gether socially. Mr. Enos is also

gether socially. Mr. Enos is also involved in the sports program. “Sports is a way of meeting people to earn the right to be witnessing to them," he said.

Sam Waldron spent 21 years in the Phillippines, most of them in very rural parts of the island of Mindanao, but for the last seven years he was in the capital of Manilla working as an administrator. His original mission was to establish

“You take

advantage of those

opportunities when

you see them, but

that’s not why

you’re there.”

—Sam Waldron

sv Baptist churches on Mindanao, and 55 churches resulted from his efforts. About 50 percent of his time was spent establishing churches, about 25 percent training Filipino leaders to establish churches and about 25 percent in such other work as keeping the mission truck going, he said.

His children were in second and third grade when he and his wife first went to the Phillippines, he explained. The first year they attended day school in Manilla while he learned the local dialect most common where he would be going. Once they got to Mindanao, his wife home schooled the children, he said. In high school they attended a boarding school in Manilla. “They have done well,” he said.'

He said the people of the Phillippines are about 85 percent nominally Catholic, “but in the rural areas away from the strong Catholic cities, the Catholicism is watered down and mixed up with superstitions/** He said he found the Catholic backgrounds of the people he met helpful, however, because “they have heard about the Bible, they have heard about Jusus, and they’re open to the gospel. ”He said the Southern Baptists have two seminaries in the Phillippines, but once people come in and get training there, they don’t want to return to their rural villages, “They want to pastor a city church,” he said. So much of his