Category: Progressive Covenantalism

2019-2020 Bible Institute and church update.

Bible Institute

We are planning to begin our Bible Institute in October 2019.

We plan our Bible Institute to begin in October. 25-30 hours of classes one week per month for 12 months.Pre and post-class assignments between classes. Crossway is helping us provide ESV personal reference bibles for our students at a 70% discount. We are starting the John G. Reisinger Scholarship fund to help our school. If you are interested in supporting the school, please contact me.  We will provide Bibles, printed student curriculum/notes/outlines, probably 4 volumes each 100 double-sided (200 pages total), and lunch. No other tuition or fees. All our staff is volunteer although a few instructors will receive some compensation if they are not part of our ministry. We have four Filipino pastors, myself, and two other pastors from the US doing the teaching. We will lecture live and use video teaching. We will also use lectures by notable seminary professors such as D.A. Carson, Tom Schreiner, Greg Beale, and other pastor/teachers like the late John Reisinger.

October 2019 Bible Institute

  • Opening Lecture
  • Class
  • Sitting Room
  • Staff Rented Apartment
  • Visit Mountain Families
  • Abe and Joe and materials
  • Staff Breakfast
  • Official Welcome
  • Class
  • Word of Life
  • At Pastor Ray’s

    We have four churches at present and one has an extension congregation and we are developing a new church plant. Two of our churches had to be closed due to ongoing rebel activities. Many people have moved away and other churches have also closed.  This is not from Muslim extremists but an ongoing problem with “Marxists” rebels who are really nothing but bandits.

    Covid Food Distribution in Opol at our fellowship

    We will keep you updated and I will add more information about the Bible Institute in my next post.

    July 31 2020 Our Bible Institute and Covid 19

    I could not travel to the Philippines in April for our pastor’s conference and teaching at the Bible Institute. The school was also closed down from march until the end of June.

    Our students have been regathering back on schedule since then meeting one week per month for 5 days of classes. I am meeting with them for 3 hours live each day and then they continue with our recorded lectures.

    We pray that all might be on schedule for me to be there in October. It will be a longer than usual stay.

    A project for farming in association with the government has started on undeveloped land in the Gingoog City area. 16 pastors have formed an organization to develop 20 hectares of land over the next 6 years. Most of them are students in our Bible Institute. We have loaned the group some funds to do what they need to do to begin, and the government has provided the first stalks and plants for crops of corn and cassava.

    This is the proposal from May 2020

    Dear Pastor Joe,

    Greeting to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!We are thankful to God day by day for keeping us safe and guiding us through his Words. The life and ministry of yours is precious before God and as you doing continually the work as a faithful minister for Christ’s kingdom sake. Pastor Joe I wrote this letter because I have some immediate concern to bring about. This is in line with the PASTORAL CARE GROUP PROJECT PROPOSAL ON SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM on CASSAVA and CORN PRODUCTION 2020. This Project Proposal is in the City Agriculture Office already since January 22, 2020 and waiting for depend but until COVID 19 came then all activities were cancelled.

    A brief history about this project of the PCG PROJECT PROPOSAL ON SUSTAINABLE LIVEHOOD PROGRAM. First, the LORD provides us a Farm Land with a land area of 20 hectares at Barangay LIBON for Cassava and Corn Planting, also we had already secure a MOA with the Landowner for 6 year’s contract. Second, a timely opportunity was the Agricultural Office in Magsaysay calls the City Agriculture Office in Gingoog informing that the Cassava stalk/seedling is available now and they are seeking for Farmers Association or Organization to be the recipient.

    This Cassava Stalks/Seedling comes from the SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION and the variety of this Cassava is RAYONG 72, in which the San Miguel Corporation is seeking for Farmers Association or Organization who are focused on Cassava Planting Project. The Corporation will provide the 300 Cassava Stalks for free and the Corporation is the one that buys the harvested product. The 300 bundles of Cassava Stalks/Seedling will cover 5 hectares of land area and the duration of the Cassava from planting to harvest is up to 8 months. Moving on, The San Miguel Corporation in Davao City, Cebu City, and Cagayan De Oro City is looking for Cassava Grower because of the demand for the ANIMAL FEEDS. This is a timely opportunity that God provided us such as the farmland and the Cassava Stalks for free. Tomorrow Thursday (May 20, 2020) we will go to Mindulao and take the Cassava stalks.

    Co-operative farm program

    If you would like to help our ongoing ministry of pastoral support, church planting and our Bible Institute and disaster relief, you can send a check to NCBF 105 Lang Ave. Buffalo NY 14215 or use our PayPal account at ncbfevans@gmail.com