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

Progress

My sweat-soaked shirt sticks to my back and chest like cellophane as I squat under the eaves of the little hut.

By: John Holbrook
April 01 2013, 5:17 pm | Comments 0

Is the Dogtor In?

In a world inundated with pain and death, a sense of humor is a vital skill.

By: John Holbrook
February 01 2013, 4:22 pm | Comments 0

The Encounter

“A siganon lives there,” answered my next-door neighbor, using the local word for outsider.

By: John Holbrook
January 01 2013, 1:47 am | Comments 0

Please, won’t you let me save you?

As I slowly walked away, it seemed that I could hear God crying with me, calling to the lost of the world, “I can save you. If only you would trust me. Please, won’t you let me save you?”

By: John Holbrook
December 01 2012, 12:22 am | Comments 0

Hope

The grey mists swirling around the dilapidated hut seemed to accentuate the dull hopelessness in the eyes of the hunched figure. His history was one of despair. For the last four years, he had vainly sought healing from a disease that was slowly eating his body.

By: John Holbrook
October 01 2012, 12:20 am | Comments 0

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