Thank You – Nick Sicat and Joseph Benigno would like to express to each church and each pastor that invited them to visit their churches their appreciation for the project needs that you helped to make this year. God has blessed the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church with some wonderful missionaries on each of our fields. When you meet missionaries like Nick Sicat and Joseph Benigno you get to see the faithfulness and commitment that our missionaries have in reaching our world to Christ. Please pray that God will open more doors as these men minister and lead the works in the Philippines.
Joseph Seibere – has been speaking throughout our organization since the end of August in several of our churches. He has been so blessed by the faithfulness of people and the commitments that have already been made to the work of God in Nigeria. He will leave to go back to Nigeria on September 30 th. Joseph would like to express his appreciation for your invitation to your church and the commitments that have been made to the work in Nigeria. Of course there are some great difficulties in Nigeria with radical Moslems and some officials of the government but God is still moving in a special way. Please continue to pray for the Spirit of God to move upon this nation in revival and spiritual renewal.
Church Planting News – Lynn McLaurin reports that they have finished with all the permits and they will soon begin their new church building on Highway 13 just north of Wade N.C. Since they started their church three years ago in a small community building that they had to refurbish God has blessed the church to grow. The average attendance has largely been in the 80’s in a building that should only seat about 60 people comfortably. They have already purchased some of the material to build a 400 seat sanctuary.
Please pray that South River Community Church will be greatly blessed spiritually and that the building program will go smoothly.
Hispanic Ministries – Our Hispanic Churches have had several services recently that God has greatly blessed. Rev. Charles Heath attended the services at the Tabernacle where several hundred gathered to worship God. On September 27 th they will have a unity service at the Woods Grove Church near Goldsboro Brother Heath stated that they truly worship the Lord with all their might and strength. We would like to thank the Woods Grove Church for opening its doors to a Hispanic group that meets there weekly to worship God. This group has become a PFWB Church though the guidance of Pastor Mike Grady and the Hispanic pastor Rev. Arnulfo Gomez. One way that you might reach the Hispanics in your community is to offer them a place to worship on Sunday afternoon or on a weeknight. Let our office know that you desire to do so and we will help you develop a new Hispanic congregation at your church.
Project Needs- Visit the World Witness Projects page to see some of the needs in our foreign fields.
Trip to Nicaragua – On August 11th through August 18th two youth groups joined together for a trip to Nicaragua. Anthony Smith led a group from the Western Branch Church and Tommy Colie led a group from Christian Life Fellowship Church. These two groups joined together to minister at ten different churches and to help with construction of two churches. The two youth pastors spoke at several services and events. The group did special music and testified at these meetings. They were touched greatly by the people of Nicaragua, but our Nicaraguan friends were touched by these two youth groups as well. We would like to thank Pastor Jim Wall and Pastor Errett Marshburn and their congregations for helping make this missions trip possible.
Nick Sicat and Joseph Benignohave been received warmly by many of our churches. Many project needs have been met. We thank our churches and our pastors for receiving these leaders into our churches. You have greatly blessed the fields that they represent.
Nigeria – Rev. Joseph Seibere will be arriving in the U.S. on August 29th. He will be here until September 30th. If you would like for Joseph to be in your church please contact our office and ask for Amy Murphy or Dock Hobbs.
Missions Giving Awards
During our General Conference several churches were recognized for giving to Missions during 2006 and 2007. The following awards were given:
Randall’s Chapel - Greatest Giving Increase of $15,470.65 Total Giving: $16,809.00
New Beginnings Church - Highest Per Capita Giving – $564.67
Free Gospel Church - Sixth Place Giving – $23,725.00
Oak Grove PFWB Church - Fifth Place Giving – $24,211.00
Woods Grove PFWB Church - Fourth Place Giving – $27,621.06
Garland PFWB Church - Third Place Giving – $29,941.39
North Haven PFWB Church - Second Place Giving – $55,991.00
Western Branch Community Church - First Place Giving – $58,100.00
Our heartfelt thanks goes to all our churches and their pastors for making Missions successful at home and abroad. May God richly bless you for giving.
Nicaragua – Rev. Anthony Smith from the Western Branch Community Church in Chesapeake Va.; Rev. Tommy Colie of Christian Life Fellowship Church in Jacksonville N.C.; Rev. Randy Carter of WakePointe Church in Rolesville N.C. and World Witness Director Dock Hobbs will lead a team to serve in Nicaragua August 11th through August 18th. WBCC has already sent money to the field for our team to help put a roof on a church and we will be evangelizing each night. Please pray for God’s rich blessings upon our travel, the work and our evangelism work. Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Central America but the people are full of the joy of the Lord. Pray for many souls to be saved and individuals to experience the fullness of the Lord’s Spirit in their lives during this week.
Mexico – Sister Lupita Martinez reports that God is blessing the ministry in Mexico. Her son’s church has moved into a larger facility which will seat 700 to 800 people. They have been in revival and the services have been awesome.
Church Planting Dinner – We invite all ministers and their spouses to our annual Church Planting Dinner on July 31st 2008 at Long Branch Church. Dinner will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m. Randy Carter will be our guest speaker. If you would like to attend and haven’t already notified us, please contact Amy Murphy at the PFWB Resource Center so that we will know how many people to plan for.
Camp Meeting -- We are looking forward to seeing each of you at Camp Meeting July 27th – August 3rd. You should see Nick Sicat, Joseph Benigno and Joseph Siebere from Nigeria during the services. Please introduce yourself to our missionaries and friends. They are looking forward to being with us and would be happy to meet you and talk with you.
All Our Foreign Fieldsneed your prayers for God’s will to be done in each of the nations that we have churches. The Bible says that we are to pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send forth labors into the harvest. As you pray God may lay it upon your heart to reach out and help build churches and support each of our fields with your prayers and finances. May God bless you for all you do!
Costa Rica In need of a new mission’s vehicle. Hoping to sell old vehicle and find something in the price range of $28,000. If you would like to give any amount towards this need, it would be greatly appreciated.
Guatemala $1200 for new chairs
$900 for water
$240 per month rent for church building
Mexico $4000 for roof for Liberty Church
Nicaragua 5 churches need $900 each to construct houses for the pastor
5 churches are asking for $2500 each to build a church building
2 churches need $1000 each to put a roof on their church building
Nigeria $800 for land needed for Ekrokpe Church
Northern Philippines $10.00 per month to sponsor a bible student
Southern Philippines $15.00 per month to sponsor a bible student
Venezuela $1695 balance for land purchase for Church de Valle de la Pascua
Foreign National Leaders – We have the joy of having several National Directors from three fields being with us this year during Camp Meeting and they will be with us through August.
Rev. Joseph Siebere, National Director of PFWB in Nigeria, Rev. Nick Sicat, National Director from Southern Philippines, and Rev. Joseph Benigno, President of Harvester’s Bible Academy in the Northern Philippines. Each of these men will be here through August. If you would like to have any of these missionaries to come to your church please call Amy Murphy or Dock Hobbs at 1-888-668-9362 or 910-892-4161.
Nicaragua – National Director Johnny Padilla asks that we keep his wife Anna in our prayers. Anna has been diagnosed with a terminal liver disease for which there is no cure. Her only hope would be for a liver transplant, unless the Lord heals her. Please pray for God to heal her. She is one of our pastors and has hosted leaders from the United States in her home for years.
Church Planting Dinner – We invite all ministers and their spouses to our annual Church Planting Dinner on July 31st 2008 at Long Branch Church. Dinner will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m. Randy Carter will be our guest speaker and Gwen Carter will lead us in worship.
Southern Philippines – Nick Sicat reports that he has just returned from Mindanao, Indonesia and is in the process of planting a church in this mostly Moslem nation. Our pastor there is Arthur (not sure of last name yet). Please pray that God will bless the work in Indonesia that many will turn to Christ through our church planting efforts in this country.
Rev. Jesse Martinez, National Director of PFWB Churches in Puerto Rico, will be working with a church in Peru. They are looking to plant another church in San Domingo, possibly this year. Rev. Martinez would like for Rev. Dock Hobbs and Rev. Preston Heath to visit when the church opens.
Guatemala -
Rev. Roman Gonzales reports that they have two new works that are growing greatly. Right now they have in regular attendance 30 people.
Costa Rica
In need of a new mission’s vehicle. Hoping to sell old vehicle and find something in the price range of $28,000. If you would like to give any amount towards this need, it would be greatly appreciated.
Guatemala
$1200 for new chairs
$900 for water
$240 per month rent for church building
Mexico
$4000 for roof for Liberty Church
Nicaragua
5 churches need $900 each to construct houses for the pastor
5 churches are asking for $2500 each to build a church building
2 churches need $1000 each to put a roof on their church building
Nigeria
$800 for land needed for Ekrokpe Church
Northern Philippines
$10.00 per month to sponsor a bible student
Southern Philippines
$15.00 per month to sponsor a bible student
Venezuela
$1695 balance for land purchase for Church de Valle de la Pascua
Venezuela - Our leaders from Venezuela report that all is going well and that the work continues forward. They have recently purchased a small boat and are making some repairs to the Ranger. All the pastors from Venezuela send greetings and ask that we would continue to pray for them and the work. The boat will be used to help with the ministry among the Warao Indians. There are great needs for churches to be built and many other needs throughout Venezuela. Our leader there is Monico Sublet and he desires that we would continue to pray about project needs for the country.
Nicaragua Urgent Request - National Director Johnny Padilla reports that his wife Anita has been diagnosed with a terminal liver disease for which there is no cure. Her only hope would be a liver transplant, unless the Lord heals her. Please pray for God to heal her. She is one of our pastors and has hosted leaders from the United States in her home for years. She is now in the hospital and needs our urgent prayers.
Guatemala - National Director Roman Gonzales reports that God is blessing in Guatemala. He and his wife Socorro have recently moved to a new location called Canalitos to start a new church. They are in need of $1,200 for chairs, $900 for water, $240 each month for rent, and they need $20,000 for land to build a church. It is very expensive to rent properties and purchase land in Guatemala.
For all pastors, their spouses, and those who are interested in becoming church planters. The Dinner is planned for July 31st, 2008 at Long Branch Church. Dinner will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m. Ministers please put
this on your calendar and remain for Camp Meeting that evening. You will receive a reply invitation by mail in late June. Rev. Randy Carter will be our guest speaker and Gwen Carter will lead in worship.
Foreign National Leaders - Rev. Nick Sicat, National Leader of Southern Philippines, Cebu, and Palawan; Rev. Joseph Benigno, President of Harvester's Bible Academy; and Joseph Siebere, National Director of PFWB work in Nigeria plan to be with us during Camp Meeting. Each of them will stay at least thirty days after Camp Meeting. If you would like for these men to visit your church please contact Amy Murphy at 1-888-668-9362 or 910-892-4161.
We received an email from Joseph Benigno sharing this news. Please pray for our brothers and sisters in the Philippines.
We have just experienced a destructive typhoon that have cost the lives of about 30 people and the destruction of thousands of homes. I am glad that the eye of the typhoon did not exactly hit the area where our Bible College is located and that we do not have churches in areas that suffered so much. This is only the third typhoon and we are still expecting more typhoons as we have an average of 25 typhoons a year. More destructive typhoons come during the month of August and September.
These typhoons will cause more hardships for it destroys rice ready for harvest and we have a daily line of people trying to buy 2 kilos of rice from the government selling imported rice from Thailand and from the USA. The government limits what they sell to the people(two kilos) to avoid hoarding. We have such a shortage of rice and flour that the price of rice and flour has doubled. I am just praying that the Lord will give us wisdom in how to operate the Bible College.
Philippines – Rev. John Sauls, Pastor of Crossroads Church in Broadway N.C., and World Witness Director Dock Hobbs recently returned from the Philippines. They visited the works in Mindanao where they attended a graduation for our school in Davao City and also visited our school in Valencia City. We have a total of eight schools in the Southern Philippines. Nick and Carman Sicat have worked hard to develop these schools to be Christian schools that are also used to reach the youth and their parents for Christ. Each of these schools is also church/schools that are reaching their communities for Christ with the gospel. They met with our pastors from many of the churches across Mindanao and Pastor John Sauls shared the need for vision to these pastors. Our Lord is truly blessing our leader Nick Sicat and the many pastors that work under him.
During this trip, they visited Palawan in which we have ten churches. They visited one of our newest churches there in a place call El Nido. A meeting was held with the all our pastors there. The work is continuing to grow in Palawan and God is doing a mighty work there.
While in Luzon they meet with our students from Harvesters Bible Academy and with the pastors and their wives for a two day conference which started at 8:30 am and concluded at 5:30 p.m. On the first evening Pastor John Sauls spoke in the Baccalaureate sermon on Tuesday evening and Rev. Dock Hobbs spoke for the graduation service. Thirteen students graduated from the college this year.
Pictured above: The 2008 Graduating Class of Harvester’s Bible College, Mr. Billy Cavenaugh, Rev. Dock Hobbs, and Rev. John Sauls.
Hawaii– Rev. Hobbs and Rev. Sauls visited the church of Rev. Philip Buenavista on the Big Island which is called Hawaii. The church there was started by Rev. Buenavista several years ago. Brother Philip has had a relationship with the PFWB Church for over thirty years, but just recently rejoined us as an ordained minister. There were two evening services in which three new converts were added to the church. Since that trip, the church has decided to join the PFWB and we are excited to have them become a part of our church family. Please keep this ministry in your prayers and the work in Hawaii.
Rev. John Sauls speaks to the congregation of the church in Hawaii.
Guatemala – Brother Roman Gonzales reports that they have added two new churches in Guatemala this year. They have several projects needs that are pressing: 1) They need 100 chairs that will cost $1200; 2) an amplifier for the church that cost $300. They also need $20,000 to purchase some land to build a church. You can make a donation on the World Witness Projects page.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS – We are glad to announce that our “Happy Birthday Jesus Offering total is $30,907.66. We would like to thank every church and each individual who participated in this great offering. This offering will help meet a great number of needs in each of our foreign fields. If you haven’t sent in your HBJ we will close out the account in early March; so please send in your HBJ offering.
Mexico Conference – Our annual conference in Guadalajara, Mexico will be happening on March 14th through 16th. Reverend Janet Barrett from WakePointe Church will be representing the PFWB Church at this conference this year. Pray that the Holy Spirit will be poured out in the conference.
Joshua Davis – Son of Bi-vocational missionary Ray Davis had a great honor bestowed upon him recently. Josh was chosen, as a freshman, to head the North Carolina State University’s Martin Luther King Day project which dealt with homeless needs in the Raleigh, NC area. He did such a great job that he was handpicked to represent NCSU in Washington DC at the 2008 Hunger Summit. He will be presenting his program with other distinguished speakers from across the U.S. This is a great honor and we are very proud of Josh.
Trip to the Philippines – Rev. John Sauls and World Witness Director Dock Hobbs will be traveling to the Philippines March 24th through April 9th. We will visit churches on four of the major islands and we will also be the guest speaker at four graduation events. We will also have a stop over in the Big Island in Hawaii with Rev. Philip Buenavista for a three day revival. Brother Philip who is a PFWB minister is looking forward to this event. It has been our plans to visit him for several years and God has opened the door to visit at this time. Please pray that God will bless in each service in the Philippines and in Hawaii.
A new Missions Vehicle. Any help would be appreciated. Approx. cost: $28,000
The church in Jardin de Zapote of Puerto Viejo de Guapiles, Limon has moved to a bigger property and is rebuilding. Need building materials. $2,000
The church Centro de Avivamiento de Ticaban de Guapiles, Limon. Need to construct a church building $4000
The church of Santa Rosa, in Santa Rosa of Guapiles, Limon is currently meeting in a house. They want to construct on land that is to be donated. $4,000
House next to church Templo de Alabanza Jesucristo es el Senor. Pastor lives in this house and it is in need of repair. $2,000
Church Pentecostes Bautista is the first PFWB Church in Costa Rica. It is very damaged now in all the woodwork, and in need of much repair. They also want to build rooms for Sunday School. $4,000
Church in San Julian, Puerto Viejo of Sarapiqui. Needs help to start building a warehouse so they can gather in the property they own. $2,000
SAD BUT TOUCHING – They attended our new church plant in Leland led by Pastor Jerome Bullard, the Bridge of Life Church. They were challenged to give to the Happy Birthday Jesus Offering in November of 2007. Sadly, Anthony, age eight, and his brother Tyler, age six, lost their lives in a home fire in early December of 2007. Other family members were also seriously injured in the fire. I happened to be at the church the Sunday after their funeral. It was with great emotion that their grandmother brought their Happy Birthday Jesus coin cards, filled with their gifts to the church. I thought of how this gift would bring salvation of others on foreign fields. Many were touched by the events of this family, but I am also sure that their act touched the heart of God. What great rewards shall they receive for their generosity!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS – Thus far over twenty-five thousand has come in for the Happy Birthday Jesus offering. We encourage each church member to send in these funds so that we can help meet the many needs on our foreign fields. These funds will help us to build churches; purchase property to build churches and complete buildings that still need completion.
CHURCH PLANTS – during the month of December, I was able to visit WakePointe Church in Wake Forest and their pastor Randy Carter; South River Community Church in the Wade area and their pastor Lynn McLaurin; and Bridge of Life Church in the Leland N.C. area and their pastor Jerome Bullard. God was blessing each of these churches in a wonderful way. Robbie Gilbert reports that God is continuing to bless Victory Community Church in Clinton. Also I spoke to a member of New Century Church at 40/42 and God is continuing to bless the work there.
Please continue to pray for each of our church plants as they seek to win the lost to Christ.
ADDRESS CHANGE – If you in the Stafford Va. area and would like to visit Hosanna Fellowship, there new address is 2049 Jefferson Davis Highway, Stafford, Va. 22554. Their pastor, Theresa Ramsey, encourages anyone visiting the area to come and worship with them. Pastor Ramsey announces that they have launched a new Hispanic Ministry at their church.
BURGAW HOLINESS – recently gave a gift to the Northern Philippines to build two churches. The gift for the two churches totaled $4225.00. We are so thankful for the gift that will help two congregations to build a place to worship.
Missionaries’ and Family Members’ Birthdays and Anniversaries:
Susan Bacolod – January 3, Joseph Benigno – January 15, Jan-Jan Bacolod – January 9, John Mark Bacolod – January 21, Fernando Calvo – February 4
Meeting with Church Leadership of Costa Rica on a recent trip.
