BK Saturday - Educational Assistance Program Part 2 (School Supplies Distribution)

Last May 29, 2011, a few days before the opening of the new school year here in Manila, we distributed uniforms, shoes, socks, bags and other school supplies we bought for the beneficiaries of the Batang Krayola (BK) Educational Assistance Program sponsored by Extreme Response Canada.  Here are some photos:

Training Day Friday - Missions Camp

Windows YP Missions Camp
May 2-4, 2011
New Tribes School of Missions
Dinalupihan, Bataan

PLENARY SESSION:

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

DIVIDED WORKSHOPS

SMALL GROUPS

 

TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES

BONFIRE

GIVING OF CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION

WINDOWS YP 2011 PARTICIPANTS

UK MIssion Trip Part 2 - Opportunity to Partner With Us

May the Lord touch your heart to partner with us as you read this letter! 

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Warm Christian greetings!

We, the church of Jesus King of Kings Community Church, a church planting ministry of Youth Mobilization Team have been established as a church three years ago, and by God’s grace and by the work of the Holy Spirit, small and young church as we are have been doing the work of missions as Christ has mandated us to do in our own community and in other places as well. 

Two years ago, we started exposing our young people to local missions among the tribal people in Olongapo and Morong, Bataan.  Last year in October, two of our youth leaders joined the mission exposure trip of Youth Mobilization Team in Siem Reap Cambodia.  As a result, one of them decided to be a full time worker of the church in the Missions department of our church.  Last summer, twenty (20) of our church members, composed of adults, young people and children went to the mountains of Kanawan, Bataan to do mission work among the Aetas!

It is our greatest passion to train our church members for the work of missions and expose them in the mission field with the hope that they will become the next generation of missionaries who will passionately obey the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ to “go and make disciples of all nations…” and in so doing, becoming a blessing not only to our own people but to other nations as well. 

Last year a group of young people from United Kingdom visited our church for a short exposure trip.  As an exchange program our church was privileged to be invited by our partner church, Stopsley Baptist Church in Luton, England to visit their church and help in their different ministries.  Armed with faith and desire to reach out to people to other parts of the world, eight (8) young hearts signed up for a 10 day mission trip to UK on October 31-November 8, 2011 in partnership with the Youth Mobilization Team.

As we desire to bring our church members to missions, we also challenge you to be in the mission field and you may do so by supporting us for this mission trip. 

Each missionary aims to raise $1000 or 43,000Php for visa application and airfare. Other expenses for food and lodging will be taken care of by our partner church in Luton, England.  We are daunted by this huge amount, but we trust that our partnership will significantly help meet our goal. After all, every effort we do to bring hope to hopeless will always be worth it in the end.

Thank you so much for sharing our passion in mission and doing an amazing job in believing that our young people is God's powerful instruments in bringing hope to people.  As you give, I pray that your home be filled with as much joy and as much love as there is.

 From all of us in Jesus King of Kings Community Church and Youth Mobilization Team, God bless you!

Sincerely yours,

Susana R. Benavidez

JKKCC Missions Department Coordinator and

ITP Youth Mobilization Training Coordinator

                                                                                                                                

Pledge Card:

Yes! I want to be part of this mission trip!

Name: ____________________________________________________________

Address: __________________________________________________________

Phone: ___________________________________________________________

Email Address: _____________________________________________________

I would like to pledge a (_) monthly gift of:          or a one- time gift of:

__ P10,000 ($232) allocated for Airfare        __P37,000 ( $860) allocated for airfare

__ P3,000 ($69) for visa application              __P6,000 ($139) for visa application              

__ other amount: __________                      __other amount: __________

Send in your donations to:

The Ministry of the Paracletos Inc. 

Peso Account

Account Name: The Ministry of the Paracletos Inc.

Account Number: 2470075102                                               

Bank Name:Banco de Oro

Branch: Cash and Carry, Makati, Philippines

Dollar Account                                                                                   

Account Name: The Ministry of the Paracletos Inc

Account Number: 6244012025

Bank Name: BPI Family Savings Bank

Branch: Zobel Roxas, Makati, Philippines

Swift Code: BOPIPHMM

Meet the YM Team - Pen Pen (YM Partnership Director)

The Personal Testimony of Josephine A. Bullo (Pen-Pen)

I felt as if I was at the end of the rope.  When God came to rescue me in the depths of guilt, sin and shame, I was so broken, hopeless, in despair and in total misery. Many who knew me then shake their heads in disbelief.  It was totally opposite of what is to be expected from someone who grew up in church and a daughter of a pastor.

I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord when I was only 9 years old, through a Daily Vacation Bible School in our community one summer.  I have surrendered everything to Him, which includes my broken dreams and miserable life. I have then decided to follow Him and love Him more and more each day.

Though I was quiet most of the time, I actively attended church gatherings, youth fellowships and camps.  When given the opportunity, I served in our as a Sunday school assistant; teacher and I made myself available to help in whatever I could. It was at the time that my father, who also made himself available to help in whatever he could, became a deacon and eventually a pastor.  

Though it seems good that my father became a pastor, it wasn't very good for me.  I could say that it was one of the most difficult times in my life.  Many times, I felt that people in the church were always watching every single moment in my life. 

Then trials came, coupled with failures and temptations that overwhelmed my growing up years.  Slowly but surely, I was falling and sliding.  I had stepped into something that led to the darkest and the most dreadful part of my life.

As the years passed, I had to stop, re-think and do self-evaluation.  I still felt so lost and hopeless that I once have tried committing suicide.  To make it worst, I was also hooked and addicted to many vices.   

I was at the very end of the rope when I suddenly remembered to pray and tried talking to the God I have known when I was only 9.  I asked Him to give me another chance, to give me hope and once again to please have mercy upon my life that at that point was so devastated - no hope, no life.

In the year 2000, during my birthday, my parents asked me to join a mission exposure trip to Bangkok, Thailand.  I was very hesitant to join. In my mind, there were thoughts of uncertainties, questions as to what lies ahead? I kept asking myself, “What would happen next?”

During my stay in Thailand, I kept asking God if He would give me another chance.  Will He be still my Savior? I asked Him once again really rule over my life. Then, I once again experienced God's powerful moving in my life.  His mercy overflowed, I have witnessed again and again His unfailing and unconditional love.

Medical Mission in Siem Reap - October 2010 (Touch Cambodia) 

Right there and then, I have committed my life in serving Him.  I saw how I wasted my life before and yet He lovingly accepted me when I came back to Him.  All I could ever think of is how I can show Him how thankful and grateful I am for His faithfulness and goodness.

When I went back to the Philippines, I started looking for a ways to serve.  So I started helping in Medical Missions and I volunteered in doing community work in different areas in Metro Manila. I served under International Teams Philippines Urban Ministries.    

Then in 2006 God has directed me to commit my life in serving with the Youth Mobilization team.  My main task ever since is to partner with churches.  My main goal is to help build ministries of partner churches and to empower pastors and leaders.  I believe that the power of Jesus Christ will mightily move in the Churches so they can be a blessing to their community and other communities, to the nation and to the world.

Pen Pen (first from the left) in Kota Kinabalu, where she led youth leaders for a short term mission trip (Touch Malaysia - 2009)

As I look back all through the years that passed, God's presence is truly evident in every aspect of my life.  Even during those times I was lost, He never left me nor forsaken me.  Because of that, I have committed my life not just to meet the spiritual needs and values formation of the youth, but I seek the total transformation of their lives.  

(Psalm 23:6) “Surely goodness and loving-kindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”  

Pen-Pen currently is the Partnership Director of the Youth Mobilization team.  Her main objectives are to establish, build and strengthen relationship with partner churches, and to empower, support and further develop leaders.

JKKCC Goes to Kanawan Tribe

Kanawan DVBS 2011

Last May, Jesus King of Kings Community Church (JKKCC) went to Kanawan Tribe (Morong, Bataan - 5 hours from Manila) to hold a Vacation Bible School for the Aeta kids. For five days (May 9-13), 20 leaders and members of the church ministered not only to the kids but to the adults as well.  

The youth led and organized the VBS, while the adult leaders guided the youth and helped in whatever need that arose during the whole week.  Nanay (Tagalog word for mother) Loida, many consider as the mother of the church (as the name implies), cooked food for the team for five days.  She also shared her testimony and God’s Word to the mothers who helped her prepare the food.  So, it was not just the team that benefited from her presence but the community as well.

It was the first time JKKCC went on a mission trip, and indeed, everyone came home blessed, changed and touched by what God did during the whole week.  It is really amazing how God blessed the community once again.  In fact, it was on this mission trip that Nikolai, one of the youth participants, heard God’s call for full-time service.  He is now serving as an intern of the church.  On the other hand, Pastor Arsenio Dumolot and his wife kept thanking all of us, and they once again bade us good bye teary-eyed.

Another amazing result is that the church is already excited for next year.  As early as now, many have already signed up and are saving money and praying for the next mission trip which will be in Iloilo (Visayan Region).

Beautiful Part 1 By Charles Keortge

Another one from my good friend and mentor Chuck Keortge

What is the “beautiful” and why should we care about it?

by Charles Keortge (2010)

Multiple times the Bible uses the same words together:

O, worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness.

As followers of Jesus we are often challenged in sermons and personal study to try to better understand and apply the word HOLINESS.

Indeed, some entire Christian groups have as a part of their core beliefs the practice of holiness.

There are few followers of Jesus who categorically state that their Christian walk should include the word BEAUTY.

I invite you to follow along as we consider the BEAUTIFUL and I invite you to ask the question, “Why should we care about it?”

The mere fact that the word beauty exists and has a common use may lead us to immediately respond, “Why bother with this esoteric Password game?”

And to be further exasperated and saying, “If there’s anything I hate it’s an abstract study on a common word.”  One this sentiment we agree.

To help me answer my own question, “Why should we care?” I would like to paraphrase a few thoughts on the subject by the well known author and pastor, Eugene Peterson.

Beauty:  splendor, grandeur, adornment.  Life-core existence spills over the containers of mere survival or utility.  It tells us that there is much more going on in this world than just waiting for the traffic camera on the corner of 15^th street and Avenue J.  Indeed, war, robbery, murder, and mayhem have been committed with the possession of “something or someone beautiful” as the primary motive.

As we consider how to worship our God in beauty we are involved in the most soul-involving, reality assimilating act available to human beings. Peterson emphasizes that we are most ourselves, most our image-of-God creaturely selves, when we are worshiping.

O, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

Unfortunately for our generation and planet, beauty and holiness are both in short supply.