Philippines Preaching Conference

On Saturday I travel to the Philippines for a week, along with fellow pastors/close friends Mark Mitchell and Rob Hall. There we will put on a preaching conference for 100+ Filipino pastors. My component of the conference includes lecturing on Gospel-Centered Preaching and Preaching the Parables. On the way there we will spend a day in Guam visiting with friends at Pacific Islands University and Seminary.This is going to be a great trip. I can't wait. I love serving at a church that cares about preaching, training pastors to preach, foreign missions, and sending its pastors on adventures such as this. I love that our church here in the Bay Area is full of Filipinos who love the gospel and want to see it advance in their home country.I'd like to ask all of you to pray for this trip.

• Pray that God would use our teaching to equip and inspire the pastors we will be training, most of whom have never received any preaching instruction before.
• Pray that God would teach us much through the friendships we form with the Filipino pastors and our stay in their culture.
• Pray for the Philippines, that the gospel would advance and local churches would thrive in this country of 7,107 islands and 92 million people (the world's 12 most populous country).
• Pray for our wives and kids while we're away.
• Pray for our safety, sleep, and stomachs.
• Pray that we'd have a lot of fun.

Thank you for your prayer.I've decided to fully unplug during this trip: no computer, phone, email, etc. So, unless I pre-write some posts to appear while I'm away, I will not be blogging next week.