Entries by Jeremy Gable

Well, the plans changed a little but Jeremy is now in the Philippines.
AFM requested that he fly out of the St. Louis airport rather than
Chicago since tickets would cost about $500 more out of Chicago. So on
Sunday, he and I drove to St. Louis, visited with his sister Jenny and
her husband for awhile (they live in St. Louis), stayed overnight and
enjoyed a few hours at the St. Louis zoo on Monday before going to the
airport. He flew out of there at about 5:50 p.m. to San Francisco,
then on to Taipei, Taiwan, then to Manila, Philappines where he would
meet up with the project leaders and continue on to the island of
Palawan, across the island, and then up the mountain to the project.

Well everyone, it's 1:24 am as I write this (the date on Daniel's website hasn't been updated to standard time *pokes Daniels in the ribs*). I've just finished getting my bags packed. I'm traveling fairly light (at least at this point). I've got one check-in bag that weighs 55 lbs. and for carry-on, my camo backpack which you all saw at training. I'm not sure how much weight is in there, but it can't be too much since it's got mostly just clothes in it, and not many of them. Mostly it's just got the stuff that I would be most likely to need between here and Kemantian, though it's probably unlikely that I will actually NEED most of it. It's there mostly because I couldn't fit it all in the other bag, and everything else was least likely to be needed. Also there's as little mettal in my carry-on as possible. The only things in there that I know of are the digital voice recorder with it's guts and batteries, my guitar tuner, my new harmonica, and a couple metal springs on my trail water filter. I don't think the spring on the water filter will cause any issues, and the other stuf is in a side pouch that I can get too easily if there are issues with those. I've also got one big box that Kent George sent to me to bring along since I've only got one check-in of my own. Since it could still hold a little bit more weight, I opened it up and put in a few bottles of spices to bring along, and two ziploc bags of TVP.

Hi everyone! While cleaning my room in preparation for leaving to the Philippines, I finally found the piece of paper with the phone number of a friend in TX who had talked about making a large donation to my launching cost. It was 10:30 when I found it, and I won't likely get a chance to call her tomorrow, so I decided to try and call her tonight before it was too late. The guy whose house she had been staying at answered the phone. When I asked for her, he said she wasn't there, and with very little prompting, he told me the whole story of what's been happening with her.

Well friends, it looks like we've finally got a launch date for the heading to the Philippines! Well, tentatively (again) anyway. But this time the tickets are actually being bought! Our expected launch date is Nov. 7th. That's when the Georges are buying their tickets for, as well as mine and Danny's. I'm anxious to get out and get to work for God! So please pray that everything goes well and this launch date is met. Jeremy

Hi everyone! This is a story that Wendy Guptil sent to the Palawan SMs about something that happened last Sunday. I found it very moving, so thought I would pass it along. I hope you're all as blessed by it as I was. Enjoy! Love, Jeremy

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I just called the Dept. of Def. today to check on the status of my account, and found out that the account has been recalled from the collection agency!!! Yay!! {cheer} {dance} God takes care of ALL our needs! Thank you all for all your prayers! Love, Jeremy

Just thought I'd post and update everyone who's interrested on my fundraising progress. On the Sabbath before summer training started, I spoke at the Rockford Beacon of Light Church. Two Sabbaths ago I spoke at the Belvedere Church, which is on the other side of Rockford, IL. At the Belvedere Church people were very moved by the sermon I gave on missionary work, and at least 3 or 4 people were crying just a couple minutes into the sermon. Afterwards, despite the video not working at all, and my slide show getting messed up while it was playing, people were waiting for me to hand them a donation envelope as I stood at the back of the sanctuary to hand them out. During pot-luc, more people came over to get envelopes from me, at least one person filled out her envelope right there for a credit card donation. Even the pastor said he would probably help, even though he's going on a mission trip of his own to Cuba. That church is actually trying to send as many of their members as possible on that mission to Cuba, yet they were all very eager to help out with this mission to Palawan, in spite of being a small church.