On Sunday one of my co-workers from the Philippines told me an interesting story about a primitive tribe from the Mountain Province of the Philippines.
His church had sent a missionary to evangelize the Iwaks in the mountains of northern Philippines. Their missionary had to walk for eight hours to reach this village. When my co-worker held a youth camp in a town south of Manila, he decided to invite a few youth from this tribe to join his youth camp. The camp was held in a hot-spring resort owned by a supporter of his ministry.
In this resort, there were some trees that were decorated with “Christmas” lights. One night as my friend was passing by he overheard the teens from this tribe say “These trees are amazing! We don’t have tree that can give off such colourful lights. Let’s look for the seeds so we can bring it back!” Then he saw them look around the trees for seeds of these “magic” trees to bring home to the village!
I laughed! I asked my friend if he was joking. He said “No, it’s real!”
He went on to tell me that they were also so amazed to hold a ball in their hand – and remarked that it was “so smooth.”
The missionary who reaches out to this tribe faithfully goes up from his home in Manila every two weeks. It has been five years since he first reached out to them. Today, there is a nice church building on the slope of a mountain that can sit 200 people. Each Sunday almost 100 people gather for worship.
The Gospel light is now shining in that village, so those teens won’t need to find the seeds of that magic lighted tree!
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