Outreach Highlight: The Long Road to the Lost

Our team visiting houses despite the constant rain in Banaue, Ifugao in 2017.

This was in 2017. We were in Banaue, Ifugao, in the remaining few weeks of our Discipleship Training School (Outreach.)

We did a house-to-house evangelism from early morning to late afternoon. We were soaking wet from rain and were starving the whole time. I almost fell on a ravine and was miraculously supported by a huge clump of grass. By the end of the day, all of were feeling disappointed. The host only took us to church members and we felt we should be going to the unreached ones.

Before going home, the host took us to a house to minister to a sickly man. He had a history of illnesses and almost died once. He was scheduled to go to the hospital the next day and was feeling ill. The host wanted us to preach to him about salvation since he still refuses to accept Jesus as his Savior.

He agreed to choose Jesus and as we were praying, I felt the overwhelming presence of God in the room.

We met him again days later and he said that when they went to the hospital, the doctor didn’t find anything wrong with him.

Looking back at what had happened, I finally understood why God took as to a very tiring, wet, dangerous journey the whole day: It was to lead us all to His sickly son who needed His salvation.

Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:9-10