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Pre-launching of Youth Service

2009-03-23T08:19:00.000-07:00

hello guys! we had our pre-launching of youth service in St. James, Batal, it was held in the house of Ptr. Jimmar (Outreach Pastor of St. James, Batal) and it was great! :D, 6 young people attended the service and i've seen that it's a good start! we've been planning to go onto every house this coming week to give flyers and invite them in the outreach service and for the youth service too! :D, it's very amazing how God work in this place! i'll post some updates later for the coming events! :D

God bless you!

Northeastern Luzon District Convention

2009-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hello guys! it's been so long since i've posted an update to my blog. to start with, we've attended the Northeastern Luzon District Convention last march 10 - 12, '09 held at Sefton village, Fire Center, Divisoria here in Santiago City! the theme on the said convention was "Excellence" which focus on Stewardship & our speaker is Rev. Dominador Lopez from Baguio City, He's with his wife and daughter who supported him all the way down to Santiago! for those of you who don't know, this is my first time to attend to a convention in here! :D, God bless!

Outreach, Summer School of Music and Dance, Teachers Camp Ministry!

2009-02-26T07:30:00.000-08:00

hello there guys! it's been a long time since i've published a post. I just would like to share to you about the outreach in St. James, Batal, it's been handled by Ptr. Jimmar together with his wife Sis. Che, I've seen that the place has many potentials. but 1st i would like to inform you what is outreach. outreach is like a sunday service type, where they will have their senior pastor, assistant pastor, youth pastor and many other wherein the members of the main church will be the workers in the outreach, and the leaders of the church who's been a part of the core group will be the senior pastor, and on the core group of the youth department will be the youth pastor for the outreaches! very exciting huh?! :D, we will reach our goal! and i believe that we will saturate Santiago, not by our own might, but by the Spirit of the Lord!

I also would like to share to you about the coming Summer School of Music and Dance! this will be held on summer (of course it's entitled Summer School of Music and Dance, haha) we've started the screening and registration last sunday, but nobody attended. mmmmmm... we're hoping that God will bring the right person at the right time and in the right place! to be honest i'm not excited with this event. but i'm more excited for the coming Teachers Camp Ministry this coming summer! whooooo! i'm very excited for this event! i want to go deeper to my faith. and to have an intimate relationship with God!

That's it folks! hope you've been blessed as i also been blessed! mind to put some comments for any reactions, i would accept it and will be taking it as an advice! God Bless!

Theatre For Christ!

2009-02-01T18:51:00.000-08:00

Hello there guys! This week has been a very tough week for us in doing lots of stuff to glorify the name our Lord Jesus Christ! I don’t know how to start but I’ll try to summarize all things up! On January 31, 2009, we’ve had our production & launching of THEATRE FOR CHRIST! The pastors say’s that it’s a job well done! Praise God! Young People from the Main and daughter churches participated to this event, maybe we are around 40 or more… it’s very tiring but we know it’s worth it! We’ve started the presentation at about 6:00 pm, the 1st part is about the CREATION wherein it show’s how God made all things according to His plans, after creation comes along the fall of men wherein it show’s how man sinned against God! After that Pastor James Aquino shared about the fall of man and say’s because of sin we don’t have any hope to hear and see Him, even though God wants to embrace us, be with us, walk with us and talk with us!

The 2nd part is the about the BIRTH OF JESUS wherein it shows that God choose Mary to give birth of Jesus, after the birth of Jesus comes along the crucifixion of Jesus and the DEFEAT OF SATAN! then Pastor Winston shared about how God sent His only Begotten Son to die for YOU and ME! It say’s in John 3:16 – “For Go so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, That whoever Believes in Him Shall not perish but have eternal life” even though we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God he still cares for us, loves us and is willing to give His only Son to die for us! God did not send Jesus to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him!

The 3rd part is the curtain call, and every cornerstone churches who joined the TFC will be presenting their dances! The 1st who danced is the Cornerstone San Isidro and they danced the shackles, the next is Cornerstone Naggasican and they danced the Revolution, and the Cornerstone Santiago danced the Joyful Joyful! After those things all the performers, together with the production and staff danced! Then we watched a surprise video on the making of TFC and it’s rehearsal, there are also some bloopers! Haha, I’ll be posting the video soon! Thank you for reading, please also leave a comment! Here are some blogs who will be posting the events! Mind to visit on of them!

markmaryritchie.blogspot.com
ccsgenerations.blogspot.com
cornerstonechurchsantiago.blogspot.com
ccnplaceofhonor.blogspot.com
powerhousekidsclub.blogspot.com
foodfortheworld.blogspot.com

WE ACT… WE SING… WE DANCE…

MAKING JESUS FAMOUS!

Must see!

2009-01-20T22:08:00.000-08:00

IN CHEMISTRY, HE TURNED WATER INTO WINE...

IN BIOLOGY, HE WAS BORN WITHOUT NORMAL CONCEPCION...

IN PHYSICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF GRAVITY WHEN HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN...

IN ECONOMICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN BY FEEDING 5000 MEN WITH TWO FISHES & 5 LOAVES OF BREAD...

IN MEDICINE, HE CURED THE SICK AND THE BLIND WITHOUT ADMINISTERING A SINGLE DOSE OF DRUGS...

IN HISTORY, HE IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END...

IN GOVERNMENT, HE SAID THAT HE SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, PRINCE OF PEACE IN RELIGION, HE SAID NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM...

SO, WHO IS HE? HE IS JESUS!

IN GOD I'VE FOUND EVERYTHING!

THE GREATEST MAN IN HISTORY JESUS HAD NO SERVANTS, YET THEY CALLED HIM MASTER!

HAD NO DEGREE, YET THEY CALLED HIM TEACHER!

HAD NO MEDICINES, YET THEY CALLED HIM HEALER!

HAD NO ARMY, YET KINGS FEARED HIM!

HE WON NO MILITARY BATTLE, YET HE CONQUERS THE WORLD!

HE COMMITTED NO CRIME, YET THEY CRUCIFIED HIM!

HE WAS BURIED IN A TOMB, YET HE LIVES TODAY!!!

I FEEL HONORED TO SERVE SUCH A LEADER WHO LOVE US!

MY TESTIMONY

2009-01-12T05:05:00.000-08:00

I am John Thomas B. Mangadap, when I was at the age of 16 my father asked me to go to Cornerstone Church Service together with my brothers and some friends who used to play Aikido. It was August 29, 2004 in the morning (Launching of Cornerstone Church Santiago) and on that day I’ve accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, by the 1st time we attended, we were entertained by Ptr. Winston Bao-in the Youth Pastor of CCS and he introduced us to some of the youth and has been a part of the youth group. then some pastors asked us if we want to play the musical instruments and join the Worship Ministry, We only started picking little pieces of trash after service and arranged the chairs after service, and as time goes by, every after class we go to clean the church together with Kuya Daben, Dan dan and Micko. And now, God uses us in the Worship Ministry and in the Youth Ministry, Dan dan is now playing the drums and is now studying in the bible school, micko is now playing the bass guitar and still studying, Kuya Daben is now playing the guitar and is now our Youth Pastor, and I am playing now the Keyboard and just finished school and asking the will of the Lord if He wants me to go fulltime to the church, I may not have given all the details of what God has done in our lives but I know that He has greater plans in my life. even to your life! God Bless!

WOW!

2008-12-18T07:00:00.000-08:00

Hello guys! We've been very blessed by the presence of God this evening! i just couldn't express it! wow! whooo! i just would like to post what happened this night! every thursday night we are having our music practice for the youth and sunday service, but then, this night is very different, I've seen that everybody is doing his/her stuffs, playing the guitar, playing the drums, the bass and some other stuffs, and I really sense that there is no unity within each other, so i get some chairs, put it infront of the stage and call all of them to have our devotion. After we have our opening prayer I ask them " How are you?" then we started to share about our life, especially our spiritual life, then as time goes by, we sense that we need to worship the Lord, and as we start to sing songs of worship, the Spirit of the Lord fell down on everyone of us and we've started to speak in tounges, we started to pray and offer everything to the Lord, and we started to feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit in our life, then Ptr. Daben told us that we need to repent to the Lord, then everybody started to ask forgiveness to the Lord! after that we feel that we need to pray for each other and speak blessing upon each other. and after all those things we thank the Lord for all He has done in our lives! Thank God! just couldn't express it! whoooooo! thank for reading!

God Bless! Thank You Lord!

Cornerstone Church Mission & Vision

2008-12-17T08:29:00.000-08:00

MISSION STATEMENT

"To give everyone in the city of Santiago and sorrounding areas and opportunity to hear and accept the gospel, providing a place of worship, teaching and encouragement where we can develp into effective disciples of Christ, and in due time to become people who will impact our city, touchour nation and reach our world."

VISION

"Saturate Santiago City"

Singapore Team!

2008-12-15T05:03:00.000-08:00

Hello there my friend! This past few weeks have been very busy for us doing church activities and lots of stuffs! By the way, I’ll share to you about our fellow Singaporeans who went here in Santiago City for a mission! There where 13 of them who went here and they are all mixed up, some are adults and some are youths! This past few weeks the Singapore team went to every church activities like Cell group, BJMP ministry or Jail ministry, feeding programs and lots of activities! The team has been led by Sis. Brenda and Sister Christine and We’ve seen their efforts handling the team! The team from Singapore arrived on Tuesday 2am if I’m not mistaken and after taking a rest they have went in and stay in Royal palm, when we asked some of the youth with Sis. Brenda (as we where having our leader’s cell group) they said that they’re staying at palm spring near Sefton Village! Then we mumble and think… and ask everyone on the group… do you know where palm spring is??? Then everybody where thinking where palm spring is! LOL, and when we realize that it was Royal Palm, we all laughed and laughed and everything went very happy as we where having our cell group with the leaders of CCS and with the Singapore youths! Actually our Cell Group was on Wednesday night, I’m just very excited to share all the happy moments with them! :D, on Wednesday morning, they’ve went to the Hospital Visitation and feeding program in SIGH and have seen lives of people who have illnesses and they prayed for them! After having the feeding program and visitation of the sick ate liezel, our Vice Chairman in the Youth Department, went to our house and ask me to go with them in their Cell Group with the students of SCNHS at lunch time! Imagine that! They’re having their Cell group at lunch time! What a sacrifice! And as we go in the meeting place called KALIKASAN PARK, we’ve started doing the worship as we wait for the Singapore team to arrive! Then Sister Christine shared the word of God to the youth and encourages the young people not to lose focus and have a purpose in life!

On Thursday they’ve went into different church activities, like feeding program and lots of stuffs! Then Ptr. Mark Assigned the Singapore team and designate them into different pastors and everyone went and buy to the market place for the eating fellowship at Pastor Adonis’s house at night! And the Pastors and Singaporeans cooked what they have been assigned to cook! And after cooking they’ve went to the house of Pastor Adonis and altogether they eat! I’m very sorry for myself, I’m not there. I was supposed to but we where having our music practice in the church! :D

On Friday, if I’m not mistaken, they’ve gone to banaue to see the beautiful rice terraces! And they’ve come back around 7:00 pm and they’ve attended our youth service and Christine was the one who preached, then she mentioned that there are 3 great people in the bible whom God has choose, it’s David, Shamgar and Gideon! Then she encourages all the youth and has an altar call and many youth have responded to the call! And after we’ve finished the youth service the Singaporean went to their hotel and takes their rest, and we together with the pastor and youths have our overnight prayer meeting! There are around 10 people who attended to seek God’s plan for the City of Santiago!

And on Saturday, I’ve taken my rest in the morning and didn’t know what the Singaporeans are doing! : D, and on afternoon my father and my brother went to canvass the price of electric guitar and as they went back they’ve already bought the guitar, I thought they were to canvass! : D, by the way! Our father ask us to bring the guitar to the church in nagassican and as we go there we’ve seen the Singapore team teaching the little children and telling them bible stories, I’ve only seen Kelly, one of the team, share bible stories. What a great blessing!

And on Sunday, yesterday! The Singaporeans were distributed on different Cornerstone Churches; in the main church we had Sister Brenda together with Faith or pananampalataya as mentioned by Pastor Marlou, :D and with Sister Noelle! Noelle shared about her testimony in life, she works as a pharmacist and in her life there was a big storm and the thing that encourages her was the word of God, I’m sorry I’ve forgotten the verse that she have shared. And after that big storm, her income got double! Not only doubled but its 4 times the amount of her income with her bonuses! Praise God for that! After sharing her testimony Sister Faith took over to share the word of God! She shared to us to stir up the gift of God. As she goes on with her message the word of God, she say’s these things… God only looks at who we are, whom we have touch our bring impact to the lives of others and how we use our God given talents! After that we had our lunch with them and have fellowship even though we are not that sociable! : D, and on the afternoon, the team brought all their baggage in the church and take a little rest! And on 4:00 pm we’ve had our dinner with them! What a very strange thing, coz we Filipinos ate our dinner at 7 or 8 pm, LOL, then at 6:00 pm we’ve had our night service and Sister joy shared the word of God and it really touched me, she shared about PERSISTENT PRAYERI she shared this three points as she goes down to her message,
We can persist in prayer if we:
1. Trust in God
2. We faith
3. Hold on to the promises of God

I’ve been very bless as she impart those things to us, coz I’ve been finding the will of God in my life and has been seeking to hear the voice of God, in the past few months, I’ve been discouraged and ask God, are you there? Why aren’t you answering all my prayers? And as Sister Joy share her message I’ve been encouraged and motivated to continue praying persistently! Thank you Sister Joy!

After the night service the team has had their meeting and ate bibingka and puto bumbong! : D, after their meeting they gathered all their baggage and is preparing to leave Santiago… T_T
At 9:30 pm, we’ve brought all their stuffs to the terminal as we wait for them to arrive. When they enter the bus, it seems I’ve been missing them already! T_T this is all I can say guys! Hope you read it! Hope to see you soon again friends from Singapore! Missing you already guys! You’ve been a very big blessing to us! God Bless!