First Journal Entry for October
Journal Entry. Evening. 6th of October. 2025
Kept thinking about the street meeting we missed. Wrestling with the conviction that once a week may not see as much fruit as going out more often. Herein is an idea in line with what I had in my heart for a month now, yet careful not to make a rash vow.
Whitefield's activities in Scotland supply further evidence of the carefulness with which he planned his work of preaching.
His first three weeks were spent in Edinburgh. During this period he fulfilled his busy schedule of preaching, but he also used this time to familiarize himself with the land and to consider how best to reach its people. Thus he developed plans for an itinerary which would allow him, while using Edinburgh as his base, to range out on a series of evangelistic excursions, each one usually of a week's duration, first in one direction and then in another, thereby covering the major portion of southern Scotland. Then, during the next two months (September and October, 1741) he carried out these plans.
From Edinburgh he went out first in a somewhat north-easterly direction, preaching at Falkirk and Stirling. The second week took him towards the north - to Perth and Crieff - and the third still further north, to Cupar and Dundee. The fourth week he spent in the west, in and around Glasgow. Then came an excursion to what he called the "south country" - to Galasheils and other towns in that direction. And after spending the next week at Edinburgh, he made his longest journey - a three week circuit north-east to Aberdeen, with pauses on both outward and return trips, to preach at Cupar and Dundee and other towns en route.
This Whitefield's planning enabled him to minister in many of the major cities and towns of Scotland and to cover a broad territory that contained the bulk of the country's population. Moreover, it allowed him to work according to his 'preach and return' method - preach to sow the seed and return to reap the harvest, preach to awaken the sinner and return to instruct the saint.
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Considering the map of my city, it is a huge undertaking. At first glance, impossible. Yet if the LORD should send this infant, He will supply the power and the life in His words. I have yet to meet a soul with this burden, and am weighing the objections and answers to this task. To name two:
Answer: The people know His name, they do not know Him as Lord. It is not a Christian nation, it is half Roman Catholic, half Islamic.
It (Bulacan) has 572 barangays in 20 municipalities and four component cities (Baliuag, Malolos—the provincial capital, Meycauayan, and San Jose del Monte the largest city). In the 2020 census, Bulacan had a population of 3,708,890 people, the most populous in Central Luzon and the third most populous in the Philippines, after Cebu and Cavite. Bulacan's most populated city is San Jose del Monte, the most populated municipality is Santa Maria, while the least populated is Doña Remedios Trinidad yet the largest municipality in terms of area. source: Bulacan Wiki
I grievously believe, while surveying this entire map, that there yet remains more lost sheep mixed in with the fold. It is an astounding number to imagine out of the growing 3,708,890 souls, how many will enter into a Christless eternity, robbing God of His glory? Who do I wait for to go after them?
Thus, so far, have we labored in these marked locations. In many areas repeatedly—more than we can count. We also have labored far up in the north, and way down in the south. But Metro Manila, and Bulacan, is our main fishing hole. Still a greater part remains unevangelized.
The task is great, the laborers few. Instead of contentment with the small, I must ask, what doth my Master yet bid me to do?
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