Reviewed by Jerry and Donna Layton, ABWE missionaries reporting from the Philippines
Twenty-seven years ago, Dr. Jerry Layton was prompted to consider a career change after one student dared to speak up in his science class. “I believe that God created everything,” she said.
Jerry began working on what would eventually become his full-time ministry, a creation-science evangelism program used in secular Filipino schools to “put God back into science.”
Since 1999, Dr. Layton and his wife, Donna, have taken their two-hour creation-science presentations into hundreds of universities and public schools in the Philippines. Using material from Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research, they present creation as a welcome alternative to evolution. Tens of thousands of students and educators have willingly heard the message so far.
Where They Are Today
Fast-forward to the fall of 2008. Dr. Layton traveled to the Philippine island province of Bohol to host creation-science conferences at five campuses. Assisted by a local chapter of the Student Movement for Christ International, Dr. Layton and campus workers gathered students for an immediate follow-up Bible study after each symposium. More than 1,000 students heard the gospel during the creation-science presentations and almost half responded with a profession of faith!
After one particular seminar, “We found the principal in tears,” Dr. Layton says. “She told us that we were an answer to her prayers.”
In another school, the head science teacher and science supervisor became excited after the presentation and expressed a strong interest in starting a science Bible club at their school. At yet another school, the students stayed so long in Bible studies that the teachers “came to us concerned that they were missing their lunch,” Dr. Layton says. “This is an example of the hunger for God’s Word that we have seen in our seminars.”
Please continue to pray for the success of this unique ministry as the Laytons seek to reach beyond the Philippines into Asia.
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