From Manila, we spent a few weeks with staff and students at Frontier Missions in Cebu City (https://fmcebu.ywamphilippines.org). While in Cebu, we also connected with the Cebu House of Prayer (https://ywamchop.org). We then flew to Surigao City.

This is where we worked together years ago and got married 37 years ago (https://surigao.ywamphilippines.org). We stayed at the YWAM base to encourage and train staff in building a website. Helping YWAM bases in the Philippines make better use of technology was the main purpose of going to the Philippines. We are currently working on ten Base websites and a number of websites for individual people, with the idea of getting people up to speed to manage the websites themselves. Davao was another website we started on, and this one was remote. (https://davao.ywamphilippines.org).
Surigao was such a sweet time to catch up with long-time friends and made new ones.

We faced some visa issues, yet we had a successful time overall.

We spent a couple of restful weeks in Malaysia and then to YWAM Singapore. We connected with the staff involved with the communications department there, with the idea of helping them in the future.

The YWAM base was able to offer us hospitality and was close to street food restaurants, which was nice.
From Singapore, we made our way to Auckland via Sydney.

Landing in Auckland, New Zealand, we spent one night near the airport, and the next day, we took a 4-hour bus to Tauranga. We got to stay with two sets of dear friends while there. Tararuga was hosting the Oceania Hui, The Hui was a delightful gathering of all the island nations around the Pacific. We had a good time reuniting with old YWAM friends and met more. It was awesome to see the next generation taking up the challenge to go out in the world for Jesus!
We scored a nice used car at Turner’s Caryard.
We visited Tony’s brother and sister as we traveled to Masterton in the south of the north island.