Activities from October 17-28, 2012

October 17, in our midweek service, we studied “Proverbs 12” that brother Robert Rances shared. We had a good attendance despite the bad weather. The lesson was very encouraging and also him that is preaching because even though he is sick, he still tried to preach to us.

October 18, I preached in the radio program about “Life without God”. Our life is meaningless, useless and etc. if we are not with God. Our sins will separate us from our God.

October 21, in our Lord’s Day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody taught in our bible study about “The Creation” and brother Jerome preached in the sermon about “Sin of self-righteousness”. In the afternoon, at Palca, brother Abraham taught in our bible study about “Things that are in Christ” and before heading to the sermon, I answered a question from the brethren about the “Difference of Mass of the Catholics and our worship”. Their mass has a lot of Eucharistic Rites while we as Christians we only follow the bible by singing, praying, Lord Supper, collection and preaching. In the sermon, I preached to them about “Which is a greater sin?” According to the Catholics again, they are saying that there is a mortal sin and a venial sin where they categorize sins in a sliding scale while to God, every sin is a transgression of God’s law and everything is punishable.

October 22, brother Jun invited me to join them in going to Maguirig for distribution of tracts and invitations for the Gospel Meeting. We went from one house to another and talk with some Christians who are going cold in service. The weather was not again good because of some rains but still we continued on giving away tracts and invitations.

October 23, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Boni Morales taught in the morning about “Preacher’s Home” focusing on how we handle our families as preachers at the same time our work in the Lord’s vineyard. In the afternoon, brother Rody taught “Acts 11”.

October 24, in our midweek service, brother Jerome taught to us “Proverbs 12” focusing more on chastening by our fathers as God chasten His children.

October 25, I preached in the radio program about “What is a Saint?” I choose to preached this lesson because just last week, the Catholics canonize again a new Filipino Saint named “Pedro Calungsod” wherein I studied and watch over the TV what this man did. The truth is, they never knew who he really is and what his real name is, they never even know what he looks like so what they did is, they get a basketball player, took his picture and made the image of Pedro out of him. The name of that basketball player is “Ronald Tubid”, the one which is known to have a full body tattoo. I don’t know what is in the mind of the people today, they never read the bible and if they do, they are not following it.

October 26, I attended the Gospel Meeting at Maguirig, Solana. Again , the weather was not good because from morning until we finished the activity, it is raining that other brethren haven’t have a chance to come, but still we have a good attendance of about 110. Here are the list of speakers with the lessons they preached: (all lessons in this activity is in our language but I just translated it to engligh for you to understand)

1.    Ben Vistro – Expectations of Jesus Christ for the church

2.    Denis Yuson – Fruits of Sin

3.    Geronimo Ganela – The Home

4.    Danny Lauro – Why the Church of Christ is the New Testament Church

5.    Rody Gumpad – Christ and the church at Ephesus

October 28, in our Lord’s Day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody taught in our bible study about “The First Home” and brother Jerome preached in the sermon about “Called to be saints”.

In the afternoon at Palca, I shared two lessons to them: first about “The Book: Bible” and also preached to them about “Uttering Sin”.

Activities from October 2-16,2012

October 2, in our preachers bible study, brother Joeben Jacobo preached in the morning about “Sin of Lying” and in the afternoon, we continued on our lesson on Acts and we are on the 8^th chapter. Brother Bonifacio Morales shared to us the lesson he made on that chapter.

October 3, we had our midweek service but because of the coverage of the brown-out, we cannot see our bibles so the elders decided that we will just read a short passage of the scripture and pray.

October 4, Radio program. Again we do not have electricity the whole day so the lesson I recorded was not played.

October 6, we went to Virginia, Piat in the morning together with brothers Denis, Jerome, Jun Gumpad, Jun Antonio, David, Robert and Macky. We had a bible study in one of the houses of the member there and I helped in leading spiritual song. Brother Jerome preached about unity and how to become a Christian. After the lesson, invitation was extended and the wife of our brother decided that she wanted to be baptized. She made her confession and was baptized the next day as she alone decided to do it.

In the afternoon, I invited my fellow workers to Palca for another Home Bible Study. We were in sister Noemi Belen’s house. She is the only Christian in the family wherein the others are Catholics and Jehovah’s witnesses. Only the Catholics are there because the Jehovah’s witnesses as they follow their faith, they will not hear any other doctrine but there’s only. Brother Denis preached about “Idolatry” and in addition to that, some of the doctrines of man that we should not follow.

October 7, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, we started to have our booklet to be studied in our bible study. Brother Rody introduced the lesson and on lesson 1, we studied about “The Book”. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us again about “Unity in the Church”.

In the afternoon, I preached at Palca about “The Last Four Things”. I am inspired by the lesson brother Ryan Thomas made so I decided to make an outline out of that by myself.

October 9, in our preachers’ bible study, I was out in the morning because my two children are sick. I decided that we will go to the doctor early so that I can still go to the bible study, but when it is our time to enter to the doctors room, she went out because of a call that someone is delivering her child in the hospital that she needed to go immediately. We stayed there for an hour and it was already 11AM. And finally at 12, the doctor arrives and checks up our children. Our baby boy got two injections for immunizations and my daughter was given lots of medicines because of high fever. When we arrived home, I went out immediately to attend our bible study but I felt I forgot something. When I arrived at the church building, I remembered what I forgot and that is, I haven’t eaten yet breakfast and lunch. But still, my concentration for the study is there that I learned again another good lesson from brother July Aguinaldo’s “Acts 9”.

October 10, in our midweek service, because of the lesson cancelled the last week, two teachers taught in that evening. Brother Flor Respicio taught the first lesson on “Proverbs 10” then followed by his son Efren who taught “Proverbs 11”.

October 11, Radio program. I am disappointed again in these day because the electricity went off very early at 6AM. The radio preaching was again cancelled.

October 13, I again invited my co-workers for another visitation and Home Bible Study at Palca. This time, we were at brother Lino Quines’ house. Brother Jerome, July, Denis, Robert, David and Boni are with me. Brother Jerome was the one who shared a good lesson about “Unity”.

Ocotber 14, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody taught in our bible study about “God’s great plan for man” and in the sermon brother Jerome preached about “Right Way of Salvation”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “God is Love”. I showed them the meaning of these and how God did show His great love to all of us.

October 16, in our preachers bible study, brother Edwin Soriano taught in the morning about “Rewards and Punishments” and in the afternoon, brother Jonathan Tango taught “Acts 10”.

Calendar of Activities for the whole month of September 2012

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Activities from September 15-23,2012

September 15, I again went to Palca to visit the brethren. This time, brother Jun, Robert and Denis are with me. We tried to practice the new songs in our hymnbook(not really new but because it is our first time to sing it that makes it new). We are at sister Valentina Mabborang’s house while the other brethren there came also. We have two visitors who attended, one is Mrs. Anog who is a Catholic and the other one is a Pentecostal Member(Oneness) but I forgot her name. Brother Jun shared a lesson about “How many shall be saved?” and the Pentecost Lady asked questions after the lesson about “Do we really need to be a member of the church of Christ or be a member of any church in order to be saved?”. And we all explained to her about it that made her silent for a moment. We just learned after the study that she wanted to come to the church but her husband who is a member of “Tabernacle of Joy”, a church which about 3kms away from our church building, would not allow her to join us because he wants that they will both go to their own church. She only got the time to join us because his husband is away. Hope and pray that the lesson she heard will be a way for them to understand the way to God.

September 16, in our Lord’s Day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught a lesson about “Whom shall I served?”, is it God or mammon. And in the sermon brother Rody preached about “What baptism doesn’t do?”.

At Palca, brother Abraham taught in our bible study about “Suffering” and in the sermon I preached about “The Wisdom that warns us from Sin”.

September 18, our preachers bible study was cancelled because our brother Albert Moodie(a fellow preacher) died and we all planned to go to his wake but I feel sad because even though I wanted to go, I failed because we needed to take our baby boy to the doctor due to fever and allergies.

September 19, in our midweek service., brother Rody taught “Proverbs 8”.

September 20, I went to Maddela, Quirino a together with other fellow preachers for a Gospel Meeting. The preacher there was brother Reneboy Maranion. We arrived a little bit late because of the traffics and how far we came from. It took us about 4 hours to arrived in the location. When we arrived, brother Edgar Licodini was already preaching. He preached about the “Mosaical Period”, the followed by brother Joeben Jacobo who preached about “Christian Period” and finally the last speaker in the morning is brother Denis Yuson who preached about “Church of Christ vs. Modern Churches”.

In the afternoon, brother Rody was the lone and last speaker. He preached about “Learn of Me”. After the lesson, invitation was extended and two precious souls came in front to confess their faith. They were baptized in the near river.

September 22, I again attended a Gospel Meeting. This time, it was in Sampaguita, Solana where brother Greg delos Reyes is preaching. This is the first time that I went to that congregation. Brother Geronimo Ganela was the first speaker and he preached about “Without Him” and last was brother Rody who preached about “God has Spoken”. Again invitation was extended and two young ladies went in front to confess their faith. They are not from Sampaguita but from a nearby congregation which is Nabialan.

In the evening, I went to Lingu, Solana because of the invitation of brother Robert Rances that I will teach in their bible study. We started about 6pm and I preached to them about “Heaven and Hell.

September 23, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Collection” and in the sermon, brother Rody preached about “Last days and last day”.

At Palca, I preached to them about “Whom should we resist?”, is it God or the Devil. Many resist God without knowing they are doing it, we need to always be aware that as a christian, we are to show that we are the light of the world.

In the evening, we were invited by brother Andy Aquino in their house here in Tuguegarao for a thanksgiving because it is his 62^nd birthday. We again sung spiritual songs and brother Rody shared good encouragements from the bible and to thankGod for all the years he had given to all of us.

Activities from September 5-13, 2012

September 5, in our midweek service, we studied “Proverbs 6” with the help of brother Jun. He gave good examples regarding the attitudes of man that God hates and that we should not follow.

September 6, I preached in the radio program about “What baptism does?” because one listener sent me a text message asking this question. The radio program is a great tool for us in answering spiritual matters and a good way also to help them know the truth. We all know that baptism does a lot of things for us. First, it will cleanse us of our sins through the blood of Jesus then through it, the Lord will add us to His church and also we will have the right to be called christians.

September 8, I went to Palca for another home bible study. This time, I invited brother Denis and his son Abraham to come with me. We where at sister Pacita Quines house but also some of the brethren came to study with us. I pray that we can continue on doing this with the Lord’s help and if I can afford to go financially. We again practice new songs from the hymnbook and Denis shared a very good lesson on Matthew 6:33.

September 9, in our Lord’s day here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about the “Acts of worship” but this time, it is not the regular way that we are teaching it. He gave the acts then compared it to how the denominations are doing it. In the sermon, brother Rody preached about “The Sword of the Spirit” which is the word of God.

In the afternoon, at Palca, brother Abraham taught in our bible study about “Today” Psalm 95:6-8. The time to work, time to preach, time to listen and the time to prepare to go to paradise is today.

In the sermon, I preached to them about “How can we show ourselves to others?” as christians. How can we show our faith to them, our forgiveness from those who sinned against us and how God forgives our own sins and our future with the hope of everlasting life is the main points of the lesson.

September 11, in our preachers bible study, brother Rogelio Esperanza preached to us in the morning about “Traditions of man versus the word of God”. He compared the doctrines of the Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons to the bible. In the afternoon, brother Luis Nalog preached to us on “Acts 6” which shows the preacher who stands for the truth even when persecution is behind him.

September 12, I preached in our midweek service on “Proverbs 7”. I gave the title “Beware of Dogs” that means a sign of warning to protect yourselves because in this chapter of the book, Solomon is instructing the youth to guard themselves from the harlot who is very cunning and ready to take you with him anytime you bite her bait. It is like the ox ready to be slaughtered when you go to her. So he said, remember my words in verse one, that we should never forget the instruction of our dear God so that in times of temptation, we are ready to battle and defeat it.

September 13, I preached in the radio program about “Claims of Jehovah’s Witnesses about the 144,000”. This is again a question from one of the listeners. I think he is a member of the denomination because of how he explains his question. In the bible, the 144,000 is only used as a symbolic expression of the totality of God’s people. The denomination make it literal and cause problems in interpreting the bible.