Outreach Update: In Pakak (Kalinga) with the Butbut Tribe and Fundraising Update for Vanuatu

*I will be actively updating our Fundraising progress here as the Lord provides. (I'm already fully-funded in Ground fees and 80k PHP round-trip Air Fare!!! )

Teaching Bible Education and Leadership Training (BELT) to the Bubut Tribe in Pakak, Kalinga

We've been with the Butbut Tribe in Pakak (Kalinga) for almost a week now. We've been teaching every afternoon to the kids (BELT kids) and every evening for the adults. It's rice planting season here and everyone has to work all day long to plant rice.

Despite the tiredness, both young people and adults still come in the evening (8 to 10pm) to learn more about God's Truth found in His Word. It's been a wonderful time doing studies with children, teens, and grown-ups who are all in love with God's Word (Jesus).

I have this strong impression of God's intense desire for the Bubut Tribe to go and preach His Gospel of Freedom to other tribes here in the North (Philippines) and then to other tribes in the world.

We have finished learning together: •What is Truth? •God's Greatness (nature) and Goodness (character) •How to Grow in Friendship with God and •Value and Design of Man

(More info about our BELT seminar here. More info about our school, Bible School for the Nations (BSN) here.)

Fund Raising for Vanuatu (Third Location)

Our schedule for going to Vanuatu will be on Feb 5 (teaching there for 2 weeks).

Our location will be in Banban and Boombua in Santo Island, Luganville. (where the first missionaries to Vanuatu landed).

According to our host, the practice of witchcraft is still common in that area and churches in that area are on the decline.

It seems the kingdom of darkness is thriving in the area where we're going.

Our team is determined to go there and challenge the kingdom of the enemy (2 Cor 4:4) with the Truth that sets people free (John 8:32).

Even though raising the funds seems impossible (Luke 18:27), we all still have the strong and clear impression to go and we all have peace that's clearly from the Lord (Philippians 4:6)

Airfare Fund

Our airfare ticket for each person is 80,000 php (1,600 USD) .

I have 37,800 PHP (701.7 USD) for my contribution in this fund. (Someone committed to fund the remaining amount for my round-trip ticket if the total is less than 80k PHP and my team can go).

Team has raised: 182,928 PHP(3,400 USD).

We are still lacking: 377, 072 PHP (7000 USD) for our team.

Ground Fees Fund (Food, Accomodation, Local Transportation, Ministry)

Each of us also have to raise 28,000 PHP (519 USD) each for Ground Fees. 5/7 (including me) of the team are already fully paid in their ground fees.

Why support us?

We will go to Vanuatu to wage war against what the enemy is doing (John 8:44) by bringing destruction to his kingdom built on Lies through the proclamation of God's simple Truth fully revealed in Jesus Christ (2 Cor 10:3-5). I believe that any endeavor by the church to tear down the works of the enemy makes any investment worth it. We will also go there to be a part of the strengthening and encouragement (Titus 1:9) of our brothers and sister there who are battling daily the forces of the enemy.

Ways to Partner with Us

Firs, we need all the prayers you can give for our team (2 Cor 1:11) and for the people we will be teaching in each location (Dagupan, Kalinga, and Vanuatu).

If you desire to give donation, you can send it here:

Paypal: paypal.me/jamestabilla

GCash: 09452759421

Bank of the Phillipine Islands(BPI):

9489261968

JAMES EPHRAIM TABILLA

When you give, kindly specify if it's for my fees or for the team or any other specifics (jamestabilla@gmail.com) More details on why we raise our funds this way here.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions---it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:1-5 NIV