Erasto Fuentes and the Lord’s Work in Naga City, Camarines Sur

Brother Erasto Marisga Fuentes’s walk of faith began in the 1950’s. His parents having died, he and his young siblings tried to make it in the world of the adults. He was then a young member of the Lord’s church in San Jose, Oriental Mindoro. Having finished the sixth grade, he got a job as sanitary inspector of the province through the help of the president of their school, who became governor of the province. In a few years he could be promoted to chief sanitary inspector. Politics too beckoned to him. But he had other things in mind.

He had just received a copy of “New Testament Christianity” magazine. That small literature interested him. He wrote the editor, expressing his desire to study at Philippine Bible College. Ralph Brashears wrote back and told him he could come and study for free. That elated him.

That was 1954 when he came to Baguio City. Having been a government employee, he went to a garage near Burnham Park where he saw government vehicles being parked and asked one of the drivers to take him to Philippine Bible College. It was a ride so short; he did not know that PBC was just nearby, along Carantes Street. He thought it was a big school, with a big campus; he saw that it was housed in a small edifice which it also rented. He thought Ralph Brashears, president of the college, would meet him; it was Adriano Limbawan (deceased), one of the students, who showed him around. Brashears was in the States campaigning for more support for the school.

Looking back at it now, brother Erasto said he had no regrets, only a deeper love and appreciation to the Lord who made use of him in His vineyard. His journey of faith, which began with small steps back in Mindoro, now taught him here is the life he should be looking for: The life of one who would be a minister of God. Read more…