Thankful Thursday-Family

It's been a while since the last time I participated in Thankful Thursday. Hopefully I'll be able to do it again every week, truly we are never out of something to be thankful for.

This week I am grateful for my family - my parents are here with us in the city and will be staying with my sister's family for a while. Thank you that finally they gave in to our request. It is hard for us to visit them so often in the province and we are worried most of the times as they were both old and living alone in our old home. Now  I can see them as often as I want to.

I am also very thankful about their health, my father stopped smoking years ago ( so no need to buy him  cigar humidors ) and I'm glad he did that. It helped him a lot, he's on medicines but for his age I consider him still healthy.  My mother is also doing good, strong and still very much willing to help her children and adores her grandkids to the max. She's also taking meds for sugar maintenance but other than that she's healthy. They're now both on their 70's but still fine. Thank God for that. 

Today, we also celebrate a niece birthday. She's my first niece and she's a joy to both her parents and to the whole family.  Thankful that she's been given to us :) 

That's me and her:

Happy 10th birthday Rachel!

Thank you Lord that I have a strong family relationship and that in tough times (like now) I can just be with them and be reminded that life is good :)

Hop on to Laurie's blog for more Thankful entries.

Sing to the Lord always!

I know I did mention here that Selah's first worship album is coming soon and that we are excited and can't wait. We always look forward to recording time. Recording maybe long and tough (specially for first timer like them) but we are all enjoying it at the moment.

But you know, sad things are also happening alongside with our recording, it's been two Sundays now that Rudolf is not seen in the church, so that means he has not been leading the worship for two Sundays now. We are currently on "transition" process (if I can call it that way, we're praying and waiting for God's leading for us in line with our church.

I'm happy though that even if these things are happening, my husband never loses his passion to sing for the Lord. Whatever happens, we will always sing and make music to our Lord for His goodness and mercy never fails :)

As a matter of fact, now that we are resting from the church, he's been honing his music skills and is very eager to learn more (music notes and all that), getting ready for more greater opportunities in serving the Lord. (just a while ago, I showed him this boomerang looper for sale and he said he wants that) he is that eager :) 

Will keep you posted about everything and as always..let's keep on praising the Lord!!

God bless everyone!

Dinner For a Cause

And again this will be for the benefit of our scholars which grew up in numbers this year, as per our tentative computation, this coming school year, we will be needing at least a hundred thousand pesos (100,000.00) or $2,350,.00 in US Dollars.

I know it's huge but I know our God who supply all our need is faithful and is even bigger than that :D

I'm praying for more monthly supporters and if you want to be one , you can donate any amount from 100.00 per month or higher. Just visit FISHNETS MINISTRY page at International Teams website on how you can be of help.

The Dinner For A Cause will be on Friday, June 1, 2012, 7:00 PM
at LJBC Global Ministry Center,
4627 Arellano Avenue, Palanan, Makati City
Ticket Price is 350.00

SELAH band will also be performing ! See you all there!!!

Selah's worship album soon!

I can't wait.

Rudolf with his band mates met the owner of the recording studio last night and they were all overwhelmed. God's favor indeed and we know that it is His will for the band to have this worship album. We've waited enough (eight years) and now is the time.

So they've now their schedule of recording  for the month of May, Rudolf will be busy for that and of course I will be supporting him all the way until we see the finish product.

I am also overwhelmed, happy..and it all seems surreal to me..that they will now record all their songs officially.

Please keep on praying for the Selah band, first and foremost for our hearts to keep on looking to Jesus, to seek the Lord everyday, to worship Him and extol Him more than anything else and to serve the Lord through music with gladness.

Blessings everyone!

Top Ten Rich Thoughts For The Week

10. Decide today to not settle for less than His best tomorrow.

9. The reason most people are inadequately compensated is they allow someone else to determine their worth and value.

8. God has given you the ability to make the invisible (hopes, dreams, ideas and desires) visible...do something with it.

7. Father, forgive me this morning of the things that I've said, done or thought which are offensive to the Word. 1 John 1:9

6. Holy Spirit, thank you for your purifying presence and preparing my heart for the challenges and opportunities of this day.

Here are the Top Five Rich Thoughts Nuggets

5. Three kinds of wealth. Financial wealth is what you have. Personal wealth is who you are. Spiritual wealth is what you do with what you've got.

4. What you affirm. . .you confirm. What you confess. . .you will possess.

3. Do you realize God's dreams for you are bigger than the dreams you have for yourself?

2. Who are you looking to for financial answers and/or deliverance. . .the man or the Man?

And now. . .the # 1 Rich Thought Nugget .

1. If God tells you something is going to happen. . . it will happen. . .it’s not a matter of if. . .but when. 


 Rich Thoughts - by H. Herring

Manila bay Sunset at Roxas Boulevard

I already forgot when these pictures were taken but we were just passing along Roxas Boulevard then, we were actually bit late and the sun is already setting down thus it's bit dark na ..sayang  we weren't able to capture the even more beautiful Manila Bay sunset if earlier sana..but nonetheless, sunset is and will always be beautiful to me! Amazed by God's beautiful creation!

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.

Selah band's prayer request

Maybe you'll ask why we need a laptop, it's because of this...

picture taken at worship nigh in Cavite

see that big bulky monitor? we still bring that to our worship events. The first time we did that I tried to laugh it off and whispered a prayer, Lord bless us a new laptop soon :) Our church is generous enough to let us use the old projector ( not a samsung projector )and the screen for now but someday we plan to buy one for the band also. But with or without those gadgets and technologies, we will worship and we will keep on spreading the fire all over the nations! God bless everyone!

VBS Graduation Day pictures

Awards, certificates and gifts for the kids :)

Entrance and Parade

Special thanks to our volunteer teachers and assistants. God bless you all!!!

Ministry Updates

WORSHIP TEAM : SELAH

We are indeed blessed and overwhelmed to what God is doing to this ministry, not only through conducting worship events and leading worship but also teaching about worship. Rudolf was invited to speak in a seminar yesterday and again on June, we will be in the Visayas Region again to lead worship in a Prayer conference and Rudolf will also speak about worship (to which I am so nervous about). I really can't believe that my husband can do that (teaching) but thanks be to God who gives him wisdom.

There are also scheduled worship events on May and we are praying for the album recording and for more open door opportunities for the band.

FISHNETS MINISTRY

There is an ongoing Vacation Bible School for the kids this week and there will be another one again on the first week of may, we will also have Summer Reading Camp next month, this aims to help the kids who have difficulty in reading so they'll be able to catch up in the next school year.

We also talked about reviving the pedicab ministry (feeding/teaching of the pedicab drivers) and was supposed to be every Wednesday lunch. I felt that this ministry is a great tool to introduce the Lord to them and of course hopefully they in turn will bring their whole family to the Lord.

Scholarships- there are many young people who approached me and asked me if they can apply for scholarship grants and God knows I wanted to help them all. This year, again we are taking a big step of faith as we aim to have at least 5 college and 5 high school scholars. It's big specially in terms of finances but we also have a big GOD, I'm sure He will provide for these scholars.

To raise funds for them, we will have a dinner concert for a cause on June 1, please include this also in your prayers.

PERSONAL

With the new ministry (SELAH) that the Lord has opened up for me and my husband and the band, I felt I needed to leave my day job ( most of the time, we go out of town and I have to leave work for a week or two) I think it is unfair for the company I work for. I'm still asking God for the courage (am so afraid of not having a job and not receiving salary on a regular basis) and when I do leave this job, we have to leave the place we are currently staying so that means we have to go somewhere and rent again and where will I get the money if I don't have a regular job? Stuff like that scares me a lot and I know I still have to learn to TRUST HIM fully. I also covet your prayers for that aspect, that I maybe able to obey the Lord without hesitations and that my heart will trust Him that He will provide for our every need.

We've actually inquired of  houses to rent outside Metro Manila for the rent is cheap there but we have yet to actually see them for ourselves, a small house in a quiet community (I'm not even looking for one with residential steel garage after all it's only our motorbike who'll need a parking space)is what we are looking for.  But I don't know yet if until when I will be able to hold on to this job..although I feel I'm letting go and letting GOD sooner.

That's all for now and till our next ministry update :) God bless you all!!