It's All Or Nothing

It's All Or Nothing

We are in a world that demands everything, a world that's so dark, that's so evil, a world that offers us many good things but temporary. But who are we really? What do we really want as Christians? Have we forgotten who we are? have we forgotten why we are here on Earth? There are so many things, attractive & colorful things, that hinders us in our relationship with God, big or small. We must abstain from anything that is bringing us down. like paul said: "Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul." 1 Peter 2:11. We must do all that we can to abstain from these things. Where do you think you're heading right now? Heaven or Hell? The time is coming and it's near that God will separate His people from His enemies. We've got to make a stand. Where will you be when that time comes? "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us" Hebrews 12:1. Dear friends, God didn't gave His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross so that we may live our lives the way we want it to. God requires us everything! Everything!

Godbless

Colors of Cornerstone & Cornerstone 5th Anniversary Celebration

Colors of Cornerstone
and
Cornerstone 5th Anniversary Celebration

Oh, hello there! Long time no blog huh. frankly to tell you all i'm not in the mood to blog since the last post, hehe. :D well, to keep you updated with what's going on at Cornerstone. well, last August 28, 2009 Cornerstone is now 5 years old, praise the Lord! God has really helped us through out the years, many new Cornerstone Churches are being planted rapidly, there are now 12 Cornerstone Churches and 4 more to come, Amen! All Glory to God alone! :D

Next next week, September 12 & 13, 2009, we will be having our first ever Colors of Cornerstone & the celebration of our 5th anniversary. What will happen at Colors of Cornerstone? well, it will be a presentation of what the Lord has done in every Cornerstone Churches for the past 5 years. there will be praise & worship, reports, presentations and the word of God. It will be an exciting day coz Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong will be with us with his team, the senior pastor of our mother church at Singapore, Heeya to our brothers and sisters there, heeya back if you have read this. :D haha. It's really a busy month but the important thing is that we don't lose our focus on Jesus. :D

Have a blessed day. God Bless!

Youth Service United

Youth Service United

Halo. :D it’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve made our last post. If you remember on our last post, we said we’ll post about our 1st anniversary of our Youth Service (May 15, 2009). Actually our youth service started on May 16 last year. But we planned that we should celebrate it on 15, that was Friday night. :D


Why did we have this by the way? Youth united. :D well, now, we have outreaches from different places like: Capayacan/Salvador; St. James, Batal; Divisoria & our daughter church at Sinili. It’s really hard for us coz our youth service every Friday is not growing for the past months, I think it started last year. So it’s over 5 months our youth service is not growing. And in one of our meetings, the core group of our church suggests that we should only have once a month youth service, with our outreaches & daughter churches.










So we made plans & preparations about this big event. This is the first time we’ll do this, hehe. Along the preparations, we really encountered problems. I can see the youths are worried & some like pressured, nervous at the same time excited about this event. One thing that we really had a problem is on the decorating our venue, the main hall of the church. Suggestions here & there, some of the youths are complaining to me about other youths, behavior problems. But I’ll not get into details. But by the grace of the Lord, we finished the decoration. :D Then at Friday afternoon, we had a meeting & we dealt with the problems we encountered during the preparation time, especially on the complaints & God fixed it. :D










It’s hard to plan & to prepare for something big, coz within it there will be problems we will encounter. :D But there is one thing that really encouraged me during those times. By His grace, God fixed my eyes on the event on the good thing that will happen on our celebration and not on the problems on the preparation. :D God does not wants us to focus our eyes on the problems but on the reward after the problems. :D










So, what really happened at this big event? We had special #'s from our outreaches, like the usual service but very different, & a promotion of our TFC. :D oh especially our theme was our vision: "Santiago's youth, transformed into God's likeness". Our heart is that every youth in Santiago be saved & especially be transformed into God's likeness. The mandate that God has given to our church is to "Saturate Santiago" & we want to prepare Santiago for the coming & staying of the Lord. God has done great things that night, I believe that he has touched the right people for this vision. God is the God of this city. Santiago is for the Lord. To God be all the glory! :D

Blessings for CCS Main Generations, :D

Net is back again. :D

Net is back again. :D

Hello every body, we have gone I think for over a month and we’re sorry for that, hehe. Well, for the past month our net is down. And praise the Lord we have net again, it’s obvious :D, and we’ve switched to PLDT. :D it’s good and it’s faster.

Many things have happened in the youth department this past month, especially on our relationships, between the core leaders. It’s hard to serve the Lord when our relationships with each other is not right, when our feelings for each other are sooooo heavy. This has gone in our youth department for a very long time, but in a time that I haven’t planned to talk to the persons that makes it heavy for me & for the other leaders, God worked & those persons came to us and talked to us about certain things for the 1st anniversary celebration of the youth department and it led to a situation that we talked about the problem we are experiencing and w/ a humble heart we said sorry to each other and forgave each other, and we moved on. :D

If you are experiencing this kind of situation don’t give up. Before that day we have said sorry to each other, it really came to a time that I am so discouraged and worn out for all of the things that are happening in my life that I said to God “Lord, replace me!” but God worked in my life and I remembered His promises unto my life and I kept hold of it and prayed that no matter what happens I’ll never give up. Do not give up!

After that, I have planned to have an open forum for the core leaders but then, I inquired to my pastor about it and he asked that, “what does open forum results into?” and he said that “it will only make things more worst than before. Don’t bite each other! It is better to say sorry for the things you have done.” So I have taken my pastor’s advice and everything worked out in our youth department. Praise the Lord! And right now, the big problems are gone and just a little is left. And now, we’re working freely and joyfully. Serving the Lord is not merely about spirituality but it is also about relationships within our church. Being in good terms with the persons in the church, especially the leaders, makes it more enjoyable and uplifting the serve the Lord. :D

Our next blog will be about the celebration of our 1st anniversary of our youth department last night. So don’t forget to check our blog again these days. :D have a blessed week to all. God Bless You All! :D

For Greater Things Are Yet To Come...

For Greater Things
Are Yet To Come...

Whooo! Praise the Lord! The Lord is doing such an amazing things here @ Santiago. God is now raising up leaders among the youths in every outreaches, we can see how God is moving on each of the youths lives in every outreach and on the youth services. we're very excited about what God is about to do in Santiago.

we'll gonna update this as soon as possible, be excited and be blessed. :D

2009 Plans &Youth Service United

2009 Plans
& Youth Service

Hello there, hope you had a blessed week. we've had a great week here. Especially the outreaches. :D We have now 3 outreaches & there's still more to come. Ok, about what we have planned on February 23, 2009(Monday), we have talked mainly about the outreaches. It's very exciting and at the same time very challenging. :D

To tell you a little information about the outreaches. In every outreach it will be held by a Pastor, Youth Pastor, Worship Team, etc ... more like the church itself but not a church but an outreach. We'll not gonna be the pastors there! But the leaders & members will be the pastor, the youth pastor & the workers! :D whooo! Praise The Lord!!! Right now, there are so many open doors for us. Outreaches are being added every week. and this week, we'll open one at Rizal, Santiago City. Praise the Lord! God is really moving & He is beginning to Saturate Santiago bit by bit. We believe that santiago will be Saturated & will be transformed, Santiago is for Christ!!!

On May 16, 2009. Guess what??!! It's the 1st year anniversary of our youth service, :D. praise the Lord! And on that day it will be the beginning of our once a month Youth Service United. All the outreaches, our daughter churches (Cornerstone Church Sinili & Cornerstone Church Salvador) and us will gather in one place, probably @ North Central School Ampitheatre, and have our Youth Service United(Afternoon). Whooo! :D There will be mini-concert, promotion of CCS Ministries, outreaches & promotion, special nos by TFC and especially evangelism. The purpose of our Youth Service United is to bring more youths to Christ. We're excited for it! Please pray for this event. :D Thank you for reading our blog. have a blessed week. God Bless!

Planning

Planning

Yeah! Hello to all! Praise the Lord! Whoooo! We're so excited, encouraged and blessed lately at our core group meeting, especially on what pastor Marlou has in mind for the youth department, the plans. Whooo! So exciting! We'll tell you about the details on our next post. watch out for it! :D glory to God!

Now, we are planning to have 'sharing, shaping, encouraging and planning' this coming monday (February 23, 2009) for the Youth Department. Coz we don't have classes on that day. We'll take that opportunity to open our hearts to each other, share, shape and encourage each other & especially seek what God wants to do in the youth department and plan on everything that we will do. Pray for us still, we need your prayers. :D ok, watch out for our next post.

Seek what God wants to do in your life and be excited for it. Blessings from CCS Main Generations! :D God Bless you all! :D

Updates

Updates

Hello everyone! well, again, it's been a long time since we've post again. frankly to tell you all, it's hard for me to post. There's been a lot in my head lately. whew! so you've got to pray for us here about our blogging. i think last last week, before pastor Mark & his family have gone to Scotland. He was telling me about blogging, & I said we'll try our best to blog 2 times a week. :D hehe.

To update you first, we'll tell you about our family. Well, now mom has resigned in her work at the government. PRAISE THE LORD!!! :D We are very happy about it. :D I think mom was a bit worried what will our reaction will be, but I think she got it wrong. :D We're very happy about it. Now our family is serving the LORD! A prayer come true, coz dad was always talking about it while we were still on the other side. :D haha. God is so good! selah!

At church, everything's going great. youth service, cell groups, feeding programs, jail ministry, campus ministry is still going on and being a blessing, ;D praise the Lord! :D and now, new Cornerstone Churches are being planted, whooooo! :D just so great! Crusade last Tuesday @ Naggasican, SBTC w/ the TFC. many people are saved & accepted our Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord & Savior. :D God is soooo great! :D

And now the finale, :D hehe. Last summer, we had our first Summer School of Music and we've seen our hardships paid off. We have now a new drummer, praise God! :D & we expect to have more trained musicians, song leaders, back up singers, dancers & especially worshippers. :D Coz our goal for this year is to have 3 bands for worship team. We're soooooooooooooooooooooo excited about it! This Sunday will be the start of our screening. :D pray for us! pray for me also coz, I don't yet still know what my mom, dad & uncle's (the person who sponsored me for my studies, just want to say - salamat po tito!) decision is. if I'll take my summer classes or not. & if not, I'll not be teaching in the SSOMD at April 13 - May 11, 2009. :-( oh well, God knows what's best for us. :D

Ok! Hope you've been encouraged and challenged on what God is doing here at Santiago. We'll try our best to post twice or once a week. :D have a blessed day. Blessings from CCS main Generations. :D God Bless you all

Not Just An Audience But An Army

Not Just An Audience
But An Army!

Don’t know what to say. But we’re sorry for not posting so soon. :-( We’ve been all so busy this month for the launching of our Theatre For Christ (TFC) yesterday (January 31, 2009). Finally it’s finished, hehe. It’s very tiring. But it’s worth all what we have done. All of the crew are youths and we’ve seen their talents & commitment to the ministry. And it’s so good to see them being used by God in a special way.

You might see the whole content about Theatre For Christ (TFC) launching & production at this blogsite. http://ccnplaceofhonor.blogspot.com/
(this is the blog of Cornerstone Church Naggasican) Coz they are the one who pioneered TFC, Praise The Lord! Right now, they still don’t have any post but they will have one.

Pastor Marlou has said to us that we are in a time of war now. And yes we are, and this past month we’re being attacked by the enemy in every angle of our lives. But we are more than conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ. We’re so excited this year, about what God will do in Santiago City. We believe & hope that Santiago City will be Saturated for God. Praise the Lord. Santiago City will be transformed, whooo! Grabe! Through Street Pastors, TFC, Outreaches, Cell Groups, Campus Ministries & more. Last year at one of our overnight prayer meeting, God gave pastor Marlou a vision that a King (That is Jesus) is entering the City of Santiago. & every universities & schools is opening its doors for the King, and the King is entering in every school & universities. God wants to change this world and He is looking for someone who is willing to be used by God & who is willing to give up His life for Him & for His glory.

These past weeks, @ our youth services, we’re preaching mainly about giving up your life to Jesus, using your talents for Him & getting involved in the ministry to every youth who are attending the youth service & cell groups. Coz we want everyone to be involved. Not just an audience but an army, pastor Mark said. Pastor Marlou is saying to us, not just double the workers but triple it. We know God has big plans for Santiago & He also needs a big team. Give your life to Jesus, use your talents for Him & be involved in the ministry God has appointed you in.
Be Involved Now!

Be Back Soon! :D

Be Back Soon! :D

Happy New Year to all! We'll be back soon. But always check our blog for updates, ok? hehe. We've got to plan. :D & spend more time with God! :D don't worry this won't take too long, guess 1 year, joke. we'll post as soon as possible so you may know what we're up to & what God is doing here. :D be excited & be blessed. :D

Ok, may 2009 be the best year of your life. Go with the wave of God. :D Godblezyol, :D