Dear Readers, Nabaya-en is a Manobo term for “Experience”. This name speaks of the walk and the encounter of each missionaries in the Mission Schools. SULADS is a storehouse of not just any other experience but an experience with God. SULADS missionaries have the moment by moment encounter with God. Every moment they spend in the mission fields is like an encounter with God. Their experience come in different tastes- bitter, astringent, sweet, sour, pungent and salty. Their responses come in different tempos too. They are only humans, they are no saints and no Angels, they are common ordinary people serving a great and extraordinary God. As they smile, speak, walk and work the heaven is with them. In SULADS “YOU COME AS A BOY OR A GIRL BUT YOU GO OUT A MAN AND A WOMAN”. This phrase speaks of the very transformation of every SULADS missionaries. In the villages and mission schools they are not just teachers, they are also Doctors, Engineers, Agriculturists, Pastors, Counsellors and the list goes on and on. This journal will keep and make known the experiences of SULADS missionaries in the front lines. This journal will herald the goodness, faithfulness and greatness of the God we serve. As you journey to read and know the experiences may their lives inspire you, may their spirit ignite you and may their love for the unreached move you.
“ 14H o w t h e n c a n t h e y c a l l o n t h e O n e t h e y h a v e n o t believed in? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear w i t h o u t s o m e o n e t o p r e a c h ? 15A n d h o w c a n t h e y p r e a c h unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” - Romans 10:14-15SULADS Family NABAYA- EN (Manobo term for
EXPERIENCE) is the official SULADS Mission Stories Journal published bimonthly by SULADS, Inc., a non-government, non-profit, self-supporting faithbased institution of the Seventh-day Adventist in the Philippines which aims to impact the lives of the unreached people groups through the avenues of the H.E.A.L Program.
SULADS comes from the
Manobo term sulad which means brother or sister. Now as the officical name of the institution it stands for Socio-ecomic Uplift, Literacy, Anthropological, and Developmental Services.
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Editorial Staff
This SULADS Mission Stories Journal is published through the joint efforts of the SULADS Main Office Staffs.
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MISSION
To reach, train, and serve unreached communities through the avenues of the H.E. A. L. Program: Health, Education, Agriculture, and Livelihood.
VISION
Empowering and equipping unreached communities to reach their own people and become effective agents of change in this world and the world to come.
GOAL
To go to the distant lands, mountains, seas, and islands, and build strong connections, friendships, and establish programs that would assist unreached communities in restoring their hope of building holistic and better lives.
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T
he SULADS, acronym for Socio-economic Uplift, Literacy, Anthropological, and Developmental Services, is a community-based non-government organization that stands as a supporting ministry of the Sevnth-day Adventists Church under the banner of the South Philippine Union Conference, involved in various development projects and sponsoring thousands of Lumad and Muslim children and families of the Philippines who have yet to be reached and thus, have no access to basic education and healthcare. The SULADS’ motto of “Reaching the Unreached” is done by establishing mission schools now known as literacy centers for Lumad and Muslim communities, bringing much needed healthcare services, providing livelihood programs, giving education for the deaf, and spending time with them and working with them while assigned volunteers live among them.
“When a SULADS worker enters a village, the first task is to get acquainted with the people, customs, and language. In the process of doing this, the needs of the village are assessed. Usually these needs include village sanitation, personal hygiene, nutrition, clean water supply, other health needs, and literacy. Then the SULADS begin working to find solutions to the problems. They teach the villagers by precept and example how to build and use pit latrines, how to take a bath, how to grow and eat good, nutritional foods, build a clean water supply, care for their bodies, and start a school to teach not only the children but the adults how to read and write. In the process of accomplishing all these tasks, the SULADS fearlessly practice their Seventh-day Adventist religion on a daily basis. The villagers become curious about their style of worship and their reasons for helping them in their villages. This give the opportunity to witness for Jesus.” -Dr. Webb
“SULADS is Suppor ted by faith, funded by miracles.”
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About the Issue This issue is a recollection of SULADS Mission Stories that were published in the previous SULADS Journal “LALAG”. This collection is compiled for the very purpose of further preserving the beautiful experiences of our SULADS front line workers. This collection will reherald God’s faithfulness to the SULADS Missionaries from the recent past. This issue would like to inspire present SULADS missionaries serving in different misison schools. As they read the experiences of the missionaries that have served ahead of them. These stories is becoming but a memory of God’s faithfulness in the SULADS ministerial work. These stories will soon be just but tales of long ago. These stories are contained and preserved in this publication.
Be blessed! Be inspired to do Missions! Be zealous! Be all you can be in the Lord! The end is soon to come prepare the way! Prepre a people for the Kingdom! “There is no line of work in which it is possible for the youth to receive greater benefit. A l l w h o e n g a g e i n m i n i s t r y a r e G o d ’ s h e l p i n g h a n d . They are co-workers with the angels; rather, they are the human agencies through whom the angels accomplish their mission. Angels speak through their voices, and work by their hands. And the human workers, co-operating with heavenly agencies, have the benefit of their education and experience. As a means of education, what “university course” can equal this? Ed 271.1
With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and sooncoming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon
might the end come—the end of suffering and sorrow and sin! How soon, in place of a possession here, with its blight of sin and pain, our children might receive their inheritance where “the righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever;” where “the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick,” and “the voice of weeping shall be no more heard.” Psalm 37:29; Isaiah 33:24; 65:19. Ed 271.2”
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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Coming Out Alive
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From Business to Beesiness for God
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13 Bee Keepers Journey 1 4 When it’s Meant to Bee 1 6 I will Pass on the SULADS Fire 2 0 The Run Away Bride 2 2 Let’s Call off the Wedding 2 4 The Garden in my Heart 3 0 Back to my People 3 2 Motorcycle Convoy 3 4 Dolphi 3 6 The Bullet 3 8 Herbs of Faith 4 0 Addicted to Serve 4 2 Molded to be
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Coming Out Alive
“P
apa! Lord, Lord, LORD, save us!” was heard as the white Korando SUV crashed into the papaya tree and the cement railing on the side curb of the road and then finally landing on it’s right side on April 5, 2015 afternoon between Carmen and Bukidnon. Smoke was coming out of the engine. And each person inside the car was piled on top of each other. The Muslim community came immediately around the car thinking many had died or was badly injured. Because thirty minutes before the accident, they saw Sitan (Maguindanao – Satan), a body without a head with blood bleeding sitting at that corner. They threw
stones to shoo him away. Usually when he comes around, death is coming rapidly.
One by one, each person came out the driver’s door. All were shocked and surprised to find us alive including Ma’am Ethel who had a recent C-section and 1 month old Baby Drexy. Dr. Panes came out saying, “Alhamdulillah! (Thanks be to God).” The crowd responded back, “Alhamdulillah!” There was no death or even a single bone broken among those in the vehicle.
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All were certain angels were on guard to keep us safe. The Counselor invited us to his house to offer us water and crackers as snacks while we waited for help and as we shared our story of what had happened. Dr. Panes explained that he had fallen asleep for a few moments and that was when the vehicle went out of his control. It slammed into the tree and side railings causing the front right wheel to break off. He also shared how similar we were in our practices as Seventh-day Adventists we don’t eat pork and certain foods because it’s haram (forbidden by Allah); they exclaimed that we’re just like the Muslims. We shared about our SULADS work in the Muslim communities in giving education to tribes where no one wants to go in Lanao del Norte and Tawi-Tawi. In our short time together, we were able to see the kindness and hospitality the Muslims had towards us. In history, Joseph was saved from the pit of death through the help
of the Ishmaelite, so now we thank God for our Muslim brethren who assisted us when we were in the pit of the car accident. Job 33:28 states, “He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.” Coming out of the accident alive was a miraculous testimony of God’s light seen in all seven individuals (Dr. Alejandro Panes, Isabel Panes, Simi Velasco, Ethel Velasco, Gwen Velasco (7 y/o), Drexy Velasco (1 mo), and Liz Ang) inside the Korando.
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From Business
to
Bee-siness for God
G
od called me into ministry, but I became a coward as the world showed its flashy life. My eyes began to compare my life with those of my fellow Korean friends. I longed to have that kind of life where money came easy, and I would only have to go to church to fellowship with people once a week on Sabbath. I got myself involved in business to start my venture on earning money. First, I went into the business of delivering fresh milk and crackers. Next, it was in establishing an English Center and having foreign
teachers teach the Korean children the international language of English. Then, I got involved in Chinese antiques. Last, I got my fingers into having a franchise restaurant.The more I went into business, the more I became greedy. When the business came to a high, it would start to plummet down quickly. I ended up being bankrupt with nothing left behind. Family and friends would ask, “What happened to you?� I felt like a black angry storm of curse had hovered over me while
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everybody else was feeling the warm sunshine. I lost everything. I was a failure to my family, my friends, and God. Life wasn’t worth living for. I went to the seashore and watched how happy everyone were in playing with their families. I was all alone with absolutely nothing to brag about. I tried to drown myself in the ocean of sdespair, but I was too frightened to drink in all the salty water.
medical doctor to ask for sleeping pills because I couldn’t sleep for many nights being so boggled with stress. When I got home, I decided to put some pills into my mouth and sleep forever without all the negative vibes pushing into my mind. I was richly disappointed when I woke up the next day for the pills were not strong enough to bring me to my dreamland of peace.
My brain was in so much turmoil that I found myself driving against traffic on the highway. I wanted to get into a major car collision accident where I would be found dead at the scene. But all the cars that were heading towards me start to slow down and part ways to the left and right side of the road like when God parted the waters of the Red Sea for the Israelites. I thought, “What if I’m not found dead at the scene, but end up handicapped for the rest of life?” So I evacuated from that suicidal attempt remaining a coward before all to see.
My cry was, “Why, God?! Why? How come I couldn’t become successful?” I finally gave up; and with little money, I flew to Philippines ready to die. I thought I would slowly waste away to nothingness. I somehow met Dr. Alejandro Panes in Mountain View College (MVC), and through our discussion I found out that SULADS needed help. In the past, I researched and read about bees and how to build apiaries. I went and watched how the other beekeepers worked and soon decided to make a Honeybee Project to help bring some income for the SULADS Ministry.
Why, God?! Why?
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God brought me to nature to renew my mind and soul to Him. I realized that all along I’ve been running away like Jonah from the
The best medicine for any sickness is truly repentance. ministry, and all God cared and wanted was my surrender of my pride. The best medicine for any sickness is truly repentance. Once I repented and gave my life to Him, He gave me the full assurance that surpasses my expectation of peace and joy. I, now, understand that God wanted me to have that close relationship with Him where I may live out the Bible verse found in James 1:19, “Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak.” In the past, I lived a hectic busy life that I did not make an effort to listen to His voice and heed His promptings. Now I couldn’t thank God enough for bringing me back and restoring me into the ministry and letting me enjoy the simple lifestyle of the SULADS. James Kim volunteers as a Beekeeper in SULADS.
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Molded to Be
I
have witnessed the beginnings of SULADS and how God has brought miracles upon miracles, change upon change for it to survive and still do God’s entrusted work. I lived with the pioneers. I worked as a villager, and we ate under the same roof. These people have molded me to be one of the SULADS to replace them and to continue to kindle the light of the pioneers in these days where the Spirit is much needed. With my husband and my whole family, I am serving as a custodian at this point. But in the length of my stay here as a worker in the SULADS Main Office, God has given me different jobs and various fields of duty that has truly given me a great and satisfying experience. The SULADS pioneers have molded me to be in SULADS to serve SULADS and to pass on their spirit. A life of a volunteer is truly full of so many uncertainties and so many difficulties. So many times, I have wanted to be out and find more stability and peace; but
in those so many times, the Lord has never failed to assure me that in these uncertainties - He will be given the chance to prove His love and His power. In these tough times, He will be able to refine my character and my life to be more fitted in the service. The office work could be very sedentary, and people may take it so lightly and may consider it not a real missionary work. The office work may not be a great field or missionary assignment where danger and instability surrounds you; but I have been in the field and now in the office, and the challenge is the same. The character needed is truly the same. The amount of strength and grace to carry the daily work no matter how light or taxing it may be for the brain still is to God a work - a grand missionary work. “So in the humbliest duties and lowliest positions of life, we may walk and work with Jesus.” Steps to Christ, p. 82. Rebecca C. Sugdan serves as SULADS Custodian.
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uzz.... bzzz... bzzzzz. Seeing the bees rushing in and out of their hives as they busily work to make honey, I watched in admiration of their work ethics in keeping the honeybee family strong as I look through my netted hat. From the worker bee to the queen bee, they work in unity and cooperation like a true team. One bee cannot live by itself on its own – they need each other to survive.
Beekeeper’s Journey
My journey in SULADS started after I graduated from Agriculture in 2011, and I went to Laa Island to mingle and teach the Muslim children. Dr. Panes saw how we lived simply on rice porridge and told me that after my term, I should work in the farm to help SULADS in another way. After one year spending time with Sir Simi and Dr. Panes in the farm, Sir James came to SULADS. He proposed a project in having apiaries of honeybees to help produce honey to assist SULADS in one way or another. He needed an assistant beekeeper, so that’s when I came to become a beekeeper. As a beekeeper, all my five senses have been stretched to open up the skills I’ve never
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had before. I’ve learned a bit of medicine and pray that they would carpentry from making bee boxes slowly become healthy again. and frames. I’ve also learned how to be more sensitive to the bees Sir James and I were in so to meet their needs and see if awe that although this problem there are any illnesses or problems came to our bees, we are now still with them. We also need to search able to harvest honey. The many for luscious areas for the bees to beekeepers around Bukidnon are flourish away from pesticides and struggling with their bees not pollutants. I’ve also discovered having as much honey production so many life lessons from workthis year. Everywhere the bees are ing and observing how the bees dying being affected by different labor in unity in their different roles I’m glad to be able to witness as queen bee, drones, this little miracle in harvesting worker bees, cleaners, undertakers, nurses, HONEY every 10 days despite the builders, temperature odds that are against us. controllers, guards, and foragers. factors – diseases, weather, chemicals, and pollution. But God made The greatest challenge was a miracle happen for SULADS in in the beginning of 2015 when our Honeybee Project. I’m glad to Varroa destructors, which is an be able to witness this little miracle external parasite mites, attacked in harvesting honey every 10 days our bees. I read about it but never despite the odds that are against saw it in real life. We were crushed us. Like the SULADS Volunteers to have to be forced to burn half in the rough assigned territories, of the SULADS beehives because our SULADS bees are fighting the mites contaminate and spread. against the odds. They really do kill and destroy the bee colonies from the baby larvae Job Og I. Cabanero to the worker bees. The bees were served as a SULADS extremely weak as life was sucked Beekeeper. out of them. The only thing we could do was give them some NABAYA-EN | MAY - JUNE 2017 15
When It’s Meant to Bee...
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t was six o’clock in the morning of the first day of April. She was waiting for someone named Job, who would be fetching her to be brought to the SULADS campus. She was outside the MVC gate waiting, young and inexperienced, yet was so excited of what God had stored for her in the Lord’s missionary work. A few minutes after she had received the text message, she rubbed her aching tummy, decided to sit down, and looked at the path once more, and saw another man on a motorbike as there had already been two earlier that had passed by. “Another false alarm maybe,” she thought. But as he was heading nearer, he was looking at her with a big smile. The morning sunshine beamed across his countenance that looked so fresh and bright. “Jell?” the guy asked her. “Kuya Job?” “I’m sorry if I had kept you waiting,” he said as he dismounted from his motorbike to help her with her things. After she had made herself comfortable with her luggage, he drove to the SULADS Campus.
Together with the other SULADS trainees, she was trying to fit in with the others. She had rarely seen Job during classes for he was also busy with the SULADS Bee Project. One time after gardening, some of the male trainees gathered the dried grass to burn. When it was twilight, they started roasting cassavas. Intrigued, Jell went and joined the group. After a while, Job arrived and sat with them. They continued talking and laughing until it was already dark. Jell asked to excuse herself, and Job, sensing what’s on her mind, told her that it’s fine if she stayed a bit longer since they are in a group anyway. There were six single ladies who had joined during that training, and she got along well with them. But when Precious came after a few days, everything changed. It all started when together they had a Sabbath walk. They just found each other both fascinatingly interesting. And from that day forward, they were glued to each other doing almost everything together. Since Job and Precious were already acquainted, it was not that hard for him to join in
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their little excursions. From being masters, which always reminded her a two-some, they became the three of faithfulness and honesty. One time, muskateers during the training who Job told her, “See. The bees are ever enjoyed each other’s busy in producing company. honey to help the Everything was The bees are ever busy ministry. They are only made clear bein producing honey just tiny insects, but tween them when Job, they could do big to help the ministry. things. How much before Jell’s departure to her mission school, more for us who are confessed to her that he found her equipped with reason and interesting and wanted to know her understanding from God? If you more. She then agreed to give both of only have time to see bees make their them a chance. intricately symmetrical beehives, look When she was already in the for pollens of mission school, communication had different colors, produce honey in been tough. Over the phone, they different levels of sweetness, and how would share experiences that would they work together as one even help uplift each other’s souls closer to without a commander, you can never Jesus. But there was a time when Job but only praise the Lord of the was so down because his bees were heavens who made these creatures sick. There was a failure in the strikingly awesome.” These were production, and he just felt so helpless just some of the many object lessons, and stressed. He told her his plan of they’ve learned from nature and from quitting SULADS after gaining back their experiences they had which made what he had lost. He told her that their friendship grew stronger. maybe SULADS needs a much better Like the sea of Tawi-Tawi, life beekeeper than him; but after being will never be always encouraged, he began to look at the smooth-sailing and calm. There were brighter side and trust the Lord even also rough waves and angry blows. It more with the work He had entrusted was about the third quarter of the year him. It was also that time when he when problems and became very busy with his regular misunderstandings aroused from the colony check-ups and visitations. Jell group and from the people. The crisis learned that bees are delicate insects. was both in and out. Everyone was They need time and effort. They are emotionally affected. That was also the like the children in her mission school time, Jell decided to have a who needs her time and patience. She communication break from everyone learned that bees are faithful insects including her family and Job. She which can’t live in a colony with two simply had to be focused with the situqueens. They can’t serve two ation they were in during that time.
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Later by God’s grace, things became okay. Their camporee was at hand as well. Their attention, time, and unity were very much needed. They had invited some friends to share some ideas with them and at the same time, act as counsellors to the campers. Fortunately, two male friends accepted the invitation. It was during the last week of October when they had the activity. Everyone had fun. The students and missionaries were able to rebuild their relationship. Indeed, it was a success! After that event, one of the guys started calling her now and then. The guy was just being friendly. “And he’s nice to talk to as well because he is a smart guy with good ideas,” she thought. Jell simply found the man amazing. He continued calling her, and there were times that he would send her some fruits and veggies from the main island. At first, she thought that he’s just being generous. But later on, taking the advice of her dearest partner, she confronted the guy over the phone about his actions. “I like you, and I find you interesting,” he said directly. Jell was stunned with his straightforwardness. “What? Can you like someone you just met?” she answered – amused rather than irritated.
“Yes! What’s wrong with that? People are not the same. You have to consider what they see in you, not only what you see in yourself,” he explained. “I know that. But you know there’s Job, right?” “And then?” he asked sounding sarcastic. “I just don’t want confusion.” “Why? Are you together?” “No.” “So, what’s the problem? I only said, ‘I like you, and I find you interesting.’ I’m not asking you to be my girlfriend.” “Okay. I’m just making sure that we are clear on this matter.” She thought that it would be the last. But he became even more emotional towards her to the point that he shared even the most private problems of his. Needing for some good advice about him, she related their conversations to her partner.
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Alarmed with what she had heard, Precious advised her to set a demarcation line between them, or better yet, put an end in their communication. Jell prayed for her decision to stop what could lead to more. She explained herself as gently as possible and made it clear that what she could really offer him is only her friendship. There were just some things which were not meant to be. She went home for the Christmas break. She and Job had seen each other again. She told him everything that had happened for the last three months. Everything was made clear. Before she went back to the islands, he gave her a
This is all I can offer you. May you get closer to Jesus each day.
Bible. “I maybe not rich to offer you with something more, but please take this Bible with you when you go back to your mission school. This is all I can offer you. May you get closer to Jesus each day,” he said as he handed it to her. She remembered her prayer. It was answered, maybe not in the way she wanted it to be or how it should be or what it should be. The point is – it was just answered right in front of her. She just received something she will always need, not just what she wanted from the man who had patiently waited for her. When things are meant to be, they are meant to be.
Christy Marie Jell L. Cabanero served as a High School Teacher in SCHSL & is now the new bride of Job Cabanero.
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I Will Pass on the SULADS Fire!
I
was 15, a drunk, a hopelessly desperate teenage boy. I knew then that no future was waiting for me. What I only wanted was to continue to live the worthless life I had already always been living. I grew up empty and void of any parental affection. I have 13 siblings who grew up the same way as me without any love. I found comfort with my friends and with my vices. My heart was filled with anger and resentment toward almost everyone around me. I was really rebellious. I can not find any sense in my life. I looked at my life as nothing but emptiness. I was searching for something which I didn’t know where to find.
They saw in my broken life a potential to be of use to their communist cause. So they tried to persuade me in so many different ways to join them, but I couldn’t find what they were offering me was of any worth. One day, they called a meeting for me and others to attend for an important business proposal. They offered to give me and my companions 1,000,000 pesos to finance an abaca plantation assuring us that this business would soon give us a great financial bulk where we would never be living in poverty any longer.
I thought, “Who cares about One of my siblings was a this business proposal. This is not member of the communist rebels. what I need.” I was longing for 20 NABAYA-EN | MAY - JUNE 2017
something more to life. I just didn’t understand what it was. For years, God kept me not to be persuaded by the rebel group. When it seemed I can not hold on any longer, I met the SULADS missionary whom God had sent for me. The missionary showed me the things that I can still do and become. Slowly day after day, I found God’s will unfolding within my heart. When it was time for me to decide to study here in the high school, my old life was pulling me away from that hope of a good future. There was a strong battle within me, but the prayers of my new SULADS missionary friend and my brother, who was a SULADS missionary too, brought the desire of my heart to be filled. I can not stop thanking God and praising Him for bringing me into my haven. The high school is a place of refuge and comfort for me. God brought great healing the day I started to study in this school. The warmth and love that our teacher and my classmates have filled my hunger of love from my parents. The daily provisions that God has for all of us are His daily expressions of love. He’s the only one that
can fill and give what is needed in our hearts. I can never exchange the life I have in this place; I can not afford to forfeit and not to live the great light I have received. Most of all, I can not take to live a life not telling others about how God brought a hopeless teenage boy back into life again. My wasted and useless life is now a life filled with definite purpose and worth.
I want to bring the fire of what SULADS has done for me and pass it on to the many young people around... God has used the influences of SULADS missionaries in my brokenness. I want to bring the fire of what SULADS has done for me and pass it on to the many young people around groping in darkness. I will someday be back in my place as a SULADS missionary winning souls for His kingdom. I hope and pray to become a preacher someday to share God’s love to my own people and to the surrounding svillages in Surigao. Adrian Ampo Maca is a 9th grade student in SCHSL.
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the
Run-away Bride
I
was called one day to meet someone. When I saw his face, it didn’t give me a good feeling. Being judgmental, I right away saw his pride and folly. I knew fully well that he was just wearing a mask and he just was trying to make a good impression to my family especially to my father. My whole family was trying to convince me that the guy was good, and that his family was also good - a distant relative of my father. Sadly, I couldn’t really see
the goodness they saw in him. I ran away several times and somehow would always be ushered back home. So what I would do was to sleep with my father’s bolo beside me so in case the guy would come and touch me, I would really kill him. I became so desperate to protect myself from the guy every day. The grandmother of the guy could not be stopped anymore from pushing my family to give me to her grandson. When I could not hold the pressure any longer, I
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made this biggest step to run and never be found by my mom. She was always the one who diligently looked for me and had found me again and again. When my family finally had understood my resistance and my growing rebellion for the arrangement, they cancelled the “buya�; and I was I thank God I was able to escape from that arrangement because I know I still have so many things to do as a single person. given my freedom. I thanked God that I was able to escape from that arrangement, because I fully know I still have so many things to do as a single young person. God still has given
me a character to develop. Then, I came here to SULADS High School where all my hopes and dreams are getting fulfilled. I fully know that God saved me from an early marriage because He has a great plan for me to be working with Him and to go to many places where I can work for God and serve other people. I know God will bring me into marriage at the right age, probably when I turn 30 years old. I believe God will bring me to marry a man that is ready and who is able to provide. When I get married, I will also be ready with my education and work. I believe marriage is joined together by two responsible individuals.
Maricel Lipandag is a Manobo student of SCHSL, currently in her 7th grade.
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Let’s Call Off the Wedding!
have been given into marriage several times already, and it seems that it didn’t work out between me and those ladies. Almost always before we were to wed, something would happen where the engagement would be cancelled. Rosabel is the 5th lady arranged for me to have as my wife. Rosabel is a nice person, but we happen not to like each other. Despite our hope of a personal preference, we did our best to obey our parents’ wishes and decision. We decided to be in school together in SULADS High School.
In our culture, it is not appropriate for a man and a woman being arranged into marriage to be seen going together or even talk with each other. Before the tribal wedding, the two would act like strangers. So Rosabel and I have never talked even a single word while on campus. We completely acted like strangers that should never connect. This part of our culture is highly respected by the school, our friends, and classmates. Deep in our hearts, we knew we are not meant to be; and
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we didn’t want to be married. The time finally came when we have discovered that we were cousins and that we should not be given into marriage. If we pursue the marriage, it will go against the will of God. We both have been converted into the Adventist faith in the high school, and we wanted to follow God’s ideals for His people. We prayed and asked God for our marriage arrangement to be broken. My heart rests on the wonderful hope of a good future the Lord God has for me.
By God’s grace, the answer to our prayer finally has come. Courage has flooded my heart and I have done my best to explain to both of our parents our desire to
cancel the engagement because Rosabel and I want to follow what God wanted. I have expected a big disagreement from our parents, but I have received the opposite - our parents happily agreed with our decision not to get married anymore. At this time, Rosabel and I are happily experiencing our freedom from that arranged marriage. Now, we have a better hope to be married to the person we really like to have. I fully believe God has more for me to do and become because for the fifth time now my marriage engagement has been called off. My heart rests on the wonderful hope of a good future the Lord God has for me.
Willy Tamba (21) & Rosabel Dolen Manib (16) are B’laan students of SCHSL. They are now both in the 9th grade.
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Gladly
Obey
marriage in a very young age, it happened this time in my teenage years.
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uya is a handed-down tradition in our culture. It is practiced by all the parents before our parents to secure the future of their children. The children from their parent’s womb would have their husbands or wives already. As a son who have a full understanding of our culture, I have hopes from before to be given a good and beautiful wife someday. I was not given into
Coming into the high school, I have learned the importance of education to secure my future and the future of my family. I have learned the heavy responsibilities of being a husband that I should be a provider and protector of my wife and family. I am seeing myself to be married later when I have the ability to be a good father. Despite what I have learned in school, the reality of our culture of me being given into an arranged marriage at any age lingered in my mind. One school break, I went home and noticed that my parents
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were already setting some plans to match me with a girl from the family who had just transferred to our village. When I saw this young girl that my family was eyeing for me to marry, she seemed like a nice girl; and I also had wished then that she would be given to me as my wife. The break was over, and I went back to school. Then, another break came. I was excited to be home again and along the way people welcomed me with the question, “Naa naman diay ka asawa?” (So you have a wife?) “Huh…? Asawa, wala paman koy asawa.” (Huh, Wife? I don’t have a wife yet.) I didn’t know what was going on in our house while I was away in school. Without my knowledge, that nice girl I was hoping to be matched to, was already in our house. She has been already living there waiting for me. The arrangement between her parents and mine was done, and my parents were planning to send her to school with me. I finally got to talk to her. We easily made each other
comfortable, and I started sharing with her all about my school life in SULADS High School. I asked her if she liked to have me as her husband in the future. I had given her enough space and time to make up her mind if she really wanted to marry me because she still could be free to change her mind before the wedding takes place. To my happiness, she was ok with our engagement. Not long after, we had our tribal wedding. I am still young and so is she. We both made up our mind to finish school first before getting into the real married life status and grow to be more fitted and suited for each other as husband and wife. So, this time we are here in the high school trying to excel at school so that soon we could build a good family. We thank the Lord for this school here where we are also learning precious lessons of God’s plan for marriage and God’s purpose of instituting us as one.
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BORN to BE in SULADS R
at is my favorite. Snake is the most delicious snack for me. I would walk around naked just like any other Manobo kids around in Bulalang, San Fernando. I did not have a view of a life more than what I was used to, then came SULADS to my village. I was but a kid and knew nothing of what they were up to. Then one of the Maestros (Teachers), Daryl Famisaran, started to give me some pieces of clothes they called “sinina�. Oh, how I hated to wear them. I was more comfortable in having nothing put on my body. The Maestro never stopped; he was so deter-
mined to tame my wild nature. He started to treat me like his younger brother. That was the start of my journey in becoming a Sulad. SULADS has completely reversed my fate. SULADS came and had clothed my destiny with a beautiful robe of service and and a will for mission. I went as a Sulad to my own village and served as a teacher in 1994. I then married a SULADS Volunteer and a Lumad like myself. With my whole family, we have been serving the SULADS Main Office for 9 years already. I graduated from Education, but my
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passion is found in the automotive work. And the very vehicle that has become so close to my heart is the Blue Jeep, which was manufactured in 1969 – the same year I was born. I have been a great witness of God’s miracles through this Blue Jeep. As its driver and mechanic, my experiences are my treasures. I truly cannot exchange the vehicle
To me the Blue Jeep is a dear friend and companion.
for any other vehicle for it has helped build my faith in the Lord. To me the Blue Jeep is a dear friend and companion. Only the good Lord knows how much time will I still be in SULADS. As for me I have this in my mind, “God made me to be a Sulad, and in SULADS I will serve for this is where I had a personal contact with God.” Edgar P. Sugdan serves as SULADS Driver/ Mechanic.
Revived Blue Jeep with Sto. Domingo Datus
SULADS Blue Jeep fully loaded
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The
Garden in My Heart
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fter my college graduation at Mountain View College (MVC), God has led me to serve SULADS in different mission schools in Agusan and Quezon. The variety of places I have been to, the variety of Lumads I have served, and the variety of partners I have been paired up with have given me various colorful experiences that I can never exchange in my life. Being a SULADS missionary has molded me to be in the passion I have in my heart - the passion for plants and flowers. It
has become so natural for me to turn a jungle, a dry land, or a desolate field into a dwelling place for beautiful plants and flowers. I did not have the proper training for landscaping - I just use my instinct while in Sto. Dominigo in SULADS Comprehensive High School for the Lumads (SCHSL) for 9 years and here in SULADS Campus in MVC for 4 years. I just feel it in my heart. I use my heart to arrange the plants and to put them in the ground, and by God’s grace every flower would turned out to shine and to grow like it has naturally been placed there.
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I do not have the taste of a real landscaper, but I truly have the heart for these plants and that’s what makes the difference. The heart to do things that you love is what counts best for God. A heart that loves to do what he does is a heart that will shine. Being in the missionary field before and now serving the main office, I have nothing but only my heart’s dedication to serve God with the strength of my hands. In these wonderful creations of God, I am not the only one who is blessed with the greenery, but I believe every eye who would behold them will come to praise my Savior. This is the wonderful inspiration I truly cherish in my work as a landscaper in SULADS Main Campus that when they see my plants, they will behold the beauty and the glory of God and His great love for mankind and nature. I’ve learned “wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessing.” Steps to Christ, p. 77. A daily dose of this prayer is offered, “Lord, may every eye who will see these plants will remember You. May every eye who will see this natural scene will see Your majesty, and may every tongue will praise Your Name!” Renato S. Calinga is serving as a SULADS Campus Landscaper.
10 Things You Can Learn from NATURE 1. God is the Creator of Love 2. Spring back from sorrow 3. Peace and harmony 4. Beauty in simplicity and symmetry 5. Keep growing 6. Versatility 7. Self-giving and uninhibited 8. Even small things are important 9. Be flexible 10. Mathematics and Science
“Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.” Child Guidance, p. 45
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BACK TO MY PEOPLE
When the Presidential Authority and National Minorities (PANAMIN) of the government came in our village, they started to give supplies of food, clothing, farming tools, and slowly the forest was opened to a more stable form of living condition. A house to live in and some piece of land to farm. Our forest became a little village in the deep jungle. But during the 1980’s, the government support stopped. It was a big lose to my people, but still we survived and went back to the old ways. During the 1990’s, an NGO from the America called “Friends
of TASADAY Foundation (FOT)” headed by John Nance, gave my people an educational program grant, farm culture, and livelihood projects. After 10 years of implementation before it stopped, there were two who were able to finish college. The program stopped when John Nance died on March 8, 2010. And one of the two who finished college was me. Now I’m so blessed to be given the chance to become a SULADS volunteer with my wife. I never have dreamed to be in the Lord’s work. I was converted to Adventist faith last November 29, 2009 and have never been an active member of the church, not until I dreamed of seeing Jesus in the clouds of heaven saying, “Come, Follow Me.” When I woke up in the morning, I told my wife about the dream, and right there and then, the Lord worked in my heart in so many tremendous ways that has led me to develop this
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Photo taken by : John Launois
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belong to the Lumad Tribe of Tasaday and from a poor family. My parents were living in the cave in the middle of a very thick forest. They looked for food in the wild, hunted wild animals, and fished in the rivers for the family’s food. There are twelve children in the family - four girls and eight boys.
Little by little, my spiritual life had been revived. There was no other thing I have thought of but to do what was best for my people for my life with Jesus. With the education I was blessed to have, I also wanted the other members of my people to have the same great opportunity to be educated. I hoped to see an army of people from my tribe - Tasaday to be in the field working for God. March 28, 2014 came and I was recommended by the church to join SULADS training. Sadly, I did not have all the essential things to join the missionary training - no shoes, no clothes, no money, and other needs. During that time, God proved His power to provide for me and even leaving my wife and my two-month-old child in the womb, I went to be trained as a SULADS volunteer. In the training, my faith was tested severely by different trials that came to my family. My mother got sick, and my child was not able to eat anything. At that time, I only had prayer as my only strength. I had proven the power of kneeling in prayer to keep my family safe despite the challenges. With gladness in my heart of the Lord’s goodness, I was able to
finish the training; and my family stood strong with me. Going back to my people, I encountered great difficulties and hardships - demon possession, lack of food and money. In all these dealings, God showed Himself faithful. After every sincere prayer, His care and provisions were given immediately. I have seen the eyes of God for my people and for me in my desire to bring them to faith and salvation. I am a witness of what is stated in Mark 11:24, “What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them.” I am only a recipient of God’s mercy and goodness. I am only but His servant. And being His, I have not lacked anything. This I truly hope that my people and I be one in our hearts’ journey towards that great celestial kingdom. I am a SULADS volunteer to my own people. I am a missionary to my tribe, and I pray to have more from Tasaday be working for God for Jesus’ soon return. Clohonon K. Udelen and his wife, Jocelyn, are serving in Lampitok (Tasaday), South Cotobato.
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MOTORCYCLE CONVOY
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e decided that day to go downtown, so my wife and I convoyed on two motorcycles. Her motorcycle went ahead of us. We had ran around a kilometer away or so when we felt a very strong wind blow where in front my eyes I saw the corns stalks in the field fall down and some trees on the road were uprooted and flew over our heads. My wife, Fema, and their motorcycle had gone ahead of us and was out of sight. Seeing the horrible weather condition in front of me, I was
wondering how Fema’s motorcycle was able to go through these trees in the midst of the road. I started to be worried about my wife. The driver of the motorcycle started to worry too of what has happened to the motorcycle ahead of us. We really forced our motorcycles to pass under those fallen trees. I could not stop to wonder how in the world my wife had passed this road without any hassle. After a few minutes, we were able to catch up with Fema. We could not stop thanking God
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for He protected us from that storm. There was a vicious storm that day that we did not know of. It was a great witness to our two motorcycle drivers that nothing had happened to us. They were so amazed on how it was possible for us to pass safely through seeing how the angry winds were trying to uproot all plants on the road and in the fields. The people in our village where we served also have testified how come we were not harmed. It seemed that we had some special protector because we were always kept safe in our every single travel. The travels that were impossible
for them to do because of fear of the bad elements around - we just took it so easily and happily. It seemed that we had some special protector because we were always kept safe in our every single travel. The Lord shall always be faithful to sustain the lives of His people who are working in His vineyard. As long as the Lord still has a work for His people to do, their lives will be kept safe; and our lives will continue to be a witness to those in darkness around us. Jiffrey and Fema Silmaro are serving in Abnate, Davao del Sur.
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here is an eager student named Dolphi. He is always the center of the attention in my class since he’s the slowest to learn but the most active participant. Though he’s the oldest among my students, 36 years old, he has never gone to school before not until we arrived to the village. He understands things slowly; the whole community treats him as “abnormal” (person with special needs). They think he has some psychological problems. He may be having those limitations, but he has become our inspiration. In a number of consecutive classes, I noticed that Dolphi wore the same clothes. As a mother, I
felt that maybe something was wrong at home. So I asked his classmate who happens to be his neighbor, “Can you tell me what you know about Dolphi?” And the neighbor replied, “Ma’am, Dolphi is an orphan and lives with his brother who has the exact same disability like he has.” “Oh?”, my heart was pierced by what I heard. I then told my husband about Dolphi and his situation, and right away we decided to visit him. We brought our two girls with us to take a look at Dolphi’s home. When I reached his hut, I could not hold back my tears when I saw the very pitiful condition of Dolphi’s house - “a pig pen is
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even better than this.” My husband could not contain his disgust for no one in the village had thought to help Dolphi. How were they able to survive this horrible situation? We learned later that they don’t have even a blanket to cover themselves in the night. With only one set of clothing, no blanket, no house to shelter them well enough during rainy and cold seasons. I wanted to cry really hard for Dolphi and his brother’s terrible living condition. The only means of their survival is to haul 70 kilos of bananas every other day to town for their rice - sometimes they eat, sometimes they don’t.
Dolphi is on the right side of the door
Dolphi dreamed and wanted to be a pastor, this maybe a very impossible dream for him to achieve with his mental ability, but I am determined with my husband as long as we are here in the village to help him become one. People may laugh at his dream, but I don’t know how the grace of God will work in Dolphi’s heart. Diodulo and I believe that for this soul Jesus has died for. We are building Dolphi a better place to stay, and this step has opened doors for the whole village to also assist. By the act of sympathy, the village was awaken to the true essence of “loving thy neighbors as thyself.”
Ma’am Nemsie teaching class
Nemsie and Diodulo Luad are serving in Kafok, South Cotobato with their 2 girls.
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could never forget that specific date, December 29, 2009, my cousin and I decided to go to hunt for some deer in the forest for the New Year. In the forest, we did not see any deer, but instead a group of monkeys. So we decided to get the monkeys instead. But the monkeys ran and got scared and hid quickly when they noticed our presence. So when silence came back, my keen cousin carefully hid in some trees and watched out for any of the monkeys that would come back again. Then suddenly, he noticed something moving in a far distance from where he was standing. He was feeling so excited to have thought it was a big catch of
deer. So carefully he placed himself at a location so that to gain a good target on the deer, and he then fired on the very thing he thought was a deer. After he fired, he ran straight to the catch and to his surprise he saw not a deer but me. It hit my head. Immediately, he brought me to his hut and treated the bleeding. He checked on the bullet in my head, and it was just right underneath my skin. I thought I would just be fine, but days later, it got swollen and was very painful. My cousin then brought me to the midwife to be checked, and she recommended having me be checked up
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by the doctor. So we went to town still in my head. My cousin could and had my head be checked by not afford the operation, and my the doctor. The doctor said that family could not either. I needed an operation to get the bullet out of my head, but he could God allowed that event to not do it because the wound was happen for me to know Him better extremely swollen. The doctor and for me to have a closer walk agreed that he would come back with Him. In the year 2012, I met when the wound was not swollen SULADS volunteers who asked me anymore. to study the Bible with them. With my physical condition with the bullet still in my head, I never had any doubt that I wanted to know I am not asking for a miracle, the Jesus who will do great and but I am asking that my faith wonderful things for His people. may be strengthened... I am not asking for a miracle, but I am asking that my faith may be strengthened and be made purer Coming back to our village, there each day that my life be committed were times when I had really always to Him. terrible headaches. Many times, I couldn’t recognize people that I I was not shot dead because have known in the past. I believed God wanted me to meet His Son my memory was slowly leaving me through the SULADS volunteers. due to the bullet in my head. This And now I am still alive - every was so strange for me, but I could day seeing the light God has given not help but just live with it. Time me through living in Jesus. passed and until now the bullet is * A story of DATU WEN MATANG of Lambila, Ned, Lake Sebu, South Cotobato. David Payaron is serving in Lambila, South Cotobato with his wife and child.
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Herbs of Faith
I know that I am a real worry wart especially when it comes to caring for the sick. I just can’t stand the danger and the stress while dealing with ill people. But at that time, I did not have the choice but to attend to the need to help the patient. With a worried look I asked my partner, “What shall we do with this?” The only thing we could do was to pray.
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uddenly our lunch was halted by a call to help a patient in the village; I could’nt understand what I was feeling. This patient was already suffering for ten days from abdominal pain and when he could not stand the pain anymore, we were called for duty.
After the prayer, we rushed to the patient’s house. We did not bring anything but a liniment to rub on his tummy, 1 tablespoon of sugar, a small piece of ginger, and five lemongrass leaves to make some herbal tea. The patient was lying like a dead man on his bed. He was feeling deep excruciating pain in his abdomen that made him motionless. His father assisted him to sit up. We earnestly prayed and had him drink the decoction of those herbs we brought.
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After that time, we weren’t able to check on the patient for long time. Two years had passed by when we were surprised that Jonel, the patient, went in front during our church service and gave a wonderful testimony on the healing given to him by God through prayers and the herbs. Jonel was blind to the truths. He did not know of God and all the wonderful things He is able to do. Because of that event, his eyes were opened to receive the truths. Many more are like Jonel in our village. We never know what to do, but God could surely use any instrument. By faith, He can give what is necessary. We are pioneering in the village of Buhong, South Cotobato. There are great things to come that God will use us to make the spiritually blind see, the spiritually deaf hear, and to make the spiritually crippled walk straight. I may not like to attend to the sick, but I have seen that in their ill state I can surely make them know God. And because of this, I am willing to be used, not just in taking care of the sick, but also in any line the Lord will use me for them to know more of our awesome God. Rogelio Ebaga is serving in Bohong, South Cotobato.
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Addicted to Serve
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wo years ago, I wanted to go to a party. I was running late, so I took the multi-cab from our house and drove it off to meet up with my friends. I lost track of time as I was having fun. Vices controlled me for many years although I come from an Adventist family. My parents were calling me as I was heading home. I thought, “That’s it, I’m dead.” I packed everyone in the multi-cab and the tube-less tire went flat. Because the road was so rough and rocky, the tire became like a rotten fruit. Reaching the tire repair shop, they said that they couldn’t fix it and that I had to buy a new tire. I had no money, and it was already 7pm. Good thing they found a replacement and placed it on. That was how we were able to get home. When my father opened the door of the multi-cab and was about to punish me, I quickly knelt and begged him for mercy and said, “Pa, forgive me please. I can’t change. Pa, please, this is the way I am. Forgive me.” He then slammed the multi-cab door shut on me. My mother was outside yelling, “Get out of there, Jo! I’m going to beat you with this stone. You’re such a waste!” I’m used to being scolded so I just relaxed inside the multi-cab not letting her in. After a while, she calmed down and started to cry and plead with me. I began to feel sleepy, so I slowly opened the door on the other side and escaped to the mango tree where I hung the hammock and slept. Papa later opened up the door to check up on me. I was gone. So he said to mom, “What’s with you talking to nobody here?” Mama was fuming with anger. “Where’s that
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boy? Bring him out!” I didn’t come home for several days, until I started to feel homesick; so I decided to face my parents. To my surprise, my clothes were washed clean when I got home. I saw two packed bags with my things, and I knew they wanted me to leave the house. Then Mama said, “Jo, get ready you’ll be brought to MVC (Mountain View College).” When Papa came home, he offered me to take a pick at his branded clothes to bring and gave me 100 pesos to use. I felt happy that they gave so much attention to help me go to the SULADS seminar/training. Finally reaching the SULADS campus, I quietly listened and joined the lectures. But I noticed this seminar was really different than the other seminars I had attended before. They would welcome different people to share their experiences from places I’ve never heard of before. I thought after this seminar training, I would go back home again and enjoy my life of vices not knowing we would be sent out to the boondocks. When I realized they were going to send me off to the mountains after the training, I thought, “No way, I’m going to find a way to go home after this.” I felt a strange change of heart as the training was coming to an end. All the children were excited and grabbed my hand to be blessed when I eventually got to the mission school. I was shocked when even the adults and datu (chief) came to do the same. The people, huts, and language were so strange to me. For the first few months, I grudgingly did my task thinking what kind of place is this. But once I started to teach the kids, the negative thoughts would vanish away. I learned to love educating the children. I was addicted to my vices in the past; but now, I’m addicted to serve in the SULADS work. I learned how to worship God daily in the morning and evening with my partner and in mingling with the children. I find it quite humorous that God could change me while doing His work with the beautiful indigenous people in the mountains last year and in the islands as I offered another year of service to the unreached people. Junarey A. Duarte was assigned in BT, Panglima Sugala, Bato-bato, Tawi-tawi. NABAYA-EN | MAY - JUNE 2017 43
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