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Postcards from the Philippines

Posted on September 12, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, News

Community and Missions Trip to the Philippines [18 May-14 June 2009]

Organised by the Navigators of National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2003, students and recent graduates of the NUS Navigators go for a mission trip to the Philippines - an opportunity for them to develop world vision and mission-mindedness through serving the people there and to be able to see and experience the heart of God and the hand of God.

Twenty National University of Singapore Navigator staff, labourers, and friends coming from different backgrounds and culture (five different nationalities represented) made up the team; there were five prebelieving friends – of which two are exchange students from Shanghai. 

We flew to a place called Palanan, where there is ongoing outreach to the Agta, a previously unreached people group; partnered with pastors and leaders with the Christian Missions for the Unreached (CMU), who have planted churches among the Agta people and in neighbouring lowlands. Gave sermons, workshops, English lessons, and prayed for the sick.

We visited children in the slum area to feed them, hold film screenings for the slum community and embark on gardening and farming projects with the hope that these projects would be able to provide the community there with a source of income to support their livelihood with the University of the Philippines Los Baños Navigators.

In Antipolo, we served a community by developing a 1-ha plot of land for them to use for farming, and improve their standard of living. We also did a tuition class for children. - By Chong Ching Ching, staff member, NUS Navigators