Activities from January 7 to February 10

January 7, in our first midweek service of the year, I taught in our bible study on “Luke 23” trials of Christ in front of Pilate and Herod, until His death.

January 11, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study the lesson “Alone”, and in the sermon, brother Jerome preach “When was the last time…”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I made the lesson similar to what I taught in our bible study at Tuguegarao on Luke 23 but I focus on the “Trial, Crucifixion and death of Christ”.

January 13, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Celso Jacobo taught “2 Timothy 2”.

January 14, in our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “Luke 24” on the resurrection of Christ.

January 17, I got the chance again to visit the brethren at Palca, this time I went back to the house of sister Angelina Santiago to visit his son Don-don. H is studying here in Tuguegarao but is going home every Friday afternoon, but since he started to study here, I haven’t seen him in any services both here in Tuguegarao and at Palca so I decided to be with them on that day. I preached a short lesson to them about “Why do we need to attend the worship and is it needed for us to be saved?”

January 18, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Did your Jesus say…?” and in the sermon, brother Jerome taught “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees?” that is the right lesson because the pope visited the Philippines on this day and many people are somewhat worshipping him, kissing his hands, bowing to him and many more acts that should only be given to the Lord. He is like a Pharisee in the time of Jesus that wanted to be praise.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “Do I have to?” I got another lesson that I could preach but when I saw some of the members who are attending twice a month and sometimes only once, I decided to preach this lesson. And I am happy with the result because now, they are always in attendance on every services.

January 21, in our midweek service, brother Jerome taught “John 1:1-18” and he talks about the word who became flesh that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

January 25, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Two Treasures” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preach about the two servants, I forgot the words he use in the title because I am not use in hearing the word.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “One Chance”. We have many chances in other things in life but there are things we can only have once like “we only have one chance to live, one chance to die, one chance to raise our children and one chance to face God in judgment” and so because we do not have a second chance, we should make the best choice to handle it.

I forgot to mention in my reports that my wife, Joy, continuous to teach the children and now with my daughter (whom she also teach here in our house) to the kids at Palca.

January 27, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Rody taught “The book of Exodus”, it is a summary of the whole book that we started to study.

January 28, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “John 1:19-51”

January 30, we went to Minagbag, Quezon to have a bible study. I help I leading songs together with brother July while brother Jun taught “ Christian duties and responsibilities” and brother Rody taught “Go… Preach the gospel”.

February 1, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Rody both taught in our bible study and sermon about “Religious but lost”.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached to them about “God’s dividing line” a line that separates us from the Lord just like sin and righteousness.

February 3, in our preachers’ bible study, we both studied the summary of the book of Leviticus and Numbers that brother Rody presented.

February 4, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “John 2”.

February 5, we went to the bible study at Maguirig, Solana. Brother Rody was the main speaker and he taught about “Hindrances of Salvation”. I help in leading a song.

But before going to the bible study, a man from Conner, Apayao visited us here in the house of brother Rody, he is Darwin who is a son of a preacher of Iglesia ni Cristo (1914) in their place. He is a listener of our radio program and decided to come to Tuguegarao and be baptized in the Lord’s church. He said that he cannot take the doctrines preached in the denomination, so he did what he knows that is right and came here. We brought him in the bible study to learn more. After the lesson, he decided to confess his faith and we baptized him here in Tuguegarao.

February 8, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jerome taught in our bible study about “A Christian” and in the sermon, brother Rody preached “Beware of Dogs”. Next Sunday, I will be teaching in our bible study because brother Rody will be going to Manila again.

In the afternoon, I preached at Palca, about “Ten Commandments and if it is applicable for us today to follow”.

February 10, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Rody taught “Deuteronomy”. Because we finish the lesson in the morning, we have a conversation with the fellow preachers about the problems they have in their congregations and what they needed for help. Some says, they need prayers because they have been persecuted in their place by denominational pastors, some says asking a little help for church buildings and many more. We all went to God for prayer because He is the one who can only help us. After the prayer, there are books given to brother Rody and brother Jerome to be given to those who are interested and so it was distributed.