Cebu Buildings

We're back from Cebu, renewed and rested. I'll be posting some our pictures soon but let me give you a glimpse of what Cebu looks like. The Cebu sans the tourist spots.

Here are random pictures of Cebu buildings, some of it were taken as we are cruising inside a cab, and most of the pictures were taken by my dearest husband. There is a beautiful one which looks like some kind of steel buildings at the reclamation area which unfortunately we forgot to take picture. It is I believe the Cebu International Convention Center, for Cebuanos reading my blog please correct me if I’m wrong.

The Marco Polo Hotel

Cebu Provincial Capitol building

Robinsons

Cebu City Hall

Golden Peak Hotel

Thankful Thursday

Undeserved Kindness
Unmerited Favor

Father, I know I don’t deserve such kindness but you have shown me more than enough, you loved me and you continue to shower me with your love even when I am not worthy. Thank you Lord for your unconditional love. Everyday, I feel your warmth embrace through the people around me, my friends, family and especially from my husband. I can’t thank you enough Lord for your faithfulness, for providing for our every need, for just being there all the time.

I love you.

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For more thankful souls, head on to Laurie's blog.

YOu are so BLESSED!

If you woke up this morning
with more health than illness,
you are more blessed than the
million who won't survive the week.

If you have never experienced
the danger of battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture or
the pangs of starvation,
you are ahead of 20 million people
around the world.

If you attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment,
arrest, torture, or death,
you are more blessed than almost
three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator,
clothes on your back, a roof over
your head and a place to sleep,
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank,
in your wallet, and spare change
in a dish someplace, you are among
the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive,
you are very rare,
especially in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile
on your face and are truly thankful,
you are blessed because the majority can,
but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them
or even touch them on the shoulder,
you are blessed because you can
offer God's healing touch.

If you can read this message,
you are more blessed than over
two billion people in the world
that cannot read anything at all.

You are so blessed in ways
you may never even know.

Thoughts On blogging

I’ve been blogging since 2005. I started with our wedding blog, there I wrote all my thoughts about the wedding preparations and recorded every happening about the wedding.

And then I made a personal blog- It is here where I started to write more on personal stuff about me. Here is where I share my deepest feeling as an individual and I know one or two of my posts have hurt few people and that made me draw back for a while and just blog for nothing in a while, I hope I’ll be able to write what I want to write there again soon.

And for my last one- This ministry blog where I update the world (not that the world care) about me and my husband’s ministry.

Through all those blogging years, I have learned a lot about ranking, links, seo tools, web hosting and such. I know I still have to learn a lot about maintaining a site, getting more visitors and getting a higher google ranking. But I don’t mind learning it slowly.

Blogging opened a new world to me. It also opened a lot of earning opportunities and for that I will be forever grateful. I have met new friends and they open up their world to me.

I hope to continue to blog as long as the blog world continues to open its door to me.

CLEANSING DAY - BULACAN

More than 100 kids were served, treated from hair lice, got new hair cut, had their dental check-up, vital signs checked, given a health kit gift and most of all PRAYED FOR.


We would like to thank everyone who helped and prayed with us. God bless you a thousand fold in return!

The Team ( after a long day work-still smiling!)

Thankful Thursday

Laurie of Women taking a Stand is host for this month. Head on to her site to visit more thankful hearts.

She's thankful she can slow down and spend time in God's presence. God slowed me down yesterday by making me sick and spend the whole day in bed. I know I've been working too hard, office job and ministries and family obligations has taken it's toll on me and my body is weak. So should I be thankful I was sick yesterday? yes, I am thankful for that one whole day of rest.

And I think I should have stayed home and rested again today, you see I am still not feeling well but I insisted on coming on to work. I hope to feel better soon.

But anyways, this week I am also thankful for the following;

1. Reunion with great friends last week. Some pictures here.
2. Beauty products I used are still on sale until September 15- good buys for best wrinkle cream.
3. Mom and Dad visiting our new home last weekend.
4. Sue and Rachel Winters from UK visited and helped in our ministry for one month. sad to see them go last Sunday but we know they will stay in our hearts forever.
5. Husband's comforting hands. I thank HIM most for giving me the best one for me. I heard a lot of broken marriage lately, husbands cheating their wives and I am just thankful that the Lord has given me "His best choice".

Have a nice day everyone!!

Thankful Thursday

Today's theme at Iris blog is RESCUE and the song "My redeemer lives" goes right into my head.

"I know He rescued my soul
His blood has covered my sin
I believe..I believe
My shame His taken away
My pain is healed in his name
I believe..I believe...

We were all rescued by God and He rescued me so many times. I still remember so vividly how he rescued me from nearly being an alcohol addict. I was so far away from HIM and yet He reached me out and hold my hand and lifted me up. Am so grateful for that.

I just pray that He will do the same with all my family members, that they will turn their eyes also to JESUS our Great Rescuer..Great Redeemer!

Just last Sunday, He rescued me again, I was so mad and lost all my patience and I don't want to go to church for a while but HE kept on whispering to me.."I love you and I forgive you"..

What a wonderful God we have!!! Praise HIM!

Look Beyond

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TODAY'S SCRIPTURE

"…Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;"
(Genesis 13:14, AMP)

TODAY'S WORD from Joel and Victoria

God has a place of victory in store for you today! You may be facing challenges. You may look around you and see impossible circumstances. In the natural, it may look like things won’t ever change, but God is saying today, “Quit looking at your circumstances and look up! Lift up your eyes of faith and look beyond where you are because there is victory as far as the eye can see!

Your enemies may have some power today, but remember, our God is All Powerful! There’s no foe that can stand against Him. Those things you are facing are temporary, but God Almighty is eternal. He’s the God who flung the stars into space. He’s the God who spoke the world into existence. When He said, “Let there be light,” light came at 186,000 miles per second. That’s power and that’s the God we serve.

I encourage you to stand strong today. Keep believing because He is working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you lift your eyes to Him, as you focus on His goodness, He will guide you and direct you in the path of victory in every area of your life!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father, today I choose to lift up my eyes of faith toward You. Thank You for surrounding me with Your goodness and mercy. Thank You for believing in me and for preparing a good future for me. Fill my heart with Your peace and confidence as I continue to trust You in every area of my life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Cleansing Day

The Fishnets ministry in cooperation with LJBC church and the government of Meyacauayan, Bulacan has just concluded its first Cleansing Day in Brgy. Pandayan, Meycauayan, Bulacan last Saturday August 22, 2009. It was held in Pandayan Elementary School and more than a hundred indigent kids were served. Praise God!!

Cleansing day is a ministry where we target urban poor kids as recipients of health teaching program, along with this we also provide physical check up, dental check up, hair lice treatment, wound treatment, free hair cut, nail clipping and at the end we give them a complete health kit with toothbrush, toothpaste, bath soap, shampoo, band aids, comb, cotton buds and a face towel. We also serve them a healthy snack and the most important thing was that we were able to pray for each kid.

We would like to thank those who supported us in this ministry. On Saturday we will have the cleansing day in Alabang and if you would like to support you are most welcome, we need dentists well not as far as orange nj dentist but those who lives nearby can volunteer because we only have one dentist available and it is always a long day for her. We need a lot of volunteers actually.

We are looking forward to another successful cleansing day this Saturday!! Please do pray for this ministry. Thanks!

Thankful Thursday

This week God showed us again how much He care for us, sometimes we have thoughts that maybe God is so busy to be thinking of the small stuff we need but He is not and He will never be too busy for you.

As I have said on my previous posts, we have already moved and we don't have bed in our new place, we left the one we had at the mission's house because it was not ours. So we planned on buying and I said let us pray and ask God for the provision, hubby looked around for bed frames and saw that it didn't come cheap. We kept on praying.

Last Sunday, our friends (missionary couple) whose going home for schooling after two years of serving here in the Philippines visited our new place and offered us their bed frame. God is really good!!

And last Tuesday morning, I wake up with a text message in my cellphone saying we got money in Western Union. Friends from abroad sent it out without our knowing. God is so amazing. As I am writing my heart is crying over the goodness and the faithfulness of the Lord we serve.

..Oh give thanks unto the Lord for He is good and His mercy endureth forever!!

let us know what you are thankful for too. Head on to Iris blog and be blessed!