Put a Missionary on the Payroll Spotlight: Asuncion “Ciony” Buca – Things To Come Mission

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Apr 14, 2024

Ezekiel Diet Note: Missionaries do the most important work on the planet and we act like they don’t exist.

Millions worldwide are being jettisoned by democide eugenics murder into eternal damnation like so much garbage.

Every week from now on I want to spotlight another missionary family worthy of your support starting with Things To Come Mission (TCM). There are so many I’m starting with the A’s at TCM. I’ve been helping one of their mission families for 20+ years. They’re a good organization that I endorse.

This new series of posts is in conjunction with my life experience and teaching Biblical Financial Concepts for 30 years. See a brief summary of that wisdom and teaching here: Financial Umbrella: Put a Missionary on the Payroll

This project has been on my mind for months; since I received a TCM envelope full of beautiful prayer cards. The idea to spotlight these missionaries keeps coming back to mind and won’t go away, From experience I assume it’s the Holy Spirit prompting. TCM’s new website and graphic work on prayer cards really helps to promote them. Their new website looks good. They must have a good graphics designer working for them.

I used to cringe decades ago as mission families were forced out of the mission field to do grueling deputation from church to church every year to raise support. Don’t make these good people do a dog-and-pony-sing-and-dance-show for their support.

Here’s my challenge, start sending any amount of money you feel led to give this missionary every month, and watch what happens. You want to get God’s attention and blessings? Become a cheerful giver. Don’t give from leftovers; because there won’t be any. Give the first part and the last will take care of itself. God promises you will always have an abundance to give from. Put Him to the test; this is the only area in scripture God actually allows you to test Him. In Luke 6:38 KJV: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

God wants us to obey from love, not obligation. That’s why the apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 9:7“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

The word used for “cheerful” in 2 Corinthians 9:7 is hilaros (doesn’t have anything to do with “hilarious”). Hilaros means cheerful, without grudging, and it implies giving with a gracious attitude. Therefore, we are to give because God says so but also because we are willing and happy to do so.

Source: https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-mean-god-loves-a-cheerful-giver.html

Here’s my next challenge to all the Alternative Media Podcasts out there. Do me a favor and invite these mission families on an occasional show so they can tell their story.

Asuncion “Ciony” Buca

Asuncion “Ciony” (sho-nee) Buca was raised in a devout Catholic family and school where she was discouraged from questioning spiritual and religious practices. As a teen activist, Ciony avoided invitations to attend Bible studies until a near-death experience changed her attitude. Struck by the realization from John 8 that if one is not of God, she is of the devil, Ciony put her trust in Christ. She actually lost a college scholarship due to criticisms that she neglected her academic studies because of Bible studies!

Throughout her career as a professional accountant, Ciony was active in TCM-Philippines Grace churches. She retired early in order to serve as a short-term missionary in Cambodia and Vietnam. Now Ciony has applied to TCM and been accepted as a full-time missionary to join Team Timor in 2020. You can partner with Ciony by supporting Team Timor.

Ciony was engaged to be married in 2018 but her fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack 6 months before their wedding. As a single woman in her 50’s, Ciony affirms, “I am now fully convinced that God has designed me for mission. The experiences I’ve endured explain that I still have an unfinished task. Everything works together for good according to God’s purpose. I cannot fathom how God has spared me from the grief and pain of loss. I praise and honor the Living God that I am now considered as a missionary candidate.

Prayer Letter

Prayer Card

Source: https://tcmusa.org/category/personnel/ciony-buca/

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