Activities from March 19-25

March 19, we are invited by the newly baptized sister, Celia Lim, to have a bible study in her house. Brother Jimmy Battung and Elijah Sikat, as their cousins, help them understand the truth and they decided to be baptized last March 16. She and her daughter is now attending the services here at Metro Tuguegarao and we are happy to be with them in worship. Her family was known in the whole city because of how materially bless they are. Her husband already died and was a friend of bro. Rody before. Sister Celia invited many of her friends in her house to listen also to the studies. Brother Rody shared  two topics, first was  "Get Ready for the judgment" and "The original Members of the Church of Christ". The reaction from the listeners are very good because of good reactions when they hear something they know and also to the things they thought is right but in the bible it is not like the denomination where they are member of. Some questions where raise after the study and that only shows they listen very well and is interested in the topics discussed. Hope and pray that all of them will one day be our brethren also.

March 20, in our preachers bible study, we now moved to the next part of our lesson in Revelation which is "The Seven Personages" in Rev. 12:1-14:20. We focus on the Radiant Woman in 12:1-6, the War in heaven in 12:7-12, The Sea and Land Beasts in 13:1-8, The Lamb in Zion in 12:1-5 and The Proclamations of Judgment in 14:6-20.

March 21, in our midweek service, a wonderful and encouraging lesson from Psalm 138 was taught by brother Jerome. The main focus of the lesson is on how thankful and how God hears the prayers of all the faithful.

March 22, I preached in the radio program in the morning and it is entitled "You are not the judge". I choose to preached this because man choose to find their own ways of salvation and are not listening to what Jesus is telling us. 

In the afternoon, brother Jay invited me to go to Minagbag and visit the brethren. We first met bro. John and sister Janice. John was fixing his hand tractor that he is using in the field. We talk to him about those brethren whom we might visit. He is the trusted brother whom you can count when in comes to the church growth just like brother Lino whom I am with in Palca. I am very thankful that we have those kinds of brethren in the church. We tried to visit brother Sonny in his house but unluckily, he is not their and we just heard from the neighbor that he is in the field. The bad thing is, even on Sunday, he is working in the field and really scheduled a whole day work there but not on other days. Hope and pray that he will realized what he is doing is all a mistake and will come back to the church. The next place we visit was in brother Rene's house, but again, we failed to see him, we have no idea why he is no longer attending the worship because no one is around even in the neighborhood. We went home with prayers on our head and hope someday they will realized that without Christ, we are nothing even when we gain every material things in these world.

March 23, Gospel Meeting at Toran, Aparri. Please click on the link for the information: Toran Gospel Meeting

March 25, in our Lord's day here in Tuguegarao, bro. Jun taught in our bible study with the topic " Sin of Man Playing God", we are not like God but we are only a man that have a lot of limitations while God is all powerful. In the sermon, brother Rody preached to us about "Remember Lord Jesus", that we gave everything, even His life, for us all to have salvation from our sins.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about "What should we choose?" because today, many choose to live in darkness than in the light. We need to choose whom we want to serve, how we live, and where we want to go for eternity.