Your donations have enabled Julieta Tano to receive further training for God’s service
“While I was a missionary in South Korea, the Holy Spirit touched my heart to surrender my life and work for Him.” From then on, Julieta Tano began to search for a school where she could receive further training for God’s work. She looked at various schools on the Internet but did not find what she was looking for.
“I met Seven Lee, who was on his internship in South Korea,” Julieta relates. “He suggested that I go to Hartland. But I said, ‘That’s too far, and I don’t have money.’ He smiled. ‘Just pray about it, and try checking the website. Who knows? Maybe that’s the place God wants you to go.’”
She pushed it to the back of her mind, but her desire to be trained for God’s work never left her. As she continued to pray, she decided to take a step of faith and apply to Hartland College.
“By the time I returned to my home in the Philippines, I had already decided to go to Hartland. But money was an issue. Even though my family supported me, they could not give me money.” But she still pressed forward in faith. With only a few hundred pesos, 1 she went to the embassy to get her visa.
Giving her a temporary denial, the officials told her they needed other papers to process her visa. “When I was denied, I thought of giving up,” Julieta admits, “but the Holy Spirit came to me with the thought, This is just a test of faith. If you quit, you will never succeed. So, after I had done my best, I decided to accept the result as God’s will for me.” Later she found out that those papers were not applicable in her case. When she went back to the embassy, she was pleasantly surprised to see the officer holding her visa.
Now she just needed to get her ticket, which she had reserved in faith two weeks prior. “I didn’t have much time to raise the money, so I sold my digital camera and my computer.” That gave her a little less than half the money she needed for her ticket. Some of her family members gave her the rest of the money, even getting themselves into debt so that she could buy her ticket.
“I am a health major,” says Julieta, “but I want to take as many Bible classes as I can. I want to teach people how to live a healthful lifestyle following the pattern God has given us. I want the world to know that our body is the temple of God and that it’s entrusted to us.” To all those who give to the Missionary Training Fund, she says, “I greatly appreciate your generosity. This opportunity is an answer to my prayers.”
