Marabut, Samar
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” Matthew 4:16 It has been strongly placed in my heart since middle of the previous year to visit Samar, but I have been hampered much by the transitions my family and I went through following my leave from the corporate world, until everything cleared out just this last December. After settling my mother-in-law in who just arrived from Canada to spend time with us for three weeks, I went ahead and booked the trip, and threw away the key so to speak, that I would not have a chance to back out again. Three weeks ago, brother Derek and his dear wife Celi, along with three girls in their care, drove to Samar to visit the work there, so I had assumed and was doubly glad to know that I would still get to meet them before they left. Through the providence of the Lord, I arrived safely during the last weekend of their departure back to Manila. I had inte...