Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Our Leaders. category.
Baseco Missions TEAM…
Three of our best, Pastora Marivic, Pastora Annie and Riza went last week as our very first self funded Missions Team from the slums of Baseco to work with and bless, Lucy Longdon in the incredible work that her and her team are doing in Cebu.
The stories and testimonies are still coming out of our team, as they are now back in Baseco, but it is very clear that they were both blessed and a great blessing while they were there. They saw another world of ministry. The Lord used them to see baptisms in the Holy Spirit as they ministered in youth meeting, with women, in prisons, in the cemetery…many different places.
What did Jesus say “Go into ALL the World”…and do what…”Preach the Gospel”, and then what will happen…”Signs will follow…”. Amen. How simple is that.
Notice that He never mentioned “do this when you are FREE”, or “do this when you have some extra cash”, or “do this after bible college”…imagine, girls from a slum, with so little education, no bible college, definitely no spare cash, the 2 pastors still have small children at home…but still, they have enough faith TO GO on a “self funded” missionary trip…have you ever heard of anything so crazy in all your life….WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE…
Mark
Some of our Youth
Here are some exceptional young people, current youth leaders, future Nation leaders. These guys, and others like them, run our childrens ministry (which Sarah Harrison did alot of work on setting up), they also run the youth ministry…this is Allan, Rodelo, Riza…the secret to their greatness is…
We PRAY…
Marco Robedillo…great preaching…
Marco Robedillo, the husband of our main pastor, Marivic, preached for perhaps the second time just recently…here is a very simple summary of what he said, very profound…
His sermon was maybe 25 minutes long, he used three main verses of scripture, and here is what he said…
“One of the problems facing the world today is poverty. Poverty is such a big problem because there is so much sin in the world. The only way to fix poverty is to fix sin. The only way to fix sin, is for people to come to Jesus.” He then made a comment about judgement…”The bible teaches us not to judge. If you judge your current situation or problem, say with poverty, you might think that you can come up with your own solution, but your only solution is to come to Jesus. He is the only one that can fix poverty, as He is the only one who can remove sin.”
How profound is that from a simple young man out of a slum.
Childrens Ministry
Children all over the world are often the worst affected by poverty and corruption. Children have no choice, they are the recipients of the consiquences of the choices of others. We have always focused on children. We have run childrens activities in both of our churches and always provided food and vitamins for children.
Since Sarah Harrison has been working with us in Baseco, she has focused primarily upon childrens ministry. Until this point we had had healthy childrens ministries, never huge, but healthy. It had always needed a bit of a push along and was in need for some focus and attention…but at the time we were only two people and you can’t do everything as well as you need to and not everything can get the attention that it needs to get…but Sarah changed that.
The last email I recieved from Sarah (mid January) we had more than 200 children who attended childrens church in our normal sunday service. There are now three healthy childrens ministries, with all the games, action songs, prizes…all the stuff kids love and enjoy.
In three months she started a completely new childrens ministry, which now has an average attendance of anywhere between 90-150 children, plus grown the other 2 churches, one to 200+ children. While we had the crusades with Eddie Coe, we also had three seperate kids crusades in the afternoon in three differant locations. I actually did not get to see any of the kids crusades, but the reports and the pictures from Sarah were great. God bless the kids, amen.
All the kids at the crusade got books about Jesus, they did face painting – they just had a ball with the kids.
Sarah has been a huge blessing to us. The youth help her, she is training them in areas of childrens ministry, she is having a great impact.
She came to us not really all that certain what she was going to do, and after some discussion we more or less threw the doors of possibilities open to her and let her go (of course keeping an eye on things and watching over her when it needed to happen). I sort of figure Jesus can use anyone to do anything at anytime…so we need to provide oppotunities for people to find their place and do what God has called them to do. It’s great when people just come to serve, and they just do whatever you ask them to do, but to have people with initiative, desire and vision that you can just “let go” is another thing.
The rule is – “Jesus releases God given potential, He places a NO LIMITS sign on every true born again believer. He always says “Yes, you can can do it, have a go”. Sarah, is like every christian, she is succeeding simply because she is having a go. She is preaching the gospel and Jesus is working with her just like He promised.
Great to see – what could He do with you…have a go and find out…
