Generations [Cornerstone Church Santiago Main]

What the church should be like

2011-07-21T16:09:00.002+08:00

The church should be fun, exciting, encouraging and winning souls for the Lord. And guess what? That really happened last night. We had so much fun, laughter, challenge, merienda, excitement & our sweats were dripping with the "bring me" game. Haha. And for the climax, The one last question... - THE BIG Q - "Will everyone be in heaven?", pastor Mark brought the message and many have received the Lord, 18 to be exact! w0w woooohooooo! God is really great, our friends, first timers have received the Lord and Josiah also (w0w - God really moved in his life), just wait for the pictures I tell you! ^_^ what a super great night! And to finish it off, we sang Happy Day & the never ending ONE WAY (it has been years since we last sang it at church, haha). God has so much in store for you, just continue to walk with Him. If you don't have a personal relationship with the Lord yet, we're inviting you to pray this short prayer.

"Lord Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe that You are the son of God & I believe that You died and after 3 days You rose again from the grave. Come into my life and my heart Lord, from this time on I make You my Lord and my Savior. Help me be the person that you want me to be starting today. Thank You Jesus. AMEN!"

Friend if you prayed that prayer, CONGRATULATIONS! You just now have made the most important decision in your life and you are now a part of the family of God, we love you. Read your Bible and pray everyday. You now have a personal relationship with Jesus and get to know Him better. Find a Bible based church or a group of people who loves the Lord. and again CONGRATULATIONS!!! ^_^ Godblez

Long Time No Blog.....

2011-06-19T16:17:00.009+08:00

Hey guys, it has really been a long loooooonnnnnggggg time since we've blogged. Haha. Sorry for not posting, if you're the ones who are checking out our blog every once in a while or maybe everyday, we're sorry. ^_^

Well, there are so many things that have happened these past years at the church, good & bad, but the Lord is in control and we know that we are going in the right way. And right now, the church is re-structuring, so it's busy busy busy. But it is also sooooooo exciting, many exciting plans ahead. ^_^ We will keep you updated about what is/will happening, but to be honest, we don't know how it will be frequent but be assured that we will post what God has done here at Santiago. We're also thinking on having another blogsite, but for the meantime we'll use this. but we don't know. just keep updated. :D

Right now, the church is really growing. I remember pastor Mark said, if you're not being stretched, you are not growing. And now, our young people here are getting more involved at the church, this coming weeks 2 of our young people will be opening a Lifegroup, and more young people want to be involved in a lifegroup & in the worship ministry. It' all good. God is really doing great. :D

"so is my word that goes out from my mouth:

it will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire

and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

Isaiah 55:11

We believe God has given us a vision at the church, which is Saturate Santiago. And we believe God is moving & He will do what He wants in His church, in Santiago, in the Philippines & in the whole world. And we want to see it come to past. So, are you up for the challenge? what vision did God gave you? Are you just gonna be an audience or be a part of God's army? Godblez

It's All Or Nothing

2009-09-24T13:05:00.006+08:00

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

2009-08-30T07:54:00.021+08:00

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

2009-05-29T23:52:00.028+08:00

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

2009-05-16T02:47:00.006+08:00

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...

2009-03-18T15:40:00.013+08:00

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

2009-02-28T22:17:00.051+08:00

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

2009-02-22T00:10:00.003+08:00

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

2009-02-21T00:30:00.008+08:00

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

2009-02-01T21:40:00.010+08:00

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

2009-01-06T19:44:00.004+08:00

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

Merry Christmas!!!

2008-12-25T00:25:00.006+08:00

Merry Christmas!!!

Let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas. :D

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on His shoulders.
And He will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6

Merry Christmas to all!!!
From CCS Generations

Another Great Events, hehe

2008-12-23T19:21:00.005+08:00

Another Great Events, hehe

Hello everyone. :D Praise God! We’ve been in for a very very very busy week. We have just had our Thanksgiving Celebration & Christmas Party last Sunday, it was great. A while ago, we’ve just bought toys & fruits for our Christmas outreach (don’t know really what is the name of that event, please tell me, hehe) on 25 to some of the hospitals of Santiago – they are De Vera’s hospital, Callang hospital & Southern Isabela General Hospital (SIGH). Pray for us as we go there. We’re all sooo excited about it. :D

Last Monday, we’ve launched our “Street Pastors” ministry (correct me pastor if I’m wrong about the title, hehe). It was great & so challenging & we want to be like Jesus! It’s hard to invite people to come into our churches, that’s why we’ve got to go to the them. Just like what our Lord Jesus did, He didn’t spent much of His time at church but He spent most of His time with the people outside of the church, people who are in need of care, of freedom, of healing, of life, of love & of salvation. Before we went to the market that afternoon, we first held a meeting @ CCS Main Church office. There Pastor Mark shared to us what Jesus did, not sure about the chapter & verses but it’s on the book of Luke, & we’re all encouraged, challenged & very excited. I’m a bit nervous but really challenged coz it’s my first time to do it. I think even the others, especially the youths. It was really great! We’ve been to many places, we shared how God loved them & how He gave His life for them. Some we’re not open about it but many are responsive & very open. We’ve prayed for them, we spoke peace, we prayed for their freedom, we lead them to the cross & we declared war to the enemy. We believe that Santiago City will be Saturated through this. We will prepare the way of the Lord in Santiago! Santiago City is for the Lord & He’s looking for someone who will stand up for Him, He’s looking for someone who is available – “Your availability is your best ability”. Will you stand up for Him at your school, family, neighborhoods, friends & work?

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”

Colossians 3:23-24

And also that night, Monday night, we’ve had bowling with my core group. We had a great time, Peter was with us. We have enjoyed it, :D. It was great. After that, we’ve gone to McDo to eat. :D & then we’ve gone home. Especial Thanks to the Ritchie & Strachan family who provided all our expenses & especially to God. :D

Have a blessed Christmas season. God Bless to all of you.
& to God be all the glory! :D

The Power To Choose

2008-12-18T11:09:00.001+08:00

The Power To Choose

Praise the Lord! Last week, our brothers & sisters in God from Singapore came to have their missions trip here @ Santiago. We’re truly blessed by them, in the ministry they’ve helped us with, their support, the life they have shared with us, everything. :D A big big thanks to you all, TUO XIE NIE. :D We are looking forward to see you again some time. :D God Bless. And I think tomorrow, again, we have another friend coming here on Santiago, but they are not Singaporeans, they are Scottish, and they are a very very good friend of my dad. Hope everything’s gonna be ok coz, it’s color coding in Manila today. My dad & pastor Adonis have gone there with a service, don’t know what car, pray for them. :D Everyone’s excited on their visit here :D hehe.

Who likes to watch cartoons? Like Superman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Spiderman & etc. you know, there’s one thing in common for this extraordinary cartoons. They all have extraordinary powers. A few hours ago, this morning, I was in a battle with myself. Whether I will do this bad thing or not. But then suddenly, praise God, God spoke to me. He said, “You have the power choose”. Yes God’s grace is available for us to be victorious & be more than conquerors but we have the power to choose, there are times we are tempted & we know, as Christians, we should not do it but still we have the power to choose. The power to choose what is right and what is wrong. The power to choose whether we choose God or choose satan. “Love the Lord Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30. You know, refusing satan is one way we are saying to Jesus, Lord Jesus I love You. We must not just love our God with our hearts, our souls and minds, but also with all our strength. We have many brothers & sisters in Christ who are experiencing the same, or even worse situations that you have now. But you have the power to choose, Jesus or satan?

Have a blessed day. God Bless,

Great Events

2008-12-02T14:31:00.003+08:00

Great Events

Yeah, we’re sorry if we haven’t blog for quite a long time. Hehe. But we’ve got some good news for you, :-D. Last week, we had visitors from England. They are only 4, and there is only one youth who has come, and the other three are twice and trice his age, strange huh. hehehe. But well, his name is Jack and he is one of the youth leaders on their church, Rotherham New Life Church. And throughout the week we have him come in our cell groups, feeding programs, BJMP Ministry(Jail Ministry) & youth services and fellowships, of course eating fellowship will never be forgotten, hehehe.

During their stay here, some of our youths have improved their social skills. Hahaha. Frankly, I was shocked at the same time impressed on how they approach our visitors. they're confidence has improved in tagalog figure "makapal na mukha nila" hehehe. Praise God :D. And last Friday, on our youth service, Jack shared the word of the Lord. And he shared about everyone is a leader & be careful who you follow. It was great, the word was great and especially the presence of God was really there. We can feel His presence that night, especially when pastor Marlou called for an altar call, many responded on the message. Then Jack came up on stage and said that if anyone wants to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, come in front, pastor Marlou was interpreting. Then suddenly, after that, the presence of God fall down In our midst, we can feel it and it’s so strong, I believe that some were touched deeply, some were baptized with the Holy Spirit and only 1 youth was slain. Praise the Lord. :-D whooo! To God be all the glory.

Last Sunday, it was our Cornerstone Church United. The program was long, hehehe. Praise God. :D we had 4 preachers from our Cornerstone Churches, they were Sis. Maribel Manango[Don not worry], Ptra. Terese Liday[Trusting the Lord], Ptr. Henry Rustia[Dream] and Ptr. Mark[Faith without deeds is useless]. It was great, the last preacher was pastor Mark and he summed up all what the others have preached and many responded on the message. It was great. :D praise God.

Starting today, the Tri-district conference has begun. Different people from 3 districts will come for this prayer conference. it's called Power Conference and it's theme is "SEEKING THE LORD, REAPING THE HARVEST."f Sefton Village ain't enough to accomodate such number of people for their rooms, so each church near Sefton will accomodate some people. Our church have accomadated 50 women, hehe. Pastor Marlou was talking to us about doing the extra mile, so tonight we'll be ushering them to the church, serving them, doing the best for them, doing the extra mile. so we're kinda excited tonight. hahaha. this people are serving the Lord and they deserve the best. :D

And lastly, this December 6, 2008, Saturday. We’ll have our evaluation and planning for our church, Cornerstone Church Santiago Main. We’ll report on what happened and our accomplishment this year 2008. And our plans for 2009, :D. If you can see the blog of our senior pastor of our church, CCS Main. He talks about the word he received from the Lord, “Saturate Santiago”. And our vision will come from there. I believe that Santiago is for Christ.

To God be all the glory!
Godblezyol

INHERITANCE

2008-11-10T14:12:00.003+08:00

INHERITANCE

Hello, sorry if we have only posted today ;-), hope we will post more often these coming days, hahaha, Pray for us. :D These past weeks, pastor Marlou has been talking to us about the dreams of God for us, our part in the church, and our inheritance. We we’re all so excited about it! And last night I’ve red about David’s Victories at 1 Chronicles 18, and as you read it, everywhere David go “The LORD gave David victory everywhere he went.” v6b, 13b; 2 Samuel 8:6b,14b. Isn’t that great, everywhere he went the Lord gave him victory, why? We know coz David did all that was right in the eyes of the Lord. It is the Lord who gives us victories! I know Santiago is our inheritance! And I believe that we will have victory wherever God wants us to be! Yes, there will be problems, small & great, but Santiago is our inheritance & it will come to past and all glory, honor & power belongs to God alone.

God has said to us that we should PREPARE the church & now we must SATURATE Santiago, we don’t know how but that is why we’ll gonna have a prayer & fasting day & overnight prayer meeting at December 12, 2008. Like David has done, he always inquire of the Lord. Pastor Marlou was saying to us last night, Sunday, pioneering is very hard, but it’s very exciting. We’re so excited about what God will do in our lives, in our families, in our church & in Santiago, or even more, the whole world. We don’t know what God has in store for us, but we know it’s great.

As sons of God we all have inheritance. What is your inheritance? What is your dream? God has given you a dream but "All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney

Have a blessed day, Godblezyol

Cornerstone Youth Sports fest 2008 & Youth Service

2008-10-02T00:36:00.002+08:00

Cornerstone Youth
Sports fest 2008
& Youth Service

Praise the Lord! Got some good news for you folks, haha. We have conducted a sports fest for the youth of Cornerstone - Cornerstone Youth Sports Fest 2008. We are led by pastor Jhun. Why have we conducted this? Because we’d like to know more & build our relationship with the youths in our cell groups & the youths who attend our youth service every Friday night @ 6 pm :D, frankly, we just want to have a longer fellowship with them, haha. So, after pastor Jhun has opened it to us, he opened it to the leaders & pastor’s of our church. And they said, “bakit kayo lang ay? Sali naman kami!” (why only you? Include us!) :D so, all have joined, Praise The Lord! So we asked permission to pastor Winston, and I think he agreed. :D, haha. Praise God!

This will be held at Sefton Village, Divisoria, Santiago City @ October 4, 2008, 7 am – 5 pm, registration is 20 pesos, our theme is: “BUILDING RELATIONSHIP, ENHANCING INTIMACY”. Why do we have this theme? Coz we’ve seen that over the last 4 years, if you are from Cornerstone Main you only mingle w/ Cornerstone Main young people not with the other youths of the Cornerstone, that is every united :-( sad. Yup, there’s a division upon the youths and we’d like to break that barrier. So we conducted this one day sports fest to build our relationship and enhance our intimacy w/ each other. Where there is unity God commands his blessings to come. to God be all the Glory, :D

And now, last Wednesday we have a meeting about this and it has taken us 2 hours to finish it, haha. It was great, the leaders of Cornerstone San Isidro and Naggasican was w/ us. It was great, we had a good time together, :D. We place leaders on each team, but now it’ll change coz there will be only 4 teams to be put up, as suggested by one of our leaders of our church. So it’ll be 4 teams. :D

Ok, about our youth service last Friday. It was great, for the first time on our youth service, ptra. Emmy Lou preached, hahaha. Praise God.She talked about “what does God expect of me?” @ Deuteronomy 10:12. And here she gave 5 points:

1. Fear God
2. Live according to His will
3. Love Him
4. Worship Him with all your heart and soul
5. Obey His commands

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:12.

Godblezyol! :D

Missions Trip and Youth Service

2008-09-16T16:24:00.006+08:00

Missions Trip
& Youth Service

It’s been along time since we’ve blogged again, hahaha. Well, our pastors are now at UK, praise the Lord. They are Pastor Mark, Pastor Marlou, Pastor Winston, Pastor James A. and Pastor August. They’re blessed, hahaha, kamusta po kau jan? Well, they are not just there to relax and to have vacation, they are there to make an impact at the churches there. :D, we’re missing them, hehehe. Pastor Marlou, miss ka na namin, hehehe Pasalubong ha. Joke lang. they are there for almost 1 month, long long time. :D gonna miss them so much. :D

Ok, last week on our youth service. Worship was really great; the presence of the Lord was there :D, and pastor Jhun shared the word of God, he shared about I Timothy 6:11-12

11”But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” I Timothy 6:11-12

One thing I remembered on His topic is, if we want to follow Christ, we must run away from all evil things. And He talked about Joseph on this. What Joseph did when he was tempted by Potiphar’s wife, he ran away from her. Day after day, Joseph was tempted but he keeps running away. In our life, temptations will never run out but we should always run away from it. The good news is that God is always by our side, that we can call for help when we are tempted, it is really hard if we do it by our own strength but with God’s grace and strength we can be victorious if we just cling to Him. In John 15:5 w/o Him we can do nothing, we must always be connected to Him no matter what. In Him we can be victorious, we can be winners, we can be conquerors.

Yes, there are times we fail, but the good thing is we never stop there.

God has big plans in our lives.
We just have to cling unto Him no matter what.
Blessings from CCS Generations Santiago Main!
Godblezyol!

Crown Of Glory

2008-08-29T09:45:00.003+08:00

Crown Of Glory

Praise the Lord! As we are used to do a day before our Sunday Services, we have a core group meeting. We have fellowship, greeting each other of what happened to us that week, praising God, chatting, laughing, worshipping, eating and planning what to do on Sunday. We normally have pastor Jhun to create the program for our Sunday Service.

Tomorrow came. We had our morning service; I could hardly remember what happened that morning, :D. then it’s night service, I said to myself, ‘whatever happens I’ll worship God no matter what’. Then we started our night service. As we normally do, we get ourselves a ka-pre, that’s ka-prayer partner, hehehe, and we pray for the service, the people who’ll gonna come, the presence of God, etc. etc.

After that, we welcomed each other. As we normally do, again! We have fast and slow songs for the praise and worship, but that night, we go straight ahead to the slow song. Then pastor Marlou called for an altar call to all those who are hungry for more of God, then I think all of who are in the room came. Even though we don’t feel like going to the front but we know in our hearts that we are really hungry for more of God in our lives. We cried out to God, we expressed our hearts to Him and God touched us….

There are 3 words for us that night, the first is Holy. When pastor Marlou is saying it repeatedly, I began weeping and weeping and I was trembling with fear because of the Holiness of God, this is the first time I experienced this. I was like hiding my face beside the wall of the church that time, I don’t know what to do, and I just hid my face covering it with my hands. Then the second came word came, ‘Drink’. But unfortunately I didn’t respond to it, but others responded and they began to laugh in the Spirit for a short time. Then the last word came, God gave a vision to pastor Marlou. He saw two crowns and this is God’s crown of glory. Then pastor Marlou preached about this, and we responded to it, we go to the very front of the altar and we kneeled down, we raised our hands as surrender to God and we accepted it in faith and I felt a crown has been put in my head and I began to cry, I was filled w/ Joy that time. We we’re so filled with Joy.

Then we have testimonies that time, and some came testifying what God has done in their lives that night. And what is amazing is that almost all of us are experiencing trials in our lives, that the enemy is telling us that we are not worthy of serving God. But that night all of us were revived and so encouraged. Then pastor Jhun preached for a short time. Before we close our service, pastor Marlou said that we should do everything we can not to let the devil take this crown away! And that is our encouragement to you, go on for God. The enemy will only tell you lies. Focus your eyes unto Jesus. Godblezyol!

Growing

2008-08-19T00:03:00.002+08:00

Growing

Praise the Lord! It’s great what the Lord is doing here in our youth group. On one of our overnight prayer meetings, God said to pastor Marlou that when the watch turns 12:00 am He will give him a word / vision. And then God gave him a vision, a vision of a King entering the universities of Santiago City, we are so amazed what God has given us. Pastor Marlou don’t know how God will enter the universities, until one morning, while pastor Marlou and pastor Jhun is worshipping and praying at Sefton Village at the Library, God spoke to them about having a club at every school and university. Whoooo! Just so excited what God will do, :D.

Yes, we don’t know how to do it but God knows what to do. God is so faithful, He is very faithful. Now all of the Leaders of our church are now organizing this movement (correct me if I’m wrong). Praise God coz we have now a chairman on this club, she is ate Leizel. We’re just so very blessed by her, her heart for cell group, now she has been given more. She is just a blessing. The club will be called Livingstone Club, hahaha :D

To God be all the glory!

Youth Service

2008-08-09T13:29:00.010+08:00

Youth Service

Whoooo! It’s very exciting and challenging what God is doing here at our youth group this week. Last Friday, August 8, 2008, we have visitors from Singapore, they’re such a blessing. Most of our service we just have an average of 50+ youths. But that night, we have 90 youths, whoooo! The worship was really really really really great, God just moved powerfully in our midst from the very start up to the last, it was really really great and for us it’s the best servicew we had, it’s really exciting what God will do, :D

We have a special speaker that night. She had visited Philippines for 3 times and it’s such a blessing that she’s the one to share the word of God to us that night. She’s Sis. Maureen, a very good friend of ours. While we were worshiping, she saw a white sheet and she inquired to God what is this white sheet? God told her that it is the heart of this young people, how pure they worship Me(God) – it’s so encouraging to hear that. And she said that we must guard this white sheet that we must not let any stain or spot get into it, that we must do all we can not to defile it. God is so amazing that He looks into our hearts not on our outside appearance…Godblezyol!

God's Way

2008-08-08T11:18:00.009+08:00

God's Way

Praise the Lord, it’s been a long time since we’ve blogged again :D. Well there’s so many things that has happened here, but first of all we have visitors from UK they’re here for 1 month over. They’re such an encouragement for us, some of them are here for the first time :D, and I think God has moved also in their lives, well but first of all on July 11, 2008 on our youth service, the youths of the UK Team were there w/ bro. Kenny and they have testimonies and special nos that night and bro. Kenny preached, I can’t recall it all but I think it’s about standing up for God, :D, here are some pics that night,

And we also have a cell group at Patul Highschool I think last July 15, 2008 and Kirsty was there with us, we have cell grouped I think just 5 or 6 youths there, but ate Leizel said that there was more. They were just nervous because Kirsty was there, hehehe! But it was great, :D

There so many things about what God has done while they were here, they have been with us in cell groups, youth service, hospital visitation, feeding programs, Sunday services and in Mcdo, :D, and they have been such a blessing to us. :D

To the UK Team, you have been a great blessing to us, we pray that God will bless you greatly in everything that you do. Godblezyol! :D

Okay, last week, ptr. Ariel gave me the iPod he has and he asked that if we have songs on our computer, and if we could put some songs in it and we have to install iTunes in on our computer so that we could put some songs in it. Installing iTunes was a mess, we’ve got to download iTunes 7.4 to put songs in the iPod, and we have no internet, then a virus (the one that when you try to show the hidden files, it wouldn’t show ), got into our computer, and we have to system restore our computer for a couple of times to fix it but it turned out to be more worse, we cannot install iTunes 7.4 coz it needed a file to install it, then we tried to uninstall it but again it wouldn’t, it’s really a mess. Hahahaha! We couldn’t figure out what to do so we formatted our computer and set upped windows xp on our comp, hahaha! :D

While we were doing all these things, I’m listening to one of the preaching of Bishop T.D. Jakes at the iPod and at his preaching he said, why does God allow difficult situations, bad situations, really bad situations in our lives that in some point of our lives we ask that if there is really a God and if it is really God’s will that we are in these situations. I have done things that is really bad, really really bad in our home, church, school etc but I have learned that God is really a patient God, that He allows these things to happen in our lives to mold us what He wants us to be, so no matter situation you’re in, whether how good or how bad it is, it is a part of God’s great plan for you, don’t be like Judas who gave up, don’t be like other Christians who gave up easily, but let God move in your life, trust in Him, open your heart to Him, let Him prune you, let Him work in your life, no matter situation you’re in He knows what is best for His sons and daughters, just understand that God moves ways that we cannot understand. :D

Godblezol! :D

What's Happening?

2008-07-11T23:20:00.015+08:00

What's Happening .

We've been through a lot lately, we've got to admit that it isn't going great in our youth group especially in my life. Recalling what pastor Mark has prophesied about me, about the pruning that God will do in my life, that it will be painful. Back then I said that it's just gonna be a piece of cake, ooooh, what pride I had back then, but now, it isn't, for real it aint. Everybody thinks that I'm ok these past 2 weeks, but inside I'm not. Paul was right when he said "The Spirit is willing but the body is weak." I've been doing things I should not do, the things that I have been doing when I was in the world. If I could just turn back time, and fix these things.

I totally regret what I have done last year, 2007. I've been asking God for a sign if I'll go to Bible School or not and God did what I have asked, but I asked for another, then God did what I have asked again, but again, I asked for another sign, for the 3rd time, God did what I asked. But I didn't go to Bible School, I'm too afraid of what my mom will say, coz she really want me to finish college. God has really called me but I was too afraid, so I end up studying in a secular school, and I am a student assistant there but it turned out to be not good, I'm in the class but my mind is totally in the youth group. how well they are, where they are right now, the fellowships we will have and this and thats and more...back then I was so eager to learn, but now it's gone. My mind and my heart is completely in the youth group and in the church.

May is approaching, coz this is the month that we'll gonna enroll on universities and schools, and I've been thinking if I'll be a full time pastor at the church. This time I didn't asked God for a sign coz for me I think that I am dictating what God should do, so I just said to God, "God speak to me" and God spoke to me, He said "Full Time" but again I was too afraid of what my mom will say, so I end up again at the same school. Actually the day that they are to speak to me about these things, in going full time or in school, I made up my mind that I'll gonna be a full time pastor at the church, but I couldn't say it, what I have said is just totally to the opposite of what should I do and what I want.

There's so much more to say. Life is not always gonna be full of joy and laughter, there are problems, worries, doubts and more but the good thing is we're not giving up on God. Please pray for us brethrens, have a blessed day, thank you and Godblezyol!

Coming Very Very Soon: Revival!

2008-06-02T12:05:00.011+08:00

Coming Very Very Soon:

Revival!

Praise the Lord, have you heard about what God is doing in Lakeland Florida? For the past 4 years in the church, we've just heard about revivals in the past, what is revival, what it feels like when revival is in our place, the great revivals in various places here on earth but we've never experienced it. But, whoooooooo, now were so so so so excited about what is to come in our country, and that is REVIVAL! As you see in our vision this 2008, "A Generation, prepared for the coming revival!" - in our youth group and in our church "A church, prepared for the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, for a greater harvest!" Yup that's it, it's all about revival! Were just so very excited about it,

Last week, God gave a word to our head pastor. It's about the 'new wineskin', ptr. Marlou prayed to God about it, and then after a day or two, ptr. Marlou have seen the word 'hub' in a place, we don't know where, haha! But God impressed this word to him deeply, that when he went home, he asked his wife what is the meaning of the word 'hub' and that is center, and ptr. Marlou prayed for it again but still God didn't open up these words to him. Until it is thursday morning, they've watched the revival in Lakeland, Florida, USA in GodTV and guess what, the preacher preached about the 'new wineskine' and the 'hub' that the wine is ready to be put into the new wineskin and in every place there will be a revival hub....excited?

well that's not just it, last May 30, 2008, that is friday, we've had our overnight prayer meeting, God showed a vision to pastor Marlou, and that is, he has seen that a king, and that is Jesus, entering our city, and Jesus said that he will even enter schools and universities here, whooooo, praise the Lord! praise the Lord! Can't wait but still more preparations to do, in our church, in our youth group and especially in ourselves. But we're sure that revival will come here in our city...God is so amazing and to Him be all the glory, power and honor! Godblezyol!

Happy Birthday!

2008-05-29T19:54:00.006+08:00

Happy Birthday Pastor Mark!

Hello pastor, happy birthday! We're so thankful that God has sent you here in Santiago, we're so blessed to have you here pastor! Thank you for your support, patience, time, love for us and especially for sharing your life with us! Dr. Brian Bailey said, "it is not mainly the sermons the preachers preach that have changed my life, but it is because of the lives of the righteous leaders around me." - Someting like that -

We love you pastor Mark, and we want to thank you for everything that you have done for us! We pray that you'll finish your duty to God here on earth, and may you live a more blessed life everyday, may God's favor be upon you and your family always pastor! We love you very much! Godblezyol pastor! :D,

Success!

2008-05-22T09:05:00.003+08:00

Success!

Sorry to keep you all waiting, been busy all the week! We're having our Summer School of Music here, for 3 weeks, and everynight we have meetings in the church, but praise God, we've found the time to blog again! haha! Ok, about last week, on the launching of our Youth Service, it was a success! God moved powerfully in our service, God touched almost all of the youths that night, and every pastor and leader there prayed for us, Amen! Praise the Lord!

Then, last Monday, we've had our fellowship at bonsai park, It's a treat from pastor Merwin, our camp director, remember? haha! Then pastor Jhun, said to me that the youths in bagong silang can't wait for Friday to come, they are saying that I wish that it's Friday today, whooo! Praise God coz, He is moving in every youths lives! God is just so good, to God be all the glory and honor and power! :D,

I'll update this after I have found the time again, haha! Gonna get ready for our Summer School of Music, haha, so keep watch ok? :D, Godblez to you all!

Launching of our Youth Service

2008-05-07T21:52:00.007+08:00

Launching of our
Youth Service

Praise the Lord! See the picture above? Ahemm,hehehe, that's the flyer for the launching of our Youth Service this May 16, 2008 @ 6:00 pm up to 8:00 pm, :D. We just want to thank our pastors and leaders for their full support in our plans, never have crossed our minds that we'll gonna get help from them, sorry God. But thank God coz they've made a move that they want to help us in the launching of our youth service. So we've had a meeting at Ptr. Marlou's hous and, they have suggested plans, what should we do, what are the practical things that could happen, and more. Praise God. Yes, God was right that this church is a family church, that a family helps together. We're so grateful for having them in our lives. Thank you po sa inyong lahat, Godblez po, :D

As you can remember in our late blogs, we have already started our youth service last year, every Saturday @ 3 pm, but sad to say, it has died, huhu! Coz that is the time where youths are resting, doing their household chores, gimiks and many more. So our youth service last year was not that successful! And we don't have a launching for that, haha! But now, praise God! Coz we'll gonna start again our youth service, and we have invited many youths to come, and we're praying that God will move in our every service, that this will be an activity that will have a great impact on each of the youths lives, so please pray for us! :D, haha!

By the way, you are invited to come this friday @ 6 pm. We pray that you'll be blessed and that God will meet your needs in your life! Have a blessed life, to God be all the glory! Godblezyol!

God Is Moving

2008-04-28T12:23:00.010+08:00

God Is Moving

Praise the Lord, found the time to blog again! :D, haha! Curious about the camp? It was great, like most of us expect that the first night will be just an ordinary night. Well, it ain't. God moved powerfully in our first night, from the beginning up to the end of the program, you can feel God's amazing presence in the midst of us, the Holy Spirit just moved in each and everyone of us! Rev. Angel Aguilar talked about the theme of our camp - Dream, Believe and Achieve - he used the story of Joseph The Dreamer about this topic and he focused on Not Giving Up on God. It was really great and God touched many of the campers that night.

Well the 2nd night was different, we've just got an exhortation from Rev. Fraizer Mariano and then we've gone to our search for Mr. & Ms. Star of the Night, it was great! All teams have participated in that event, and also one of the good things of the camp is that, all teams are participating. There's so much more to say, we hope that you'll still be with us up to the end of this blog.

Okay, we've got an amazing team of Pastors, Leaders & Committees who worked hard for this event to be explosive, haha, a big round of applause to them: they are - Ptr. Merwin our Youth Camp Director, Ptr. Freddy the assistant, Ptr. Danny[Accomodation], Ptr. August[one of the Marshalls] w/ Cornerstone Nagassican[Food preparation], Ptr. Jhun & Ptra. Emmy[for the program of the camp], Ate Leizel[Registration], Ate Mildred, Ate Che w/ Company[Marketing]. Praise God for their lives w/o them this event would have not been great.

Okay, we'll talk about the Councilors of the camp. Well we've got 7 councilors in the camp including me, :D, and we've got 6 teams - David, Joshua, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Solomon and Noah - :Joren[from Jones] is the leader of the David team, :Erick[from Cornerstone San Isidro] is the leader of the Joshua team(you know erick Pastor Mark? He's from San Isidro, I didn't expect that he'll be one of the councilors there, Praise the Lord!), Ate May anne[from Cornerstone Santiago] is the leader of the Nehemiah team, :Ptr. Marlon[from Balintocatoc] is the leader of the Jeremiah team, :Alex[from Bethesda] is the leader of the Solomon team, & Arly[from San Andres] is the leader of the Noah team, and I'm their head councilor, to God be all the Glory. Okay, enough of that! :D, haha

Praise God coz, 19 youths from our church have attented the camp, we didn't expect that number, :D, Praise the Lord! God's plan is so amazing you know. but there are 46 youths from Cornerstone who have attented the camp, praise God, haha! and there are 140+ campers in the camp, wow! That's a large number for a Sectional Youth Camp here in our place, Praise God! So many to talk about but it's getting late, but we encourage you, don't give up on God, He is faithful, He has the greatest promises you'll ever hear and experience, God knows the best for you, just trust Him and never let Him go, coz He is the best thing that has happened in our lives! Have a blessed life, Godblezyol!

Sectional Youth Camp 08

2008-04-20T00:43:00.003+08:00

Dream, Believe
and Achieve
Philippians 3:12-14

Praise God, coz next week will be our camp, from April 22 to 24, 2008. I know it will be a great event, but some of us will definitely miss being a camper, coz the 3 of us: me, ate Leizel and ate May Anne will be one of the councilors of the camp, huhu. When Ptr. Merwin[our Sectional Youth Director] spoke to us, he asked that if it is ok to us that we'll be one of the councilors of the camp. In our hearts, at that time, we don't want coz we'll definitely gonna miss out being a camper, we still want to be a camper, huhu! :D, But we know that God is lifting us up into a higher level of ministry so we said yes!

Right now, we have 13 young people who want to join the camp! We know that it is only a few, coz some of our young people are into summer jobs and summer classes, but please pray for us that many youths will be encouraged and join the camp. We want to send more youths, but we especially want each and everyone of us to be revived! So please pray for us...

Yup, that's our ID! We want to make the best for our camp, we want to make it very memorable, not just with what God will do in our lives, but also in the programs, sound system, everything we'll gonna have in our camp, including this ID! We hope that you have been blessed and encouraged, we'll gonna update our blog after the camp....so keep an eye on our blog. ok? Have a blessed day, Godblezyol!

God's Love For Us

2008-03-30T22:16:00.003+08:00

God's Love For Us

Praise God for this week, it was tiring but it was also great. Coz we've just moved our place of worship from Ala Moana building to our new, more affordable, and more beautiful place, Aggabao[that's a surname here in Phils] building. At first their price for 3 rooms was 15,000 pesos and then God blessed us and they gave us 4 rooms for 15,000 pesos. But after a week, they changed the deal and they've made it 20,000 pesos for 3 rooms only, awful :( .. but God made a miracle, God touched the person who owns the building and now the whole 2nd floor has been given to us with the price of only 20,000 pesos, isn't that great, praise the Lord! All in all there are 8 rooms there including the toilets, and one great thing is that we can use it 24/7, :D. Compared to our previous building we are only allowed to use our place of worship once a week, only Sundays, and they are not allowing us to design the place, no this and no that. For now we have painted the main hall, designed the kids church, we've installed the lights, fans and 1 of our aircons, the sound system has been set upped and we've got the keys and we can use it 24/7. God is great and His ways are just so marvelous ... we couldn't have done this without the help of some youths, well done guys, you're all a blessing. And especially to our pastors and leaders who from the first up to the last minute of the building process are there, who worked their hands and hearts off for the beautification of the dwelling place of the Lord, You're all a blessing po talaga, Godblez po! :D

We couldn't have done this without the love of God, coz it is His love that holds us and compels us to do this things for Him. We've just had our 1st night service in our new building just a while ago, and our preacher was bro. Andrew, he's one of the UK team, and he spoke about love, he shared to us 4 people from the Bible: John, Mary, Judas Iscariot, and Peter and how they have reacted towards the love Jesus has for them.

John reacted by loving Jesus with all his heart, in fact he is the only disciple who is there at the crucifixion of Jesus. Mary reacted by anointing Jesus' feet with her nard[that's worth a year's wages], and wiped Jesus' feet with her hair. But Judas reacted differently, he reacted by betraying Jesus for just 30 pieces of silver. and Peter reacted by denying that he was one of the disciples of Jesus, he denied Jesus for 3 times and after that the rooster crowed and what Jesus have said was true that he will deny Him even before the rooster will crow, and he went outside the city and began to weep. But after Jesus has risen from the dead He went on looking for Peter.

"For God so loved the world,
that He gave us His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believes in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
John 3:16

God loves you so much that He sent His only son, Jesus, here on earth to die on the cross for you and me so that our sins would be washed away with His blood and redeem us with God once again. Will you accept this love? you cannot repay this love with money, fame or anything else that is in this world. All God wants is for you to repent from your sins and turn to Him, obey Him, serve Him and love Him ... will you accept this love?

If you want to accept this love and invite Jesus to come into your heart and make Him Lord and Savior of your life, we want you to pray this prayer[a prayer is a way of talking to God]!

Lord I am a sinner and I am need of Your forgiveness,
please forgive me of all my sins and
wash it away with your blood.
Lord, thank You for the love you have lavished on me, for dying on the cross for me, for giving Your life for me.
Lord, to You I surrender my life,
right now I accept you Lord Jesus into my heart,
be Lord and Savior of my life,
take control of my life from now on. Amen!

If you have prayed this prayer, then we we woul like to get in touch with you, we want you to grow in your Christian life, we want to know your name, where you're from, we want to know you and what God has done in your life! Please get in touch with us, you will see our e-mail at the left side of this blog, read our blog in every opportunity you have and be encouraged of what God is doing here in Santiago City! Godblezyol!

God's Word

2008-03-23T15:33:00.002+08:00

God's word

It's been a long long week since we've blogged again, sorry to keep you all waiting, :D! In the past few weeks was just a battle for us all, we've been attacked from every angles of our lives. In our schools, homes, friends, in our church and in every part of our lives. You can feel that everyone in our youth group are not that on fire for the Lord, and that's also the reason that we're not blogging in the past few weeks. But praise God coz I know He has revived some of us, the service lately was great, Pastor Steven, leader of the 2nd british team, shared with us his testimony. Just a single word from the Lord can change your life you know, and the word of the Lord to me is "follow your heart", coz right now I'm in a crossroad, but praise God coz He has given me guidance in my life, but I'll still pray for it! :D

Ok, let's get back to our youth group. last week one of our youths in our church, her name is Helene, send us some article about the fellowship we've had with the 1st british team, which is led by Dr. John Andrews. Ok, so here it is...

Last Saturday Night(March 08, 2008), we conducted a great service. We have a visitor from England. Some of the members of the team shared their testimonies, then praise and worship. After the praise and worship, the British team presented a presentation that gives a moral lesson; that life is tiring especially when your daily chores are the same, you're restless but you'll never grow weary when you're doing it all for the Lord, :D. Then after the presentation of the team, our youth group also presented a presentation, hehe, it is called "unity". The British team enjoyed our presentation. Then after all the presentations, we listened to the WORD OF GOD. Marcos, one of the British team, shared it with us. His sharing was all about David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17). But what are the reasons why David won the battle? First, David knew who he was. He went to the battle with no swords or anything that can protect himself from his enemy, because he never idolizes his brothers who were warriors, DAVID is DAVID. Secondly, he knew his purpose; he went to battle because his purpose is to win against his opponent who never knew how to respect God. Third, he knew who God was, he knew the real God. the God who will guide, will protect, and will help him through the battle. David entrusted his life and strength to God that's why he defeated Goliath. The God of David is indescribable; words can't express nor describe HIM. I can say that HE is unique.

God is our:
COMFORTER
SAVIOR
PROTECTOR
REDEEMER
FRIEND
TEACHER
BEST FRIEND
GOD
FATHER
GIVER
BROTHER
LOVER
ENCOURAGER
HE IS FAITHFUL
HE IS MERCIFUL
etc...

And many more to describe God and in words of encouragements of Marcos, our strengths grew, we've ahd an altar call, even if I didn;t went in front, I can still feel the presence of God. And He spoke to me. He listens to me when I talk to Him, He comforted me and gave me a word that even whatever you describe Him, He said that,
I am your shield, your very great reward. WOW!!! Great indeed I knelt as a sign of humbleness and repentance also. While I'm crying, I can feel Him comforting me. And when I scan the Bible, the verse was familiar, and I have read it already in Genesis 15: 1, "do not be afraid I am your shield, your very great reward." And I want to raise His name because in the following day, I still can feel His words on me, that whatever persecutions, He is my shield, and He helps me in explaining the truth to those who persecutes me, and they were silent because they don't have anything to say. I'm so thankful for the things that He had given me I'm very happy for all the things He had done to my life. Work through His ways and everything will be fine.

(Supporting verses: Genesis 21: 22, Exodus 14: 14, Proverbs 16:3)

Isn't that great! Finally we've had youths who are already sending us their testimonies! :D, praise God! but still pray for us, especially our walk with Jesus. :D

This Aprill 22-24 we will be having our Sectional Youth Camp, whooo we're all excited! It will be held at Darioc Hills, Balintocatoc, Santiago City and the registration is 200 pesos per person! Pray for us that many will come in our camp, that it will be organized, and many will be touched and revived by God, we believe that God will do great things in that event!

P.S. (For the british team - Dr. John Andrews)
We miss you all, and we're looking forward seeing you again in the future! haha, :D,

God Bless to all and have a blessed day

For God's Glory

2008-02-24T23:21:00.010+08:00

For God's Glory

Just got some testimony here from our youths who are waking up every morning @ 5 am to pray, to seek the Lord's face, and to intercede for our youth group and for the youths here in Santiago! Hope that you'll be encouraged and be blessed by what God is doing here in our youth group! So here it is, it is written by Normene :D, this is kinda short but you'll be blessed...

February 8, 2008

At 5am, ate Leizel, ate Rhea and I woke
up. We only knew that every 5 am we will have a
prayer intercession individually, but
what happened is that we pray as a
group. The presence of the Lord was there,
the Holy Spirit led us to pray, we were
crying when we pray. And I feel that
we were fighting with the bad spirit
that is surrounding us. And we know that
God is with us helping us to pray. And
for me, that day, our prayers is a
big help for myself, for my studies.
There's a reason why I slept at ate
Rhea's house. And praise the Lord coz
we're still on fire...

Isn't that great! It's amazing that it was just a couple of months ago, I think it was July last year, that the two of these young people here, Rhea and Normene, aren't that active in the church, but now, they are attending our prayer meetings, intercession, youth services, Sunday services, serving the Lord and on fire for God, see what God is doing...not just only them but there's a couple of youths who wants to be and are being changed, transformed, molded and being used by God, for His glorious work and for His glory! :D, To God be all the glory!

Just a couple of hours ago, after our morning service in the church, we have brought down all the musical instruments in our office, 2nd floor, coz we are just renting the 4th floor of the building we are gathering for our service. Usually after that we immediately go back to our homes to get a little rest for our night service, but this day, something was different. After we brought all the instruments down, there's something within us that drives us to setup the place before we go home. We've setup the place a little bit and then we've decided that we'll sit down for a while coz we're tired too, haha, then we began to chat and talk about the preaching in the morning service, we were talking about what is happening in our church, in our ministries, in our lives, as we were chatting and talking, the Holy Spirit began to lead us to pray, the Holy Spirit just led Micko to lead us in prayer, God reminded Micko what he is, what we are in our past situations in the church, when we were still not that good in playing the instruments, singing and everything else. how we were so excited everytime we will have our practice in the worship team, our youth fellowships, our love with each other and our Sunday services...forget about all the skills, the talents and the abilites God has given you. Even if you are good at something it is not just worth it without the presence of God, without doing it with love, without being excited about it, it is not just that worth it...

...and that's the bottomline of it, what's the sense of having an excellent musical praise & worship moment without the presence of God, what's the sense of having a fellowship/service without the presence of God, it is not just worth it! So we decided to begin it within the 3 of us. We began to see what we really want, we want the presence of God above all else, in our lives, in our worship, in our church, in our fellowships and in everything that we do. Coz we want revival in our lives, in our family, in our relatives, in our friends, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our state, in our government, in our city, in our country and in our world. Revival is coming and revival starts with an individual who is willing to pay the price to see God move in his life, in his family, in everything that is around him! So I encourage you dear reader, live for the Lord all the days of your life and give Him all the glory and honor He alone deserves!

"if my people,

who are called by my name,

will humble themselves and pray and seek my face

and turn from their wicked ways,

then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin

and will heal their land."

II Chronicles 7:14

Godblezyol! Have a blessed Day! :D

His Faithfulness

2008-02-18T20:38:00.006+08:00

He is Faithful

Finally, got the time to blog again, it's almost 3 weeks since we havent been blogging, haha! :D, looking back 3 years ago, the church started with just purely adults, haha, no youths! :D, but our former youth pastor prayed to God to give him 5 youths, and yes, God has given him 5 youths and that's the start. And after that, the number of our youth group is growing, we have brought more youths in our church through the use of our Cornerstone Basketball Team w/c is led by a Christian coach, we've brought more than 40 young people[pure guys only, haha], we are jogging every saturday morning [5 am] from the city proper to Sefton Village, that is about 6 km far, :D and in summer we are jogging 2 times and then 3 times a week. We are fully prepared for the coming tournament[Christian basketball tournament], haha, but we've just only won 2nd place, huhu! but that's ok, and after the tournament, all of the youths in our basketball team backed out :(, saying that "there is no uniform so we'll just gonna leave" :(, and that's not ok, it's a sad thing but that's the truth, only 12 remained including our coach...after a month, we are slowly decreasing, from 12 youths to 6 youths. Got me thinking, if we have just been concerned for souls back then, those youths would have not backed out you know, 34 youths would've been here right now serving the Lord :(, but don't be sad, God is not finished yet...

...several months have passed, God is slowly increasing our number from 6 to 9, 9 to 11 and then 11 to 12 active youths. our church back then was 3 years old. And after that, things began to change, some positive and some negative, :D. there has been a reorganization in our church and also in the daughter churches and our youth pastor have been assigned to another church, but God has provided us with one :D, isn't that great, glory to God only. Using some calculations in the past 3 years, 12 youths divided by 3 years = 4 youths a year, haha! ok, you can laugh out loud :D, haha. but now, God is still increasing our number, from 12 active youths to 17 active youths, isn't that great and a year ain't over yet, we will increase! :D, Glory to God.

I know God is faithful and His words will never come back to Him void. In our 1st overnight prayer meeting[last year], God has given ate Che a vision, an outline of what's about to happen in this year, and one of it is, that the start of the thousand, as prophesied to our church by pastor Rick Zachary, is right now, this year, 2008. remembering our vision[as a whole church], "A Church, Prepared for the Out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, for a Greater Harvest." We are preparing for this year, for the typhoon, for everything that's about to happen this year, physically, emotionally, socially, financially, spiritually and especially for the coming Revival.

Revival is coming, and it will come. God will deal first in His church and then to the people outside the church. will you be ready?, are you willing to be a part of this revival?, are you willing to pay the price?, are you willing to surrender everything to God?, are you Christian enough?, 99.99% is useless! So we encourage you dear reader, continue, hold on to the faith that God has given you, to the promises He has for you, fight for Him, live for Him only, prepare yourself, be a blessing and make a change! To God be all the glory, honor, and power! Godblezyol!

2008

2008-01-27T21:34:00.000+08:00

"A Generation, prepared for the coming revival"

Yup, that's our vision for 2008, almost the same as our vision as a whole church. :D, last year we've got visions from the Lord, for the whole church, one of them is that the year of 2007 is a year of peace, and yes it is, and also one of them is that this year, 2008, there will be a typhoon that's gonna hit our church, not a physical typhoon that's gonna wreck down houses, and everything on it's way but a spiritual typhoon. And right now we're at the wind of that typhoon, :D, coz right now we're beginning to experience persecutions, individual problems, misunderstanding, relationships broken and many more but God has a promise for us, like an eagle, excitedly waiting for that typhoon to come so that we can soar higher.

I believe that God is beginning to lay down the foundations in our church right now, that He is beginning to shake everything that can be shaken, so that He can put the right people, at the right place, and at the right time at His church. We're excited, at the same time frightened. :D, Excited, coz this will be one of the greatest year of our lives, a year of preparation, a year of dependency to God, a year of breakthrough, a year to come up higher, a year of God's glorious works, a year of humbleness, a year of a higher level of faith, anointing, ministry, a year of multiplication, a year of love, a year of unity, a year that's only Jesus will be glorified, and a year of revival. But, just like pastor Marlou said, who will be there to back us up through this typhoon, who will endure, who will be faithful to the Lord, who is willing to take the risk, who is willing to GIVE UP his dreams, his ambitions, his life, his everything TO GO UP.

Just right after the service, we've headed back home, and then get some money and headed in a sari-sari store. We've seen some youths at each of the corner of the streets as we were buying, you can see some of them drinking beers, smoking cigarretes, and etc., one youth approached us, our neighbor, after seeing my wounds after the accident that I've had[a motorbike accident], he began to say bad words, and he said that we should not let this happen to me, that we should also beat the person that have done this to me not knowing that I've had a motorbike accident. But as you look into the eyes of these youths, you can see that they need Jesus, they really need Jesus! But what are we doing as Christians? We should be going out there, snatching them out of darkness! But instead we choose to be at our comfort zone, we choose not to take the risk, we choose to be we, not Christ! If you are reading this right now and your present situation is like this, then this is for you!

What are the things that holds you back so that Jesus can work in you, so that you can reach out your neighbor, your friends, your schoolmates, and your family: Is it that your ashamed? Is it that you think that they will think of you like a weirdo, or out of your mind, or crazy? Is it your reputation? Or is it that your too shy? WAKE UP! Can't you see this dying generation? You must start the change in you, don't wait, don't expect somebody to do that first, It must start in you! God doesn't need your 99.9%, He needs your 100% cooperation with Him! You need to give up your habits, vices, wants, needs, your heart, mind, your time, your body, your strength, your talents, your ambitions and dreams! You've got to give your ALL to Jesus, all means that there will be no excemptions. so that God can work in you, in your family, in your friends, in your school and in your neighborhood! Coz when you begin to move, everything around you will move!. Do not wait for tomorrow, the right time is NOW. Coz now is the right time to make a change, to stand for God, to stand for your family, for your neighborhoods, for your friends, for your relatives, for your school, for your generation! Do not let yourself do what the devil tells you to do! Instead you must tell the devil what he should do! Stand up for your generation, make a change, make an impact, reach out your family, your relatives, your friends, your neigborhood, your school, your barangay, your city, your nation and the whole earth!
STAND UP! PRAY! and MAKE A CHANGE!

Moving

2008-01-17T18:09:00.000+08:00

Moving

We have just started our first cell group meeting, January 16, 2008, for the leaders of our youth group. It was great, all of us testified what God has done in our lives and everyone is encouraged. As our cell group goes on, the Holy Spirit led us to worship God and then to pray for each other, mainly to the leaders who have prayer requests. Some of us have been discouraged and spiritually dry in the past few days, but God moved and touched us! Some of us have seen visions, and we know that it is from God!

And now, God is really moving in our youth group. We just have started our Campus Ministry in AMACC, and in La Salette College and it is great, God is really blessing us. We're praying that we'll also have a campus ministry in STI, ULSHS, SICAT, Santiago City National Highschool, NC, IJMS, AMACLC, Sable, and other public and private schools. Please pray for us as we start this ministry in every school[some schools are catholic], coz we just don't want this ministry to be ordinary, we want this ministry to be a vessel of God's honor, glory, blessing, power, and where the Holy Spirit can move freely and most specially a place we're youths will lay down their lives at the foot of the Cross!

And one thing more, God is opening up more doors for us. Right now, one of the teachers of our youth in AMACC is requesting her student, one of our youth, to share God's word at De Vera's Hospital this friday, January 18, 2008. Isn't that great, please pray for her! :D, and we're praying for more leaders and God is raising up more leaders and we're so glad that God is really moving in our lives! There's nothing better than living your life for the Lord you know! :D, Have an extraordinary blessed day! :D, Godblezyol!

"Let us not become weary in doing good,

for at the proper time we will reap a harvest

if we do not give up."

Galatians 6:9

God of Many Chances

2008-01-14T09:39:00.000+08:00

God of Many Chances

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23, we can't deny that we are all sinners: liars, gossipers, idolaters, sexually immoral, and all of the like [see Galatians 5:19-22, I Corinthians 6:9-10, Revelation 21:8] and it is said in Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death,..." Not Just death in the body, but everlasting death of our souls in hell, were there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! But God is a God of many chances!!!

"though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand" Psalm 37:24. Sometimes we, Christians, can't stop from sinning and the guilt we feel is so great that we feel like we can't go on for the Lord. But God is a God of many chances, even if we fall 7 times we will rise again 7 times over, "for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,.." Proverbs 24:16. God upholds us and no one can can snatch us out of His hands. "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand." John 10:28

If you feel like you can't go on for the Lord, remember His words, His promises to you. He is faithful, "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6, and He will finish what He has started in you. Take heart brother/sister, remember that we have a good God and He is faithful, He forgives, He hears, He molds, He changes, He transforms us! But we must learn from the past and from others mistakes and we should move on, we must press on for the Lord. As Paul said, "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14, Press on brother, press on, God is faithful!

"being confident of this,

that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion

until the day of Christ Jesus."

Philippians 1:6

Reviews

2008-01-11T22:45:00.000+08:00

Reviews

There's a couple of amazing things that God has done in our youth group in the past days and we haven't posted it here in our blog so here are some reviews of it. We hope that you'll be encouraged and be blessed of what God is doing here in our youth group! :D

First, last January 2, 2008 - we've got the apportunity to pray for those who are sick in our regular hospital visitation every wednesday. It was great, many youths have joined and prayed for those who are sick. I remembered one youth [an unbeliever] saying that, "It's cool to be a Christian, praying for those who are sick and helping them, I want to be a Christian also." something like that, but isn't that great, God is really at work in our lives! To God be all the glory! :D

The second is, we've got our CCS Generations Leaders swimming fellowship, it's great but there is one thing that bothers my mind -- what have gone into their minds that they want to have a swimming fellowship, ignoring the fact that it is so so so cold at the month of January -- :D, what do you think? But it has been a great day, we've had fun and laughters all day long, hehe! :D, and it's also amazing that we have afforded the entrance and the cottage, coz frankly the money I've got on that day is only 40 pesos, whew, that's why it is amazing! :D, Yes, the Lord will provide! :D

Amazing

2008-01-04T19:59:00.000+08:00

Amazing

First of all, we've just got our Cornerstone Church Santiago Blogsite running these past few days, the link is in Our Favorite Links [to your left then down]! don't forget to check it out! :D

Looking at the past events, it's so amazing what God has done and has been doing on each and everyone of our youths! Seeing them transformed, revived and so very on fire for the Lord is just so great! I'm so amazed how God put all things together - at the last day of our camp, we've just got our open forum [CCS Generations leaders] @ 5 am. There, God worked in our midst, hearts expressed with each other, and especially relationships redeemed. - I thank God coz He is at work in our lives, within the relationships between every leaders. I know God will do even greater things this 2008 in our youth group, in our church and in every church that loves God.

We've just made a video of what God has done in our camp at Sefton Fire Center.

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy,

to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God

- this is your spiritual act of worship. "

Romans 12:1

Revived

2007-12-31T15:07:00.000+08:00

Revived

Rest at last! It's a very tiring week, the camp is over and we're all here waiting for new year to come! The pre-camp was so very memorable, eventhough there are only 6 pastors who have handled over 100 youths in the camp, it was successfull! And the last night of the camp was the best night we've ever had! From the beginning of the day, we just know in our hearts that God will do something great that night, and we can't wait about it! From the beginning of the revival night, we can feel God's presence as we worship Him, after that, Pastor Marlou preached about intimacy with God - Genesis 5:21-24 - and after he preached he showed a video to us, here it is:

While it is being showed to us, many youths even pastors have been moved by this video, it's about the prophecy of Cindy Jacob to the Philippines! And Pastor Marlou called for an altar call, while we were playing 'Hear Us From Heaven', almost all of the youths responded to the call! Wow! The presence of God is just so great in our midst that night! Every youth who have responded, cried out to the Lord, everyone has been touched! Some have been delivered! But all of us have been revived! I am just so happy seeing every youth in our youth ministry revived and so very on fire for the Lord! I couldn't express how much gratitude I want to say to my Lord and Savior for what He has done to our ministry! After so many trials and discouragements that we have encountered, God is still and will always be faithful to anyone who remains faithful in Him! I just want to thank God for all the things He has done to us! For the pastors He has given to us! For everything, for everything!

"Give thanks to the Lord,

call on His name;

make known among the nations what He has done."

I Chronicles 16:8

Sectional Youth Pre Camp 2007

2007-12-10T22:11:00.000+08:00

Sectional Youth Pre Camp 2007

Can't wait after Christmas Day, coz we will have our pre camp! Whoo, I'm so excited! Remembering all the camps that I've attended, all the things that we've done while in the camp; workshops, having fun, games, sports, meeting new faces, making friends with other people, praising and worshipping God, hearing His word, and especially encountering Him in a special way! I'm excited of what's about to happen in that event! I am just so excited!

If you are from Isabela, section 4, we invite you to our pre camp this december 26 - 28, 2007! Expect that you will encounter God in this event, every youth needs Jesus! Invite your friends with you! Be blessed and be challenged in our camp! Have a blessed day! Godblezyol!

What: Sectional Youth Pre Camp 2007

Theme: "Intimacy With God"

When: December 26 - 28, 2007

Where: Sefton Village, Divisoria, Santiago City, Isabela

Registration Fee: P150 + 1 ganta of rice [2 kilos of rice] or P200

Email us: CCS_Generations@yahoo.com.ph

Contact #: +639093020911

2008 and our Youth Service

2007-11-30T10:08:00.000+08:00

2008 and our Youth Service

God is so good! We've just had our first Cornerstone Main overnight prayer meeting from 8:00 pm of November 29 to 5 am of November 30, and our main purpose is to have a direction for 2008, I'm glad to be there! We've waited for the vision that God will give us for 2008, we've worshipped God, we prayed in the scripture, we've prayed for Philippines, we've done soaking! At 2 am we started soaking and God has given us revelations at that time! Almost all of us, we are more than 20, have received revelations then we wrote it down in a paper! Just like at what is said in in Proverbs 29:18 -- "Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;..." and we thank God for the revelation that He have given to each and everyone of us in our prayer meeting! Then after our prayer meeting, some of us slept and I am one of them! :D, actually I am the last one to wake up! hehehe!

Then, last saturday we've had our meeting at 6 pm! There, we've formed our vision for 2008, we've compiled all of the revelations we've got from God then we construct it in a sentence, there are 4 constructed sentences, then there is a votation then one is picked! Now, our leaders are checking it! Praise God!

We have just started our regular Youth Service every saturday at 3 pm! Well from our first youth service, just like what is done every Sunday service, we've had praise and worship, testimonies, offering, and especially the Word of God! In the past two services that we've had, It was great! God moved in our midst, after I have preached and called for an altar call [not I but God -- To God be all the glory], in my amazement, everyone came to the front [12 youths in our first service & 13 youths in our second service], then I prayed for them -- eventhough there is no crying there, and I don't know if they are touched deeply by God but I know that every week, things just keeps getting better and better! So, I encourage you, dear reader, to attend our youth service! Expect that you'll be touched by God! We'll also invite pastors and leaders to share, so be excited and be blessed! Everyweek, every saturday, be there or you'll miss one of the best days of your life! So be there and be blessed by what is doing in our youth services! Godblezyol!

P.S. Don't forget also to attend our Sunday Services, 9:00 am to end then 6:00 pm to end!

Revival

2007-10-28T20:45:00.000+08:00

Revival

First of all, I praise God because He revived me last week! coz last last week I've got this great battle within me, a battle between my flesh and the spiritual side of me! But I've learned so much last week from that battles! First, ALWAYS READ YOUR BIBLE - matthew 4:4 "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" - we must always read our bible so that our spirit will always have strength "for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against authorities, against powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" Ephesians 6:12. second is, PRAY - because in it we will defeat the devil, these two are very important, why? just like what have been texted to me, 'which is more important?' a little boy asked his grandfather 'to read the bible or to pray?' then the man replied 'which is more important to a bird, his right wing or his left wing?' - both are very important, they could never be separated in order for us to win, third is we must always put on the whole armore of God explained in Ephesians 6:10-18! so I encourage you dear reader to always read your Bible, Pray, and put on the Whole Armor of God! :D, and lastly Trust God, it is said in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all yor ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." :D

And also about revival, last monday me and my younger brother, joboy, have gone to micko's house, it's like we are led by the Holy Spirit to go there, then we've just chatted about church and about our spiritual life! We have shared things from our hearts, our concerns, our burdens and we've learned so much, and after a while we felt that the Holy Spirit wants to do something that night, so I've taken the guitar then I begin to play, then little by little our chit chat have gone to worship so we worshipped God witht the melody I am playing, then after that we are led to pray! so we prayed for our Church, for our Ministry (youth ministry), for our Pastors and Leaders! Then the Holy Spirit led me to pray for every school/university and the members of our youth group who are schooling in every school/university! We've prayed that God will equip each and everyone of us, and we prayed that God will revive us so that we will bring revival in our school/university! We've battle against the enemy, we've cast them out, we've rebuked them, we've cancel all their works through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! after that Micko and Joboy have seen visions, Micko have seen us, there are 4 of us: Micko, Joboy, Jonas and me, praying in the toddlers room wearing white long sleave shirts and the place is so very radiant and even our faces! Then after a while Micko have seen another vision, it's like a continue of it, zooming out from the toddlers, he have seen youth who are dressed like us, not just in the building but up to the streets! Wow! then he saw a buddha, with red eyes, he said that it is demonic! And to Joboy, he have seen dandan standing in the stage where the Philippine Anthem is being conducted evey morning in their school, and joboy said that dandan is on fire in that vision! Amen! then another is he saw himself and ate Leizel sharing the Gospel of Christ in their school! Amen again! then another is he saw Ronafe, when I have said STI while we were praying a while ago in that time, then he saw haribol[a group of young people, aske me about this and I'll reply in the comments section] some are standing and some are on their knees, crying! Amen! and also Micko and Joboy have seen an eye[red] it is like spying on us! Praise God for every vision that He has given us last monday! We are not afraid coz God is with us, but we need also your prayers there reader! We must help each other!

Now is the time to fight, I am fed up of defending! We must step up, we must move, we must conquer, we must win! If God is with us who can be against us! Isabela is for Christ, Luzon is for Christ, Philippines is for Christ! To God be all the glory!

Godblezyol!

CCS Generations

Universities

2007-10-09T22:42:00.000+08:00

University Invasion

Hi there to all, it's been a long time since we've posted things here in our blog site! It is just so great, so very uplifting, so very...I can't explain what I'm feeling right now! All I know is that I am so happy, oh this joy that I'm feeling right now! God is just so very great! This feeling when you see your fellow Christian working together, seeing them victorious in their lives, seeing them growing in their spiritual life, seeing youths saved, transformed and molded by our Lord, Jesus Christ! I am so speechless of how God works in our lives! Whoo! :D

Well for the past weeks! Remember our blog about the 60 young people? Well about that, it's not 60 anymore but now "THE WHOLE SCHOOL IS INVOLVED!!!!" Whoo! Praise Jesus! Wow! Cause City High [a school here in Santiago] will be having their recollection at the Fire Center, Sefton Village! That's every Saturday! We've just started last week for the 4Th year high school students, many lives were touched last week, many opened their hearts and invited Jesus into their lives! Almost 300 youths have attended! Well that's not over yet, this Saturday, the 3rd year high school students are next in line, their population is 600 then another 600 for the 2Nd year high school students and 700 for the 1st year high school students! Wow! GOD is just so so so so so so so GREAT! God really moves in mysterious ways! I am so speechless!

"This is just the beginning!" as the Lord showed a vision to ptr. Marlou about Northeastern College! Yesterday, October 9, 2007, I didn't expect that youths will attend our prayer meeting! I believe that everything happens for a reason and God has a reason why we were there! That night, we watched the prophecy of Cindy Jacob about Philippines, then we prayed for Philippines! Then that night God impressed to ptr. Marlou's heart that we [young people] should be prayed! As we were being prayed, the Holy Spirit moved and then God touched each and everyone of us, some were slain, crying, on their knees, etc.! And God showed a vision to ate Che, that God will invade La Sallete high school! God will really invade every school and university here in Santiago! God is really moving right now in our lives! He is preparing each one of us for the Revival that God will do here in the Philippines! I don't want to be an audience! I want to be a part of this great revival!

Please pray for us, as we live life by the will of God! Have a good day! Godblezyol!

Our Vision!

2007-09-25T20:44:00.000+08:00

A Christ-Centered Generation

Last three weeks we, leaders of our youth group, are forming our vision! each one of us have given the burdens that GOD have planted in our hearts! We shared, we talk about the burdens that GOD have given to each of us, and after each one have given their burden/s, each one of us constructed the vision! from the 14 constructed vision, we chose 1 and reconstructed it! and after that, we have given it to ate Tin to check it! after ate Tin have checked it, she suggested that our vision be "A Christ-Centered Generation"! :D And last saturday I presented it to our youth group and they all agreed! Amen! Isn't that great! :D

Nothing is impossible to GOD! I know, even in this dark and wicked world, GOD can raise up youths, youths who will turn their back at the devil, youths who will make a stand for this generation, youths that will be an example to their friends, to their family, to their school, to everyone, youths that will impact this city, this country, this world and youths who will fight for Jesus till the very last beat of their hearts! I know GOD is able to do all these things, nothing is impossible to Him! I have full confidence in GOD that He can change every individual in this world, you, me and everyone! Nothing is impossible to Him! Nothing!

GOD is so great you know! He is blessing us, not only spiritually but also in quantity, GOD is just so very amazing! But this is our prayer, that we will be "A Christ-Centered Generation"!

What's coming up!

2007-09-07T22:37:00.000+08:00

What's Coming Up!

What's coming up on Generations Youth Santiago?

Artworks
Poems
Song Compositions
Testimonies
Sermons
Pictures
Special Events
Camps
And many more....

Be encouraged and be blessed of what God is doing here in Generations Youth Santiago! Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." have a blessed weekend! Godblezyol!

Our 3rd Year Anniversary Celebration

2007-09-02T21:04:00.000+08:00

Cornerstone Church 3rd Year Anniversary Celebration

What a day! What a wonderful Sunday we've had! Over 1000 adults, youths and children have attended our 3rd year anniversary celebration! WOW! What a day you know! We've had a wonderful praise and worship, testimonies, the word of God and SOULS SAVED! whooo! Amen! almost, I think, there are almost 50 who have given their lives to Jesus Christ! Whoo! Praise God! This is truly a wonderful day! Amen! Ok by the way our guest speaker is Ptr. Rick Zachary from USA, an amazing man of God! He's a great preacher! :D well he talked about "Vision" and his Bible reference is in Habakkuk 2:1! You know it is really the word of God to us! Cause presently we, Generations, don't have a vision! We are still praying for it, we want it to really come from God and not from us, cause we want the best for our youth group not the second best! We want what God wants for our youth group! We want the world to see that Jesus is in us, that He is living in us! We want God to work in our lives, in our friends lives, in our neighbors lives, in our schools, in everything that surrounds us! We want to make a change in this generation! We want what God wants for our youth group! You know, I am so thankful that God have surrounded us with leaders, not just leaders but righteous, passionate and Spirit filled leaders! Cause when we see them we are encouraged to go on for God! We want to say, from the bottom of our hearts, that we are so blessed because of you[our pastors, our leaders]! We want to say that you are truly a blessing to us, you are the one whom God uses to change and mold our lives! We're so thankful! We pray that God will bless in every angle of your life - physically, in health, socially, intellectually, emotionally, financially and especially spiritually! We just want to say that we are so grateful of having you! We love you all so much! Oh, we're getting sooooo emotional, hehehehe! Ok, that's enough, but we are truly grateful of having you, we're serious! :D OK! we'll that's just the 1st part of the service! We've had our lunch, that's our 2nd part! And the third part of our celebration is a presentation of each church and ministry! San Isidro, Nagassican, HMCH[Helga Mosey Children's Home], PHKC[Powerhouse Kids Club], Ushering Ministry and our Youth Ministry have had its each presentation, it's great! and we've also had parlor games for the kids and we've played basketball afterwards! It is such a great day we've had! We're glad to be a part of this church! We're so grateful that God have brought us in here, that God have saved us in an early age, that God have given us hope and a future, that God is using each of everyone of us, that God have given us righteous, passionate and Spirit filled leaders! We're all so grateful, to our leaders and especially to God! We hope you have been blessed of what have happened today to our church! To you, dear reader, may you find also what God have in store for you! Have a blessed week to all of us! Godblezyol!

Email: CCS_Generations@yahoo.com.ph

CP #: +639104302125

Chikka: 004966475

Generations

60 Youths

2007-08-31T22:59:00.000+08:00

Praise Jesus For That 60

God is so Good! He don't just want to bless us in quality[Spiritual life] but also in quantity! It was our Cornerstone Church main meeting last last friday, in ate Ellen's house! The meeting was almost over but ate Glenda approached and asked me if I have the video that Pastor Sur showed to us on our last youth camp, then I said yes, [cause she is there also in the last night of our camp] cause the video was saved on the laptop that we use in our church services every sunday! Then she began to tell the situation, coz ate Glenda is a teacher in City High[SICAT] here in Santiago, and the subject that she is teaching to her students is Values! She has one class that in every word that she say, her class is moved! Wow! She is sharing things about God, about Jesus and her class is somewhat interested! She asked her class if they want to go to our church, on one of our youth fellowships, and with great eagerness the students said YES! Whoo! Wow! How great is our God you know! What a blessing! What a great priviledge to share the Gospel of Christ to that 60 youths! Imagine if all of those 60 will confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, believe in their hearts that He is risen from the dead and accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior! Wow! whoo! I am so excited what God will do on that special day! Whooo! I can't wait! I am just so very excited! We are planning to show the video and share Jesus' Gospel to them on September 8, 2007! We hope and pray that God will just move in the place where we will gather! That God will not just save one soul but SIXTY souls! "that none should perish" II Peter 3:9! So we ask for your help dear reader that God will just move on that special day! That you will be a part of this great harvest! We pray that God will bless you as you pray and finish what God have started in you! We hope that you are encouraged and blessed of what God is doing here in our youth group! Praise be to God and to Him be all the glory and honor! Whoo! have a blessed day! Godblezyol!

Email: CCS_Generations@yahoo.com.ph

CP #: +639104302125

Chikka: 004966475

Generations

3 Years

2007-08-30T22:09:00.000+08:00

3 years

Whoo! praise be to God, it is our church's 3rd yr anniversary celebration! It will be celebrated at Sefton Fire Center, Divisoria, Santiago City, Isabela @ 9 in the morning! looking back, in the past 3 yrs, I can see my life, our lives changed! It is amazing what God have done and has been doing in our lives for the past 3 yrs! so many things have happened, ups and downs! But God always demonstrates His power to us! God provides, encourages, heals and do miraculous things in our lives and the people around us! God is so great! About our youth group, for the past 3 yrs! it has been a struggle to us, cause from the start of our youth group and in the present we only have 15 key leaders and active members! :( but now we are starting again! we are praying that God will give us the vision, mission and goal that He wants for our youth group! God is really moving into our lives in the past few months! day by day He is changing us! we are getting active into our fellowships, participating in the Powerhouse Kids Club, Ushering, Worship Team, in Sunday Services and many more! I am so thankful that God have given us hope, future and a perfect life, life with Jesus! It's really amazing what God is doing into our lives! We hope that our blog will encourage and bless you with what God is doing here in the Youth of Cornerstone Church Santiago! May you also, dear reader, have hope and life through Jesus Christ our savior! Thank You for reading our blog! Have a blessed day! Godblezyol!

Email: CCS_Generations@yahoo.com.ph

CP#: +639104302125

Chikka: 004966475

Generations