Activities from August 24-September 14

August 24, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “Rejecting Jesus” while brother Rody preached in the sermon about “The Bible”. After the lessons, we extended the invitation and two precious souls went in front to confess their faith, they are a couple and the parents of sister Arlene, who was a long time member of the Lord’s church since her young age. Mr. Flor and sister Pacing Maramag baptized into Christ.

In the afternoon, I preached at Palca the lesson “How Comitted are you?” After the worship, I took pictures of the brethren at Palca who are in attendance. Some of them are in Tuguegarao and worship in the morning because they are studying and working there, but still go back to Palca when they have no classes or work.

August 26, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Rody taught in the morning about “Challenges” and “Are you drifting?” In the afternoon, brother Joal Modie discussed “Colossians 2”.

August 27, brother Jun invited me to join him in the tracts distribution at Maguirig, Solana where he also asked me to make bible tracts that we will be distributing. Brother Robert Rances, Manny Pader, Edgar Corpuz, Jun Gumpad and I were the once who walk around the village and invited people for their Gospel Meeting.

In the evening, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “Luke 8”. After the lesson, we extended the invitation, and one soul went in front to confess her faith. She is the girlfriend of brother Teddy named Ruvina Catubag.

August 28, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Lattac, Sto. Nino where brother July Aguinaldo preaches. The first speaker was brother Jerome who preached about “Why do we preach the gospel?” and followed by brother Rody who preached “The True Church of Christ”. We sung the invitation song after the lessons, and there were 4 precious souls who went in front to confess their faith.

 

We needed to cross the river using this small boat to reach the meeting place.

Lattac Church Building

Brother Catolos

Brother Jerome preaching

Me (Mark) leading a song

Brother Rody preaching

Brother Jun asking the boy what is his reason why he went in front to confirm he really understand what he is doing

Four precious souls obeyed the gospel

Lattac Gospel Meeting attendance

August 29, we went to the Gospel Meeting at Maguirig, Solana. The first speaker in the morning was brother Dennis Yuson who preached “When Christians are glad”. Second speaker was brother Jerome who preached “Matthew 6:33”. The third speaker was brother Edgar Licodini who preached “Christian Life”.

In the afternoon, brother Rody was the lone speaker, and he preached about “Sin of sins”.

 

Brother Dennis preaching

Maguirig Gospel Meeting attendance

brother Edgar preaching

brother Rody preaching

One soul confess her faith and obeyed the gospel

We extended the invitation and one precious soul went in front to confess her faith.

August 31, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jerome taught in our bible study about “The withered fig tree” and brother Rody preached in the sermon about “Remember to forget”.

We sung the invitation song and we are happy that 3 souls went in front to confess their faith. They are from Ipil, Solana where brother Jimmy Domingo is preaching.

 

Sorry, this is the only picture I have from the baptism of the three new brethren in Christ

In the afternoon, brother Jay Gumpad invited me to come with him in Minagbag, Quezon. He preached their about “Think of your ways”. I helped in leading songs and prayer.

September 2, in our preaches’ bible study, brother Rody preached in the morning about “Bible Survey” and in the afternoon, brother David preached “Colossians 3”.

September 3, in our midweek service, brother Jay taught “Luke 9”.

From September 5-9, I was in bed because of severe cough and high fever. I tried to get out of bed to attend the services but my body won’t allow me to do so. I tried going to the church to listen to preaching’s but after a while, a feel dizziness and migraine so I went back home.

September 10, in our midweek service, brother Jerome taught in our bible study about “Luke 10”.

September 14, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Take it to the Lord” and in the sermon, brother Jerome preached “Noah’s ark (what I learn from it). We only have a few attendance because of the typhoon. It is not yet strong during our service in the morning.

In the afternoon, the rain started to fall heavy and the wind blew strong. I still went to Palca for our service, but when I arrived there, the typhoon is already in the third level that many branches of trees from my way are already falling and are on the middle of the street. When I arrived at Palca, only few brethren where there, but still we continued with our worship but it a little amount of time because according to the news, the landfall of the typhoon is 4p.m. and it ia already 2:30p.m. when we started. I preached to them about “1 Corinthians 2” and also gave them words of wisdom from the bible to keep our faith to God and to go to Him in prayers when we have typhoons like this to His guidance and protection.

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.