The day started with another delicious longanisa breakfast, cebu style, in our small hotel lobby. It is a great little place only costing us about $25 a night!

 This morning we went to service at Cebu Foursqaure Church. We arrived early and had some time to spend with Pastor Rej Lagunero. After talking for awhile, we realized that we had met 6 years earlier when myself and a bunch of other young adults went on a mission trip with Xtreme (a young adults ministry) to Dumaguete and he was the Pastor who organized a bunch of the churches to attend the conference we put together.

 His Church is a Compassion International project site. There are about 300 compassion kids that attend his church during the week. In the pictures below you can see some of the compassion kids in the yellow shirts. It was great to spend some time there, to encourage the pastor and some of the members and at the same time more so be encouraged by them! They also have a bible college beside their church and have plans to start a regular school for the kids in the area.

 Our compassion child is not at this project site, instead we drive to a nearby city tomorrow where we will meet Frans, our 5 year old sponsor child. We're really excited to spend time with him!

We've been spending time with my Uncle and Aunty, doing a lot of eating and visiting some shopping areas. Breakfast was the traditional Filipino dish of rice, eggs and delicious longanisa - a sausage packed with incredible flavor. Below is also a pic with my Aunty and Lynnette about to buy a hot dog wrapped in bacon...I love this place.

A nice little reminder of our mission while in the PI. Courtesy of Philippine airlines.

Just about to take off On Philippine
Airlines. It is an empty flight so we just took 4 seats to ourselves

Grinding all kinds of good food at Dewey & Emily's backyard

My wife Lynnette (below) are heading to the Philippines on Thursday! Stay tuned to the blog for updates in our journey.

Married on the beach at mikey's favorite surf spot - "leftovers"

We were evacuated out of the cafe Jupiter bldg a little while ago. Apparently there was a bomb scare, possibly a suspicious package. It's funny how morons like me stick around to try to get a closer look.

Vote electronically, wait 30min.
Vote with a paper and pen, wait 2min. Hooray for old school.

Hope Chapel had their Harvestfest event, which is an alternative place for kids to go to play games, get candy and see handsome pirates. Lynnette made me dress up this year, something I hadn't done in about 20 years, but in the end it was a good time.