Linao Team Update

The new ECPM church planting team in Linao, Ipilan, Brookes Point, Palawan started the ministry on the second week of February. The team is composed of the couple Ricardo Amoto (64) and Vivencia Amoto (65) and the brothers, Ronnie Jontilano (29) and Bernie Jontilano (21).

The couple Ricardo and Vivencia lives in Calasaguen Brookes Point Palawan and the Jontilano brothers live in Maasin, Brookes Point, Palawan before they joined in the ECPM team now based in Linao, Ipilan, Brookes Point. Adjusting to their new community in Linao is not quite hard for the team since this is just another town in Brookes Point. The culture, language and traditions of the people are almost the same.

Linao can be reached by a jeepney or motorbike but some parts of the road are rough and muddy. The primary source of living of the people in Linao is gathering kopra (dried coconut flesh), making charcoal and planting rice. Market, school and hospitals are quite far from Linao. So, the team is used to walking far distances. Their water source is deep well and small brook.

The team’s first module was held on New Panay Gospel Hall at Maasin, Brookes Point where they studied knowing and reaching the community, team relationship and personal spiritual formation. New Panay Gospel Hall is one of the partnering churches for the church planting team in Linao together with Ipilan Christian Church.