UPDATE from WCG PHILIPPINESWeb site: http://www.wcgmindanao.org March 29, 2002 FCL-2 On-going in Cagayan de Oro and Bacolod
CDO Youth is High School Valedictorian
She owes her achievements to her parents and above all, to God Almighty. The parents, Mr. & Mrs. Orly Micabalo are members of the pastoral team of the Cagayan de Oro local church. Mr. Micabalo works as the Operations Manager of Pepsi Cola, Cagayan de Oro branch. For Grace, "living a life with Christ" is what she would like to do. "We must not forget that our life is His gift to us and what we become is our gift to Him in return," she adds. --Charisse Faith Abao, Youth from WCG Cagayan de Oro Manila Church Member Passes the BarNefri Bargola-Abat, a member of the Manila Church, passed the recent bar examination. Atty. Abat is joined in her thanks to God for this success by her husband Romulo and their three children (another is on the way), parents Moses and Rose Bargola, and her brother and sisters. She finished her law studies at the University of Sto. Tomas. --Pete Melendez, Senior Pastor for Manila Church
Gerald Adornado of Davao City Church was baptized last March 24, 2002. Gerald is an active youth leader in this congregation. Also in Zamboanga City, Jennifer Magallanes was baptized this week. Congratulations and welcome to the Body of Christ! Kidapawan Brethren Begins Serving Sultan Kudarat New Brethren God's people in our fellowship in Purok Elisan Church and Pamantingan Outreach Bible Study (OBS) in Sultan Kudarat were thrilled and excited while in worship services for the first spring festival this year last March 24 in both areas. Around 25 people were in attendance in Pamantingan in the morning worship services where three members of the Kidapawan City Church gave meaningful messages. Around 40 people attended the afternoon worship services in Purok Elisan where important messages about our life in Christ were given by our Kidapawan brethren.
I did not expect the brethren in Kidapawan City to give meaningful messages to God's people in Sultan Kudarat but they did! Our new brethren in this province are and will be in good hands -- of the brethren in Kidapawan City. --Ptr. Eleazar Flores Manila Church "graduates" youth at Santa Ana children's class To cap the first segment of the children's outreach Bible class in Barangay 786, Santa Ana, Manila, 15 children (ages 5 to 10) were awarded certificates of attendance last Saturday, Mar. 23. The children had completed their lessons covering the Creation up to Moses' ministry in Egypt. Bible teacher Roman Saynes assisted Manila Church pastor Pete Melendez in awarding the certificates. Six parents/grandparents/guardians attended the ceremony. Mr. Melendez gave a brief message encouraging to parents to learn the Bible with their children. Refreshments were served after the graduation ceremony. "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you." (2 Thessalonians 3:1) |
As
of this writing, FCL-2 is both simultaneously on-going in two different sites.
One in Bacolod City for the Visayas leaders and another one in Cagayan de Oro
for the Mindanao leaders. Here in Cagayan de Oro, we have 65 leaders from all
over Mindanao attending this conference. As Area Coordinator for Mindanao, I am
happy that a lot more of them attended and they come from more local churches
and OBS areas even from far away Zamboanga. So far, we have covered today and
yesterday, the Old Testament as well as Leading the Church. The
leaders seem to be appreciative of what they are learning from this conference.
Beginning today, we will study the Ministry of Management. Other subjects
to be taught in this conference are Building Foundations for Life and Winning
in Spiritual Warfare. Some 26 participants will graduate once they finish
this conference. Please continue to pray for the success of all these
equipping sessions in both FCL sites.
Cagayan
de Oro City Church youth, Grace Ingrid Micabalo graduated top of her
batch at the Regional Science High School, Cagayan de Oro City. She also
bagged Best in Mathematics, Best in Science and the Leadership
Award. She will be taking up BS Chemistry at the University of the
Philippines, Diliman campus.
Baptisms
This Week
It
was the first time that the members of the Kidapawan City Church were able to
minister to God's people both in Purok Elisan Church and Pamantingan OBS. The
Kidapawan City Church has been recently assigned by the Mindanao Area
Coordinator to take care of these new brethren in these areas.