One More Village Foundation

Updates/Hightlights Year End 2025

Care package ready for shipment through the Balikbayan Box Ministry

	Balikbayan Box Ministry: Here are boxes at the shipper's facility ready for shipment. They should arrive in the Philippines within 3 to 4 months to be distributed to the mission areas. We thank all our friends and supporters who have been donating used but still useful clothes, school supplies and other items. Some items that were also distributed in San Felipe, Baja Mexico. For those interested to help, Click here for items always needed.
	Cebu Rural Christian Mission: Pictured here is Pastor Bonite in one of our meetings discussing his ministry at mountain churches in Cebu. He is currently the pastor at Basak UCCP with vibrant youth ministry. He also helps out other mountain churches in need such as the Sac-on church where he visits and preaches once a month. Click here to watch the of video of Pastor Bonite retelling his transformation story.
	Pastor Bonite leading the bible study and preaching at the Sac-on church. While we were there, there was a joint church service with other churches within the Sabalumpart area.
	Members from other Sabalumpart churches trying to get a group picture.
	So good to see former foundation scholars now doing well professionally and at the same time, very active in church holding leadership roles. Such are the case here with Jean and Angelie.
	Free dental clinic at Sac-on church. Thank you Dr. Mendaros and his wife for providing much needed healing ministry.
	Benjie is another former foundation scholar who is seriously considering going into full time ministry. He just completed his bible course and is assisting the pastoral ministry in his church including leading bible studies and sunday school. At the same time, still working in his AC repair business. Here's a link to his testimony recorded in 2022: Click here.
	This is one of those one-on-one meet ups with Benjie discussing the direction of his ministry.
	Eye Clinic at San Felipe in Baja Mexico: We were at both the Spring and Fall Eye Clinic in San Felipe, Baja Mexico. For more details on the Spring clinic, click here. As with previous eye clinics, this is a joint effort with Flying Samaritans and the local Lions Club. Shown here is Susan during the Fall clinic with the other Flying Samaritan volunteers at the eye glass dispensing station. This is the last stop for patients after being checked from other stations.
	Shown here is Alex overseeing medical student volunteers operating the auto refractor machine.
	The outdoor station for patients to get their BPs and sugar levels checked.
	Volunteers taking a quick break for a group picture.
	A group picture after a very successful Fall Eye Clinic. We saw 100+ patients, thirty of which were referred as candidates for cataract surgery.
	Others We continue to provide support to Cru(Campus Crusade for Christ) missions trips. In July 2025, Janet Sarcos of Cru-Philippines(pictured here with us in 2023), together with the rest of her team from Cru, went on a mission trip to Sri Lanka. Click here to read her report on the Sri Lanka mission trip. Janet also has provided us with training materials in the past and has been a presenter in our previous trainings.
	Here's us being prayed over during our visit to St. John's Methodist Church, a Global Methodist congregation.
	Meeting up with Helen and Ray as they shared their ministries in their church. We discussed with them making a video recording of Ray's awesome testimony demonstrating the transforming power of Christ. Stay tuned.
	We believe that verses in the bible have greater impact if read or heard in one's native tonque. So this year, we started a project to create a video of selected chapters in bible narrated in Cebuano dialect with the Cebu mission area in mind. The first video completed was for Genesis 1 narrated in Cebuano. Click here for the video of Genesis 1 narrated in Cebuano.
	It's been a great year. And as this year 2025 come to a close we wish our friends and supporters a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Click here to view our year end greetings and explain that picture on the right. And thank you for your continued support.