Greetings Saints of The Most High,

I pray in the name of Jesus that this letter finds you well. We/RawDisciple Ministries had decided to take time off from requesting donations lately due to Covid and the financial stressors it created in so many lives. Many of you donors continued to donate without any sort of promotion or request. So for those individuals and families, RawDisciple as a whole, the two ministries in the Philippines and I, Justin Ludwig (President) thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity, faithfulness and desire to love in action.

I have very recently been informed by both head pastors in both of our partnerships in Mindanao, Philippines and they are in need of help from the body of Christ, you and me. We/I very humbly but boldly are asking for your prayers, blessings and financial donations to help feed our brothers and sisters and get a powerful/impactful ministry able to get back on the road to where Jesus needs to be heard and experienced.

Current/Urgent Need #1

Pastor Lyndle is the head pastor for our partnership ministry in Dipolog City. He is the son of Pastor Advento who passed away this last year. Pastor Advento was the amazing man of God who took me into his home for over 2 weeks when I traveled there to proclaim the awesomeness of Jesus. Truly a great man of God.

Pastor Lyndle reached out to me, shoken up and in need. He proceeded to inform me that he had just gotten into a bad car wreck with their ministry vehicle (see attachment 1 & 2). I know from personal experience that without a vehicle over there, it cripples their ability to reach nearly as many people because of the long distances, rugged terrain and very sporadic weather.

Current/Urgent Need #2

Pastor Sehob is the lead pastor for our other partnership in Cagayan de Oro. Pastor Sehob was my interpreter for my 2 week trip to Mindanao a couple years ago and boy,talk about an awesome dude. Not  only a man on fire for God. But such a hilarious, good man and I am honored to call him my friend and my brother. They have two pressing needs at this moment;  

a) the first and most important is a severe lack of food. Knowing these individuals personally I know they only would specify food when they are in sincere trouble. So I know they desperately need our help. 

b)The second need is they have started to build a septic tank but haven’t been able to complete it because they ran out of funds and could really use our help. No donation is too small. 

I know both of these men and ministries personally and I cannot think of two groups of brothers and sisters in Christ with more integrity, love and a fire to proclaim Christ. We/RawDisciple hope and pray that God puts it on your heart to help however you can. If you are unable to financially donate we ask that you let others know of this need and what a very worthy cause it is. Most importantly we ask that you please pray for these needs and for our international families. 

Me and everyone affiliated with RawDisciple sincerely loves each and everyone of you and am proud to call you our brothers and sisters.

Be the blessing and love in action.

(Donation and prayer info below)

Financial Donations

If you are led to help the cause for Christ you have a couple donation options;

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Mail: Make checks payable to “RawDisciple Ministries”   23564 Western Ave unit B. Harbor City, CA 90710

PayPal : https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PKKBN6TYSXVTW

Website Donation: https://www.rawdiscipleministries.org/donations-1

Email: rawdiscipleministries@gmail.com

Websites: 

www.Rawdiscipleministries.org www.RawDisciple.com

RawDisciple Ministries 

Justin Ludwig (President)

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I write for the purpose of inspiring hope. Everything I write is true with no embellishments. I write not so my voice can be heard, but in the hopes that the Holy Spirit will speak His truth through me. For as long as I can remember I was unhappy. No matter what I would do or what I would experience, nothing ever seemed to take that empty hopeless feeling away. Perhaps this was the reason why I turned to drugs and alcohol at such a young age. I had found my place in this world, and that was tucked away, disconnected and simply trying to escape from how much it hurt to simply be alive. I won’t go into all of the details of how my life fell apart, but my addiction and self destruction cost me everything. Once my wife and kids left me, I made a decision to handle the situation the only way I knew how. I was going to go on one last insane run and just hope that it killed me so I could just be done with all of the sadness. I remember when I made that depressing decision. I said a prayer to a God I didn’t know and I told Him I didn’t expect Him to help me. I knew He felt the same way about me that I did.. that it was my fault and I didn’t deserve saving. I remember thinking, “Who am I to ask for help, I deserve all of this.” The days rolled on, chaos overlapping chaos, until the pain and despair was all that I could see. I had receded into the shadows with no thought of making a change for the better… I had truly given up on myself, and there was nothing stopping me from completing my lifelong run of self destruction. Then one night like every other night I was driving, I looked in my rear view mirror to the twinkling of flashing red and blue lights. I received a 4th DUI which landed me with a felony on top of everything else that was going on in my life. I had no clue, but when that squad car door slammed shut, I had begun down a road that was going to change everything. That felony left me with two choices, I could do a year in state prison or I could go into some program called Teen Challenge. Repeating similar patterns I decided to take the easy way out and go into the program. My plan was to do my time, play the part, and get my felony taken care of and go back to my so called life. A month or so into this year long discipleship I was sitting in a worship service, just scanning my bible, just killing time more than anything else. My eyes focused on a single verse, and I unintentionally muttered it outloud, ““Be still, and know that I am God.” It was such a comforting statement, and I just couldn’t understand why, so I began to pay attention. I began to learn of a God so different from what I had thought I knew. A God not of condemnation, but of neverending love and patience for me, for us. Not disgusted or angry with me, like I once thought. Being a father myself the love of a Father on the divine level really intrigued me and drew me in. Not being able to fathom how much God loves us opened my mind to the infinite. Through that year with everything that I learned I was convinced. This sounds like a strange way of describing it, but I am a skeptical person by nature. The presence of the Holy Spirit was undeniable, but with all of the study, teaching and experience that I was exposed to there showed me that our faith is not a fairy tale, that it’s real. I graduated in 2013 and immediately got plugged into a local church which is my home church today.I joined a small group to get me plugged in, which evolved into me being the facilitator of an ongoing weekly small group so diverse and loving that my faith and love can’t help but continue to grow. In the last three years, God blessed me with the life that I never dared dream. I love to tell my story because looking back is when my faith is strengthened. When I am reminded, that if all of those horrible,….just terrible, painful things didn’t happen to me, I never would have gotten to where I am at today, with each piece of the puzzle fitting perfectly into place. When I recognized that God’s plans are so far beyond anything we can anticipate, understand or predict, we are able to trust that no matter the circumstance... To simply be still, and know that He is God. Written By: Justin Ludwig

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