Tuesday Jan. 26

As you can see, the kids are playing games, reading and strumming the guitar! 300-400 kids are in and out of the building each week!

Plans for the summer camping program are being finalized. April and May are the "summer" months here in the Philippines.

Our greatest anticipation right now is the visit of Lynn Ragsdale to share with the High School kids in their schools about Christian morals in Love, committment and respect of each other. Feb. is the "Love" month and celebrated in the Philippines by all, kids and adults alike. We have rented a larger facility for a Saturday night lecture geared to the young adults/young professional "kids". Lynn is the director of Christian's Haven Childrens Home and will be with us for four days.

Thursday Jan. 21

The total enrollment for the second half of the semester is 135 students, 48 in Bible Studies and 123 in tutorials. Last week there were more than 400 students in and out of the center!...It sounded like music night was one of the best they have had and movie night was great with the new projector.

Camp is fast approaching and final preparations are being made for all of them.

Friday Jan. 15

Today is the final day for sign ups for tutorials. At present they have 100 signed up: 38 for Bible studies, 58 for acoustic guitar, 5 base guitar, 8 drums, 43 science, and 2 math.

We have looked at new locations for the youth center. We have found one available that is much larger that will be vacant when we need it. It is DIRECTLY across from the high school....

Rodger purchased a projector for the youth center with extra gifts. It was used for the first time last night for the movie night. Wow, what a blessing.

Camp is progressing. We still have some things to work out, so in our spare time we will be looking for a better venue for the Marilog district camp.

New Year

Wow. It has been over a month, sorry we have been so long since updating.

We had a wonderful Christmas with all our family - Andie and all her family, Beth, all together in North Carolina. Andie was a little under the weather recovering from surgery, but other wise all were great.

Dixie has stayed in North Carolina to help Andie, Rodger has returned to the Philippines. He is still in jet lag!

In talking with Eddie and Andy, the new year is starting off with great things happening. I (Rodger) plan to be sharing more in a more regular and timely manner.