Our World

Mark Pedder is a friend of mine who is a missionary to a large slum in Manilla. The slum is located on top of a garbage dump. Today, he showed photos of his home in BASECO. It’s an eyeopening experience for us Westerners.

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Today you get a look inside our little home. It’s cute, it’s quaint, very functional and is all ours…the bank does not own it…

First pic is our kitchen and a little bit of shelving for storage. To the right there are tools and stuff for the bike. We are very upper class, we have a fridge and a two burner gas stove.

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Next the bed room and clothes storage area. The bed sits on storage containers with more sheets and towels, again, another practical storage area.

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Over in the right hand corner, near the bed, is my office – laptop, light and stereo.

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That’s pretty much it, one sizeable room.

This section is our private space, our home, then downstairs is a much more communal room.

This is used for all sorts of meetings, book club, Lego play room, tool storage for housing building, spare fire extinguishers and this…

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  1. Thank you so much, Mr. Larry, for sharing this from Mark, and helping me think about what I really need today. God bless you!

  2. Debbie,

    Thanks. Just think Mark lives in the upscale part of the slum. God bless you.

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