Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Christmas and New Year 2013!!!



We had a great time at the hot springs on New Year's Day









we hired a tricycle P200 to and from Mt. Balungao
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Merry Christmas 2013





We had pizza and spaghetti



our lovely new home

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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5-in-1 2013

The 5-in-1 year-end activity of the church.

1. Sunday Service at 8:00AM

2. Workshop and planning 1:00PM-5:00PM
 Fred sharing his recent trip to his devastated province in Leyte. The good news is that all the members of his immediate family are safe.He shared their survival stories and that he too was traumatized at the extent of the devastation that he saw there.

3.Christmas Party at JM Tsuki Japanese Restaurant


parlor games with Faye who's one of the winners


dinner time at 7:00PM


4. Young Christian's Honoring -Rhona, Jercel and Andrew


5. Birthday Celebration - Marie's Birthday


more parlor games -Paint me a picture game,can you guess this picture?


This is how to end an awesome party!!! 12MN

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Philippine Discipleship Conference 2013 PICC



Four days - the rule was to travel light as much as possible but we still ended up with 6 bags in tow!

Big thanks to my sister for the dresses lolz it was just in time!

Thursday! Oct. 24

Me and hubby joined the classes in the morning then we had rehearsals in the afternoon for the opening night.


Lessons:
"Be Faithful"
Doug Arthur
1. We must be people who are faithful to his words
2. We must be people who are faithful in sufferings
3. Be faithful until it is finished

"I love Integrity"
Guy Hammond
sharing personal testimony
1. private integrity
2. godly integrity

Opening Night



With performances by D4G and Sol Fernandez dance troupe
Balagtasan
songs by the song leaders with In Hymn Choir featuring new song from the new album In Hymn
message by Rolan Monje "Radical Discipleship" Servant by Choice
Psalm 40:6
Expanded Bible (EXB)
6 You do not want sacrifices and ·offerings [grain offerings; or gifts; tribute; Lev. 2:1].
But you have ·made a hole in [or pierced; L dug] my ear [C to make him hear better or perhaps a reference to the ritual that made one a slave forever; Ex. 21:6; Heb. 10:5–7].
You do not ask for burnt offerings [Lev. 1:1–17]
and ·sin [or purification] offerings [Lev. 4:3].

Friday Oct. 25
QT/Prayer time by the bay



classes I attended:

1.Conflict Resolution by Val Koha, Boston, USA
Mt 5:11,21,23 = anger is murdering your brother in your heart
1 Jn 3:15 = anyone who hates his brother is a murderer
Mt 12:33-37 = from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks...if we stored up bad things we spew out bad things
Rom 12:1 = we are the living sacrifices
2 Cor 5:17-20= becoming reconciled is more important that being "right"

2. Christ Courage
Ryan Racines Cebu
Mt 14:22-33
1. Take the risk to go out
2. Fear is not a factor
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
Jesus,if you say so I'll do it!
Ronald Mendres CDO
1.Get up and keep rising
2.God is in control,surrender

3. Shepherding God's flock
Keith & Lyn Rasmussen Albuquerque, USA
notes:

4. Strength in Weakness
Guy Hammond
http://www.strengthinweakness.org
We had gone over through the Pro-gay theology premise and arguments
The standard of love is God's love
Fight for our friendship
Divine Love

praise and worship 7:00-10pm



Saturday! Oct 26

1.Young Couples Class (1-5yrs) All we need is love
Anthony and Saun Galang ,Hawaii
the husbands
2.Pre-parenting & family planning Class
Keith and Lynne Rasmussen


Cabalen Lunch at Robinson's many thanks for the food! yummy



Family Dance and Album Launch 7:00-10pm


Sunday ! Oct 27

Sunday service and Calapan&Naga Mission Send-off!!!



Lunch together at KFC Buendia


Spent time with QC disciples and Papa at SM Noth Edsa


Sunday, October 6, 2013

Community Service- Jesus' Model

I have seen different approaches in reaching out to people to share the Good News about Jesus. It can be through cold contacts-people in the street, in mass transportation,fast food restaurants, parks, malls and other public places.It can also be through spending time with a group of friends or setting up a group activity to build a relationship with the people your trying to reach out to,may it be going to the movies or just hanging out.Another is through community service,much like Jesu's ministry.

When I moved to the province the cold contact method did not pan out.Most of the people I approached were scared or disinterested. Some would run away at the sight of the Bible,just recently I studied with someone in the mall who kept on pushing it away when I was showing a scripture,anyhow she let me do it.But it is not all in vain because when brothers and sisters from the missionary journey campaign came to invite people to attend the Sunday Service, someone responded in the person of Raymond Mora!

Our missionary team then decided to create more activities that will cater to the community and thus an avenue for proclaiming God's words.

Our first attempt was the feeding program held twice a week with the indigent and undernourished Kinder, Grade 1 and SPED students of the Lucena West I Elementary School. The program ran for the entire school year 2011 until March 2012. We saw close to 50 kids hurry to the HE (Home Economics) room with their moms to assist the volunteers in the first few weeks of the program.Attendance fluctuated and the moms did not reappear but we went on.

From that effort, the church have developed good dynamics with the school and it resulted with more programs.While volunteers are serving, God was making the seed grow in the heart of a teacher! Teacher Jercel , who would become one of the missionary's colleagues (Dianne who is now a DepEd teacher too). She was baptized in Christ today after about 2 years since the feeding program,October 6, 2013,which is also my birthday. Indeed it became a double celebration!



Another program that was sponsored by the church was the Health Through Awareness Seminar. It was conceived through the idea that people nowadays are more conscious about their health as more and more people are contracting dreadful diseases.We were joined by Dra. Milpa Fernandez (Anesthesiologist at Pangasinan Provincial Hospital) and Ms. Irene (Nutritionist-Dietitian at Lucena United Doctors Hospital and Medical Center). Renda's friend Elaine, who is a nurse was one of the volunteer nurses who helped obtain vitals of the attendees.She responded to God's call and became a disciple after a few months.Another volunteer nurse was her best friend Jennifer who followed suit soon after she got baptized.



Celebrating special events like Valentine's and church anniversaries were also geared towards having a great time with friends and families. In one of the Valentine's day themes, we had an acoustic performance,snacks and games. Friends of friends came and we were able to invite them again to other fun time activities until they became at ease with the group and a lot of them eventually studied the Bible.Unlike the others who didn't continue on, Erma and Rhona persisted. Renda had already invited Erma way way back to study the Bible but she didn't respond back then. However this second time around,she continued to take part in some of the activities in the church and invited her friends too, one of whom in turn invited Rhona who eventually became a disciple. Both just wanna have fun but in the process found the Lord, what a blessing!.





We still have a lot of activities and may God use them powerfully to reach out to people, not only meeting their needs on the outside but eventually find out that, God first and foremost want to draw them close to Himself.

If you want to join our community service or worship service,drop us a line at Metro Lucena Christian Church

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Learning English

My goal in writing posts under this Label (Learning English),since I cannot make a separate Page for it, is to gather helpful online resources that:

A Evaluate
1.)evaluate the level of English of the students who want to continue practicing English
2.)diagnostics for those who are just beginning to learn English as their second language.
3.)tools to evaluate learning after taking a certain course.

Evaluation is very important.It can help in determining the level of understanding and the materials or methodologies that need to be employed to aid learning.I believe that it will also help to motivate the learner.

B Guide
1.Provide links,resources of helpful tips based on evaluation results

My Favorite sites for level tests are the following:

1.Exam English   Free Practice Tests for learners of English

You have two level tests options: the Grammar & vocabulary level test and Listening level test. After getting your result,you can check to see what grammar you should know at each level.It's very useful because you'll know what to focus on in your English lessons.

2. ABAEnglish.com - Your  online English course for real life

This is a great website for learning English in your own pace through video classes,short movies,exercises and pronunciation practice using their LRC (Listen ,record and compare) speech recognition technology. Registration is free but to get full access of their tools you have to upgrade to Premium subscription. I had tried the free lessons and it was great! I didn't hear my voice though, during the playback of my recording,but I didn't bother to look into it anymore.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Girl,Usap Tayo -Women's Forum 091413

1. Registration Committee


2. Audience- about 35 friends,coworkers, relatives and sponsors



3. Program Proper- with guest speakers Dr. Jeanette Mendoza OB-Gyne,Prof. Gina Soriano and Ate Eden Lucero

4. Raffle and Early Bird Winners courtesy of Nail Talk services like back massage, foot spa and eye brow/upper lip threading and Personal Collection Products


5. Refreshment 


Food Committee

6. With the co-host -Elaine

7. Intermission -With Jen and Elaine



8.Appreciation


9.More Raffle - Gift Packs from Avon and Major Prizes from Human Nature






10. Free samples of feminine pads from LongRich