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HOH Faith Academy Progress and Water BaptismsIt’s been an exciting few weeks. We have started to build Hands of Hope Faith Academy. Last week we baptised a number of people and now we are beginning to work through the details of our Kids Sponsorship programme for the new Filipino School year beginning in June. ... read full blog »
Graduation, Joe, Joshua and Land for A SchoolLet me start by saying sorry, it has been a while since our last update. A lot has happened during this time...Churches continue to go from strength to strength. The testimonies we hear on a weekly basis are very exciting; people are healed in most meetings and other testimonies, like... read full blog »
Youth Camp, Emergency Feeding and Church PlantsAt the beginning of September 2 years ago we planted our first church in San Isidro. Since then, it has been an incredible journey where we have experienced God’s faithfulness, witnessed 100’s of lives transformed, including relationships restored, bodies healed and people saved. ... read full blog »
Church Plants, NZ Trip and Pastor Seth's Annual VisitWere so blessed again by the annual visit of Pastor Seth Fawcet...The reports keep coming but we saw many saved, healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. “Wow,” said one elderly saint, “that guy was really good, I liked him. Our church is getting wild now!" :-) ... read full blog »
More Good News - Medical Misson, Church Plant, NZOver the last few months we have had a two ladies attending our service in San Isidro from another Barangay. 4 weeks ago they invited us to their Barangay and plant a church. So we did :-) ... read full blog »
Graduation Class of 2012Many of these children were only able to complete school because of the sponsorship provided by you through Hands of Hope. We were so proud to see them and their parents be awarded their certificates and special awards. ... read full blog »
UPDATE - December 2011 - February 2012This month we’ve got some great things to report. We are encouraged at hearing people report answers to prayer...Over 60 people water baptised, including our son, Joseph and much more ... read full blog »
Thank You - WE are well on our way! - November 2011Thank you for your generosity. We are well on our way. So far we have purchased 230 Christmas food parcels to distribute to needy families. The good news is that one of the local supermarkets gave us a special price on the food items, packaged them and even donated a few extra items to each one ... read full blog »
Acceleration and WE Love it! - October 2011Praise God for the wonderful things happening beside the seaside in Agoo. We can hardly keep up!! The team from New Plymouth who visited for ten days in September were a real blessing ... read full blog »
Building/NZ/Pastors Seth & Martin/Dental - August 2011So much has happened during the last 2 months. We had an amazing time in NZ .. came back to a people who had put together an amazing celebration...visit from Pastor Seth from Wellngton and Pastor Martin from Germany ... read full blog »
A Flurry of Activity! - June, 2011The last 6 weeks have seen a flurry of activity... Firstly, work on the building at our new site began and has progressed steadily to the point that the roof will go on in the next week. It has really been a community project ... read full blog »
God is Good! - May, 2011At the end of March and beginning of April we had a missions team join us from Bethel Church. It was a blast! There were a number of miracles as well as salvation's. One notable miracle, and my favourite ... read full blog »
His Kingdom is Advancing! - March, 2011This month our focus has been on raising money for the multipurpose facility in San Isidro, Agoo. Thank you to all who contributed …it has been an amazing response... healings, salvation and more ... read full blog »
An Exciting Step Forward! - February, 2011Hands of Hope Ministries are excited to announce the building of a brand new 140sqm Hands of Hope Ministries Multi-Purpose Facility in San Isidro, Agoo ... read full blog »
Another Wonderful Month! - January, 2011The 23 boxes of toys, clothes and books arrived from New Zealand on the 23rd of December....We were able to bless over 200 families (probably close to 650-700 individuals). ... read full blog »
What a Busy Month! - December, 2010On the 29th of November we had our very first water baptism service and baptised 56 adults. We prepared food to feed close to 300 people, then spent time in worship, preached a little ... read full blog »
People Being Saved and Healed! - November, 2010The BIGGEST Christmas Party - Thank you for all the donations for this event. An amazing 22 boxes of clothes and toys are on their way to us. We have also received some financial donations for this event. ... read full blog »
Exciting Times! - October, 2010We now have close to 100 kids joining us for kids church on Wednesday afternoons...The adults are growing spiritually. They are hungry to hear and experience the Word. ... read full blog »
A GOOD Report! - September, 2010It has been wonderfully fruitful and busy few weeks since our last newsletter. And the News is GOOD. ... read full blog »
Up and Running! - August, 2010Proverbs 22:9 says, “He who has a generous eye will be blessed. For he gives of his bread to the poor.” In another translation this verse reads, “Happy is the generous man, the one who feeds the poor.” Though the last few weeks have been busy we are happy and blessed because we are extending our hands and hearts to the poor. We feel God’s favour and blessing upon us. This is very rewarding ... read full blog »
Implementation! - July, 2010On Friday June 11 we (Duane and Joseph) arrived in NZ and hit the ground running...We caught up with family and a number of friends. If we missed seeing you this time then please accept our apology. We completely ran out of time.. As well as catching up with people we also spoke in a few churches and meet with our board. ... read full blog »
Planning! - May-June, 2010Over the last few weeks we have been extremely busy gathering information about possible projects to present to our board when we return home in 5 days time. We are very excited as we look toward the future and the doors that are opening before us ... read full blog »
Moving Forward! - April 27th, 2010The last few weeks have been very busy as we were blessed to be invited to attend some sessions of the Missionary Training Institute 6 week course at APTS (Asia Pacific Theological Seminary). Kevin Hovey from Global Training Ministries was lecturing there for the first two weeks and invited us to attend his sessions on Anthropological Insights for Missionaries, Cross Cultural Communication, Animism and Mission and Signs and Wonders Cross Culturally ... read full blog »
Out And About! - March 24th, 2010 Wow! We have been in Baguio for just over five weeks now and we are so grateful to God for all He has done so far. We are really blessed to have Pastor Arnold and his family as our friends and to be able to attend the churches he has planted in Baguio and in Suyo village in Itogon. The people are welcoming and friendly and the presence of God is so strong in the meetings ... read full blog »
Our First Few Days - February 25th, 2010 Our first 10 days in Baguio has been a whir of activity. We made the final arrangements for Joseph to start school on Monday 15th and we are so grateful to God that he has slotted in so well. He looks so grown up in his uniform (see picture). He rated his first day at school as 10/10 and is very impressed that the shop at school sells sweets and ice creams. He is less impressed that he doesn’t get money to buy them! ... read full blog »
We Have Finally Arrived - February 13th, 2010We have finally arrived in Baguio! After leaving NZ shores on the 29th of Jan we first caught up with Marcus, Lillian and Petra (our close friends) for a few days in Hong Kong. It was great to see them again and we had a tremendous time seeing the sites of Hong Kong and even went to see a 1:1 scale model of Noah's Ark. Man that was a big boat ... read full blog »
On Our Way - January 28th, 2010We were incredibly blessed and honoured with our last Sunday at His Way Church. They gave us a tremendous send off. It was extremely humbling to have Winkie and Faye Pratney attend to especially pray for us. God is so good! Winkie is one of our hero's of the faith. Thank you Pastors Rob & Caroline. You and your team are an amazing bunch of people ... read full blog »
On to Baguio - September 17th, 2009 We have had a tremendous time in Manila. I'm sure we have made significant contacts that will be beneficial as we look toward the future. Randomly (more like a God set-up) coming across the Pastors prayer meeting at the Circle and having the opportunity to pray for them as well as a bunch of college students was one of three major high-lights ... read full blog »
Back to the Philippines - September 9th, 2009On Sunday 13th of September we are heading off to the Philippines for 2 weeks. During this trip we will spend 3 days in Manila and a Christian GP, who works with a missionary organisation in Manila, will show us around and how they reach out to the urban poor ... read full blog »
Welcome to Duane & Jenny's Blog- August 9, 2009As a family we are entering a new season and a new adventure. After a short term mission's trip to the Philippines in February we felt to return there full time. We certainly love a challenge so we are both resigning our jobs and moving over early next year. So, we inivte you to join our adventure and partner with us ...
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