ABOUT BRO. RODELIO MALLARI & HIS MINISTRIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

Bro. Rodelio Mallari is 49 years old. He has been happily married for 25 years. He and his wife Elizabeth (49 y.o.) have six wonderful children, namely: Abigail (24 y.o.), Genesis (22 y.o.), Ezekiel (20 y.o.), Jeremy (18 y.o.), Stephanie (15 y.o.), and Sharon (12 y.o.).

·         He was saved and born again by the amazing grace and tender mercy of God on May 27, 1984, a beautiful Sunday morning. Prior to his saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, he lived like the devil. He was addicted to alcohol, tobacco and drugs; and was a vile fornicator and sinner! He even got involved in a gang that was into small-time drug trafficking around Angeles City. However, the Lord Jesus had marvelously cleansed him with His precious blood and made him a new creature in Christ.

·         Bro. Mallari has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering (1986). He took and passed the 1987 Philippine Licensure Examinations for Civil Engineers. He also has a Master of Divinity (1992) studies from the Asian Theological Seminary.

·         He was called by the Lord to preach in 1988. He was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel in April 1990.

·         In May 1991, after much prayer and confirmation of God’s will, he gave up a very promising career as a Presidential Staff Officer in the Administration of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino to devote more time to his serious study and ministry of God’s word.

·         He is very fluent in three languages, namely: English, Filipino (or Tagalog) and and Kapampangan. He also speaks a little conversational Spanish.

·         With the Lord’s help and provision, it is Bro. Mallari’s ultimate desire to be used of the Lord to translate the entire Authorized King James Version of 1611 into the national language of the Filipino people – Tagalog, which is understood by the majority of our 94 million people. Since May 2011, he has devoted three days a week for his prayerful and careful translation of the Bible. He would usually continue working till the late hours past midnight, often oblivious of the passing of time.

·         Since February 2004, he has been translating soul-winning comic book tracts for Chick Publications of California, USA during his spare time. To date, he has already translated a total of 32 Chick tract titles and is working on more into Tagalog.

·         In the summer of 2006, Bro. Mallari translated the script of the American evangelistic film “Light of the World” also by Chick Publications. He personally directed the dubbing of the same film into Tagalog. It was released on July 2006 and is now available in DVD/VCD formats.

·         He also co-produced and translated into Filipino two short evangelistic video presentations: “In 100 Years...Where Will You Be” (2010); and “When Death Comes Knocking” (2011). Both videos are being distributed and circulated free to local churches in the Philippines. They are also available for online viewing at YouTube.

·         He is computer literate, an avid reader, a bonsai enthusiast, an advanced chess player, an amateur photographer, and an amateur website-builder.

·         Since 1988, he has been a missionary-pastor-teacher-evangelist and a much sought after King James Bible Conference speaker. He not only preaches in churches and auditoriums but in the streets, markets, malls, parking areas, and public places.

·         By the grace of God, Bro. Mallari started two rural churches from scratch in the Province of Pampanga, Luzon Island. He ministered to both churches for ten years each as their first pastor. These churches are: (1) Bible Believers’ Baptist Church (1988-98) in Magalang town; (2) Blessed Hope Baptist Church (1998-2008) in Porac town. Both local churches are very much alive and well and steadily growing in the Lord today under the leadership of his trained preachers and church workers.

·         Currently an itinerant evangelist, he sometimes travels our islands to speak in churches, camps, revivals, and conferences nationwide.

·         He occasionally teaches some pastoral and theological subjects to equip native preachers and workers in their church-based extension Bible Institute classes.

·         He infrequently writes and contributes sermons, articles and devotional material for Christian papers in the Central Luzon area.

·         Bro. Mallari has been a regular sermon contributor to SermonCentral.com which is probably the world's largest online sermon database to date.

·         He was host and Bible teacher for "It is Written!" -- a one-hour live weekly Gospel Radio Broadcast which aired from March 2006 till it had to bid farewell to listeners in November 2008 due to ministry funds constraints. The program was broadcasted over DWGV, a local radio station that had a potential listener target of 10 million Filipinos in the 13 provinces of Luzon, the largest of the Philippine island groups.

·         Bro. Mallari is the Founding Director and regular Bible Teacher of “Send the Light Ministries” a faith evangelistic and teaching ministry that prayerfully endeavors to reach out to our 8 million dispersed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) via free distribution of Filipino Gospel CD’s, cassette tapes and evangelistic literature.

·         In January 2010 he finally realized his long-term vision of establishing a basic Local Printing Press that would hopefully make it possible in the future to supply free Bibles, books, hymnals, Sunday school materials, Gospel literature, etc. to the poorest of the poor among our Filipino Christian brethren. The Lord has miraculously supplied a refurbished 25-year old Offset Printing Press (a Solna 125), a Manual Paper Cutter and an improvised Plate Maker that are still in good working condition.

·         Another blessed addition to his major projects is his vision of building a small shelter for the distressed, abandoned and orphaned children of Guimaras Island. It is by God's grace that a land has been generously provided in 2010 by the Christian brethren in Guimaras, Central Philippines. To date, this on-going project is about 85% completed. As with the printing press, it will be up to the Lord to supply all the needs for the shelter in His perfect time and will. Though only partially operational, the shelter is already host to five young children and an infant.

·         Due to the calling and departure of their pastor to another local mission field in Nueva Ecija Province, the congregation of Blessed Hope Baptist Church called Bro. Mallari to be their Interim Pastor in July 2011. He gladly accepted the offer of his former church for an indefinite period.

·         Bro. Mallari has never been among the well-known national preachers and workers of God in the Philippines. He is virtually unknown by the greater majority of Filipino brethren as he usually loves to work low-key and almost unnoticed.

·         He has never been affiliated with any Missions Board. His humble efforts for the Lord have never been regularly supported by any local or foreign Christian funding agencies. He has a support-base of a handful of like-minded Christian families and a few local churches that believe in what he does and stand for the Lord.

·         In order to support his growing family, he has to work two part time jobs (as private tutor and research assistant) on top of his increasing ministerial labors. As such, it is definitely not easy to carry on the ministries God has placed upon his shoulders.

·         In light of the above information, your prayers, support and encouragement for this brother in the Lord and his family will be very much appreciated. Please remember him in prayer as the Lord brings the Philippines to your mind. Pray especially for his health as he has Diabetes and occasional bouts of TB.

Greetings from Angeles City, Philippine Islands! I have once again gleaned highlights of family and ministry events from my journal demonstrating the grace of our Lord upon us. May this long and detailed report bring warmth to your hearts and persuade you to remember and uphold us daily before God’s throne of grace. Your families, churches and ministries are ever in our Daily Prayer List.

FAMILY MATTERS: The month of May saw me celebrate my 27th spiritual birthday. I was saved and born again by the grace and mercy of God on May 27, 1984, a beautiful Sunday morning. Prior to my saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, I lived like the devil. I was addicted to alcohol, tobacco and drugs; and a vile fornicator and sinner! I even got involved in a gang that was into small-time drug trafficking. However, the Lord had marvelously cleansed me with His precious blood and made me a new creature in Christ. Amen!

The month of May also saw four family members celebrate their physical birthdays: May 3rd (Genesis – 22 y.o.); May 9th (Myself – 49 y.o.); May 13th (Sharon – 12 y.o.); and May 15th (Stephanie – 15 y.o.). Praise God for His loving kindness to our family! This time we had a joint thanksgiving celebration by way of a simple dinner out with the whole family. The family outing was provided for as a special gift from dear Christian friends.

We are also grateful and happy that our son Ezekiel has returned home from his 3 ½ months on-the-job training abroad. He arrived home safe but quite tired on the evening of June 27th. While he was in Hawaii, he found a loving and caring spiritual home and an extended family in a likeminded Filipino Baptist church there. Thanks be unto the Lord for His providential care of Ezekiel, and thank you likewise for praying for him.

11th CHURCH ANNIVERSARY: Our church (Blessed Hope Baptist) celebrated its 11th founding anniversary on April 17th. As its pioneering missionary and first pastor, I was asked by the brethren to reconstruct and retell our Church History so the newer and younger members will be inspired by the goodness and mercy of the Lord through the years. It might interest you to know that during the last 11 years, our little flock relocated to 5 different places (2 towns and 2 cities) during its first 5 years of existence! In 2006 the Lord miraculously provided the land and building where the present church now rests. Should the Lord tarry, we look forward to many more opportunities of bringing the Gospel of Christ to the lost and equipping the saints for the work of the ministry. May the Lord be ever exalted and magnified by our feeble labors!

SUMMER DVBS: From April 19-23 we conducted our Summer Daily Vacation Bible School. There were over 80 children which were divided into four classes. At the graduation ceremony, certificates of completion, Bibles, gifts, and medals were awarded to our happy kids. There were several parents in attendance who clearly heard the Gospel message at the graduation service, though none of them made a profession of faith in Christ. Please pray for the children so that the seed of God’s word that was sown in their young hearts will grow and bear fruit abundantly.

LENTEN SEASON: We printed a special batch of 5,000 Filipino tracts for this season. They were distributed in our personal witness, from house to house, street work, mail boxes, bus terminals, shopping malls, schools, etc. As you may already know, the Catholic “Holy Week” is a much-awaited annual holiday in the Philippines (Asia's foremost Catholic country). It features fasting, abstinence, solemn meditations, chanting, almsgiving, and in extreme cases, pitiful and blasphemous self-flagellation and crucifixions under a blistering 104-degree F summer sun!

If you can bear with clear amateur videos; and sights of half-naked, bloody men do not make you sick; you might wish to get a glimpse of this year’s traditional “Holy Week” rituals in our city and province through the following YouTube links:

Bloody Holy Week in Angeles City, Pampanga (Time: 8 mins, 35 secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0GQUMYaJ6U  

Crucifixion Festival in our Provincial Capitol (Time: 6 mins, 18 secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGixR4fDKNk  

PUBLIC EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY: Though our Street Preaching Team has become a familiar sight at the Angeles City Shopping District since 2006, it never ceases to arouse the curiosity of passing motorists and pedestrians. My sons and I along with five other faithful men in our church take turns preaching open-air, witnessing, and holding up giant scripture banners; while the ladies and young people passed out Filipino comic tracts. Unfortunately, our recent efforts have been literally dampened by incessant monsoon rains for the most part. Nevertheless, the Lord has allowed us some opportunities to preach and witness to the multitudes on a few rainless days.

Over 6,000 Chick tracts were prayerfully distributed in our recent street work. There was even one young man who literally asked how he could be saved from Hell. He was led to the Lord and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour -- right there at the street gutter! (Luke 15:7, 10) On separate occasions, there were also anonymous persons who sent in text messages saying that they have “repented of their sins and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour!” Amen and Amen!!

We have just acquired another 3 brand new and colorful giant scripture banners (5 feet x 6 feet in size) to add to the other 9 that we have on reserve. Please pray for good weather especially during Sunday afternoons when we usually do open-air street work and tract distribution in the shopping districts and public places. Except for a few unruly hecklers and drunks, and also drivers honking annoyingly, we have never been severely harassed or hurt by anyone, thanks to the Lord’s protection and the Angeles City Police Department (ACPD) with whom we enjoy a good rapport. We have always assured and convinced our local authorities that our public ministry is a potential deterrent for would-be criminals; and that we are a voice crying for moral and spiritual change. We also thank God for the kind manager of the Philippine National Bank who has continually allowed us to use their parking space as staging area every weekend since March 2006.

GUIMARAS ORPHANAGE: My co-founder of God’s Shelter for Orphans and Homeless Children, Pastor Winston White and his wife Jane, administer our orphanage in Guimaras Island. The couple has very recently informed me that the orphans are most fine, both physically and spiritually. They have never been as happy in their lives since they found solace in a real Christian home! The older orphans have all been enrolled and been back to school since it opened on June 6th. Please continue praying for the development of our Orphanage Project which sadly stopped and got stuck at 85% completion in January. Voluntary donations for the continuation of this project are quite scarce.

Please pray for the Lord’s provision for about Php 650,000 (US$ 15,000) to purchase the following indispensable furnishings and finally operate our Orphanage Building: (1) Electrification; (2) Overhead Water Tank and Plumbing; (3) Aluminum and Glass Windows; (4) Wooden Partitions; (5) Toilets and Bathrooms; (6) Bigger Kitchen; (7) Floor Tiles; (8) Paints; (9) Furnitures; and (10) Appliances. Thanks in advance for your much-needed intercessions on these matters of concern.

PRINTING MINISTRY: Despite our low sales-at-cost during the second quarter of 2011, we were able to scrape some funds and print another 10,000 copies of two new Gospel comic titles: Creator or Liar and Holy Joe. This last printing was made possible by our limited sales plus donations which trickled in from our church members and friends of our ministry. We are likewise in the process of raising P120,000 (about $2,800) to purchase a used but indispensable Automatic Paper Cutting Machine to upgrade our basic printing equipment. Our fund-raising to this end has now the equivalent of about $600.

BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: I have also been looking into several very promising Bible correspondence courses for possible translation into Filipino (or Tagalog). As the Lord supplies the ways and means, we would like to offer them free in the future, both to the saved and the lost. Speaking of correspondence courses, in case some of you are looking for an excellent, versatile, “through-the-Bible” correspondence course, I highly recommend Dr. J. G. Williams’ New Zealand Correspondence School of the Bible. Enrolment is quick, easy and FREE! Their website is at: http://www.nzcsb.org.nz/ .

GOSPEL TRACT PUBLISHING: To date, we have 20 in-stock Filipino tract titles plus 4 more in the works. Since February 2004, I have already translated and revised a total of 32 Chick tracts into Tagalog during my spare time. We will hopefully print them all locally as the Lord supplies the ways and means. Moreover, I await the proofreading layouts of another two of my recently completed Filipino comic tracts from the artists at Chick Publications-USA. These are: Who is He? and Some Like It Hot. Our online Tagalog comic tract versions can be accessed and read in full from this link: http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlistCustomWCovers.asp?q=46&Language=Tagalog.  

EVANGELISTIC VIDEO PROJECTS: We have finalized the Tagalog versions of two short evangelistic presentations and uploaded them to YouTube. As with our very first 80-minute Filipino DVD project, The Light of the World, we will effectively show these two new videos not only in the internet, but also in churches, homes, schools, buses, hospitals, prisons, police headquarters, military camps, government offices, and villages where people are gathered and willing to hear us out present the Gospel. Please remember pray for God’s blessing on these little on-going video projects. Please pray that they may be used of God’s Spirit to convict and save precious souls wherever and whenever they are seen.

In 100 Years...Where Will You Be?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB689K-6370  

When Death Comes Knocking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTdh2aXeCY  

FILIPINO BIBLE TRANSLATION PROJECT: Now that three of our major languages -- Cebuano (Bro. Sulapas & Co.), Ilocano (Bro. Quitevis & Co), and Hiligaynon (Bro. Vournas & Co.) -- have their own complete KJB scriptures, I am provoked to "godly jealousy" in my heart with their translators. While Filipino (or Tagalog) is our national language (understood by a majority of our 94 million people), it sadly remains without a complete KJB counterpart in existence. I am now fully persuaded and prepared that God is leading me to pursue my long-overdue dream of translating the old King James Bible into Filipino, even if it takes the rest of my lifetime!

God knows my heart that I have no illusion and desire of being “great or popular” in undertaking such a long overdue work as the Filipino KJB Project. Mine is just a feeble effort to encourage other more qualified KJB-believing brethren to realize the importance of having God’s true word into our national language. I have read about and seen films of the lives and works of godly scholars like John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, etc. Truly those men of God are a personal inspiration to me! I am convinced that the Lord will supply reinforcements in terms of manpower and logistics as His work progresses in the months and years to come. Amen!

BIBLE TRANSLATION SUPPORT GROUP: In May I made contact with Pastor Ruben Sulapas, the chief translator of the Cebuano KJB. I am now in league with him and his able Translation Team in Iligan City, Mindanao Island. Incidentally, their printing equipment, technology and experience are years ahead of ours. Since they also understand Tagalog, they will be helping me in the proofreading and encoding of the work. They will also do the pre-press layout when my entire Tagalog KJNT is finally completed. Thanks to the internet, the exchange of data is fast and effectively convenient. Lord willing, Bro. Sulapas is coming to meet me personally and will speak in our church on July 22. By then, we would have devised a program of work for my on-going Filipino KJB Project. We are looking into three years minimum just for the completion of the Tagalog KJNT alone. We would really appreciate your prayers and support on this matter.

RETURN AS INTERIM PASTOR: I have returned and was warmly welcomed as Interim Pastor of Blessed Hope Baptist Church on July 3, 2011. My successor, Pastor Albert Cruz, has resigned after three years of faithful pastorate. Lord willing, he and his family will do missions work and start an independent Baptist church in their hometown of San Isidro, Nueva Ecija Province. Brother Cruz will be gladly commissioned, assisted and supported as home missionary by our church. Please pray for him and his family in their transition period. Sadly, none of the remaining trained men at BHBC desire to take up the pastorate. BHBC also prefers not to call in an outsider to be its new pastor. So for the love of Christ and His church, I was constrained to step in. There are several time-consuming matters that needed to be set in order during the transfer of church leadership. Pray for me as I would be doing the work of at least two men in light of my on-going Filipino KJB translation and other ministry projects.

CHURCH WEBSITE IN THE MAKING: I have been trying to squeeze a little bit more time late at nights to build a website that would present our church and ministries over the internet. I have already obtained a cheap web-domain and site host. The “test site” can be viewed at: http://www.bhbc-stlm-1611.com/. The “bhbc” in the URL stands for “Blessed Hope Baptist Church” and the “stlm” for “Send the Light Ministries.” I will keep you posted on our website as I make progress slowly but surely.

ONLINE SERMONS: To date, I have already posted 120 of my sermon notes at SermonCentral.com. I also have audio versions for each of those 120 sermons, but they are all in the Filipino language. Sorry, only the sermon notes are in English. If you care to browse or read any of them, you can access my sermon list at: http://www.sermoncentral.com/Sermons/SearchResults.asp?Keyword=Rodelio%20Mallari&TopicID=0&ScriptureBookA=&ScriptureVerse=  

I would be very grateful to you if you can put a rating to any of my sermons anywhere from one to five stars. If you wish, I can e-mail you a MS-Word document or a PDF version of any of the 120 sermon notes for your personal Bible study.

Dear brethren, please continue fervently praying for wisdom and strength on my behalf as I have so many Christ-honoring ideas and cost-effective projects that I would really like to undertake, but sadly funds, manpower and quality time are scarce -- especially as I still have to work part-time jobs to support my family. Please do not get me wrong. I am in no way complaining at all, but just wanted to let you know about my situation so you could pray more specifically for me. Thank you for your understanding.

If by chance, you know of like-minded churches that can spare us their used (but in good condition) Hymnals (preferably Great Hymns of the Faith), please do refer our church to them. We are badly in need of at least 60 identical hymnals for our congregational singing. We are very sorry we do not have the funds to help pay for the shipping of the indispensable hymnals. Thank you for whatever you can do to this end.

Dear brethren and friends, Once again, we thank you all for continually believing in us and the cause of Christ in the Philippines. Our family and compatriots in the Lord send their warmest Christian greetings to you. We love you and pray for you often at home and in church. Phil. 1:2-6; Heb. 6:10!! Godspeed and God bless you!

Faithfully yours in Christ Jesus,

Bro. Rodelio D. Mallari & Family