Global Youth Ministry Network - Asia

Palawan, eastern most island of the Philippines is where we just had our most recent trainings, three of them in the span of two weeks. Roxas is a town that is 3 hours travel away by car from the airport of Puerto Princesa but only 30 minutes from where we held our first Palawan training (Bennette has a great post on that training, check out her perspective here).

Who would expect that this small town would have such an excellent spirit of cooperation and working together? Roxas has an amazingly well-knit together Church. 40 representatives from 11 different local churches were in attendance, 10 pastors/elders also staying throughout the entire seminar. It was very enjoyable for me in that there were young leaders/potential leaders eager to serve their youth ministry, and head pastors of churches – two of the groups we most want the training to reach. And I was still fired up from our first training.

Despite of, or maybe because I was the only trainer, I had very good interactions with the group as almost all of them would approach me to have their goals checked after every session. The big challenge was being the only GYMN trainer present as Bennette, had to catch her flight the day before this training began. On the evening of the first day my throat was a little hoarse but I was sure God would sustain…

…And He did. Time just flew and 36 hours after the first session began, the training was over.  We ended the seminar and I still had the energy to spare. Here we are at the closing ceremonies: