Philippines

Edwin Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarap City in northeastern Luzon Island reports that he is now teaching twenty-four WEI students and has received permission from parents to baptize two of them.  Edwin With Six of His Twenty-Four Students

In our last newsletter, we showed you a picture of the new WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarap City in northeastern Luzon Island.  In that picture, the chairs were empty.  Since then, Edwin E. Vicente has gathered twelve WEI students who study with him at various times through the week. These are baby steps in the…

In the last issue of this newsletter, we reported that Edwin E. Vicente’s personal support from American Christians has gradually declined as our nation’s economy has deteriorated.  Consequently, Edwin was forced to seek employment to supplement his income.     At 60 years of age, Edwin was not able to find a job in San…

Soon after Edwin E. Vicente was baptized into Christ, the Covid-19 pandemic engulfed the Philippines, and Edwin lost his job. With no source of income, he sold most of his earthly possessions to pay for food and lodging. Instead of complaining, he gathered a group of children in his community and taught them what he…

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Luzon Island, has inaugurated a new multi-generational outreach ministry in an effort to build up the kingdom of God. In January, Edwin wrote, “I have five new adult students. Hopefully, God willing, they will submit to baptism, but I’m still pushing on…

Now that the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down,  schools in the Philippines are open again, and Edwin’s students at the WEI Learning Center are back in school.  Consequently, he is now focusing his attention on young adults and middle-age adults until school is out for the summer. Then high school classes should be full again….

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Luzon Island, has led more than a dozen WEI students to Christ during the Covid pandemic.

April 3, 2022 was an auspicious day in the history of the new church in San Fernando City, Luzon Island

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Philippines, gives special attention to underprivileged children…

Steven Prine is the WEI Internet teacher who baptized Edwin Vicente, and he is currently teaching Edwin’s daughter …

February 7, 2020 was an auspicious day in the history of the church in the Philippines.

Fred Uptagrafft reports that two of his WEI students, Emilio Callo and his wife Shirley, were baptized on Monday December 19. Brother Jed Fuentes of Nag City Church of Christ served as the baptizer. The Central Church of Christ in Baguio City has offered to help Emelio start a church in his home and to mentor him on how to be an effective servant of the Lord.