Source: Mission Network News, September 30, 2024
Among those caught in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict are 11,000 Filipinos working in Lebanon. As of Friday, they are awaiting evacuation orders from their home country if Israeli troops begin a ground offensive.
An estimated 2.16 million Filipinos live abroad as migrant workers, according to 2023 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority. It’s a reality that Lito Sampan with A3 and others see as both a gospel opportunity and something with risks to watch out for.
“We are always reminding the churches to come alongside these Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families and help them establish their purpose, why they are working abroad, and at the same time equip them [so] that they will be responding to the Great Commission of making disciples,” Sampan says.
For a longer piece about OFWs and the Filipino mission movement, read Mobilizers See Millions of Future Missionaries in Overseas Filipino Workers (Christianity Today).