Philippines

Our mission efforts in the Philippines consist of support for two missionaries, Samuel Sinco and Barry Murrell.

Samuel “Sammy” Sinco was born in 1961 in the Philippines, and was baptized into Christ in October 1988 by an American missionary. Since then, he has been very active in the church in metro Manilla. He married his wife, Janel, in 1994. They have two children, Camille Patriz and Samuel Jr. In 1997, Sammy became a self-supporting preacher, helping to establish the church in Taguig City where he served as an evangelist for two years. In 1999, he moved his family to Butuan City to attend Sunrise Christian College. Two years later, and at the request of the church in Cebu City, he moved his family to Kalibo Aklan on Panay Island. From there, he does mission work throughout Panay and Boracay islands. The church in Kalibo currently has twenty adults and a dozen young people actively involved in worship services. Children’s Sunday school has an average of ten. Total membership is now about forty and growing.

To read the latest report of Sammy’s work in the Philippines, go here.

To send Sammy a note of encouragement, go here.

Barry Murrell was born in Houston in 1960 and raised in Texas. Through the influence of his grandparents, Barry became a Christian at 14. While attending Texas A&M, he met Shari, and they were married in 1980. That same year, they moved to the Philippines, and have worked in Cebu City since that time. They now have four children (Jon Marc, Rachel Dawn, Sara Annette, and Amy Lee).

The Murrell’s mission efforts consist of teaching at Cebu Bible College and working with the Uptown congregation in Cebu City. The Uptown congregation has about fifty members; there are ten congregations and 600-700 Christians city-wide. In both locations, they teach New Testament Greek and courses on the New Testament.

To read reports of Barry’s work in the Philippines, go here.

To send Barry a note of encouragement, go here.