A Short November update (11/21/25)

Dear Praying Friends,

My Mom went home to be with the Lord on Nov. 15 of this year. Though we are sad and grieve, we do not grieve as those who have no hope. She trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation a few years back. Praise God for His amazing grace! Thank the Lord for His great sacrifice on the cross and for His empty tomb. Please pray for wisdom and strength as we navigate through a host of things regarding mom's properties, etc. Pray also for family and friends to come to know the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour.

Today, Marcia and the boys and I were able to get our latest family photos. Many of our supporting churches request an updated family photo, so, please feel free to email me a request for that, and I will be glad to get one to you upon request.

We have a couple of important meetings ahead. FIRST, our Thanksgiving Service on Wed. night, Nov. 26. We invited Preacher Mark Ratac and his wife, Sis. Jemima to come and preach and teach God's word to our people and their family, friends, and invited guests. We always enjoy an evening of eating, playing, and preaching. AMEN! SECOND, I have a special day of Bible education session at a church a few miles away. I will be teaching on The Fall of Man (Gen. 3). Please pray for God's words to be presented clearly and with Holy Spirit power. Please pray for hearts to be opened up and for those who are not saved to get saved, and for those who are saved to grow in the Lord. THIRD, We have an up-coming Lord's Supper with special training for Bro. Kenneth. He is a faithful man (along with his wife, Sis. Sherie) and I am training him to administer the Lord's Supper - so he gets to do it and I get to serve in it. Praise God for faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. PRAISE GOD! FOURTH, We have a special speaker for the first Sunday in December - Dr. Jed Raquintan. He is a faithful pastor and seminary director based out of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Quezon City. We can't wait to hear what the Lord has laid on his heart to preach and teach to us on that special Sunday.

Well, God is good and we thank God for His amazing grace. Thank you, dear praying friends for your love, prayers, and support. We thank the Lord for counting us faithful and putting us into the ministry!

Serving the Lord with gladness,

Bro. Bill, Sis. Marcia, W.T. and Joseph

A Short October update

 Dear Friends,

1. Greetings to all. I trust that you all are serving the Lord with joy and thanksgiving. Let us remember that we can do all thing through Christ which strengthens us! AMEN!

2. We had a wonderful gathering of faithful children Sunday school attenders (even a few "perfect" attenders, meaning, zero absences for the past three months) - congratulations to those kiddos!

3. Since we have noticed a lot of rainy weekends, we decided to redeem the time with an after church video course on Bible Geography. Many stay after the services and enjoy seeing "the Holy Land" and getting more familiar with the Holy Bible and its contents relative to earth's most important real estate.

4. Preparations are being made now for a fun Christmas season with our Tuktukan Sunday school classes. The ladies have shopped and gathered some wonderful gifts to giveaway for the children.

5. We finished the book of Zechariah (thanks to the labors and teaching and preaching of Bro. RJay). We are working through the book of Romans in our afternoon service, 1 Samuel in our Adult Sunday school class, General Epistles in our Teen Sunday school. AND we just finished the Song of Solomon and are now on Ecclesiastes in our Mid-week service and prayer meeting.

6. Grace Baptist Church, Oxford, PA (Pastor Combs) gave a special offering which enabled us to purchase 50 beautiful English KJBs to give to our friends, and visitors. AMEN! Jehovah-Jireh!

7. Do pray for my Mom as she is suffering from her chronic kidney disease. She is in good spirits generally speaking, but could use your prayers. I would appreciate that, too.

8. Pray for safety. The Philippines has been rattled with some strong earthquakes. Flooded with lots of water from many recently revealed ghost flood control projects (that never even happened), and now there is distrust and anger from the people. Natural disasters and social unrest are just not good. BUT we all know that JESUS is still the answer - and we will trust in God and obey His words!

July-August Updates

 Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you for taking interest in our happenings and ministries. If you would like to receive or be a part of our regular, normal, correspondence via email, just send me a message and I can add you to our monthly news and prayer letter.

Here are some news and prayer updates in bullet format:

1. Please pray for a retired lady who has shown interest in attending our church services and even open to having a Bible study. Her name is Wilma.

2. Please pray for our public school guidance counselor (Ms. Sharon) - she suffered a stroke, and is in the hospital and still has not woken up from her comma. She was supposed to recommend to the Principal that we may host a Bible club in the public school. Pray that she would snap out of her comates state and that she would recover. ALSO pray that the Lord would open the door to host a Bible club in the public school.

3. Please pray for fruit in our gospel tracts distribution and also our Monday Jailhouse ministry.

4. Pray for our up-coming afternoon special Youth Service at 1PM, this Sunday, Aug. 31. We are excited to see how our young people will serve the Lord and His people, as they will take over the afternoon service.

5. Pray for the Adult Bible study and Children's Bible club at Candelaria, Quezon Province. Pray for souls to get saved and for believers to be edified. We are praying that a solid, Biblical, Baptist church may be started and established to the glory of God, and for His great commission in Candelaria to be accomplished. Pray for the two families from our church that labor for the Lord to see a church planted in the municipality.

6. Pray for our guests, and returnees. We praise the Lord for those who visit. We pray that they would get saved and follow the Lord's will for believers in becoming true and good disciples.

7. Finally, do pray for Marcia and the boys, they have started the Homeschool Year 25-26! ALSO pray for a new installment of lectures for our Baptist Institute (An Intro to Biblical Languages). I am also one page away from finishing the first draft of my 200 page thesis for a Doctorate of Ministry degree. So praise God from whom all blessings flow. AND May JESUS CHRIST be praised!

June Blessings

 

The photo above was taken by Sis. Tess as we were conducting a Bible study at Sis. Ruth's house in a village outside of Taguig City (this is in District 183 in Pasay City). There were at least 11 visitors besides our team. We are praying that the word of God would be understood, and that the Holy Spirit would convict hearts and that many would turn to the Lord and trust in Him as their personal Saviour. A tremendous blessing is that they would like to have us back in July - AMEN!

A couple of other blessings to share:

1. The Candelaria church planting ministry is now moved to a Sat. The missions team is made up of two precious families. They are holding a children's Bible Club in the morning, and an evangelistic Bible study in afternoon. Please pray for spiritual fruit. We desire to see a Biblical, Baptist church established in this municipality (Candelaria is a municipality in the Quezon Province region - about 65 miles south of our Tuktukan, Taguig City immersionist assembly).

2. A public school in Ususan village (right next door to Tuktukan) may allow us to have a Bible club. This would be a wonderful blessing and great door of opportunity opened to us by the Lord.

Thank you for your prayers. Please pray for God's strength and power and for souls to be saved, and for the saved to became true and good disciples of the Lord Jesus.

 What a blessing to share a testimony in song today and to offer our voices in praise to God for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ who took our sins upon Him on the cross - "not in part, but the whole." AND "I bear it no more - praise the Lord, oh my soul!" Then, the message of the song looks forward to the day when "the faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back as a scroll, the trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, "Even so" it is well with my soul." Just a well done choral piece by Ms. Potter. BUT to God be glory, He surely is worthy of our praise!

The song is "It is Well" written back in 1873, by Horatio Spafford and put to the classic hymn format we now love and sing (music by Philip P. Bliss in 1876). This song is now public domain.

The arrangement we sang was produced by Ms. Julie Jones Potter, published by the Bill Rice Ranch Music for SATB, 2002.

Sing a-long with us - it isn't that hard to do! Here is a link to a better recording. Be well!

VBS and a short update

Dear Faithful Friends,

God is good! We wrapped up our VBS this summer with two classes (girls and boys). The girls learned more about the Armor of God (as that was their theme) and the boys learned about Creation (vs. Evolution - as this was there theme). Additionally, the Candelaria, Quezon province VBS turned out really well, and now they are converting their VBS into an an ongoing Saturday Children's Bible Club. There's about three or four adults and a number of children who are interested in joining us for an evangelistic Bible study. Also, this Monday (June 02) is an important meeting with another family that may potentially be part of the start of having a regular Sunday church services. God is putting together the true potential of planting an Independent Baptist Biblicist church in Candelaria soon. Please continue to pray for spiritual fruitfulness and growth in both the Tuktukan, Taguig City church plant and the Candelaria, Quezon province church plant. May Jesus Christ be praised!

Sincerely,

Bro. Bill

1 Jn. 5:7

A short recap video highlighting our 8th Year Anniversary in Tuktukan, Taguig City.

 Glory to God, indeed and a huge "Thank you" to Sis. Tess who put this video presentation together. Amen!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AKCLqC9mp/

Be well,

Bro. Bill