Dear Prayer Partners, Praise God for the wonderful privilege of ministering to the brethren of Word of Salvation Movement Center, which is a local church in Lanao del Sur from April 26 to 28. The province is under the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, and is predominantly Islamic. However, right at the heart of it is an evangelical church that is thriving and is looked up to by many Muslims. I have been given the opportunity to train its leaders (April 26-27) and preach to the congregation yesterday, Sunday (April 28). It was a great delight for me to have led the leadership team in a seminar on Spiritual Leadership in the…

The task doing Christian ministry has never been as exciting and challenging as it is today. In fact, there is now a consensus among sociologists and demographers that the old notion that the world would be secularized by the dawn of the 21st century has just recently been falsified by the sudden rise of interest in religion and spirituality almost everywhere around the world. This is most particularly true in the Global South, where the Philippines sits strategically and is said to be playing a special role, particularly as it registered an unprecedented growth among evangelicals in the last three decades or so. For ELI Asia, this translates to more opportunities and…