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LEXSUS FOUNDATION



CEBU RURAL CHRISTIAN MISSION MINISTRY

(April 2002)


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We're excited about this project! This is the first mission ministry initiated and developed by Lexsus Foundation. This also serves as our pilot project on mission ministries. Successes and lessons learned here will be applied to other mission ministries to be developed in the future.

Project Area:
The project area is located in the following interior towns of Cebu, Philippines:

Sac-on
Basak
Lupa
Mulao
Paril
Tag-angilan
These towns are within the mountainous regions of the Cebu City and the municipalities of Liloan and Compostela, in the Visayan Region of the Philippines.

Overall Objective:
To provide spiritual revival and help uplift socioeconomic conditions to the residents within the project area.

Methods Toward Achieving the Objective:

  • Provide financial support to missionary ministers. Residents in the project area are, in general, economically poor. As a result, members of local Christian churches are unable to hire full time pastors causing sharp decline of church goers and the deterioration of existing church facilities. To help turn this around, the foundation provides financial support to the missionary ministers in the area. The missionary ministers will be serving the spiritual needs of the residents, providing spiritual revival, and initiating/coordinating socioeconomic programs and humanitarian services. The financial support will help defray the administrative and operational costs needed for such ministry. The current missionary ministers in the area are the husband and wife ministry team of Rev. and Mrs. Eleno and Erlina Bingtan (click here to read their Ministerial Profiles).

  • Support pre-school education and adult literacy programs to the project area. Although Philippines has free public education, but because of the project area's remoteness, public pre-school education is not available. The parents are unable to provide preparatory education to their children because all available family members work in their farms through out the day, and that several adults are illiterate themselves. Thus, several children are not adequately prepared to enter elementary schools causing learning difficulties and some to drop out. To fill-in the need, a retired minister living in the area developed and ran a pre-school program; this program has become popular to adults as well that adult literacy program was also developed. The foundation will work with this existing voluntary educational programs by providing books, toys, children's clothing, teaching aids, school materials, and funding support.

  • Coordinate medical and dental outreach services. There are no medical facilities within the project area. Several residents haven't seen a doctor or dentist for years. One of the goals of this mission is to coordinate free medical and dental outreach through volunteer medical practitioners and donated medicines. These volunteers, mostly from medical facilities and schools in Cebu City, will make scheduled visits to the area to be coordinated by the missionary ministers. Medical mission from the United States may also be coordinated in the future.

  • Provide humanitarian and poverty relief by sending goods (-used clothing, books, toys, tools, food items, etc.) donated by supporters here in the United States.

  • Provide scholarships to students who otherwise are unable to to attend school due to their economic situations.

  • Provide part-time mission workers to perform variety of volunteer tasks such as rebuilding/repairing church facilities, training local leaders, and teaching socioeconomic skills to the residents.

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