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Edwin Leads Businesswoman to Christ

  • January 9, 2025
  • Philippines

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarao City, Philippines was walking from his apartment to the Learning Center one day when he went into a store to buy a bottle of water. The owner of the store, a 65-year-old woman, Mrs. Luisa A. Cabael, noticed that Edwin was carrying a Bible…

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Four Typhoons Strike Philippines

  • October 9, 2024
  • Philippines

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegsrao City, Luzon Island, reports that four consecutive Typhoons swept through Luzon Island during the last quarter of 2024 ruining his new laptop computer and bringing his WEI teaching ministry to a screeching halt.  Now Edwin is reactivating the twenty-four students he was teaching prior to…

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God Is at Work in the Philippines

  • August 16, 2024
  • Philippines

Ten months ago, Edwin E. Vicente moved to Tuguegarao City, Luzon Island, hoping to find a job, to start a new WEI Learning Center, and to plant a church.  His job didn’t work out, but he found fertile soil for a WEI Learning Center and good prospects for planting a church.   Living on subsistence…

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Report From the Philippines

  • June 13, 2024
  • 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

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WEI Learning Center in Philippines

  • February 25, 2024
  • Philippines

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…

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WEI Work Continues in Philippines

  • December 26, 2023
  • Philippines

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…

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God’s Work Continues in Philippines

  • September 11, 2023
  • Philippines

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…

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New Possibilities in the Philippines

  • February 9, 2023
  • Philippines

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…

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Edwin E. Vicente in the Philippines

  • November 25, 2022
  • Philippines

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….

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God Provides a Partner for Edwin

  • August 15, 2022
  • Philippines

During the past year, Edwin E. Vicente has been stretching himself to the breaking point as Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Philippines and as Minister of the new congregation that he established at the Center.  As a relatively new member of the church of Christ, Edwin wisely sought help from…

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WEI Flourishes in the Philippines

  • July 2, 2022
  • Philippines

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.

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Exciting Developments in the Philippines

  • April 3, 2022
  • Philippines

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

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Christmas in the Philippines

  • December 21, 2021
  • Philippines

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

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Baptism in the Philippines

  • September 28, 2021
  • Philippines

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

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New Church Plant in Philippines

  • April 13, 2021
  • Philippines

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

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