PHILIPPINES - We taught in Bethel Bible College in Manila, where students are full of zeal to be His Hands Extended throughout their country and others. We were excited to be with Nelly, who was orphaned and came to live with us in 1970 when she was 10 years old. We helped her through school and Bible school, and later she completed graduate degrees at Asia Pacific Theological Seminary. She now teaches at BBC and is leading a group of students in a church plant on weekends.

TOKYO - Everett taught a Master's level course at Central Bible College while Evelyn scrambled to get Power Point ready to go with his lessons. The course was videotaped for use in their distance learning program, so it will be studied by students across Japan over the next several years.

ROMANIA - We returned to Eastern European Bible College in Oradea for the 5^th time. This school is housed in a "transformed" shoe factory and was established specifically to train church planters and missionaries. Everett challenged the graduating class to nurture a close relationship with the Father as Jesus did (John 5:19) so they will be ready to be used whenever and wherever they find people with needs. Evelyn taught Christian Education of Children.

RUSSIA - When Russia is mentioned, most people think of Moscow, but this time we were in the far east in the city of Khabarovsk, teaching an extension for Moscow Theological Institute. (Russia covers 11 time zones, almost half the globe!) In Khabarovsk, we had 50 pastors and workers in our classes. We challenged them to plant churches and make disciples in every town and village. We ministered also in a small church plant and a large church which is reaching youth and university students.

MALAYSIA - While ministering in churches in the northern city of Penang, we had a Sikh taxi driver take us to several places of worship, including a mosque where a guide covered Evelyn's head and showed us around while we shared mutually. We saw a temple with a huge reclining Buddha, the snake temple where dozens of "holy" snakes are coiled around branches, and a temple where people were being blessed by a monk. "Sikh" means "learner" and they try to learn from every religion. When he encouraged us to meditate, we told him we do, but we do not empty our minds and wait something to fill them. Rather, we meditate on God and His Word for encouragement and instruction. He knows something of Christianity and was happy for us to pray for him. He promised to try our kind of meditation! We also taught in a church's ministry training center near Kuala Lumpur, where a number of the students are business people who want to be equipped to share Jesus in their work places.

PHILIPPINES - On our way to the provincial city of Balanga to teach an extension for Asia Pacific Theological Seminary, it was a bit too exciting when we came to a halt and finally learned that a bus just ahead of us had been robbed and that a young girl had been killed and then the robber killed by police. A terrible tragedy, but we were thankful that we were not on that bus. Following the extension in Balanga, we taught another course at the Manila extension site. Good students in both locations. Everett also did a pastors' conference on the subject, "Preparing for a Truly Pentecostal Ministry." We were also able to pass on funds given to us by a Baptist church in Malaysia to help poor people. We visited Nena, a pioneer pastor in a poverty area on the island of Leyte who has taken in 3 children left with her in desperation by a widowed mother who has not been seen since. Nena lived with us as a teen-ager and helped us in our home while she finished high school. We then sent her to Bible college and APTS. The funds will enable her to repair a pedicab (bicycle with sidecar) that she was using to raise funds to help feed children in two neighborhoods.

SRI LANKA - We were happy to find in our classes at Assemblies of God Bible College a former Buddhist monk to whom Jesus revealed Himself in the temple and two German brothers whose family came to help with tsunami relief and who found the Lord in Sri Lanka and are answering His call to ministry. They are an inspiration to all. We also met with two former students who have a great vision to help AGBC and the Sri Lanka General Council begin a Sri Lankan missions program. They will teach practical courses in line with the cultures of this and other nearby countries. Tent-making possibilities will be taught and encouraged.