222 Church Multiplication Network
Multiplying Disciples by Multiplying Churches
222CMN has started a mentoring group for church planters every last Monday of the month. Last March, 2018, our mentor was Brother Bennie Matthews, CEO of Alpha Ministries, an international Christian ministry committed to see 100,000 churches planted in Asia by year 2020.
We welcome all like-minded evangelical Christian leaders committed to fulfill the Great Commission through multiplying churches. We meet at our Center located in Barangay Aya, Talisay, Batangas.
Praise the Lord for His provision towards completing our Training Center Building! As can be seen in the picture below, the building is more than halfway finished and Lord willing, it will be finished in time for the initial batch of church planters on September 11 – December 8.
We are still accepting applicants for the intial school batch. To apply, please go to contacts on the menu and fill the personal information under Apply as a student.
Truly, God’s ways are not our ways. Amber and I were not scheduled to return to New Jersey until June 20 but on March 18 we boarded a plane to New York due to the passing of Amber’s mom.
Rose, as she was called by her friends, was much loved by many as proven by the overflow crowd at the church she loved in Rockland, NY which Amber and I started back in 1990. Rose continues to be a witness to others as we share, whenever the opportunity presents itself, some of her prayers that she wrote. One man I spoke with whom I have known for many years and who was at the memorial service of Rose told me he prayed the prayer of salvation which Rose wrote and which I read and spoke on.
Construction of the Training Center is temporarily halted due to a requirement from the admin office of the development where we are located. Lord willing, we will resume construction work very soon even before Amber and I return on May 17. Thanks to my dear brother and co-laborer Warren Chua, the Bible study every Sunday in Tagaytay City continues despite my absence as Warren faithfully and sacrificially comes all the way from Quezon City just to teach the few who have very recently received Christ as Savior. Praise God, all the players of the basketball team who went to Word of Life basketball camp with 4 wins and 0 loss have accepted Christ in their hearts!
Amber and I are praying that God will use our stay here in the US to raise the needed funds to complete the training center building in time for the school opening in September. We are also trusting God that He will raise up the twelve men who will make up the first batch of trainees.
We are currently halfway with building our Training Center in Talisay, Batangas. Also, our first church plant in Tagaytay City is doing very well. God has blessed us with a strategic location right in the heart of the city beside the newest and biggest mall by Olivares College/Rotonda area.
With the help of the second Mission Team from Calvary Chapel Old Bridge this March, we were able to minister to seven unreached Barangays (villages), two of which are our primary targets for church planting.
The youth basketball team we organized in Tagaytay City will be going to Word of Life Camp on April 3-7 along with several other teams from around the country wherein they will be immersed not only in the game of basketball but more importantly in the Word of God.