Taking the Vision to the People
A vision is only the beginning. The call is to go: into the squares, the markets and the side streets, and to every island, until the message has reached everyone.
Preaching to the masses
The vision describes crowds so large they look like a sea of people: open-air gatherings where the gospel is preached, sins are confessed, the sick are prayed for and lives are changed. Outdoor crusades are how that vision becomes real.
Street by street, on a truck with a voice
Not everyone can come to a crusade, so the message goes to them: a truck with loudspeakers driving slowly up and down the streets of towns and barangays, preaching as it goes. Families on the sidewalk, tricycle drivers, market workers, and children all hear it where they already are.
Beyond preaching: the buildings of the vision
Preaching reaches the heart; the vision also reaches the whole person. The first project on the ministry’s heart has five parts:
- A sanctuary. A central place for worship, preaching, prayer, teaching and evangelism, and for training and sending out Christian workers.
- A Christian high school. Quality education with Christian teaching and discipleship, raising up young leaders from across the Philippines.
- A medical and dental clinic. Care for people who otherwise cannot afford it: the love of Christ in a practical form.
- Staff housing and dormitories. So the people serving the ministry can live close to the people they serve.
- Limited housing for homeless senior citizens. A carefully administered ministry offering a safe home to selected elderly people, especially couples with nowhere to live.
The original vision also included an orphanage and a homeless shelter. The vision was clear that God would provide the means for all of it. Read the open letter for the details of the project and its funding.
The buildings are tools. The goal is lives changed through Jesus Christ.
The goal
Fifty million Filipinos, on one day, across thousands of islands, stopping what they are doing and lifting holy hands together.