John Holbrook

Career Missionary since 2011.

John and Rodelyn Holbrook grew up playing together in the mountains of the Philippines where John’s family served as AFM missionaries. Both John and Rodelyn heard God’s call to missions while still in elementary school, and both pursued educations to prepare them for this calling. After John’s graduation in the States, he returned to the Philippines to start a new AFM project among the Tawbuid. His friendship with Rodelyn was rekindled, and they eventually married.

John and Rodelyn, along with their daughter Ellen Joy, continue to plant churches among the Tawbuid on the Philippine island of Mindoro. God’s ministry through them and the native church leaders has grown to include four tribes and numerous churches. Currently, their primary focus is training and equipping native leaders and missionaries in church leadership, evangelism, healthcare, agriculture and earning a livelihood. They are also working to help native students receive higher education in order to return and help their tribes in development and evangelism.

Frontier Stories

Pago

“Don’t fear, Uncle,” Pago concluded. “I won’t quit school. I won’t give up. If it takes 10 years, I will endure. It is my people’s only hope.”

By: John Holbrook
February 01 2018, 11:13 am | Comments 2

To Live is Christ

Whenever we get scared, we remember that night and your calm trust in God.

By: John Holbrook
January 01 2018, 1:04 pm | Comments 3

The Divine Life Preserver

When we do our level best and leave the rest in God’s hands, He never lets us down.

By: John Holbrook
December 01 2017, 9:45 am | Comments 0

A Glimpse of Heaven

Sometimes we feel that small gifts to God’s kingdom are insignificant. But because an anonymous donor gave my parents a picture roll back in the early 1990s, Barilion and his clan found Jesus. Never doubt that God will use the smallest gift, if given sincerely, to save lost people.

By: John Holbrook
November 01 2017, 3:09 pm | Comments 0

Trip to Highland Tawbuid Village

A short video from a trip I recently took to a Highland Tawbuid village.

By: John Holbrook
October 23 2017, 8:21 pm | Comments 0

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