Source: Ethnos360, October 29, 2017<\/p>\n
The Higaunon people used to live in fear. They lived in bondage, worshiping their ancestors and sacrificing pigs and chickens to appease the spirits.<\/p>\n
And then the gospel message changed all that. Fear turned to faith.<\/p>\n
After hearing the gospel message, the newly saved Higaunons said, \u201cAll we could talk about was what Jesus had done for us and how we could now see the truth so clearly. \u2026 We were amazed at the darkness and depth of sin that we were in before. To think that we actually worshiped God\u2019s enemy, thinking that we were on the right track! … It was such a joyful time in our lives to be set free from the terrible bondage that the spirits had held us under through fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
The infant Higaunon church became burdened for their fellow Higaunons in other villages. They wondered why it took so long for the gospel to reach them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seemed to us that 2,000 years was a really long time to bring the message to our place, and we didn\u2019t want it to be a long time before it reached other Higaunon villages,\u201d the Higaunon believers said.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t just talk about it. They did something about it. And as a result, there are churches in over 20 other Higaunon villages.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Editor\u2019s note: This story reminded us of the one told in the video Never the Same<\/a> chronicling the return of author Don Richardson and his sons to the village described in the bestselling book Peace Child<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Ethnos360, October 29, 2017 The Higaunon people used to live in fear. They lived in bondage, worshiping their ancestors and sacrificing pigs and chickens to appease the spirits. And then the gospel message changed all that. Fear turned to faith. After hearing the gospel message, the newly saved Higaunons said, \u201cAll we could talk … Continue reading PHILIPPINES: From Fear to Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7503,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions\/7503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}