Update from the Paul Byars family - missionaries to the Philippines

encourageMENt 2010:

As you can tell by the title our goal was to encourage MEN during our Pastor’s and men’s retreat in Baguio during January this year. The name of our men’s ministry at church is Gideon’s Men - Men of Ministry. Our aim is to edify each other, work as a team to reach other men in our community and to do ministry in the church. God has given us a good group of men to work with.

During this encourageMENt Retreat God allowed 275 pastors and men to join with us in mountains and refresh ourselves with God’s Word and fellowship. Our guest speaker was Dr. Bob Baird. The men were challenged by the missions heart of Bro. Baird. Our men of the church have been “fired up” ever since the retreat. It was a great team building exercise.

12th Anniversary:

This was our first anniversary in our new building. We were all excited to see the building filling up with people. We ran out of chairs and benches and had standing room only. Total attendance was 440. We had 80 first time visitors and 17 professions of Christ. Since we moved into our new location we have seen an increase in our attendance. The ongoing construction on the third floor is still an attraction to the community.

Bible Institute Graduation:

March 28th marked the first graduation of the Bible Baptist Church Bible Institute. It is a two year course held twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday. We thank the Lord for this first batch who finished the studies and are serving the Lord in the Sunday school and extension ministries.

Since the beginning of the year we have had visitors every Sunday and folks getting saved every month.

Ellen and I want to thank you for the many prayers and faithful support. Without your help we could not accomplish the blessing that God has given thus far.

Sincerely,
Paul and Ellen Byars