Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for visiting our web-site, with an interest in our missions. We deeply appreciate it!

As you might know, Doyle had a light stroke in early April, upon his return to the Philippines from furlough. His right eye was affected, and we are so grateful to the Lord that it seems to be only temporary. He is recovering very well, though still not back to his old energetic self. We are so thankful that his eyes are almost back to normal. His right eye was still paralyzed when I got home, causing double vision. He had to wear a patch for two months. Now he has been able to discard the eye patch and can focus beyond his fingertips very well. Nearer is still a problem, though he can read his text for preaching, with effort. He has preached the past two Sundays for anniversary services at two of our oldest churches. Great messages, resulting in rededications and candidates for baptism! We are so thankful that his mind was not affected!! After being in the hospital for almost 3 weeks, and more days at home in bed before the Doctor allowed him up and around, he became weak. He is now taking physical therapy, and getting stronger. Thank you so much for your prayers.

Doyle's ministry is specifically with the Church Planter Training program at this time. When we came here, we said our goal was to work ourselves out of a job! We started the BMA Bible College here on Negros Occidental, an island in the Central Visayas of the Philippines. We came when there was one small eager church, with some missions. The need was already great for pastors and church workers. The fields are still white unto harvest, and because of the Bible College teaching and providing pastors and church workers, we have been able to grow at the rate we have. The over-130 churches and mission churches that Doyle works with go out like the spokes of a wheel, reaching all over the Philippines. These spokes go down into Mindanao, the area where there are constant terrorist activities. In fact, one of our churches is about 2 blocks from one recent bombing. Up to the seashores and mountains of Mindoro, where we have a ministry with both lowland and tribal people. Further up to Manila, where we have two churches and a number of missions. Over to southern Luzon, where there are churches who are growing, with pastors who are graduates of the Bible College. Then across to Leyte where there are more churches with pastors who are our graduates. Our graduates are pastors of churches in cities and provinces, seashores and mountains, towns and countryside. Some are called to be pastors, some to be church planters, some to work with students, some to work in jail ministries. Our graduates are workers in churches, in church schools, in public schools, taking their faith with them, teaching young and old alike about the Love of the Lord. We are so thankful that the Lord called us to this ministry. It is a continuing blessing to us.

The Philippines is a "Third World Country" where the economy is very poor. Investors in the Philippines are discouraged by all the terrorist activities, which is what terrorists strive to do (discourage any kind of improvement), because they thrive on people's misery. This makes it very difficult to find jobs that pay a living wage. Many Filipinos go abroad to find work, in order to send money back to help their families. Families then are able to live a little better than the subsistence levels they had previously known.

However, this makes it difficult for people to be able to afford to buy land for churches. Our churches need land. Many have been able to achieve this through a member giving land, raising enough funds to buy, or have been blessed by someone helping them to buy land. This is one of the essentials of a stable church. It has been necessary upon occasion for us to help some of our churches buy property. We encourage them to find all the funds they can locally through their members, and then, when they have been able to raise all they can, we will try to help them find a little more to put with it, to buy property. Land here is so expensive, it is often only a comparatively small space that they can afford. But it gives them a permanent site for their church. This help is not done for new missions, but for mission churches that are already settled, and have achieved some degree of stability. We have found that when they then have their own property, they will immediately burgeon, and are able to put more effort into building a permanent building. It all takes time. There is no overnight way to achieve what the Lord has done in the past 27 years here in the Philippines. Most of these churches are lighthouses in their communities, their members well respected.

If you would like to help us plant churches, prepare Christian leaders, and print Christian literature, then send your offerings to Doyle Moore Work Fund, BMA Missions Office, BMA of America, P.O. Box 30910, Little Rock, AR 72260. Be sure to CLEARLY mark it Doyle Moore Work Fund, and then e-mail us to let us know you have sent it. We desperately need regular monthly "fellow-helpers" (III John v.8) like you to enable us to do the work God has called us to do. If you would like to participate in helping a mission church buy land or help partially with a building, then direct your funds to Doyle Moore Special Projects, at the same address, and e-mail us your desire.

We covet your prayers, and appreciate any way in which you are led to help. The Lord will use your assistance wherever you determine He leads you to give.

In His great love and service,
Linda & Doyle Moore