Colors of Cornerstone & Cornerstone 5th Anniversary Celebration

Colors of Cornerstone
and
Cornerstone 5th Anniversary Celebration

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

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

Have a blessed day. God Bless!

Youth Service United

Youth Service United

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


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










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










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










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

Blessings for CCS Main Generations, :D

Net is back again. :D

Net is back again. :D

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

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

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

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

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

For Greater Things Are Yet To Come...

For Greater Things
Are Yet To Come...

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

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