Lord, Give Us This Mountain
Companion Book · Karen, Patrick, and Romblon: “Carrying the Vision”
From Lancaster County PA to Malvar Street Baguio City Philippines
Engle · Robson · Leonard · Haines
Ken and Mary Lou Engle · An Engle Family History
Karen, Patrick, and Romblon: “Carrying the Vision”
keepm.org · the Emmaus app · Moments to Remember · Karen and Patrick
- The Bible on Your Phone, Free3
- Moments to Remember4
- Scan to Read the Devotional5
- keepm.org: Carrying the Legacy, Reaching the Islands6
- Our World… the Philippines9
- Our Burden… Our Prayer10
- Where in the World11
- One Million Digital Bibles12
- Karen & Patrick: Carrying on the Vision13
- On Romblon, Romblon, Visayas14
- Companion Books15
Another way to read the Bible
The Bible on Your Phone, Free
Ken taught at Emmaus Bible School and graded its Bible correspondence courses, and in 1968 Evelyn Balanag came to Christ while studying the Emmaus courses Mary Lou gave her in Baguio. Today Emmaus Worldwide offers the whole Bible and its Bible courses in a free app, in more than 30 languages, including Tagalog.
100% free · Over 30 languages · Built-in Bible · Works offline · Ask questions, get answers
The Emmaus Bible & Courses App card, front and back.
A devotional from Dad's radio ministry
Moments to Remember
For years Ken recorded short radio spots called Moments to Remember. Each one tells a simple story, opens the Bible to one promise, and ends the same way: “This has been a moment to remember from the Bible.” Kevin is gathering them into a little devotional, with Dad's color picture on the cover.
The cover of the devotional. Turn the page to read it on your phone.
Read it on your phone
Scan to Read the Devotional
Point your phone's camera at the code to open Moments to Remember. It turns like a little book, and it is free to read and share.
A short story · A promise from God's Word · A line to remember · Free to read and share
Read the Bible not as a newspaper, but as a letter from home.
F. B. Meyer, as Ken quoted him in the first Moment to Remember
Growing as we go. New moments are added as more of Dad's recordings are written out. The date on the devotional's cover shows when the latest ones were added.
keepm.org: Carrying the Legacy, Reaching the Islands
KEE Philippine Missions (Kenneth Ercil Engle Philippine Missions) exists to carry on the passion, the plan and the goals of Ken Engle.
In 1945 Ken flew over the Philippines as a B-24 tail gunner, praying that the Lord would let him return as a messenger and start churches there. He did. He and Mary Lou served in the islands from 1951 to 1975, and Ken preached on the radio until 2000.
What we do. keepm.org is a 24-hour gospel radio station, on the air since July 2026, playing Ken's messages around the clock. Through the Messenger 60 program, local churches in the Philippines invite children, teenagers, students and working adults to memorize 60 Bible verses or to complete Bible correspondence courses, such as What the Bible Teaches from Emmaus Bible Ministries. Each one who finishes receives a solar audio Bible free, to keep for life: the whole Bible in English and Tagalog (NASB), 60 gospel messages by Pastor Charles Stanley, an AM radio and a flashlight, in a waterproof case and loud enough for a family to gather around. Filipinos at home or in the U.S. can serve as Messenger and Memorization Coordinators; write to Kevin with your testimony.
How you can help. Our long-term vision is to place one million digital Bibles in the Philippines. Our first step is to distribute one million copies of the gospel tract This Was Your Life. Every gift goes directly toward that literature and toward Messenger 60 audio Bibles. To give, send through PayPal to kengle86@yahoo.com. Questions: kengle86@gmail.com. Gifts are not tax-deductible at this time; we hope to offer that in the future and will let our supporters know when it does.
Kevin Engle
Then: A New Mission
Now: The Plaque on Dad's Wall
Our family's prayer card · about 1972
Our World… the Philippines
Engle family prayer card, about 1972
Inside the prayer card
Our Burden… Our Prayer
Engle family prayer card, about 1972
The back of the prayer card
Where in the World
Engle family prayer card, about 1972
keepm.org today
One Million Digital Bibles
Tap the device to hear Charles Stanley Radio, 24/7. Pastor Charles Stanley's messages are on the devices keepm.org will be giving away.
An In Touch Messenger audio Bible: solar-powered and loaded with Scripture. The goal of keepm.org is to put devices like this into a million Filipino hands.
The In Touch Messenger is produced by In Touch Ministries, Atlanta, Georgia.
Carrying the vision
Karen & Patrick: Carrying on the Vision
- 1990–1995
- 2012–present
- Romblon, Romblon, Visayas
Karen was born in the Philippines in 1955, Ken and Mary Lou's second daughter. As an adult she went back as a missionary herself: first from 1990 to 1995, as a single missionary in the Manila area, and then from 2012 to the present, first with her husband, Patrick Carder. Of all Ken and Mary Lou's children, she has served there the longest.
The call to Romblon came through Lani, an old friend who had helped Karen in her single years near Manila and who now lived on the island. Romblon is a small island of marble and coconut palms in the Sibuyan Sea, fourteen hours from Manila by overnight boat: thirty-three square miles, almost 38,000 people, thirty-one barangays. Fishermen go out all night with their flashlights, and along the roads people from small children to grandparents sit with hammer and chisel, breaking marble into gravel.
Patrick learned Tagalog word by word. Karen, well on her way to fluency, studied with a tutor every week. They were commended missionaries with CMML (Christian Missions in Many Lands), an organization affiliated with those sometimes known as “Plymouth Brethren.”
“Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.”Isaiah 42:12, the verse that closed the 2015 CMML article about them
Carrying the vision
On Romblon, Romblon, Visayas
The children
They got to know the children first. At their gate they set up a little feeding station, where pupils walking home from school could pick up some rice and candy, and from there they began a children's club. In August 2020 Karen wrote home that she had been “busy with kids verse club… 70 kids memorizing the book of Romans.”
The ministries
A small group met in their home every Sunday morning to remember the Lord and learn the basics of the faith. Karen taught the older women of the barangay with the Emmaus course What the Bible Teaches, in English and Tagalog. Patrick befriended the barangay captains, prayed with them, and planned to show the Jesus film in every one of the island's thirty-one barangays.
The bake shop
Karen also ran a bake shop. There she trained people in baking, teaching them skills and how to earn money for their families.
The translation
Patrick worked with the team translating William MacDonald's Believer's Bible Commentary into Tagalog. “There is NONE (No, not one!) available in the Filipino language,” he wrote in 2015.
Patrick went to be with the Lord in May 2026. Karen plans to continue the work on Romblon and will be returning to the Philippines shortly.
From Missions (CMML), February 2015, by Kenneth and Joyce Hardisty, who visited them on Romblon; Patrick's letter of 2 September 2015; and Karen's email of 29 August 2020.
Companion Books
Eight companion books stand beside the five volumes of the story.
- In His Joy: The Life and Ministry of Ken EngleDad's own letters · 1951–1987 · his life and ministry
- Herald of Christ: The Story of Rudy Ponce de LeonSan Juan, Rizal · 1951–1996
- Grace Triumphantthe autobiography of Cyril H. Brooks · © 1985 Walterick Publishers
- "Mary Lou, Mary Lou": The Story of Evelyn and Fred BalanagBaguio City · 1968–2010
- CherylCheryl Lyn Engle · her life, her music, her own words
- Family Stories and FriendsFriends of the work · family stories · family reference
- Kevin's RecollectionsKevin Engle · in his own words · Stewards Foundation · In Dad’s Own Words
Faithful Men: A Library of Christian Classics, from PlymouthBrethren.org: Brethren writers and missionary lives, searchable by author, Scripture and topic. Open the library ↗
What Comes Next
This is one of eight companion books to Lord, Give Us This Mountain. The Table of Contents lists every book in the series.
Keep them for Jesus for eternity.
the prayer behind KEE Philippine Missions