Actvities from September 11-22

September 11, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught on “Matthew 20” about the Parable of the workers in the vineyard, Jesus predicting his death the third time, Request of a mother and the two blind man.

September 12, we went to the thanksgiving of brother Jun Gumpad for the first birthday of their daughter Keisha and also to give thanks to the Lord for their newly built house. Brother Rody shared a lesson about “Thanksgiving”.

September 13, brother Jun and I traveled to Manila. I should not be going this time but brother Rody beg me to go and help brother Jun clean the meeting place because the owner of the building calls, telling brother Rody that the faucet in their room was left open and water from other rooms are already leaking. So I accepted his request and also to help brother Jun because he is still sick at that time.

September 14, we arrived at Manila. It is raining the whole time that it is hard for us to go out. We cleaned the meeting place for just half a day. What the owner told brother Rody is not true, we expected that the room is dirty but when we arrived everything is fine. According to brother Leonard, the one who went to the meeting place who check the room when they called, it was only droplets from the faucet and not even reaches the floor. So after cleaning, I worked on my PowerPoint outline the whole time.

September 15, in our Lord’s Day service at Manila in Edsa-Pasay Congregation, I taught in our bible study about “Overcome sin”, I shared six different ways to overcome sin.

1.   Know and depend completely on God’s word

2.   Believe in God’s goodness and generosity

3.   Trust God’s commands as expression of utmost love.

4.   Do not experiment with sin

5.   Focus your desires on what is godly and acceptable

6.   Follow God’s warnings

In the sermon, brother Jun preached about “What are you willing to give up?” We had a good reaction from the audience because they are really listening intently and are reacting to every examples and questions we asked. It is very encouraging for me to continue to preach when the listeners are like them.

In the evening, we traveled back to Tuguegarao. We are almost late when we arrived at the bus station because of the traffic and continuous rain.

September 17, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Rody preached in the morning about “9 Major problems of the Corinthian Church” and in the afternoon we had an open forum.

September 18, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught on “Matthew 21”. It is about Jesus coming to Jerusalem, Jesus in the temple, Jesus curse the fig tree, The Authority of Jesus questioned, parable of two sons, and parable of the tenants.

September 19-21, typhoon struck Tuguegarao and the entire province of Cagayan. I should be going to Palca on the 21^st but they sent me a text message telling me that we should cancel for now because of the heavy rain.

September 22, after the typhoon came out the sun. Again, it is very hot as usual. In our Lord’s Day service, brother Jun taught “What are you willing to give up?” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached “The things that are God’s.”

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “Uproot Worry.” I again shared to them Six(6) things that give s worries in our lives that we should uproot:

1.   Lies and the Exposure of lies

2.   Greed or Covetousness

3.   Pride

4.   Men-pleasing

5.   Excessive love for the world

6.   Planting bad seeds

We had a good attendance of 42 at that time because all the students who are studying in Tuguegarao came home for the weekend and also we had again Grace who is attending with us already for to months.