Pictures of Palawan

Below is a picture of the new built girls dorm. Upon arriving, this was the first project I was a part of. It now serves as a place for the high school age girl to have a safe haven during the week, instead of returning home to constantly hostile families who stand against their faith and life choice. These young women have temporarily put aside getting married so that they can receive an education. These girls have dreams or attending college and being missionaries for the gospel and getting married and having children would hinder that dream. Please pray for all the student in our high school including the boys for they face similar pressures.

Below are some of my neighbors. Nubim and Dyibin live just up the hill from me and one day when I had m hammock out they couldn't help but beg for opportunity to get in it. It was quite an experience for boys who had never before lay in something like that having laid their whole lives on bamboo floors.

This is a picture of the mountains where I call home. If you ever get curious, open earth.google.com and search for Brooks Point, Palawan, Philippines to see where I am.

Here is one of favorite little guys name Dan-Dan after the biblical prophet. He is rambunctious and full of energy. He pulls out the kid in me every time he comes around. In this picture his curiosity for what I was working on landed him a job hammering in half driven nails I would leave being for him.

Below is a picture of the bridge man brother, Anthony Groft, came to Palawan to build in the summer of 2010. Still standing strong although being covered with water after 4 straight days of rain when two back-to-back typhoon hit the island. It is now in need of repair to the walking surface. In the soon future, I will be mounting fresh sawed lumber from an indigenous tree that's wood is as hard as a rock and is supposedly impervious rot and termites, replacing the thin bamboo that if you look closing is already breaking though.

Below is a picture of one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen. There was no editing done to this picture, it was simply the Master Painter at work.

Below is a picture of one of our classrooms between my class periods. I teach 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade math 4 days a week. Ages ranging from 8-18 years old. We have over 50 children coming from the surrounding villages to go to school. At the low levels they learn the grammer of their native language, basic arithmetic, and are taught bible stories out of the "My Bible Friends" and "The Bible Story" books that I was raised on. In the upper level class, students are taught Tagalog and English, 5th -7th grade level math, and study lesson center around books like "Steps to Christ", "Patriarchs and Prophets", "Prophet and Kings", "The Desire of Ages", "Acts of the Apostles" and "The Great Controversy." The curriculum for history coincides with each books of "The Conflict of the Ages" series to give them a broader few of the world during the time each book covers.

Below are some of the smiling face that greet me in Niyu, the village I live in, each and every day. I live in a village of 5 families all interrelated. Within these families are believers and nonbelievers. Over the months leading to me joining the people of this village, two families of believers moved away form here because of the grief they had received from those around them for being Christians. Please pray for the people and their children and for reconciliation both among themselves and between themselves and their Savior.