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How CCI is Reaching the Unreached How is CCI reaching the unreached for Jesus? Last month, we shared the “who” by identifying the vast majority of the unreached who live in the 10/40 Window and the “why” in Matthew 28:16-20 as it relates to CCI’s mission of reaching the unreached. Today, we want to share […]

Last month, I visited our Coordinators in the Western Visayas, the land of the Ilonggo. My purpose was to attend a CCI graduation and also to see how our staff was doing and encourage them to persevere in these difficult times. Little did I know that I was the one who would receive much encouragement

Plans and time belong to God! Last year before the second lock-down of the country due to pandemic of Covid19, we planned to host a conference with church leaders from 42 churches in the remote and persecuted area. After we tried to get the churches to agree to the conference, we set a time, but

Our five month Discipleship Training School lecture phase is finished. The students are now in the practical phase of sharing their faith in Jesus through their testimonies. Those who hear are coming to believe in Jesus. We are discipling nine young lives through our DTS. One of them accepted Christ and three of them got

A Test, A Guest, and Now to Finish the Rest On the13th of April, we finished our third level of Spanish school. We learned about indefinite pronouns and adjectives. We also learned about comparatives and superlatives (most and -est). Then we learned about reflexive verbs. These are verbs where the action is done to oneself,

After nearly two years, the ladies group that I had been leading was able to finally get together. It was a bitter sweet meeting though, as we were sending off two of the ladies to return to their home provinces for good. Nearly 2 decades ago, Yoyen was working as a housegirl for missionaries who

Who are the Unreached? In Matthew 28:16-20, the Lord Jesus commanded us to make disciples of “all nations.” He also instructed the apostles to be His witnesses from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. As you may know, the word “nations” is from the Greek word ethne, which means people groups,

Being a student in bible school, sometimes I am curious: What did Jesus look like? One of my colleagues raised controversy in our class when he said that Jesus was not a handsome guy. Revelation 1:14-15 offers a clue that Jesus’ skin was a darker hue and that his hair was woolly in texture. In

Ever since the onset of Covid19, every month I have to travel 8-10 hours to West Sulawesi by motorbike. Many of the priests and mission workers died of Covid19 in 2020-2021. Anxiety and fear also hit the clergy who were in Indonesia when they were about to go on a trip. This situation cannot limit

The Higaonon tribe is one of the people groups that inhabit the mountainous regions of North-Central Mindanao. They practice an ancient ritual for settling blood feuds between two families or tribes. In this ritual, the chieftain would use a bolo to hack a green rattan vine placed on a bound pig. It is a graphic,