Long Time No Blog.....

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

It's All Or Nothing

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

Godbless

Colors of Cornerstone & Cornerstone 5th Anniversary Celebration

Colors of Cornerstone
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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