My name is Fred Sampan. I am born in Philippines and raised in Quezon city. Before I gave my life to Christ I was the same as many other teenagers. I grew up thinking that I could find happiness in the world. As I grew older, it seemed that happiness and satisfaction never would come. Like others I began searching. I started taking drugs, getting drunk, gambling and I had many other vices in my life. Besides all this, I, being crippled, was no help to my outlook on life. My life continued to go down hill until I was quite miserable. It finally got so bad that I started seriously to consider committing suicide. Again like many others, it was about this time of my life that I turned to Jesus. I was alone one day and with repentance in my heart I cried out to Christ, saying: “Lord if you are really alive then please help me. I'm tired of this kind of life with all of these problems". I asked for forgiveness of my sins which, for the first time, I was truly sorry for. Ever since that day the power of God has worked tremendously in my life. I completely lost interest in all of my vices. I no longer had any desire to waste time with my friends. Instead I found myself reading the Bible and I become quite interested in listening to ministers of the Gospel, and I started to have a desire to witness to my friends. I was not ashamed to share with them about Jesus and how He had to change my life and my desires. I was not afraid of what they think about me, because I knew Jesus was alive. My friends didn't accept what I had to say, they began to mock me and I began to feel persecuted for my faith in Jesus. But I was not discouraged. I still had a desire to serve the Lord, but I didn't know in what way, so I asked the Lord to show me what He wanted me to do for Him. It seemed that the Lord was answering my prayers because, then, the tent crusade (Christ is the Answer Ministry) come to my neighborhood in February of 1982. I had never met Christians quite like them. The preaching in the tent was very stirring and the call to work for Christ seemed to penetrate and burden my heart. One night one missionary was preaching while he was visiting the team. I felt sure that the Lord was speaking to me to join the team. At first I started to think that I would be useless to the team because I'm crippled, yet it seemed that I couldn't pass up such an opportunity to work for the Lord. So one day, I went to the camp to tell them that I wanted to join the team. Then, one of the leaders told me that they already had all the people they needed, I felt so disappointed; it seemed the Lord didn't answer my prayer. But I still kept on going to the meetings, and one night the main leader of the mission came to me and asked me if I really wanted to join the team. I said "Yes" and I was rejoicing in my heart. He asked me to bring everything I needed. So on that day, I joined the team. After three years in the Philippines team, they sent me to the Italian team. I was there for two years, and then they send me in the Portuguese team. I was there for almost six years and also met Heli (Finnish), my wife. June 1992 my wife and I joined the pioneering work of Christ is the Answer in Ukraine. We were there for six years. Our two daughters, Priska 11 and Damaris 7 were born in that country. September 1998, we felt our time in C.I.T.A. Ministry is over. 1999 we started a work in Moldova to continue bringing the Gospel and helping the poor and to win souls for our Lord, Jesus Christ. 2004 we moved in Finland as we saw the time is prepared for the local missionaries of Moldova to take up the work. Now we are looking forward to expand our work in the country of Georgia in the year 2006. I am praying to start to develop some work of evangelism here in Finland especially in the schools in order to share the gospel and what Jesus did in my life. I really feel privileged to be in the mission field of the Lord. Besides making my walk with the Lord more secure, being here also gives me the satisfaction of knowing I am doing what the Word commands. By His grace, I will continue to serve God all the days of my life. In His Love Bro. Fred Sampan 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 …. and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.