These past few months ECPM have been busy visiting church planting sites all over the Philippines. Even YMC staff has been very helpful in providing care and counsel for the teams aside from conducting their regular training modules. One of the major areas the training team would like to enhance is the pastoral care program for the church planters.

Visiting them, as testified by the team has proved to be really helpful in encouraging them as they do their mission work. There are pressures, there are technical stuff to do and there are objectives and time lines to beat, but behind all this, the personal lives and daily journeys of the church planters are also needed to be given attention. After all, their well being is still a valuable part of the whole process of church planting.

Our visit, together with the training module of the Himamaylan team held in Iloilo, was a great time for sharing visions and talking about areas where the team needs help. The module being held away from their church planting site was a breather for them in some way. (read more)

The visit to the Salipsip team gave opportunity to ECPM & YMC staff join them in their bible study groups and listen to the stories of the team, and hearing how we can pray for their objectives, in a way relaxing them a bit from the many tasks they are to accomplish. (read more)

Meriam, a church planter in Catbalogan was very pleased during the visit being the only woman in the team together with her husband. She said that the mere fact that there are pastoral care persons that will listen to their stories and spend time with them have encouraged them a lot as they go through their day to day lives. (read more)

There are more doors opening for ECPM but we don’t consider it as our own effort but the product of God’s grace and power. We don’t have anything to boast but we are very grateful for the partnership people around the world and in the Philippines have shared with ECPM. As our partners, please continue to pray for us in all aspects. We may never be perfect servants but we are assured of God’s continuous moulding in our lives and in how we do our ministry. Please do read our director’s prayer letter so you may be more updated on how you can pray more for us.
Thank You dear partners for keeping us in prayer and that the Lord may truly uphold us as we continue the journey the He has called us to do.

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Ella Abigail Santos for ECPM - YMC