Ministry Update
September 15, 2007



Note: The following text was taken from our most recent prayer letter.

Greetings from the Galyean Family
Eddie, Barbara, and Heidi
“A Missionary Journey to the Philippines”

Crossroads Baptist Church Celebrates Three Years!

Dear Praying Friends,

God gave us a great anniversary celebration. I want to thank everyone for praying. God’s hand was evident as our anniversary festivities were under way. I trust this report will be an encouragement to all of you as you see what has happened here. To God Be the Glory!

Weather Problems
A major typhoon headed our way as we started the anniversary week. By Tuesday the storm was moving in and tremendous flooding was being reported throughout the Philippines. We began to wonder what affect the weather might have on the anniversary. Bro. Walters and his family landed safely on Tuesday evening in a torrential downpour. The rain continued steadily until Friday morning and then rained sporadically throughout the weekend. By the grace of God, nothing was cancelled due to the weather and God gave us a great anniversary.

Anniversary Parade
We always like to have a parade on the Friday morning of the anniversary. It is a wonderful time for our people and a great way to pass out thousands of tracts. This year, however, there was some special testing scheduled and none of our young people were going to be excused from school. The weather complicated the problem as well, and we were beginning to consider canceling the parade.

By Thursday, the weather was so bad that all the schools were cancelled for the week. The young people were happy and saying that God had cancelled school just for them. The parade was scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Would you believe it stopped raining and the sun came out at 8:45! Everyone was excited as we roamed through the city for 3 hours announcing the anniversary and distributing over 10,000 gospel tracts. It was a miracle. And just as we arrived back to the church the rain started again.

Children’s Services
Last year we had over 1,700 children in one big service at the civic center. This year we decided to break it down and have 22 smaller services throughout the city. The rain was a major consideration once again, but as the reports came in, not one service was cancelled by the rain. We praise God for 3,899 children and parents who attended these services. Our workers did a wonderful job and hundreds were saved.

Adult Service
We rented an air-conditioned building for the main service. The mayor came and greeted the people. Our youth choir and all singing groups had practiced many hours and did a great job. Mrs. Walters sang before Pastor Walters preached the Gospel. There were 364 first time adult visitors. The attendance in the adult service was 1,167 which gave us a grand total of 5,056 for the three year anniversary. There were hundreds saved in this service as well. Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow!

Victory Service
On Sunday evening we celebrated the victory back at the church. It was jammed packed and there were as many outside as there were inside. We sang and praised God. Pastor Walters preached once again. We sang our theme song “Faith is the Victory,” had some refreshments, and topped it off by breaking our victory piñatas which were filled with chocolate candy. What a great day!

I know that missions is a team effort. The great day we had here was the result of the faithfulness, prayers, and support of so many. Only in Heaven will everyone who had a part be justly rewarded. Until then, I can only say THANK YOU! May God continue to bless all of you!

Eddie Galyean

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