Activities from August 3-22, 2014

August 3, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “A Christian is a…disciple” then followed by brother Jerome who preached in the sermon about “overcoming discouragement”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “The Whole Armor of God”.

August 5, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Manny Pader taught “I surrender all” in the morning and “Philippians 3” in the afternoon. We have good discussions about the chapter and I wrote on my notebook all the information I wanted so that I can get the meaning of the lesson.

August 6, in our midweek service here at Metro Tuguegarao, I taught in our bible study on “Luke 6” about “How the sabbath was use, the calling of the twelve apostles, and Jesus teachings”.

August 10, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, I taught in our bible study about “Some things Jesus never had” like an earthly home, earthly father, sin, grudge to others and revenge, and disobedience”. In the sermon, brother Jun taught “The Time is now…”

In the afternoon, I preached the same lesson at Palca about “Some things Jesus never had”.

August 12, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Robert Pader taught in the morning about “Differences between Conservative and Liberal churches”, there are many questions raised but with the help of each other, we got the answer from the verses in the bible. In the afternoon, he discussed “Philippians 4”.

August 13, in our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “1 John 1”. He is not the one scheduled because brother Robert Rances is sick at that time.

August 17, in our Lord’s day service here at Tugueagarao, brother Jun taught “No reason to be baptized…unless” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached “Matthew 6:33”.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached to them “Luke 6”. We have no electric current at that time and it was very hot in the chapel. I still finished teaching the whole chapter even though it is that hot.

August 18, I invited my fellow preachers to come and join me in distributing bible tracts and invitations at Palca but I got a call from the brethren there that our President here in the Philippines is coming to their place for their feast and opening of the new bridge and so people will be going there because they were given tickets for the raffle draw of whom they will win farm machineries as prize. We cancelled the distribution but I gave all the tracts to the brethren who were at Palca and they are the once who distributed the next day.

August 19, in our preachers’ bible study, brother July Aguinaldo taught “How well do you listen?” in the morning and brother Rogelio Esperanza taught “Colossians 1” in the afternoon.

August 20, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Minagbag, Quezon where brother Jay Gumpad is preaching. I am the first speaker and I preached about “ Take Away The Stone”. We must remove all the sins that we have in order for us to receive the reward from God in the last day. The second speaker was brother Jun who preached about “A Christian is a disciple”. Then, the last speaker in the morning was brother Jerome who preached about “How safe is your treasure?”

 

Me as the first speaker preaching "Take Away the Stone"

We started early and so there are brethren who cam in late

2nd speaker, brother Jun Gumpad preaching "A christian is a...disciple"

3rd speaker, brother Jerome preaching "How safe is your treasure?"

brother Edgar Licodini in our open forum

brother Jay Gumpad, their local preacher

The building is almost full at noon

In the afternoon, brother Rody preached “Cure for Doubt”.

 

4th speaker, brother Rody Gumpad preaching "Cure for doubt"

In the evening, we had our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, and brother Rody taught on “Luke 7”.

August 21, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Alibago, Enrile where brother Jerome is preaching. Brother Jay was the first speaker and he preached about “Ask God”, then I followed by preaching “How committed are you?” a question that needed to be answered by all of us on how we are committed in being a christian, a saint, a disciple, the son of God. The last speaker in the morning was brother Jun who preached “Christian is a… Saint”.

 

brother Jerome Forelo, the local preaching at Alibago

1st speaker, brother Jay preaching "Ask God". (his outline is in tagalog)

2nd speaker, I(Mark Daquioag) preached "How committed are we?"

The attendance at Alibago

3rd speaker, brother Jun preaching "A christian is a...saint"

In the afternoon, brother Rody preached about “Three major errors of denominations”.

4th speaker, brother Rody preaching "Three major errors of denominations"

August 22, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Palca where I am preaching. Brother Jay was the first speaker and he preached about “How to disobey God?” followed by brother Jun who preached “The time is now” and lastly, brother Jerome preached “Shine as lights” in the morning.

My words of welcome before we start the Gospel Meeting.

1st speaker, brother Jay preaching "How to disobey God?"

brother Robert Pader leading a song entitled "There is power in the blood"

2nd speaker, brother Jun preaching "The time is now"

3rd speaker, brother Jerome preaching "Shine as lights"

brother Teddy leading a song entitled "Take my hand, precious Lord"

Our attendance at Palca

brother Jimmy leading opening songs for the afternoon session

brother James leading a song

brother Edgar in our open forum

In the afternoon, brother Rody preached about “Working parents.”

 

4th speaker, brother Rody preaching "Working parents"

The church building is full inside and so some of the brethren sat outside. Even though we didn’t have the tracts distribution, the brethren at Palca did their job by inviting neighboring brethren from San Luis and Naruangan. The brethren at Dagupan who recently joined us in our services are at full attendance in the activity. We have one visitor, Junior Sabado, in attendance. He is the one whom I always visit when I visit the brethren at Palca. He’s reason why he cannot join us on Sundays is that He cannot walk from his house to the chapel, but I still invited him for our Sundays worship and he said he will try his best to attend. Hopefully, he will decide soon to obey the gospel as he is very willing to listen to the word of God.

***This previous Gospel Meetings (Minagbag, Alibago and Palca), are planned by us (Jay, Jerome, Jun, Rody and I) because of our desire to encouragement and strengthen the brethren at our congregations. Next Friday if the Lord’s will, we will have the Gospel Meeting at Maguirig where brother Jun is preaching.

Activities from June 24-July 29, 2014

June 24, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Robin discuss to us “Ephesians 3”.

June 25, in out midweek service, brother Efren taught “Luke 3”. After the bible study, we went to my brother’s house and have a thanksgiving for his birthday.

June 29, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Three kinds of believers” and I followed in the sermon with the lesson entitled “Spiritual health and fitness”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached a lesson entitled “The way to spiritual strength”.

July 1, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Efren Respicio discuss in the morning the background of the “Book of Ephesians” while in the afternoon, brother Flor Respicio taught “Ephesians 4”.

July 2, in our midweek service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “Ephesians 4”, about the things we needed to change when we became Christians.

July 5, I went to Dagupan, Tuao to visit the family of brother Enzo. The owner of the land where the church building stands is already claiming the land so the church decided to join as at Palca every Sunday. I went first to the house of brother Enzo because I am hearing that they are ashamed to join us, as many of those people who are not Christians around them might say discouraging words that the church at Dagupan is abolished. I told them that, we are not here to please men but God so as Peter said, we ought to obey/follow God than man. So they finally decided they will come.

July 6, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study “The church Jesus died to save” then followed by brother Jerome who preached “The different works of each part in the church”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “The golden calf and the Christian”.

July 8, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Efren discuss to us “Ephesians 5”.

July 9, in our midweek service, brother Jerome taught “Luke 4:1-13” about the temptation of Jesus Christ in the wilderness.

July 12, I went to Dagupan, Tuao to strengthen the faith of sister Tersing and her family. She is already attending services at Palca since the church at Dagupan stopped.

July 13, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “A beautiful life” and in the sermon, brother Rody preached “Church of Christ and it’s work: Evangelism”.

At Palca, in the afternoon, I invited brother July to come with me and he preached about “When will a Christian be happy?”

July 15, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Rody discuss to us in the morning about “Jesus as God” and in the afternoon, I discussed “Ephesians 6:1-9”.

July 16, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “Why I need to be baptized?”

July 19, my visitation to Dagupan and Palca were cancelled because we just got out of the hospital due to my son’s measles and also the rain continuously falls.

July 20, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody taught two lessons, first about “Edification” and in the sermon he preached “Benevolence”. After the preaching, we extended the invitation and one souls went in front to confess his faith. He is Jordan Andal the future son-in-law of one of our deacons here at Tuguegarao. He will be marrying sister Jemalyn, who is from her childhood up to this day is exposed of all the works in the church. They will tie the knot on August 4^th. I was the one who baptized him in water and we all joined together in prayers after baptism.

In the afternoon, brother Jay invited me to come with him in Minagbag, Quezon. He wanted me to help him with the projector that the church here at Tuguegarao gave him. He preached the lesson about “What is a Christian?” and he asked me to lead the prayers while brother July who is also with us taught the children class. Brother Rogelio Esperanza was the one who went to Palca on this Sunday.

July 22, we traveled for about 2 hours to Santiago to attend the burial of brother Virgilio Jacob. He is a preacher there. Brother Rody preached a sermon about “Death”.  I have not known him much because he is far from us and we often here of the work there, but still, he is our fellow co-worker in the Lord so we gave our respect to him and his family. As a member of the family of Christ, we should share the same burden with our brethren.

July 23, in our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “Luke 4:14-44”.

July 26, again my visitation in Palca and Dagupan were cancelled because of sickness in the family. But because of that, I made a bible tract that we will distribute in the coming weeks.

July 27, in our Lord’s day service here at Tugueagarao, I taught in our bible study about “authority and submission” and in the sermon, brother Jun preached “A Christian is a saint”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached the same lesson on “Authority and Submission”.

July 29, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Joeben Jacobo started in the morning the lesson on “Philippians 1” then I followed, discussing them “Ephesians 6:10-24” about the whole armor of God.

In the afternoon, brother James Attaban discuss to us “Philippians 2”.

Activities from May 25-June 22

May 25, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Have thine own way Lord” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached “Victory in Christ”.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached about “God hates religion”. Not all religion did God hates but only those that are not His and the way people wanted to worship their own ways are the things God hates.

May 27, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Edgar Licodini taught Galatians 3 and 4 in our morning and afternoon studies.

May 28, in our midweek service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother July taught “Mark 15”.

May 31, I went to Palca to follow-up on our contacts, Grace and Kyla, who are attending our worships for months and wanted to hear their thoughts and questions about what are the things they wanted to know and that hinders them not to be baptized yet. One of the questions asked is about baptism, wherein they were baptized in the Catholic church and they wanted to know, do they still need to be baptized again? Of course as we know it, they were baptized to be added to the Catholic church and in the bible, in order to be a member of the Lord’s church we need to baptized in the Lord’s name (Gal. 3:27). After answering this questions, I gave to them examples of bible baptism.

June 1, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Face to face with God” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached “Are you a disciple of Jesus?”

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them the lesson that I wanted our visitors to understand “Why be a Christian?” but still no decision made for both Grace and Kyla.

June 3, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Francisco Duque taught “How do we preach?” and “Galatians 6”.

June 4, in our midweek service, brother Jay taught “Mark 16”.

June 7, brother Rody made a phone call to me early in the morning at around 6:30 to asked me to go to Manila to help in the service at Edsa-Pasay because he is here in Tuguegarao. I didn’t have second thoughts but immediately I agreed to go even if I do not have the funds. I traveled going to Manila at around 11:00 in the morning at I arrived there at 2 AM the next day. It is a very long travel because of traffic and the bus always stop to pick up passengers.

June 8, I got a little rest from my trip with 2 hours of sleep and off to preparation for the Lord’s day early at 6 in the morning.

In our service at Edsa-Pasay church, brother Rupert Gaspar taught in our bible study about “Christian Living” and I preached in the sermon about “God hates religion”. I still feel very tired while standing in front but I know that I tried my best to deliver the sermon and encourage the brethren.

In the afternoon, brother Rupert preached in the service about “Truth on the story of Noah”. I asked him to do it because it seems my world is turning and I felt dizzy. For the whole day, we recorded an attendance of 46 with 3 children.

I took this picture at the bus station where I barely find a seat in the bus

I traveled back to Tuguegarao at around 7 in the evening and arrived safely home at 8 in the morning.

June 10, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Jimmy Duque taught “The power of prayer” and “Ephesians 1”.

June 11, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “Luke 1” wherein he just put on summary the chapter and it’s up to us to read more about it.

June 13, our Gospel Meeting here at Metro Tuguegarao. Our main speakers were brother Jaime “Jimmy” Bopis, Ben Termulo and Ronald Molina, all from Bulacan.

We started with our first studies in the evening wherein brother Ben preached about “Image” about what we need to show to the world as a Christian and brother Jimmy preached “Measure it” that explains every command of God, there is a measurement or what we call steps to follow.

June 14, we continued with our Gospel Meeting, we start in the morning with brother Ronald Molina preaching “Shining as lights of the world” followed by brother Ben who preached “Approach” and lastly brother Jimmy who preached “Man’s ignorance of God’s appointed time”. After the lessons, invitation was extended and 5 precious souls went in front to confess their faith. They were baptized in the baptistery in the church building.

In the afternoon, brother Ben first preached to us about “Selling”, not about selling that we do in the market but as how we Sell or present the words of God to all the people and trying to make them buy or obey what we present. In the last lesson, brother Jimmy preached about “Importance of using the timeline”. Again, we sung the invitation song and three precious souls confess their faith. One of them is very young that’s why we needed to asked him personally why he wanted to be baptized, he answered without hesitation or doubt that he wanted his sins to be removed and wanted to have salvation. So we baptized them again in our baptistery as what they desired to do.

June 14, in our Lord’s day service, brother Ben taught in our bible study about “Value” and in the sermon, brother Jimmy preached “True Worship”. We again sung the invitation song and one of the young people(Angela) who is with as our services us for I think a month already decided to be baptized.

In the afternoon at Palca, brother Ben came with me and he preached about “Steps” following up the lesson I taught the previous Sundays about why we need to be a Christian. We sung the invitation song after the lesson but no one went in front. But after our closing prayer, Grace, who is always the first one to get out of the room after services stayed on her seat and seems like she wanted to say something. We talked to her and so she told us, she wanted already to be baptized. We are very happy to hear of her decision and so we went to prepare the baptistery but unluckily, no water is coming out from the faucet. We decided to baptized her in a near river, but the nearest is about 10 km away. We drive our car and went to the river. It was there where she confess and we baptized her in water.

June 17, in our preachers’ bible study. Brother Ronald Molina taught about “How to destroy our influence?” A very helpful lesson that we as preachers need to know so that we will not be a stumbling block to all who are listening to us. Then brother Jimmy preached about "Gathering all things in Christ all at the same time".

In the afternoon, brother Dennis Yuson taught “Ephesians 2”.

June 18, in our midweek service here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody taught in place of brother Efren on “Luke 2”.

June 22, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jay taught in our bible study about “Do not love the world” and in the sermon brother Jun preached “Ebenezer: Stone of health”.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached to them about the question “Why?” In the body of the lesson we answered the questions “Why we seek God?”, “We we are Christians?” and “Why are we here today?”. After the service, I asked the grandmother of Kyla because for two weeks, she is not in attendance. They told me that she was sick with fever and still very weak until now, so we post for a moment and offer a prayer to God that He will give her the strength back and also that she will obey the truth of His word.