Eastgate Union Farewell

The group of believers we have enjoyed fellowship with these past 5 years in Louth, have become very dear to our hearts.  The Lord brought many blessings into our lives by leading us to worship Him at Eastgate Union.

We are so thankful to have had this time with them; for the many friendships formed; fellowship together in their lovely homes; conversations shared over tasty meals; their love and care shown during Ragnar's illness; times we met together for prayer and the assurance of them continuing to  pray for us as we journey on.

The Lord has taught us alot through these dear folks and we are thankful to be taking lots of wonderful memories of them back to the Philippines with us.

Our last Sunday there, I had the joy of sharing a Power Point of our previous 29 years in the Philippines.  We recently had all our slides digitized which made it easy to put the Power Point together.  

Ragnar then shared of our future work - the assurance we had that we should be returning to the Philippines and our goal of translating Bible lessons from Genesis to Revelation for the Kankanaey church leaders.

It was wonderful to then have a few of our brothers and sisters come up and pray for us.

A generous 'bring & share" (potluck) dinner succeeded with everything from 'soup to hay'.  Besides allowing all of us to enjoy a wide variety of yummy food together, it gave us extra time to chat with lots of families.

We'll miss our times of fellowship together, but we are so thankful for our few years of getting to know these dear folk at Eastgate Union and for their love and kindness shown us as we move on.

A sad day - so many good byes.  Yet a happy day - feeling loved and knowing so many will be praying for us in our onward journey!!