SONGS FOR KAGAYANEN BIBLE DEDICATION CELEBRATION ARTIST: TATOS

Pulong Ta Dyos, Biblia Na Kagayanen
(The Word Of God, The Kagayanen Bible)

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(CELEBRATION THEME SONG)

lyrics by Jehu P. Cayaon, Sr., music by Engr. Sergio S. Tapalla



AKE NA LINGGWAI
(My Language)

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Lyrics and music by Jotham S. Tapalla

Join the Celebration of the Kagayanen Bible Dedication!

April 16-22, 2008 guests from all around the world will gather together on the tropical island province of Palawan in the Philippines to witness the dedication of the Kagayanen New Testament. We are honored and humbled to be part of the team planning for this event. We invite you to join us for this historical celebration by praying for the Kagayanen people as they prepare to receive God’s Word written in their language and for the team organizing this celebrative event.

Our First Week in the Philippines

Our first week in Manila, we hit the ground running or rather taking taxi’s, jeepneys and rails getting orientated to our new city. We got our Philippine drivers’ licenses and visited some of the beautiful historical sights in Manila, such as Fort Santiago and the Manila American Cemetery. We also made our first trip to the grocery store and open market, and learned about preparing our fruits and veggies before eating them.

Love is...Never Having to Say Good-Bye!

What an awesome Father we have...we never have to
say Goodbye! Though our hearts were breaking, our
eyes filled with tears, we knew, we never to have to
say “goodbye”.
That made all the difference for us on January 14th as
we left so many family and friends in Rochester NY
and headed to the Philippines to begin the next chapter
of our lives supporting Bible translation. Our
prayer… “Lord, thank you for relationships that cause
us to cry when we leave. We ask Your blessing for
those relationships in the Philippines!”

VISA's Recieved!!

We learned just the day before Thanksgiving that our VISA's had been approved for the Philippines! We were suppose to only be approved for a 3 month visa, but as God would have it – we were approved for a 1 year visa! When we told the Philippine branch office this, their response was "you are blessed – this has only happened to a very few people (to get approved for a year right off the bat). God is so faithful!!!

Thanksgiving

We pray your Thanksgiving Day was filled with special blessings. We were anticipating early on that we would be having Thanksgiving with some of our family members but never dreamed God would bless us as He did on this day. The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving became unsettling for us as we learned that our daughter would not be able to make the trip from Rochester to Dallas to spend Thanksgiving with us. Our hearts were heavy with the thought of not having her with us.

We continued in prayer that God would bring whomever He wanted us to spend this day with and it would be His day. We prayed for God to provide a place for us to host dinner and spend this time with family & friends. We were blessed to use a missionary's home in the area (though they were not going to there) to hold dinner. We celebrated Thanksgiving dinner with 25 people bringing family members and missionary friends together. What a blessing!!! (see pictures below)

Bon-Fire

Wednesday night, Thanksgiving eve, we had a blessed time roasting marshmellows, making smores singing praises and having a great time with friends around a bon-fire at the SIL Center.