The Bride Has Made Herself Ready | Pastor David Gates

I have been blessed this Sabbath already. I just love missions and missions is what sets us on fire. A church without mission is a dying church. And not just a church, any organization that cannot remember its mission begins to die. Do you remember what the what the big computer company they used to

call Big Blue? What was the name of that company? IBM. Where are they today? Nobody really knows. They used to be the big company. All major mainframe and many computers were built by IBM. And yet when the mission changes, it just the mission story from Ecuador, the mission story from the Philippines was real exciting today.

I could live in the Philippines all my life except that except that I've chosen to live in South America, but Philippines is a wonderful place and uh I hope you support the work they're doing. It's a wonderful work and my wife and I went there a couple years ago and we had four camp meetings. We

spoke in all four camp meetings and the last one was not too far from the North Philippine Union. There's three unions in the Philippines, North, Central, and South. They each have universities and and it's been I've preached in all of the universities and in most of the unions but uh the North Philippine Union

put us up and uh gave us a big church to speak at and uh and they were very very kind and just the Philippines is a wonderful wonderful country. Um what currency do they use in Ecuador? Testing your geography today. What currency do they use in Panama? Same currency. US dollars. What currency do they use in

Venezuela? If you live near Brazil, they use Brazilian currency. If you're further up near the mining area, it's only gold. Everything is bought with gold. And when you get to Caracas, it's US dollars. The local currency is worth toilet paper. So, every country does what they have to do to stabilize. And uh