Sectional Youth Camp 08

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

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

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

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