Greetings from Aritao

Weather is awesome!  We are having a great trip!  A lot of salvation decisions at the basketball crusades in the mountains!  Thanks  for praying!

Pastor Michael and I will be in the town of Comon, Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya.  It is is the middle of the largest island, about 9 hours north of Manila.  We will be hosted by Pastor Rey and Lina Descalzo.  Here are a few pictures :

Our itinerary is on my previous post.  Michael and I will appreciate your prayer during our trip.  Thanks.

Itinerary for the Philippines.

I am really excited for my trip to the Philippines.  I plan on spending the beginning of this week getting ready.  Here is the itinerary for the trip:


Thurs- Fri   March 17, 18  - Fly from Kansas City to Newark, NJ to Tokyo to Manila.
Sat              March 19         -Drive 9 hours from Manila to Aritao

Sun             March 20  -Sunday Service

Mon            March 21         -Visit and Pray our Governor  LLuisa LLoren Cuaresma                    

Tues          March 22          -Crusade ( Basketball Ministry)                                                      

Wed           March  23        -Crusade ( Basketball Ministry)                                                     

Thurs         March  24         -Crusade ( Basketball Ministry)                                                     

Fri              March  25          -Youth Fellowship Revival                                                             

Sat             March  26          -DJR Christian School-1st Grand Alumni Parade  (1991-2011)        

Sun            March 27           -Sunday Service & Nursery, Kinder Thanksgiving Day                      

Mon            March 28          -DJR Christian School( Graduation Day)                                       

Tues          March 29          -Family Day                                                                                                                                           

Wed           March 30          -Travel to Manila                                                                        

Thurs         March 31          -Return Home

Looks like a very busy schedule.

A few changes.

I have had to make a few changes in my schedule.  Mostly around bike club.  I am moving it to a later time in the day so Alias and a few others who want to be involved can.  After I get back from the Philippines, Pedals in Prescott will meet from 4:00 until 6:00.  Because of this, I have to give up being a small group leader at CRUX for now.  Kinda of a bummer, because I have such a great group of boys.

Another cool things that happened yesterday is a short chat with Pastor Rey Descalzo in the Philippines on Facebook.  Kinda cool that we can meet and chat half way around the world.

Well time to fix everything the house inspector found that was wrong.  Really not so bad.  The house will be ready for sheetrock in April.

March Newsletter

Here is the link to our March Newsletter.  Thanks for all of your love, prayers, and support.

Trotter's March Newsletter

Inspections tomorrow!

Tomorrow morning the city inspector is coming to inspect my house.  Hopefully he ok's it for sheetrock.  That will be a big relief to be able to start the finishing phase of the renovation.  I am waiting on one estimate on getting the sheetrock done.  I'm open to more if you know someone.  Here are a few pictures of what it looks like now:

Sad to see a family move on.

It seems that sometimes you love people and start showing them God's love and then they are gone.  That happened to our neighborhood when the Nelsons left.  They were a family with 12 kids and a lot of issues. The kids would attend church and youth group and bike club.  They weren't the easiest to love but we loved them and they soaked it up.  Due to a lack of work and many other issues, the Nelsons packed up and moved to Oklahoma.

I wish I could say that they turned their lives around and started following Jesus, become a loving family, budget their money, become good students, etc. during their time in our neighborhood.  I do know this: this family heard that God loves them and received a lot of love in the name of Jesus.  We can only pray that God will complete the work he started.

God, please bless the Nelsons. Provide work and people in this family's lives that would show them your love.  Meet their needs.  Pursue them with your love.  Help us all to love those around us while we have the opportunity.