Activities from May 23- June 21, 2015

May 23, we were invited to the Gospel Meeting at Lanna, Solana where brother Jimmy Domingo is locally preaching.

Here are the speakers and the topics they discussed:

1.   Brother Jerome preached about “The Gospel: Our Salvation”

2.   Brother Joeben Jaccobo preached  “Giving our best”

3.   Brother Virgilio Bocarile preached “A man after God’s own heart”

4.   Brother Edgar Licodini preached “Pattern of Christian Family”

5.   Brother Rody Gumpad preached “Things that please God”

Brother Jimmy asked me lead us in our opening prayer in the morning and led several spiritual songs in the afternoon.

We extended the invitation but no response from the audience. The Gospel meeting helped again a lot of brethren to be strengthened in the faith.

May 24, in our Sunday worship here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “There are no dogs in heaven” stating that those who individuals who act like dogs are not going to heaven because of the bad attitudes they have. In the sermon, brother Rody preached to us “What means these stones?” that he got from the story of Elijah.

In the afternoon, at Palca, brother Denis and his wife attended in our service because they just arrived from Baguio and will have no other place to worship at that time so they decided to be with us. I then asked him to preach in the congregation. He preached about “What will they say over our grave?”

May 26, we had again our preachers’ bible study wherein brother Rody continued to share to us the books of the bible and now we are on the book of “1 Kings”. He gave to us again the summary of the book and the outline of the chapters.

May 27, in our midweek bible study, brother Rody discussed to us “John 15” about the vine and the branches and the works of the Holy Spirit.

May 29, we were invited to attend at the Gospel Meeting at Illuru, Rizal, about two hours travel from here in Tuguegarao. The local preachers were brother Jayson Tanguilan and brother Mario Garma.

In the gospel meeting, this is the order of the speakers:

1.   brother Virgilio Bocarile preached about “The 3 loves of a disciple”

2.   brother Florendo Respicio preached about “To live is Christ”

3.   (morning)brother Rody preached about “Searching the Scriptures”

4.   (afternoon) brother Rody preached about What is the biggest sin?”

I helped in the leading of song times and was also asked to introduce brother Rody as the speaker.

After the lessons discussed, we extended the invitation and we are happy that three (3) precious souls went in front to confess their faith. We baptized them in the near river.

May 31, in our Sunday worship here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jerome taught in our bible study with the second part of his lesson on “Examples worth sharing” and in the sermon brother Rody preached “Why God added the saved to the church?”

In the afternoon, brother Jay asked me to come with him in Minagbag while brother Rody will go the my preaching place at Palca.

In Minagbag, brother July lead the singing and they asked me to lead the prayers while brother Jay preached about “How to follow Christ?” After the service, a benevolence (sacks of rice) was given to the brethren. It was given by the brethren at Hebron Lane in Kentucky. It was divided among them and they were very happy because many of them cannot afford to buy even a kilogram of it. I hope and pray that many of our brethren from the US will also share to the needs our brethren here in Cagayan. From all the congregations here in our area, many of them a less fortunate. I think in other countries, being a farmer gives you a good life but here in the Philippines, being a farmer means a very hard job and you will only be paid Php 200.00 or $4.00 a day.

June 3, in our midweek service bible study, I discussed to them “John 16” about the words of Jesus Christ when the time of his arrest is coming near and also tells them about the Holy Spirit that will come.

June 5, I visited our brother Jun from Palca because he was again hospitalized with her health problem of diabetes. For the last three months, he already went four times in the hospital because his feet gets the effect of his diabetes. I don’t know how to explain it, but when you look at it, the other one is normal while the other one is getting bigger. Together with her grand-mother (sister Pacita) who is taking care of him, we prayed to the Lord that He will helped in the needs of our brother. They cannot pay all the medicines that’s why even in small amounts, the church at Palca is sharing in his needs.

June 7, in our Sunday worship here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Salvation and Saul”. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us about the third part of his lesson “Examples worth sharing”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them the lesson regarding our relationship as a family “No place like home”. We hear this idiom every time someone comes home because even though we travel a lot, having a happy vacations from here and there, there is still no place like the comfort of our family at home and that’s what God wants us to have in our family. Nowadays, here in the Philippines, in every day in the news, we see father raping his child, mother mistreating his kids, father killing his whole family because of drug addiction and many more crimes regarding the family. We as Christians who knows the bible should not act like them, we need to have a patient, love and care for our family.

June 10, in our midweek bible study here at Tuguegarao, brother Jay discussed to us “John 17” about the example of Jesus when we pray. We need to pray for our brethren like when Jesus prayed for his disciples and His believers.

June 12, I visited sister Hazel Cosain who was diagnosed with a kidney problems. She told me the name of sickness she have but because of the medical term, I always forgot it. Right now, she is having a dialysis for twice a week that will take two months to totally cure it. She needs our prayers because it is the only way we can help her.

June 14, in our Sunday worship, brother Jun taught the second part of his lesson regarding “Salvation and Saul”. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us about “Who does you think you are?” He intentionally put a wrong grammar on the title because he is emphasizing that we should not be like Judas who forsake his friendship with Jesus and sold him just to have money.

June 17, in our midweek bible study, brother Jerome discussed to us “John 18” about Jesus’ arrest and Peter’s denial of Jesus.

June 18-20, we are already busy here working in our church building here at Metro Tuguegarao preparing for our near Gospel Meeting that will be held on June 26-28 with our speakers brother Lordy Salunga, brother Bryan Termulo and brother Raul Leynes.

One of the preparations I helped in what to edit the pictures of the brethren here at Metro Tuguegarao that we wanted to post in our bulletin board and also outside the church building. There are still lot of brethren not included because I do not have any picture of them.

June 21, in our Sunday worship here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jay taught “How to follow Christ?” and in the sermon brother Jerome preached “Gospel Meeting: Why should we attend?” He prepared this lesson because he wanted that every member here in Tuguegarao must attend our gospel meeting because in our previous gospel meetings, about ¾ of the attendance are from other congregations and not even half of the member here in Tuguegarao attended. We pray that God will give them the chance to be with us in our coming gospel meeting.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “The True worshipper”. I first showed them the kind of worshipper that God will not accept then in the second part, I showed them the kind of worshipped God accepts and the kind of heart a worshipper musty have to be well pleasing to the Lord.