Where’s Brady – Update 3

The Lord has done so much in such a small amount of time…

Pastor Brady has been busy preparing to share the Gospel with all those who are working for them as well as their families. Part of the way he is doing this is by making it part of their payday. The men have been encouraged to bring their families with them, then after arriving to receive their money the Gospel is shared with them by a local pastor before they are paid. God is moving!

The Lord is also using Pastor Brady to change individual lives.

One such life is that of little Angelo. As you may have seen on his facebook post, Pastor Brady met a little boy with a a cleft pallet… after meeting him and taking a picture of him to remember to pray for him he logged into facebook one day and saw that a girl he went to high school with was working for an NGO in MANILLA and had posted a picture of a young boy who had just had a successful cleft pallet surgery. He then contacted her to find out if she had “room for one more?” She checked and found a way to get him in which meant Brady needed to find this random little boy again. He returned to where he had found him and the first boy he asked if he knew him was… HIS BROTHER!! The next day they had a five hour journey to Tacloban and would then fly Angelo and his Mother to Manila for his surgery… all expenses paid!

There is another man who walks for miles using sandals on them and he farms on his hands, picking up coconuts for a living… he is very poor and is unable to afford a wheelchair.

God provided a wheelchair for this guy!!! A wheel-chair bike with room for a cooler on the back so he can sell stuff from his chair!!! For this guy! Now, just have to find him!!

“I can’t do everything…but I can do something.” – Jerry Harding

Pastor Brady’s prayer request:

Please pray for some of the little boys that follow me everywhere back at my base.

Please pray for Angelo, pray for a strong and good recovery!!! He’ll be in Manila for a few weeks following his surgery to heal up.

Pray for the group I hired (all 55 of them). Pray that the seeds that have been planted in them would grow and God would continue to draw them!!!

Pray as I wrap things up here in our pay outs. Gotta move all our stuff 6 hours down the road to Tacloban. Pray that my exit would be honoring to the Lord and a blessing to everyone here. Pray I could bless all the staff and expats of Samaritans Purse as I go.

Where’s Brady?

“As Christians, if we aren’t in over our heads we are swimming in the wrong ocean.”

                                                                      -Brady Rose

Pastor Brady will be spending the next two months on an island several hours away from the large Philippine city, Tacloban.

He is there as a part of the Samaritan’s Purse efforts to provide relief to an island that has been struck with two hurricanes since the major storm surge, Yolanda. The team is bringing with them ten vans, one truck and different types of aid for distribution. The team will spend their initial time cleaning up the island, clearing paths and building relationships. Then they will try to restore the community physically and spiritually.

As Pastor Brady is on this journey, pray for strength and wisdom as he leads this team. Pray that the people of Samar’s hearts will be softened and that through everything Christ’s name is lifted high.

Update: Sunday night Pastor Brady made his team chili, Philippine style, and lead worship. This was the day before the team made the all-day trek to the island of Samar.