Philippines Outreach

     Celi and I don't have children of our own, but over the years God has blessed us with many youth who live with us.  We provide housing, love and care for those that God sends across our path. We basically are a family for them. We refer to those who stay with us as our "in-house group."  We have been doing this since the year 2000.  

• The people we take into our house come from a variety of backgrounds. In most cases, there is some type of family problem involved; hence they move in with us.
• Typically we help sponsor those in our in-house group and enable them to go to school.
• We also cover all of the other basic needs for the in-house, including food,clothing and spiritual care.

    Our dinner table it often full with our "in-house group" and others that might be at our ministry center.

    The in-house group treats me like a father.  They often "surprise" me on my birthday. :-) 

    When people from our in-house group "move on" in life and get married, Celi and I sometimes serve as their parents in their wedding.  In this picture, we were the "parents" of Elena when she got married. Elena stayed with us for 14 years.