Posts by Pastor Rick Martin, Iloilo Baptist Church

The last thing I thought I would ever be is a missionary. In 1976 Missionary to the Philippines Bob Hughes spoke at my sending church. He was dying of cancer and as he spoke I turned to my wife Becky and told her we were going to the Philippines. We didn’t even know where the Philippines was.

Iloilo City has a population of about 500,000 people in the city proper and about one million people including the suburbs. Our region has a population of over 8,000,000 people.