God stirred many hearts in the outer islands through a medical missions team in March 2011 led by Mark Zimmer and Dr. Jack Mitchell. This was Grace Dental and Medical Missions’ third trip to Yap to plant seeds for Christ through meeting the physical needs of people. 

Missionaries still cannot go to many of the outer islands for exclusively religious purposes, so medical missions provides the platform for giving the Gospel.  As folks are saved, the goal is to train a national and assist him in starting a church.  So far this has worked in Fais where Dr. Joy Anglea’s medical team  serving under Baptist Mid-Missions broke the initial ground back in 2003 and a team from Texas in 2008 when a number of folks were saved.  In 2009 a number of folks were saved under the ministry of GDMMissions, and now again in 2011.

We praise the Lord for Pastor Rolence Lug [Yapese pastor], who is now pastoring a blossoming church on his outer island home of Fais. What a blessing for the medical team to work together with Pastor Rolence to reach his people for Christ. Please pray for Pastor Rolence as he continues to pioneer the first non-Catholic church in the outer islands of Yap. 

In Ulithi Atoll, our initial ground breaking for the Gospel was with GDMMissions in the fall of 2009, no one was saved at that point, but many heard.  This time when GDMMissions came, we saw a harvest from seeds planted back in 2009 as many made professions of faith.  After this most recent medical missions trip to Fais and Ulithi, it is more evident than ever that God is opening these once closed islands.