Monday, May 20, 2013

Dream Wall 2013


Overseer of Worship Ministry

Getting all the records done for our annual reports is part of my work being the overseer of our worship ministry in our church. It’s also a way of assessing the condition of the musical instruments we are using. Some of them are quite old but we just need to take of it. But several needs replacements especially our two guitars. We decided to buy a new one after seeing a fender jaguar from musicians friend in the net. We believe this is also the right time to avail the no interest scheme given to us by a local music store here in our place as part of their promotion.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Skywatch Friday


6 Reasons You Need a Small Group Ministry



Every ministry model has its weaknesses. Small groups are no different. They have their weaknesses, and I won’t pretend to hide behind them, but there are some benefits to small groups that cannot be ignored:

1 - Healthy Community…if your goal is to foster community in a church. We have already established that small groups provide discipleship opportunities for intentional leaders, but there are lots of other benefits that churches experience from a healthy small group community.

2 - Help Big Feel Small: It is no secret that there is one major fear people have in going to a large church: No one knows them! Small groups change that experience. Every Sunday my wife and I sit with a couple from our small group, and I see over 100 others that do the same each week (and that's just the people I know).

3 - Pastoral Care: Group ministry is the front line of pastoral care in the church. Group leaders and members are the first responders to crisis in a large congregation. There are many emergencies that occur in our church that I am the last to hear about, because our small groups have jumped in and handled the situation before word of it even made it to me.

4 - Evangelism: We have to stop thinking of small groups as "Bible Studies." We have groups at CCV that facilitate relationships that result in evangelism. New people have been attending our church as a direct result of the following affinity groups: softball, kids play group, volleyball, dog walking, tennis, scrap booking, and others.

5 – High-Priority Communication: Do you need to get the word out fast about something important in the church? Leverage the small group ministry network. On numerous occasions we have done this with an important change in the church, or even with communication for a capital campaign to build a new facility on our campus.

6 - Volunteer Network: I can't count how many times we have utilized our small group ministry to rally the troops to get a job done. We would not have been able to staff our kids program when we experimented with our Saturday night service if it weren't for entire small groups volunteering to serve on Saturday nights together.

I guess I look at this whole situation kind of differently. Small groups will continue to exist in all of our communities—with or without churches. I just hope that churches pay more attention to group ministry, because without this vital ministry, churches are the ones at risk, not groups.





Thursday, May 16, 2013

Engineering Terms

I’m not so familiar with many technical terms especially those used in industrial works. My high school classmates that would be six of them are now working in one of the biggest manufacturer of dairy products here in our place. They were all experts in the field of work they’ve chosen. Two of them were certified Electrical engineers, one is an Electronic engineer and the other two were Mechanical engineers. On one school reunion, they were discussing things about their work and one of them mentioned about fixturing shims and its relations to their work. I am so happy for all of them as they all were successful in their chosen careers. Maybe next time, I would also ask them to explain some technical terms which until today, I cannot still explain.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Got a roof over your head?


Be Thankful for that!

Don't yo know that , One billion people live in slums?  That's almost one-sixth of the world’s population. Of this total, 640 million children live without adequate shelter, some  live in cardboard boxes, tin-roofed shacks, one-room mud huts a nd  crowded tenements. It’s been estimated that 1.4 billion people will live in slums by 2020. In the  United States, between 2.3 to 2.5 million people are classified as homeless. In our country which is considered a yet developing one, 15%  are considered homeless.

Be  thank that  you have a roof over your head!

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Post Birthday Greetings

I saw this picture on facebook today. Thank you dear little sister Hannah Rosal for the effort in making the collage. Three days ago was my birthday. Me and my wife decided not to have a birthday party but just an intimate dinner with immediate family and close. I was surprised that there were young people who went to the house bring foods and gifts. Thank you so much for the birthday surprise!!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Saving money for our Singapore Trip!

It’s just a matter of few days now and we are on our way to Singapore! The kids are all excited knowing that we have prepared for this vacation trip and a year ago. We really planned this family get away as graduation gift for the kids who graduated their elementary and high school this school year. One thing we also plan to do is to buy new cell phones and its accessories which we believe are much cheaper in Singapore than in our place. We have seen models of iPhone, Blackberry and Samsung cell phones with unbeatable prices when we visit ThriftyComputer.com . I hope we can find teh same gadgets with the same cheaper price when we will be in Singapore.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Six Words Saturday

GOD IS GOOD! ALL THE TIME!

Lantern Flying


This was during the last night of our Family Camp. It was such a memorable experience to all of  us!

Scenic Weekends


Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Things we must be thankful for




1. Got clean water? The next time you uncap a bottle of water or grab a drink from the tap, remember that one in eight people in the world (that’s 884 million people) lack access to clean water supplies. Millions of women around the world spend several hours a day collecting water. When you take a five-minute shower, you use more water than a typical person in a developing country uses in a whole day. – 2 Cor. 9:15
2. Do you have a bathroom? About 40% of the world's population (2.6 billion people) do not have toilets. Lack of sanitation facilities spreads disease and is a major reason why more than 2 million people die annually of diarrhea. – Ephesians 5:20
3. How’s your electricity? The power in my house might be interrupted briefly three times a year because of Florida storms. But 1.6 billion people—a quarter of humanity—live without any electricity. And, because of unreliable infrastructure, at least 2 billion people on earth don’t have any light at night. – Colossians 3:17
4. Got a roof over your head? One billion people live in slums. That's almost one-sixth of the world’s population. Of this total, 640 million children live without adequate shelter; they live in cardboard boxes, tin-roofed shacks, one-room mud huts or filthy, crowded tenements. It’s been estimated that 1.4 billion people will live in slums by 2020. Meanwhile here in the United States, between 2.3 to 2.5 million people are classified as homeless. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18
5. Is there food on your table? In the United States they are battling an obesity epidemic. Yet according to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are chronically undernourished, and almost 28% of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. – Revelation 11:17
6. Got a stove? In developing countries, some 2.5 billion people use fuel wood, charcoal or animal dung to meet their energy needs for cooking. In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 80% of the population depends on these crude, traditional means for cooking, as do over half of the populations of India and China. The really sad part: Indoor air pollution resulting from the use of solid fuels claims the lives of 1.5 million people each year, more than half of them below the age of 5.
7. Got regular income? You may have had to take a pay cut during the recession. But keep in mind that at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 (P410.00) a day. The world's average income is about $7,000 (P287, 000) a year. Still, only about 19% of the world's population lives in countries with per capita incomes at least this high.
8. Did you go to school? Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Enrolment data shows that about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005 (and 57% of them were girls).
9. Are you generally healthy? Americans face illness like people in other nations—and more than 12 million Americans are battling cancer in any given year. But many of us have access to health care. In the developing world, more than 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized. An estimated 40 million people in developing countries are living with HIV/AIDS. Every year there are 350–500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities, mostly in Africa.
10. Are you free to worship God? More than 400 Christians die for their faith every day around the world, and most of these believers suffer in Islamic countries—although the top hot spot for Christian persecution, according to Open Doors International, is the atheist regime of North Korea.