Teambuilding -- ISI

Last night we had the "cultural festival" which included presentations of drama, dance and song. Each division (group of churches) came up with their own ideas and costumes. It was a lot of fun. I was roped into being "Magellan" in a historical reenactment of his visit to the Philippines. In the end I was killed by some hostile natives...The pastor acting as the native hit me pretty hard with his sword when he "killed" me -- it didn't require much acting. People were laughing hard! We had a ship, fake swords, good costumes, narration and a cultural song. The night was concluded with great food including skewers, fresh mango, pineapple, and two lechon (whole pigs, chopped and served).

Today's schedule included the following:

• Teaching on the Holy Spirit followed by 50 people praying to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.


• George Butron (Foursquare Missions Regional Coordinator) teaching on the church and house churches.


• Heidi, Tina Forras and Glo -- conducting a session for women that was fun and inspiring.


• I continued my series on "Biblical Preaching" -- Today's session was almost entirely questions and answers.


• During lunch we had a Task Force meeting with the key project leaders. During this meeting we discussed ways of better supporting and coaching the project leaders, we planned the fall strategic prayer conference, the task force retreat, and next year's ISI.


• Val Chavez - President of Foursquare Philippines arrived and will be doing our final session tomorrow.


• During the afternoon we had a great time doing "team building" at the obstacle/ropes course here on the grounds.

Tomorrow we will wrap up the ISI training before making our way back to Manila. On Saturday I have two meetings scheduled with key UCPP leaders. Heidi will be travelling to Bangkok and Saturday...