Mission Report - May 24th, 2024

Letter from Missionary Bruce Hunsaker

We are the Hunsakers, 11th year missionaries to the Philippines. We just wanted to say thanks for all the years you’ve been supplying seed to those who aggressively sow in a field, here especially for the 114 million of mostly Catholic  people.

Missionary Bruce Hunsaker witnessing to a young couple in the Philippines

A little bit of Filipino cultural history you might not have been privy to. During the 60s and 70s, while they did have television, many couldn't afford it. One pastime was reading comic books. Each month, Marvel or DC would put out their Filipino edition and, with what little they had, Filipinos would "rent" a comic book for a few centavos, find a comfortable place to read and when they were finished, return it to the newsstand and wait a whole month for the next edition.

I think it's for this reason they do not throw out their Chick tracts. After a Chick tract finds its way into a home, it is likely the whole family will read it. In rural mountain areas it will eventually make it around to the whole village. In the cities, on several occasions I’ve met some who’ve had their Chick tracts for years. Just this week I met someone in a jail we visit, who showed me the "Tiny Shoes" I gave him 2 years earlier! It is all he had, and he cherished it. I'm sure the many times he digested that tract it gave him confidence in the salvation he received in such a dark place.

Because of your faithfulness, most of the major islands have been receiving tracts. We must keep the saturation going in different cities, as well as outlying islands. Since there are many churches requesting tract orders we cannot fill as of yet, we tend to supply the most aggressive public witnessing churches in such manner that they are equally spaced according to population density.

Tracts do not sit around here.

Pictures from some of the teams that Hunsaker is connected to

Some of our methods include saturating sports events, religious events, parks, schools, open-air markets, and beaches. Bus and ferry terminals that connect and move people around their 7000 Islands. Yes, we use the public transportation system as our free mail carrier. How about that?

Along with the space on the back of the tract for each local church to stamp their own contact info, our personal number can be found also.

We answer every call. In some cases, after first contact we send these poor remote inquirers of truth some phone airtime so they can continue with their questions.

Leo Bongo was a recipient of a Chick tract. It originated from our city. Left on a bus for 5 hours, it went into a secluded mountain area held by the New People’s Army. When Leo’s brother arrived home and removed his tract Leo asked for it. Then he read it and texted my wife . . . for days. He had so many questions we called him each day. Leo had time to talk as he was in a motor tricycle accident and broke his back. After weeks Leo accepted Christ for his salvation. We told Leo we loved him, and though we probably never would meet him because of the area he lived in, we would see him in heaven. Turns out months later he called us, telling us the rods in his back were painful and needed to be removed. Down from his mountain to a government hospital he went, along with his family. We met him and bought his family lunch, but they didn't know I had an indigenous pastor waiting to speak with them. Turns out Leo's whole family heard the gospel of their salvation. All of course began with a little piece of paper bragging on a Son (Jesus) whose Father got behind that paper and got it where it needed to go.

Time has come again, and we need to reload for the up-and-coming pagan holidays here and we're asking your help. Thank you from the burdened. Please send some prayers up for us.

And look up, our redemption draweth nigh!

We already have requests for more than one million Chick tracts for another container in the coming months.  With your help, we will continue to feed the simple Gospel into this mission field where God has given us such a wide open door.  Missionary Hunsaker has requested more than half a million of those Chick tracts to supply the pastors and street teams that he works with.

When you gave 50,000 tracts to Missionary Mitch Muller in Merida, Mexico a team of 22 Americans came down with Campaigns For Christ and together they gave out the tracts along with John/Romans scriptures.  Not only were 255 saved in 3 preaching services, but it looks like a new church is being started as a result.  Thank you!

This police officer was saved and wanted a handful of tracts to take back to his precinct for his co-workers.  One meeting was preached by an elderly pastor who had been run out of town by Catholics with stones some years ago.  Now there are over 50 people saved there!

This Gospel meeting in town square was right in front of the Catholic Church which has been deceiving people for 350 years!