Activities from July 21-August 4, 2013

July 21, in our Lord's day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun preached to us in our bible study about "He who heeds God's counsel is wise" and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached "Responding to materialism".

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them the lesson about "The Good Samaritan". I gave them every detail they need to know about this parable and the lessons we could get from this. And to sum it all, to answer the question "Who is our neighbor?".

July 24, my wife and I travelled to Manila about 7:15 in the evening. We arrived in Manila 6 in the morning.

July 25, my wife and I went to Commonwealth, Quezon City in Manila to visit my cousins. The reason why we went there is to share them the words of God. They are the Talay Family and very devoted Catholics. When I was in grade school and elementary, they are the once who are always inviting me to go to the mass. But now, I am returning back the favor and wanting to invite them to the true church. It is not a formal bible study but just simple talk about the gospel. I shared to them the bible tract that brother Rody made about "The True Church of Christ". They are a wealthy family because of many businesses and always busy with their work. After the discussions, I invited them to the church at Pasay, but they made excuses like they cannot just leave their work even on Sundays, because it is the day where many customers are coming. So sad to hear but I pray that someday they will realize the need for salvation and not just to gain material wealth.

June 26, another opportunity for  us to share the gospel. This time, we went to my cousins at Lagro. They are the Tuazon Family. They are members of the Jehovah's Witnesses and it is not easy to talk with them about spiritual matters especially if you are not one of them. But because they are my relatives, they accepted us and same way I did to our first visit, I shared to them the bible tract. I also invited them but again, excuses are made. They have assembly in their church. Sorry the pictures I have taken from our visit at Commonwealth and Lagro were corrupted maybe because my camera was wet when we went back to the church while it is raining.

July 27, our need to prepare in the church for the Lord's day. Brother Jay arrived early in the morning and help us in the work.

July 28, in our Lord's day service at Edsa-Pasay congregation, brother Jay taught in our bible study about "Are you reading?" (in the picture, his lesson was in our language "Nagbabasaka ba?"). In the sermon I preached to them about "Sum or Some". The text I use was in Psalm 116:160 wherein it says "the sum of your word is truth..." that is in NASB. Today, denominations and even individuals see and follow God's word as some because they only choose what they wanted to do and not the entirety of His word. Some wanted to have faith only and no works and some only see God's goodness and not His severity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We traveled back to Tuguegarao in the evening and arrived early Monday morning.

July 30, I wanted to attend our preachers bible study but my body won't allow me. So instead, my wife brought me to the doctor for check-up. As a result, it was only a fatigue because of our travels. Thank God that it is not severe.

July 31, in our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun preached on "Matthew 14" about the death of John, the feeding of the 5000, Jesus walks on the sea and the faith of Genessaret.

August 3, I went to Palca to visit the brethren. I went to the house of brother Rogelio Fernandez who is a member since he was young but became unfaithful. With him are his relatives, Vanessa and Grace. I shared to them words of Jesus that would allow them to return to church.

August 4, in our Lord's day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught "Exhortation and warnings of Paul" and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached "Remember God in the days of your youth". In our audience, we had a celebrity visitor and brother "Bryan Termulo". He is well know singer here in the Philippines and attended worship with us before leaving through plane going to Manila.

We extended the invitation also and we are happy that one new soul is added to the Lord's church. She is sister Divina who is attending with us for a month already and decided to obey the gospel.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached to them about "Excuses". Because of my experiences in my trip to Manila, I decided to work on this lesson. We have many work to do but sometimes we cannot finish or even start it because of our excuses. Same with our spiritual obligations, we find excuses not to do it instead of working out our salvation. I am happy that Rogelio, Vanessa and Grace attended the worship and hope it will continue and someday the two ladies will surrender their lives to our Savior through obeying gospel.