Wednesday
January 29, 2014
Dear
Friends,
You have
made it possible for the gospel through good works to work in the hearts of
many. Many have received Christ. Dan Cadavos has gone back out from Mindanao
again and is working in the areas of our last medical mission. Dan for the last few days has worked with
our great friends at the Wilds’ Camps Abroad.
I know he must be exhausted.
Please pray for him and read Edna’s report below..
“Dear Bro Jan, This is just to inform you that we have
received and transferred here the $7,000 for another mission in Northern Panay,
basically the same area where Dr Waller was, and we were previously working
with Pastor Shaun - specifically Estancia, Carles and surrounding islands.
Dan and the 8 men that were not able
to go 2 weeks ago due to bad weather conditions are now there, they arrived
yesterday late afternoon. Dan will be
there for 5 days, and the men will stay for 2 weeks. Dan's brother Jacob, our camp manager, will
be in charge after Dan sets everything up.
Dan will be conducting preaching and soul winning campaigns while the
men work and will then turn things back over to the local pastors there for
follow up. They hope to accomplish much
by the grace of God while there. They brought 4 chain saws and Dan had
instructed the pastors to have trees purchased and ready for cutting on arrival
so that they could assist as many churches as possible and members as time
allows. He will also follow up on the
boat purchasing project to restore livelihood for members who are fishermen in
that area.
We had a great camp with the Camps
Abroad group from the Wilds, a good number saved among the 72 campers, as far
as we know all went home knowing the Lord, maybe it was about 30% unsaved
before camp. With some of the ORH funds
we were able to continue our pool repair from the flood damage, as well as beds
for the cabins and sleeping platforms to accommodate over 100 who were at that
camp. You may see those pictures on our
facebook page. We also have a
USB/flashdrive full of pictures from Panay and Leyte that our church clerk,
John has given me, we hope to get those sent to you asap with full reports
again of all the finances etc.
God bless you and it is a joy to
partner with you, our pastor Matt Collier was here for a brief visit and he was
excited to see what the Lord is doing in our ministry and the channel of blessing
that has been extended via ORH through Dan and on to many other ministries as
well. Truly "LIttle is much when
God is in it."
Will keep you posted on the work in
Northern Panay. God bless you all, Edna, for Dan and the men in Northern Panay”
We asked
Rick Martin to help us find a village to help where there was a good church to
do follow-up. We are hoping to help over
40 families in the village and at least 40 families in the church. Rick Martin, wrote the following for us to
see how this work is progressing.
“Dear Brother Milton, I want to thank you again for all that you
have done for us and for many others around the world in times of great
need. You mentioned before that you
wanted us to find the church and village with the most destruction and we have
tried and prayed much about which place to help. I believe the area up in the mountains of
Tadi, Sara where Pastor Michael Balinas pastors would perhaps be that
place. It is hard to know for sure with
so many villages affected. Brother
Balinas has been there for around 20 years and is a pastor I admire. I had him preach in our church a few weeks
after the typhoon because of the reports I heard about the damage there. He said that 98% of the 300 homes were
destroyed or had significant damage. We
have not contacted him yet but will do that if he is ok with you. We can ask him to make a list of families in
his church and a list of others in the village to help as you mentioned. I know it will be a great blessing to the
people there. His church is a long way
from the town of Sara, way up in the mountains near the border of Iloilo and
Capiz province. A church in California
is rebuilding his church.
I had someone write me today who had
raised some money to rebuild some of the churches buildings. We have donors committed now I believe for
all the churches destroyed. I am wondering
if it would be a good idea and ok with you if I had them use their funds to
help some of the church buildings ORHUS is helping with here. It would help the churches to be able to do
some more like build benches or chairs and a pulpit or put up a wall at the
side of the church or maybe buy songbooks or a guitar or keyboard. Do you have any thoughts about that? Of course I would let them know what you are
doing there.
Thanks for being so good to these
people here. I had a couple of the
pastors tell me that their churches had doubled in size since the typhoon as
the people were more open to the gospel.
I believe that the way you are trying to help the village which suffered
the most damage will open some doors in a wonderful way. God bless,
Rick”
Dr. Greg
Waller wrote the following testimony about the clinics he conducted for January
8-19, 2014.
“’Where are we going?’ I
wondered. We seemed to be driving on a
vacant beach on our way to the first day of clinic. Then we saw the village we were to work in
for the day. Our “clinic” was held in
the church – a 10’x20’ shack of old bamboo, driftwood, and used sheet
metal. It was the best building in what
once had been a prosperous fishing village.
Posts, pillars, and cement steps half buried in the sand attested to the
once peaceful village, now 100% wiped out by the tidal surge of Typhoon
Yolanda. Three months after the storm,
villagers are still living under tarp shelters with what few personal items
they managed to save. All available
resources must go into fixing boats and nets for income; homes must come later. It rained every day we were there, and we
wondered how these folks were surviving.
Many were sick. In spite of it
all we were invited to lunch in one of the tarp homes and enjoyed a feast of
fish (cooked 4 different ways) and rice.
We later visited the Island of Binonganan , where they had fared no
better.
The evening before we were to visit
the island our host got a call saying the water was too rough for the long
narrow banca boats to sail. We hastily
arranged an alternative in another village.
Nearly the first patient there was a 3 year old boy with sepsis and
pneumonia from an infected knee joint.
He needed to be hospitalized at once, but there was no possible way to
make that happen. I removed 3 syringes
full of pus from his knee and we began injections plus the strongest oral
antibiotics we had. While we were
observing his progress throughout the day, both his parents, and 2 other family
members joined the over 200 that trusted the Lord that day. Three days later this child was greatly
improved. “I am going to remember your
face!” he threatened Linda as she gave him his 3rd antibiotic injection. Had the Lord not led us to that village, this
precious 3 year old would no doubt be
dead and his family (along with many others) still lost and on their way to
hell. In all we treated 1295 patients
and 588 made decisions for Christ.”
If you would
like to read the full story of the efforts, please go to www.orhnews.blogspot.com.
Please,
consider this “open door”, and let’s not hesitate to go to the harvest.
If you would
like to give by debit or credit card, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org
and choose Network for Good.
If you would
like to send a check, please send to Operation Renewed Hope, P. O. Box 43242,
Fayetteville, NC 28309. Please mark the
check “International Relief.”
God bless
all who try to help us with the suffering of others and the salvation of their
souls.
Jan Milton
Operation Renewed Hope
9109875072
orhus@aol.com
