Fishnets Ministry to Compostela Valley

As part of our youth mission camp, our young people from Metro Manila visited areas in Compostela Valley that was greatly affected by typhoon Pablo last December. Five months after the disaster, you can still feel the anguish, BUT they are rising up, slowly they try to live a normal life.

list of names of the victims, some of the bodies were found but most of them they didn't.

underneath this is a community now covered by stones, the land which was used for a living is now desolate.

A new church building being built, larger that the one that was destroyed by the typhoon. Meaning more people after the disaster are coming back to Christ, their faith renewed and is even stronger. Rise up New Bataan!!!

we distributed school supplies, thank you for those who responded to our call for support. How I wish we could give more but there is still next time.

 God bless all these kids. I pray and hope that someday I'll see you all again!!

Volunteers-Our Young People

Our DVBS (Daily Vacation Bible School) for our outreach church will start tomorrow and will last till' Wednesday. This afternoon 12 young people traveled from Manila to Nagcarlan, Laguna ( approximately 3 hours travel time) and will teach at least a hundred kids about Jesus in this year's outreach DVBS :)

(other volunteers  not in the picture )

We were indeed blessed to have such many young people that have the heart and compassion to reach the lost and share God's love. Young people who serves the Lord and ask nothing in return from the church.  I am a witness on how they love to be used in every opportunity and every chance they might be useful. Thank you Lord.

And oh how I wish to bless them also in return for their hard work and dedication, for their obedience and teachable hearts.

Most of them are our scholars and I really pray we could continue to support their studies this coming school year.  Two of them are graduating college students :) both are taking IT (and most likely jhave some knowledge  about ITIL. Some of them are only high school students and are being use by the Lord mightily. Thank you lord for giving our church such compassionate young people. Please keep them safe.

Keep the fire burning!

I am so blessed with what is happening with our youth ministry these days, the concert that took place last Sunday was just the beginning of the "fire" in their hearts and I hope they will keep it ablaze forever. Sure there will be tough times but I do hope everyone gets matured spiritually by then and will not backslide anymore.

Last Friday, I was there at their prayer vigil which was their first for this year and I was in awe and amazement when I heard all their testimonies and thanksgiving. Why wouldn't you be bless when you hear someone speak of his dark days as youth and now sharing how God has been good to him and to his family. I hope that from this group, no one has to stop going to school again, no one has to stow away from their parents, no one has to be involved in drugs, no one has to smoke monte cristo cigars or any kind at all.

But I pray that these young people will become great leaders of our church, of their communities and of our nation. God bless them!

Youth Service

I am going to speak to the youth service on the 24th of this month, this would be my first time to speak to youth as in teenagers. I'm used to speaking to young adults like twenty above because that's the age group I handled when I was still single. But now, I am going to speak to youth whose ages are fourteens, sixteens and maybe thirteen years old girls and boys.

I still do not know what to say, haven't picked up a topic yet. One thing for sure though, I will not talk on youthology issues or about staying young forever but I am thinking of talking about how can they be of help in the body of Christ even at their young age. I am also thinking and praying if it is the right time to talk about purity or true love waits or dating. I still have to wait for what God will tell me.

Please pray for me and for these young people, pray that i will only share what God has asked me to share and that they may get something from it.