The Institute has now been operating for four years. This of course means students are completing their program. Our first graduate spent five months in the Philippines and is entering into our Masters program. This will be the first year for our Master of Theolgocial Studies program. Our first offered courses are 'Biblical Theology' and 'Kierkegaard's Christianity' (I am sure SK would object to the title!) Both Greek and Hebrew classes are required for the completion of the degree.

This past year Trini and I spent three months in the Philippines. We were privileged to travel with our immersion students. This was our third year to be with most of them. Immersion students are planning to serve as missionaries in the Philippines and are in training to do so. Pictured above Alison Loope is recording my story of how I met my wife and we are standing in the place where my wife and I first met.

Gregg and the band did a series of concerts in Leyte and Cebu and in Luzon. We enjoyed traveling with the band for 11 concerts in a weeks time! It was a grueling schedule but very rewarding.

Next Trini and I spent several weeks by ourselves and ministered to the bar girls in Olongapo City. We also prepared for the arrival of Gregg and the interns.

The Interns are a ministry of SLAM or Students Living A Mission. SLAM is a department of G.O.D. International. The interns are young people desiring to affirm a missions call on their life. The internship provides this opportunity. Interns were truly challenged this year as they worked with unfortunate people at the dumpsite and with tribal people in the mountains and churches and girls sold into the sex industry.

This next year is full of promise as we continue to pursue God's Kingdom!

Pictured above are Four Boys in a Holding Cell

We brought these boys some food and toothbrushes. They are in need of so much more. We are so safe and warm in our nation but in most of the world violence, suffering, and hopelessness are a constant. These four boys have no hope for a bright future without opportunity for education. They are in jail simply because they are surviving on the street in the only way they know how.

I am certain that the church must leave the bourgeois mentality that has captured the present state of popular teaching. The church must remember that Christianity is not a progressive movement that finds its arrival by securing a safe world where comfort and luxury become spiritual goals. The church must return to caring for the poor and oppressed and to speaking openly about justice for all human beings. How can any of us value driving a luxury car while another human being lives without basic human rights? 

Kenya East Africa and Uganda
We had a wonderful time of service in Kenya East Africa and in the nation of Uganda.

The Institute for G.O.D. International!
The Institute is now in our fifth year of training students to serve as missionaries around the globe. We have expanded our school facilities in order to accomodate the growth of our student population. We are now graduating some students and they are continuing their training in our M.T. S. program. Our students demonstrate in their lives and service a complete committment to Christ and the delivery of the gospel through the word and lives lived well. I am particularly proud of my Hebrew students and their efforts to learn the language of the Old Testament. My Biblical Interpretation class continues to be one of the students favorite classes. Everyday we experience God in our classrooms as he moves upon our hearts and confirms the word and message we teach. Hallelujah!
G.O.D.'s Bible Institute
The Institute for G.O.D. is a place where learning God's word is more than academic, it is an experience in living.

The Institute for Global Outreach Developments International is a place where friendships last and Jesus comes first.

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