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.

Activities from April 30 to May 22

April 30, brother James and sister Len Attabam requested for a thanksgiving service for their son who is just turns 2 years of age. Brother Jun shared a short lesson about “He climbed a tree to see Jesus”. There are a lot of visitors who came and some of them are non-christians. After the lesson we extended the invitation and we are happy that two of them decided to obey the truth. Brother James has been sharing God’s word to them before and now they finally obeyed.

May 3, I went to Palca to visit again the brethren. I went to Mr. Junior Sabado’s house. He was attending services before but since injuring his feet, that he can no longer walk, he stop coming. I shared to him an example from the bible about “The faith of the lame man”. He was inspired by the story and said that “someday” he will again join us in worship.

May 4, in our Lord’s day service, brother Jay taught in our bible study about “Two appointments”. In the sermon, brother Rody preached “Husband and Wife”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about “Some things we will never do in heaven”.

May 6, in our preachers bible study, we had a visitor from the National Statistics office who gave a seminar about “Solemnizing”.

In the afternoon, brother Rody shared to us “Organization of the church”.

May 7, in our midweek service, brother Rody taught “Mark 13”.

May 8, we went to the gospel meeting at Guiddem, Abulug where brother Johnson Ramil preaches. In the morning, brother Jerome was the first speaker and he preached about “The conversion of Saul”, followed by brother Geronimo Ganila who preached “The church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood” and the last speaker in the morning was brother Rody who preached the first part of his lesson “Two things that was said to fix: Church”. We sung the invitation song and we are happy that one precious soul went in front to confess his faith.

In the afternoon, brother Jun was the first speaker and he preached about “He climbed a tree to see Jesus”. And finally brother Rody was the last to speak and he preached the second part of his lesson “Two things that was said to fix: Family”.

May 9, in the evening, we traveled to Manila.

May 11, in our Lord’s day service at Edsa-Pasay church in Manila, I taught in our bible study about “What is that in your hand?” and brother Junie Samontina preached “Prepare to meet thy God”.

In the afternoon, we are only 7 in attendance, and I preached to them about “Things we will never do in heaven”.

May 13, in our preachers’ bible study here at Tuguegarao, brother Rody shared the summary of “Galatians 1-3”. And in the afternoon, we had an open forum because the scheduled speaker did not arrived.

May 14, in our midweek service, brother Jerome taught “Mark 14”.

May 18, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Hope of the empty tomb”. And I preached in the sermon about “God hates religion”.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I invited brother Jun to come with me and he preached to them about “The error of Infant Baptism”.

May 19, I preached in the radio program about “Uprooting worry”. The things that remove us of our happiness are the things we always worry about.

May 20, I wanted to attend the preachers’ bible study but I failed because I have a migraine that I cannot even get out of bed.

May 21, in our midweek service, brother Jun taught “1 Thessalonians 5”.

May 22, we went to the bible study at Bauan, Solana where brother Robert and Gemiano Pader are preaching. Brother Jay taught first about “What way to choose”, and lastly brother Jun taught “The true Church of Christ”. I led the singing in the invitation and three went in front to confess their faith. They were baptized in the river here at Tuguegarao.

Activities from April 9-29

April 9 – in our midweek service, brother Jay taught the lesson on “Mark 11”.

April 12 – I went to visit brother Arnold and sister Venus Supnad. They are siblings and are already been baptized into Christ. Their grandmother who is taking care of them is always attending services and she asked my help to bring them back to the church. I talked to both of them and taught the importance of serving the Lord.

April 13 – in our Lord’s day service here in Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught “Tailored Religion” wherein denominations make their own doctrines and gave additions to the bible. In the sermon, brother Jay preached about “Does the Lord know you?” There are many ways on how we could tell that God knows us and one of them is if we do His will.

In the afternoon at Palca, I preached to them about “The Common Excuses of Man” not to obey the gospel and for the brethren not to remain faithful because of many trials and temptations.

April 14, I preached in the radio program about “Generosity”, one way that brings us happiness in our lives, not just on those whom we share what we have.

April 15, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Flor Respicio taught in the morning about “The life of Paul”, from his life as a Pharisee until his missionary journeys. In the afternoon, he taught “Galatians 1”.

April 16, in our midweek service, I taught “Mark 12”, about the parable of the tenants, paying taxes, the resurrection, the greatest commandment, warning against the teachers of the law and the widow’s gift.

April 20, in our Lord’s day service here at Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Dare to be Ananais”, the one who have the courage to preach to Paul when the Lord asked him to do it. In the sermon, I preached to them about “What is that in your hand?” A question God asked to Moses when he was asked to go to Pharaoh, and he answered the rod. We all have something in our hand like the bible which we should use in our everyday lives.

In the afternoon, I preached the same lesson at Palca.

April 22, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Efren taught Galatians 2.

April 26, I went to Palca to visit brother Dondon Santiago. He was baptized when he is 12 years of age and now he is already in college. It is a little bit hard to convince young people this days to come to church because of many temptations coming from their friends who are non-Christians but together with his mother, we all prayed together to ask God for guidance.

April 27, in our Lord’s day service, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “He climbed a tree to see Jesus”, the tax collector named Zaccheuss is a very good example of a man wanting to see Jesus and ready to repent of his sins. In the sermon, brother Jerome preached “The challenges of a mid-life crisis”. The challenges in our life when we reach the middle age which is 40 that includes family problems, health problems and more.

In the afternoon, I preached at Palca about “Sin is still wrong”. Whatever we do if we transgress the law of God, it is called sin and every sin that we commit, there is a punishment when not repented.

April 28, I preached in the radio program about “Miracles we received”. Not like the miracles Jesus did but miracles that God gave to us like our life that He breathe into the formed man and the forgiveness of our sins that we could also have salvation.

April 29, in our preachers’ bible study, brother Edgar Licodini taught “Galatians 3”.