Baseco

“John 1412 Worldwide Ministries Inc” is a Strategic Partner with ACCWM, with Mark & Christine Pedder living and working with people in the Baseco Slum, Philippines.
Baseco consists of around 1/2 square km of reclaimed land, with an estimated 16,500 families. The average family consists of 2 parents and 4-6 children. The largest family Mark & Christine personally know have 21 living children, and their neighbour has 18. A realistic estimate of the Baseco slum population would be more than 100,000.
Mark and Christine are making a difference, person by person, family by family. They are developing local leaders, helping children with education, supporting families who need support, micro-enterprise, medical assistance and building homes. They summarise what they are doing as....helping people in the name of Jesus.
Here are some recent blog posts from Mark.


Kids Church…you have to be there.


It’s not always the easiest thing to get to children’s church in the rainy season, but still they come. This is literally the main path to Kids Service…these children are all leaving at the end of the program.
On any given weekend we would have at least 600 children involved in Kids church…singing, dancing, hearing about Jesus…and having fun.
How good is that…unless you have faith like a like child, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

The church grows when we GO…
In the book of Acts, there are a number of things that simply never stopped…one of them was church growth. Individual believers were always being added, new churches were always being planted and new areas of mission were always being opened up.
We can theorise and write books on why, we can complicate the whole thing…but one of the main reasons these things constantly happened, is that the church and individual believers simply never stopped GOING, they never seemed to settle into “church”.
We have a lot of new people in church, a lot of new bible studies starting, and people being baptised every month…not because we are amazing people, but because we never stop GOING OUT WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL.
Not rocket science, very simple.


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