Praisin' Kids TOWN-Mini Carnival

This was last September 27, Saturday, held at the San Antonio Village Covered Court, Makati City.

The wheel of tickets and candies!!!

Some of the prizes


The ICE CREAM MAN!!!


the basketball-even the girls loved it!


At the registration- see those kids pushing at the entrance door? they're just very excited!!

At the end of the fun games, we gave each kid a loot bag before going home in top of their prizes!!

I love this picture! This girl was so engrossed on what she's doing, taken at the arts and crafts section
The plinko game

More kids at the arts and crafts section

The bowling booth-tiring but nevertheless the kids enjoyed it so much!

The colorful RING TOSS
And the dart balloon.

*All the game booths are DIY, made with recycled stuff
* 222 kids went home that day happy
* we started to plan with no funds at all
* At the end of the day, we still have more than a thousand peso excess from that activity.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!!

I know there is still room for improvement so next time we will try to make it even more fun for the kids!

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Ministry Updates

Children of Hope (BATANG PAGASA)

There will be a big event for the kids on Saturday, 27th of September. We call it "Praisin Kid's Town" (mini carnival). As early as now the kids are excited to go because we told them there will be games and prizes and food for all of them. We really praise God for the provision, we started with zero funds but God moved people's hearts to bless the kids and this ministry. Some of my office mates donated crayons, pencils, coloring pens and coloring books for the arts and craft section. But right now we are still praying for some more funds I think we still need a few thousand pesos but we trust GOD that come Saturday this will be met.

The number of kids who will attend as of today is now at 225 and I'm sure there will be more so we are preparing for 300 kids from all of our 6 areas. We pray for more volunteers also to come as you all know it wouldn't be easy having 300 kids around.

MUSIC MINISTRY

We are excited for a new fund raising concert for the FISHNETS and ARMS OF LOVE ministry, we named the event "HAWAK MO, KINABUKASAN KO" (You hold my future) this will happen on November 21, proceeds will go to gift giving funds just in time for Christmas. It will be a 3 hour concert with special participation of the kids themselves, an interpretative dance from the singles group and a mime number from the youth. Ticket price is at 150.00 but it comes with a limited edition of thermal mug.

I thank God for using more and more people to bless those less fortunate kids we are helping. I thank God for their heart, they really have the compassion for the kids more especially for the poor.

Thank God for Pastor Jonie who was recently appointed to handle the music ministry. It feels good to have him during our practice, encouraging us and boosting the morale of the group.

SCHOLARSHIP MINISTRY

Please help us pray for people who will support this ministry, we have been running out of funds but that won't stop us in helping these people finish their school and give them at least a chance of a good life here on earth.

Last Sunday, we made or can I say I? :) leche flan and the scholars sold them at the church right after the service, It was kinda hard because it was my first time to do that, well I thought I could cook it as easy as that because I often help Mom when she does that but I failed, I was awake till 3 in the morning and I only made 10 pieces and had 200.00 profit from it. Hubby said the effort and the time does not worth it. I agreed with him. Here is a picture of the finished product which I taste tested.
I'm thinking of another "good food" to sell next Sunday.

We are also looking for at least 50 people who can give/support at least 20.00 a week. That would be sufficient to meet the needs of this ministry. So far we have two regular supporters and we need to challenge more.

Last week, our scholars gave me their report cards to and I must say I'm impressed, I know now that they are doing good in school, that they are studying very well. It is one good and valid reason not to stop helping them.

Below are pictures of our present scholars. Will write profile of them here soon.

The power of prayer

This week's coffee break from Jan.

If I have to write how the power of prayer touched my life? I’ll probably finish it at the end of the day or maybe I can not finish it all.

So I really do not know how to start because even how big or how small the answered prayer was it still touched my heart in so many different ways.

Seeing my parents happy and healthy- that’s a prayer answered.

Being healed from any sickness – that’s a prayer answered

Needs being met-that’s a prayer answered

And I can go on and on and on.

Prayer is not something I do when I need something from God. Prayer is not only asking and pleading. It is how I communicate with my Lord, it can only be a whisper in the morning as I wake up or it can be words being said to HIM during and in between office hours.

I know I don’t need to kneel long hours to say a prayer nor a thousand words.

I just talk to HIM and talking to HIM makes all the difference in my life.

Children of HOPE

This is our new area for Children of HOPE ministry, we started the feeding two Saturdays ago, The kids doubled last Saturday and the food we brought wasn't enough to feed them all. They all sang with us and listen to the first bible story we narrated. It's amazing how God uses these kids to fill me and hubby with happiness, there are also parents from the place who helped us in feeding them especially in lining up the kids for the food distribution.






May the LORD bless them and may He use our ministry to change the lives of the parents of these kids and our prayer is that they will be able to get to know and have a personal relationship with the Lord through this ministry.

Our Friday night with Sonicflood

Here are some of our pictures from the Sonicflood concert last Friday, boy it was raining hard but people from all walks of life made it through and sing and shout praises to God! Indeed, what a beautiful, inspiring concert!

Hubby managed to grab a photo with Gary V.


While waiting for the concert to start

Thankful Thursday

I used to do this on my other site but I'm doing it here now because this week's theme is "MINISTRY" and I wanna share with you the ministries me and hubby are doing in our church.

MUSIC MINISTRY
My husband is the music ministry leader and he really has the gift of music, he leads us into worship every Sunday and other church gatherings, I joined the worship team when we got married not because he's my husband but because I know in my heart I do love to sing for the Lord. So I've been a back-up singer ever since and we both enjoy this. There were also low moments in the ministry like when some musicians left us but we know God meant it for good.

FISHNETS-SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
I love this ministry. God put this in my heart last January 2007 and I am so glad that we are now on our second year.Last year we had 3 highschool and one college student.Today, we support 5 students. All of them came from a poor family and all of them wants to finish school. I pray that God will use this ministry to help them and in return they'll be of help to their families too.It's like teaching them how to fish.

BATANG PAG-ASA (CHILDREN OF HOPE)
This is also a ministry that is very close to my heart, every Saturday, our church go to five slum areas and feed around 40 to 50 children per area, we also read to them bible stories, have games and some coloring. We also do hygiene day where we bring them to the center (church) and bathe them, feed them, cut their hairs for free and treat their wounds.At the end of the day we give them some hygiene products like toothbrush, toothpaste and the like. We also have daily Vacation Bible School during summer. Last July we had a quarterly birthday celebration for the kids and they enjoyed it so much. It pains to know that most of the kids never had a birthday celebration in their lives. This coming September we will be having a "Kid's Praisin town-ala school fair" , we want to treat the kids and we want them to feel special and loved.

Here are some old pictures, this was when we brought them to the park.




There are also some pictures here.

I am thankful that God has given us the privilege to serve HIM through all these ministries. I know most of the times I get tired but God is good. He has been so good to us and yes, He never left us, even when we feel we are walking through the dark valleys, I can feel God's presence with us in these ministries He has entrusted us.

I am thankful to everyone who support these ministries, our friends from UK, our churchmates, our church leaders, our pastor, and even people who do not know us at all but is supporting the ministry. Thank you so much from the bottom of our heart.

See some of the entries to Thankful Thursday here.

I wish I could write better though.

Sonicflood in ARANETA!

And there's this big possibility of me and huuby getting a free entrance or a production pass!!! yay! I am so excited!

Planet Shakers In Manila!!

Soaking In The River

of God...

We went to Gateway mall last night after office to attend "soaking in the river" it's a 3 hour praise and worship hosted by River of God church. It's actually 3 hour alone with God. We worship, we praised and we rested in the Father's loving arms. It's another wonderful experience and I love it.

There will be another one on September 11, so for those of you who wants to come and have some time of refreshing,please join us at Mandarin Suites, Gateway mall Cubao, Quezon City from 7 to 10 PM.

Made to Worship

That's what we are so I'm naming this new blog of ours as that. And yes, this will not be mine alone but also with the hubby, so once in a while, he will write some entry here especially if it's music.

Why make a new blog?

I wanted a separate site for our ministries alone, for the worship team, for the Batang pag-asa, for the people we minister to like in the area where we are currently assigned right now, our missions and travel together.

I'll be posting lots of picture soon, even pictures from before.

I pray that this blog be an encouragement to everyone, a source of inspiration to serve the Lord and serve the poor as our worship to the one true God.