Preaching activities from October 30 to December 9, 2018

October 30 (Midweek service at Metro Tuguegarao Church)

I am happy to be sharing again a lesson coming from the bible. This time, I shared to the brethren Jude 3-4 about “Contending earnestly for the faith”. I show them the need and how to contend for the faith.

November 4 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

We have a visitor coming from Cebu that is brother Jonathan Carino who shared a lesson about “Lord’s Supper” in our bible Study. And in the sermon, our brother Harry Osborne from Oklahoma City is also with us and he preached about “Spiritual Weakness: Causes and Cure”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “Words that we should not live by” like the mindset of “We only live once” that we should do anything we wanted to do, then “No Regrets”  that whatever we do, it is just for experience whether it be good or bad and finally, “Only God can judge” that many people do not listen to others. This are the things Christians should not put in mind.

November 5-9 (Bible lectures on 1^st and 2^nd Peter and Premillenialism with brother Harry Osborne, Jonathan Carino and Rody Gumpad)

We have a long week of study on this topics together with almost 100+ attendance every day. Brother Harry was the one who discussed all the lessons while brother Jonathan and brother Rody are the once who help in answering the questions in our own language so that the brethren who cannot understand English that much, will also follow in the discussion. I also help by working on the things we needed. I was tasked by the brethren here in Tuguegarao to usher those who attend the study. The lecture is a great success that there are two baptisms recorded.

November 7 (Midweek service at Metro Tuguegarao)

Even with our whole day lecture, we still had our evening midweek service here in Tuguegarao. Brother Jonathan Carino preached to us about “The Church of Christ” and the difference from other denominations.

November 11 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

In our bible study, I shared to the brethren here at Tuguegarao the lesson “Why Stephen Died”. Sharing them what are the things that happened to Stephen before he died and the reason why he died. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us about “Living as those made alive in Christ”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I also preached to them the same lesson about “Why Stephen Died?” I am happy that we have one visitor from Angang that was invited by our sister Linda. She is Mrs. Lisa Sabado. Her husband was our contact years ago and we are studying in their house, but Lisa was not part of our meetings. Unfortunately, Mr. Junior Sabado died because of kidney problems and was no longer converted because of his many doubts about religion. This time, his wife, Lisa attended because she also wanted to know the truth and know what his husband started to learn.

November 14 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

Brother Jay shared to us the complete book of Jude.

November 18 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

I again taught in our bible study and this time about “Why Jesus Died?” This is the question we all know that answer, and that is for us to be saved if we believe in Him. But in this lesson, I shared the other reason that is, because of ignorance, because of hatred toward good, because of envy, greed and dishonesty from people around Him that He died. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us about “Light at the end of the tunnel”.

In the afternoon, I was asked by brother Jun to go and preached at Alibago, Enrile because they will bring her wife to the hospital for the delivery of their baby. I asked brother Edison, a brother who is worshipping at Aquib, Piat where brother Dennis Yuson is preaching to go to Palca for the meantime. And so, in Alibago, I was accompanied by brother Sherwin Miranda who is from Ballesteros to help me with the work. He led the singing while I preached also the same lesson “Why Jesus died?”

November 21 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

We started with a new book in the bible and this time it is on Proverbs. I started with our study in introducing the purpose of the book, author and the audience. After that I shared to them the first chapter of the book.

November 25 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

In our bible study, brother Rody continued with our topic on “Bible words that you should know” and in the sermon, we have a visitor who is from Davao City, brother Franklin Isla who preached to us on “Dispensations in the bible”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I also shared to them the lesson “Why Jesus died?” I am happy again that we have two more visitors from Angang not including Lisa who attended before. And so, we already have three of them from Angang. Rosita is the first one who was invited by brother Lino. They are cousins. And the other one is also from Angang but I forgot her name. She was a member of the born-again Christian group. Her reason why she came to us is that, their pastor has a ministerial mission in Tabuk that’s why they do not have worship and so she decided that in order not to miss any worship on Sunday, she joined us. I talked to her about the church of Christ but is seems like she is not interested in listening and just wanted to follow what she wants. I hope and pray that someday, she will again join us and give more knowledge to her about the truth.

November 28 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

In our bible study, brother Jay taught and discussed to us Proverbs 2.

December 2 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

In our bible study here in Tuguegarao, I am again asked to teach. I shared the lesson “7 reasons why people don’t obey God”. Reasons are, they are not ready, they don’t know the need, they don’t see the importance, the urgency, they think they are not worthy, they are afraid, and they just don’t want to obey. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached about “Our lively hope”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I also preached the same lesson on “7 reasons why people don’t obey God”. We again have another visitor and now she is from Dagupan. She was invited by sister Tersing. I listed her name, but again, forgot where it was. I do not know why I can easily forget names. And so, this, Sunday, we again have a total of three visitors, while we have 47 total attendance of both young, adult and kids. For the whole week, I am in close contact with Lisa and Rosita. They have been texting me and asking questions regarding the faith.

December 5 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

I shared the lesson on “Proverbs 3”. I saw the outline of brother Mark Copeland in executableoutline and so I decided to study it and share to the brethren.

December 9 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

In our bible study, brother Jun take my place for the meantime. He shared to us a lesson about “Unacceptable” worship. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us “Why we lose our young people?” Both the lessons shared were great and really edifying.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached also to them Proverbs 3 about Fatherly counsel to a godly life. After the sermon, we sung the invitation song and I am very happy to see Lisa and Rosita came forward to confess their faith. Unlike before, we needed to go to the river for baptism because of lack of water in the area. But now, we use a long tube where the water came from the irrigation going to the baptistery. It took some time to fill it and so we have also conversation with our visitor from Dagupan. She is also contemplating about baptism but still wanted to study more. After that, we baptized our new sister in Christ, sister Lisa Sabado and sister Rosita Ardiles. Please pray for them.

Preaching activities from October 7 to 24, 2018

October 7 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

We started our worship in Tuguegarao with singing praises to God and by prayer to thank Him for the continuous blessings He is giving to each one of us. We continued with our study in “Bible words that you should know” with brother Rody. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain”. After the worship, I have a conversation with Claudine who is a student of my wife in their children class. She is now 14 year of age and is joining us in worship for almost two months already. With our conversation, she told me that she will think of baptism until our next worship.

October 8 (Wedding at Tuguegarao)

There was a wedding here in Tuguegarao of our sister Elsa and Mike Darby. They have been worshipping with us since January of this year and are married in Hongkong, but just in front of a judge. They decided to have a church wedding here in Tuguegarao.

October 10 (Gospel Meeting at Ajat, Iguig and Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

In the morning, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Ajat, Iguig where brother Ronald Valdez is preaching. I am the first speaker and I preached about “Noah”. Then followed by brother Jerome who preached about “Thanksgiving”. After the study, we all prayed together to thank God for the blessing of children for two families. The first family thank God for the 1^st year of birthday of baby Marco and the second thank God for the birth of baby John Mark.

In the evening, brother Jay taught in our midweek service on “2 John”.

October 13 (Work in Alibago)

Brother Rody asked me to work with him in the church building at Alibago. We fixed their chairs and curtains. I’ve been helping in the renovation of the church building often times when they needed me.

October 14 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

We continued in our study on “Bible words you should know” by the help of brother Rody in our bible study. In the sermon, he preached about “A man that his blood is upon his head”. After the preaching, invitation was extended and two precious souls came in front to confess their faith. They are both from Alibago where brother Rody is preaching every Sunday afternoon.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I invited brother Denis Yuson to preach. I led in other work like singing and leading prayers. Brother Denis preached about “Witnesses of Christ”. We extended the invitation and finally, Claudine Fernandez decided to be baptized into Christ. We went to the near river and I baptized her there.

October 17 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

I taught in our bible study “3 John” about the three main characters John mentioned in the book and explaining to them what attitudes to follow and not to follow. I needed to hold the lapel mic because my throat is bad, I have cough that started in the gospel meeting at Iguig. 

October 21 (Sunday worship at Tuguegarao and Palca)

I taught in our bible study here in Tuguegarao about “All rivers are crooked”. The lesson is not to follow the nature of the river who just go with the flow but to test everything whether it be of God or not. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached about “Life”.

In the afternoon, I preached the same lesson in Palca. After our worship, we tried fixing some of the damages in the church building that the typhoon destroyed.

October 24 (Midweek service at Tuguegarao)

Brother Jay taught in our bible study about “Be ready”. We haven’t decided yet what book of the bible that we will start to study and so he shared about this lesson.