Philippines (MNN) — This spring, Mission CRY sent 20,000 Bible booklets into Cebu, Philippines, for ministry that saw radical testimonies in the midst of spiritual warfare.
Besides the ministry to former inmates, Mission CRY recently heard about the miraculous story of how their team was protected during a distribution.
Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says a distribution team in the Philippine Sea was headed to the Caubian islands, in their weighed-down, makeshift bamboo boat when a storm hit.
“They had too many men, too many booklets, and the propeller had hit a rock and broken off,” Woolford says. “And of course, just then a storm sets in, and as the storm was coming over them, they said it was chaos everywhere, but the Lord was protecting them.”
The storm passed over the island and around them, keeping the boat from sinking. The people and supplies stayed dry, knowing that God was protecting them.
Mission Cry sent Bible materials to the Philippines.
Missing their propeller, those in the boat began to pray. After the storm, they discovered the propeller undamaged and in eight feet of water. They put it back on the boat and completed the mission of sharing God’s Word.
“Think of these men on this makeshift boat, trusting God, believing and then being able to complete their mission,” Woolford says. “I wonder how many people would have turned back around if they had the chance. But instead, they stood their ground, and so to God be the glory. It just shows that you can’t stop what God wants done.”
Mission CRY has sent over $500 million in free Bibles and Christian books to 180 nations around the world.
Woolford says Mission CRY is humbled to do this good work. The Word of God is more valuable than physical things.
“Food, water, clothes, it all returns void at the end of the day, but the Word of God doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not return void,” Woolford says.
“We’ve seen this in whether we’re ministering in prisons, setting up Bible colleges, seminaries, orphanages, you name it,” Woolford says. “There are no issues when people take in clothes or take in water; there seems to be no spiritual warfare in those, but as soon as you bring the Word of God, that’s when the battle begins.”
Please pray for the Mission CRY team and for the difficulties they experience taking Scripture into difficult places. Pray that people will continue in the good work of distributing materials despite spiritual warfare.
Pray that these materials will transform lives, shaping fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, and citizens, and bringing eternal change.
Header Photo provided by Mission CRY
