Published, Diaspora Studies, in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org Editors’ Note: We would like to express our appreciations for Bert Claro (pseudonym) whose generous spirit and Kingdom-orientation. Abstract: Two decades ago, national Christian leaders and foreign evangelists propagated the vision that the Philippines was destined to become the launching pad of the Gospel in Asia. They were convinced that the Filipino Church would become a major force in world missions. In the 90s, the challenge of planting churches among the remaining unreached people groups brought with it the acknowledgment of the difficulties of deploying traditional missionaries in the most spiritually needy places in the world.
