis City. This church is the mother church (also called the sending church) for these churches. The video was a celebration video of the church's 15-year anniversary.

The banner is a challenge to the people to remember the priority of telling their countrymen of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The same lady who sent us the video also sent us an updated prayer list. Near the top of the prayer list, under the subhead "Goal for this Year 2011," is the following request: "20 missionaries sent out."

Yes, this church has a vision to send out 20 more missionaries by the end of the year. In 2010, the church sent out 14 missionaries. In total there are 24 missionaries sent out, not including some of the missionaries sent out by the daughter churches. SBBC in Punta, Dipolog City, for example has two missionaries, and we do not yet have the information on them.

So, if we add those two missionaries to the 24 we know about, and we add the 20 for which SBBC Ozamis is praying, that will make 46 missionaries in this family of churches. What are we praying for at Homegrown Harvesters? One day, we want to be able to raise support for all 46 of these missionaries, plus as many others as God provides workers in the field.

Now, understand, the "we" of us at Homegrown Harvesters right now is two people living in two different places. But as Pastor John Piper reminds us, "Let us be careful of asking God for too little." We are small now, almost nonexistent. But we want to be helpers, servants alongside these dear brothers in Christ who are reaching their countrymen with the Gospel.

Please join us in praying for what looks impossible right now. But we know that the only way to see God do the impossible is for us to be in an impossible situation. The Bible verse atop the prayer list is Jeremiah 33:3, and it reads, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Let us call to God for this work on our hearts, and let Him show us things which we know not.