1993--2008

By the end of 1993 our work with the Itawes was being done by the Filipino church leaders so we withdrew and allowed them to take the lead. We began to concentrate our efforts in the area of Christian Education. We led Sunday School teacher training seminars throughout the island of Luzon and started to produce children’s Sunday School materials to fill the void of available curriculum material.

We worked with the newly established church in Makati and the church caught the vision of quality Sunday School for children and became partners with us in the development of curriculum for churches.

While we came home for furlough ’94-’95 the Makati church took over our responsibilities with the curriculum—selling it to churches and training teachers to use the material. Upon our return to the Philippines in ’95 the Makati church requested to be the ones to continue that ministry of Curriculum development, training and distribution. \

We were stunned but thrilled as we happily gave that ministry over to them (the Makati church continues to do this ministry until today!)

But, now we were in the Philippines without a ministry….asking God what He wanted us to do—where He wanted us to serve? He answered our prayers and led us into the next phase of our ministry.

In 1997 we moved to Mindanao—the second largest island of the Philippines. Rodger served as Field Director of Ambassadors for Christ—a mission established in 1970. His job included overseeing: 50+ employees, a medical ministry, a children’s home, a new urban church planting ministry, training preachers, construction, maintenance and grounds for two training centers, purchasing supplies abroad for the mission, representing the mission in the U.S. and Canada, producing newsletters, raising financial support and anything else that needed to be done.
We served in this administrative capacity for 11 years and it kept us busy!