Wednesday, December 19, 2007

"The Moods of Christmas" with P. Art

Matthew 2:1-12

A. Are you Ignorant but Inquisitive like the Wise Men? Vv. 1-2, 9-12

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

B. Are you Intrested but Insecure like Herod? Vv. 3-4, 7-8, 16

When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."


C. Are you Informed but Indifferent like the Scribes and Priests? Vv. 4-6

When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:
" 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'"


APPLICATION
1. Does your mood reflcet your need? May we help you with the answer?

2. Would you be open to listen and respond to a specific need this season?

3. Are ther still areas of you life which the Saviour could revolutionize if He were only allowed to come in?

Sharing his Testimony

With his permission, the testimony shared by our dear brother JV Tribiana is as follows:

The funny thing is, I have visualized myself in front of people sharing my testimonial as a Christian even before thinking being baptized as one.
I have no intention to tell a life-changing story but mainly to share my story (it may not be as dramatic or thrilling as the other testimonials I’ve heard but I’m) hoping it would change someone else’s life. So here goes...

I started attending study groups here in GCF early this year when Rajsh came up to me and initially invited me to the Call Center Ministry. (and Rajsh’s definition of “invite” means daily dose of text messages). I was a Catholic then, having been living and have grown in a Catholic community and actively participating to Church activities, I have the connotation of a Bible study equals sitting beside Lolos and Lolas and sharing my boredom to some ‘santo-santitos’ / ‘santa-santitas’, and I only do this because it was mandated by my teachers or else I get red marks on my report card plus the Church was just a stone throw away and my CLE teacher was just my neighbor, imagine that...

My life before as a Christian was dull, lifeless, and non-conforming, everything was grey. I had envisioned of a short-lived life. I never had goals, I never dreamed, I never aspired. I had the concept of there’s a life ahead of me but I don’t care. I was never close to my brothers, we hardly even talk like normal ones; I don’t listen to my parents, I isolated myself and thought there were playing favorite amongst us; My prayers were never answered or so I thought; I thought my friends are the only family I have due to the fact that I was ignorantly young and thought they are the only ones who cared. As you can hear me now, my sentences starts with “I”, puro ako, I, I, I, ironically I was tired with my life then and really don’t have a clue what to do. I want the world to do something for me.

Last year, when I and Rajsh was part of the new hire training class back in Sitel, normally we do the introduction/orientation on the 1st day. She introduced herself, what she’s into and her aspiration of becoming a missionary, and at that precise moment it dawned on me, I was so selfish thinking what I want the world to do for me.. I was in need of a caring world but all the while the world needed me to care. After a couple of months, I obliged myself to attend Rajsh’s study group, with the hopes of changing my concept of life as I know it. And it proved me that it did! From Call Canter Ministry to I-Yacies (now Mosaic), to practically every activity that Rajsh is a part of (remember the word “invite”), until such time that I find myself attending to other GCF activities without her “invite”. I didn’t put any effort changing my life but it did dramatically changed. I have learned too much and have learned that everything I have learned prior to being as a Christian was not enough, and when you act on it, the effort that you did was the reward itself.

I thought God was being self-centered when we say “Let God be the center of your life”, as I have learned, by positioning God in your life at its center, you can make great things happen in your life more so to the life of others.

Before I thought my prayers were never answered, but as I learned, indeed they were answered. I was only blinded then by my self-centered cries for help that I never realized that God was giving me more than I asked of Him. And for this I am thanking Him. Thanking Him to the point that I believe my answered prayers were miracles. Come to think of it, yes they are God’s miracles.

Now as a Christian, I have grown into someone I never expected to be. I am aspiring, dreaming, wishing, hoping and praying for things I never aspired, dreamt, wished, hoped and prayed before. My relationship with my brothers is a far cry of how we were then as compared to what we have right now. I can talk to my parents as if I was talking to my friends. I value them now like I have never valued someone before. I am too proud and glad to say that these things or changes are not an intention for my own but an intention for others. As a Christian, I am returning the favor, my intention is to change a life, this is my purpose, this is in fact our mission.

And guess what’s on top of my agenda? “World Peace”
Impossible to achieve? With God, its not! Start with making peace within yourself, as what I did, then teach others to do it by themselves by sharing your life as what I am doing now. By doing that, you are ministering them into God’s glorious and loving arms.

And as willing as Rajsh’s arms reaching out for people who were once lost like me, these arms of mine will reach out and minister others to live a life and with God’s words as the reason to live by. I tell you world peace was never just a miss universe thing and it isn’t literally peace on earth, it starts with one person having God in his heart, to minister is to make a difference, now tell me, is world peace beyond our reach? I don’t think so!

To conclude this, I thank God for this privilege of sharing my testimonial and as I learn more I am looking forward to stand again before all of you soon and share what God has done for me and what He can do for you. Thank you.

Missed the fun?

Praise God indeed for a Blast Christmas Party GCF-Connect had! Here's the top 10 reason why the party we had was FUN... So much fun that for those who missed it... Pictures are posted for you!

1. Almost everyone was wearing Red Shirt, and it looked good!
2. We had plastic cups-relay and Group 1 won!
3. Group 2 won the calamansi-relay, fair play!
4. We had shades designed and Mommy Bibeth won the first prize!
5. Our erly bird for the day- JV and Venus
6. JV shared his testimony and everyone was blessed. Praise God!
7. Food courtesy of the Core Group.
8. There were 26 people present, along with 3 Pastors: P. Mau, P. Art and P. Euge
9. It was P. Art who gave the Christmas message.
10. We get to have a BREAK and we'll resume on January 7!

Here are some photos:

CORE Group on Red




Two Groups on for the Relay



Jesse and P. art from Group 2



Natalia and Julie of Group 1





Food, food, food!





The Designed Shades



Exchange Gifts



Praise and Worship



Praying before the message



Marlou, Claire and Marc



Here are the participants



and the Top 3



The Early birds



First time guest Jesse of TrecPacific



P. Euge for benediction





OUR Group picture



If you want to see more pictures, click on the link Christmas Party. And as announced we will resume with our brekafast fellowship next year, January 7, same room and same time! A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to us all, and God bless!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Connect Christmas Party


On Monday, December 17, 2007 we will join together in fellowship for our Christmas Party as we celebrate God's goodness with fellow call center pips!

To add up some spice on this event we encourage everyone to come with their DESIGNED SHADES, something cool-wacky-with a touch of Christmas! We will be giving an award to the one who has the most creative Designed Shades of the day!


Do bring at least worth Php150.00 item (of course have it wrapped) for our exchanging of gift portion. There are exciting games prepared for all of us. And we will hear a Christmas Message by our dearest Pastor Art Handog. And more, more surprises during the program! So come and let's celebrate Connect Christmas!

The Lord bless us all... See you there!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Developing the Self in times of Tension

With Pastor Kevin Alamag

14 people gathered yesterday for the morning fellowship with Pastor Kevin Alamag (another second time speaker)learning from the Corinth's experience in dealing with TENSION, we were challenged and reminded to redefine our personal vision in life. The message's summary is as follows:


1 Corinthians 3:1-18

Corinth was one of the most tension-filled ministry of Paul. Not only where the believers in divided in leadership, their walk in Christ was characterized with much worldliness. It is interesting to note, however, in spite of these, the ministry was growing. Paul exhorts the Corinth to aspire for peace, unity and growth by cultivating the right attitudes regarding their issues and their immaturity.

I. Tensions Reveal where we are as a Community (v. 1-4)
"Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?"

a. Level of Spiritual knowledge, discernment and maturity (v.1-2)

b. The extent of the world's influence on our attitudes and concerns (v.3)

c. The lack of vision and focus on God's role (v.5-7)
"What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."


II. Tensions Redefine our Role and Work in God's Community (v.8-17)
"The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

"By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple."



a. Understanding the delineation and extent of our roles

b. Tensions Reveal the Godliness of our Methods and Means
1. Understanding the parameters of God has set (v.11)
2. Understanding the extent and length of one's role (v.12-13)
3. Understanding the quality of one's work (v14-16)

III. Tension Reveal the Qualitative Results of our Ministry Life (v.16-17)

a. Most people leave ministry after time of great tension

b. Tension should cause us to desire, not to avoid the Spirit

c. Tensions should teach us creative ways of dealing with it, instead of developing bad habits.

Paul childed the believers in Corinth for their carnality-- attributing these to the shallowness of their intake of God's Word, their wordly concerns, parochial mindset and lack of understanding of God's freater plan for them. Paul addressed these by bringing them back to focus.

APPLICATION:

How have you looked at the role of tension in the greater picture of your life?
Has the tensions you are going through cause you to focus or loose sight of your personal vision?
How's your coping abilities?

Friday, December 7, 2007

Sorry for the Late post!



17 people were present on that light Monday morning last December 03, we had the opportunity to hear a message from Mark del Rosario about how broken we are and how Christ can fill in those brkoen pieces in our lives.

Here are few photos:

Our early birds for the day Natalia and Venus.




And the Group Picture



As per next Monday's breakfast fellowship, we will have Pastor Kevin Alamag speak to us about "Dealing and handling stress and tension in life".

See you all and may God bless you! Happy weekend guys!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Brokenness in Christ



Brokenness in Christ
By Mark Daniel Del Rosario


What does a Christian look like? What does a righteous man look like? When you’re in the mall and you see people walking back and forth, can you spot the Christian? Today, we will determine what a Christian should look like. Today, we will look at three points: How do you look at Christ; how do you approach Christ; and how do you view yourself in Christ?

First, how do you look at Christ? Answer the following questions:

Who is the most influential living person in your life?
Who are you?
What is God like?
What is the church?
What is truth?
What is the meaning of life?
What is death?

There are many ways one can answer these questions, however, if you’re a Christian, one word can answer all of these questions, and that is Christ. Who is the most influential living person in your life? If you’re a Christian, Christ is the most influential person in your life. Did you not think of Him as living? Who are you? It says in the Bible that you have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer you who live, but Christ who lives in you. Therefore, you must represent Christ. What is God like? Jesus said that if you see him, you have seen the father. What is the church? It is the body of Christ. What is truth? What is the meaning of life? Jesus said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” What is death? Paul said that to live is Christ and to die is gain. If you’re a Christian, when you die, you will gain more of Christ because you will finally be with Him.
Who is Christ to you? How do you look at Christ? When you go through your every day routine, can you see Christ?

Luke 6:46 says, “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Is He the Lord of your life? When I think about Jesus, we always say that He is our Lord and Savior. Too often we look at the Savior part. When we say Christ is our Lord, it means that we trust Him, that our lives are His, and that we follow wherever He leads.

What happens when you see Christ? Isaiah 6:5 says, “Then I said, ‘woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips! For my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.”

When we look at Christ, we should see ourselves for who we are. Isaiah didn’t think of himself as being honored, as being found worthy to see God. Instead, he saw all his own sins and how unworthy he is to be in God’s presence. Isaiah 64:6 says, “For all of us have become like one who is unclean. And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment.” Many times, we feel that we are worthy to go to God because we have done righteous things, because we have been good to others. But Isaiah says that our deeds are like filthy rags in comparison with God.

Philippians 3:8 says, “I count all things to be loss in view of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ…”

Paul frequently pointed out to the believers that if anyone could boast about their good deeds, about their credentials, it is Paul. He followed the law, he was zealous, etc. Yet, he said he counts all those things to be loss in view of Christ. He would be willing to give them all up to gain Christ. Think about all your accomplishments in life? These are the things that, to many of us, define who we are. I look at the many things that I have done in my life and I still struggle with it. I struggle with not putting pride and faith and trust in these accomplishments above Christ. We should always be willing to choose Christ over anything.

This is why, when we look at Christ, we should be thankful that despite all our fears and failures, God has taken us as He found us. He has chosen us. We did not earn it. Therefore, we should want to be clean, we should want to follow Christ because He is the only one who can make us clean.

Let me tell you a story. There once was a woman driving in a storm. The wind and rain poured hard. Then she noticed on the side of the road was a little puppy. People passed by it and didn’t care to even look or help it. She saw that it looked really sick and might even die soon. It was missing patches of fur in areas too. Her heart really went out to the puppy. After all, wouldn’t she want someone to help her if she was in the same situation? So she got out of the car, carefully picked up the puppy, and brought it in the car with her. It looked really sick, so she brought it to the vet. But it as closed. So she took it home with her, washed it in her own bath tub, fed it, nursed it, and even let it sleep in bed beside her. The next day, the puppy was moving around a bit, but seemed to be still very sick. So she wrapped it carefully in a towel and brought it to the vet. She brought it in and told the vet how she found it the night before and how she really wants him to help her. So the vet opened up the towel. He stared at the puppy. Then he stared at the woman. His eyes full of shock. “Miss, that is not a puppy…that is a very very large sewer rat.”

Many times this is how we view sin in our lives. It looks harmless, it looks like something that can’t hurt us. But in reality, it is death. To think the woman slept with this rat, washed it, fed it. One bite from the rat, one scratch would mean death. This is why, when we look at Christ, we must see our sin for what it is.
So then how do we approach Christ? How do we approach Him when we have sin in our lives?

Let me tell you another story that you may be familiar with. There was this young man who told his rich father, “I would really like to have my inheritance now. You’re pretty much dead to me, just give me the money and I’ll go.” The father willingly gives the son the inheritance. With that, the son leaves and goes out to the city. He spends his money on prostitutes, on food, on pleasures, on drink, on luxuries. He has the time of his life! And then a famine hits the land. The economy collapses. The young man soon finds himself working among the pigs in a pig farm. For a Jewish man, this is the lowest you can fall – pigs are that dirty. He is there for awhile and realizes that his father’s hired hands have a much better life than him. Don’t they eat and have shelter? With determination, he gets up and begins to trek back to his father’s house. On the way, it rains hard and he gets muddy. Imagine how smelly wet moldy clothes smell like? Now imagine adding the smell of pigs and pig droppings and pig slop (which is mostly made up of spoiled food). He’s mumbling to himself the whole way, reciting what he is going to say, “Father, I don’t deserve to be called your son, take me as one of your hired hands…” The young man gets to the top of the hill, looks down in the valley and sees his father’s house. A tear comes to his eye as he smells the familiar scents and sees the place he grew up in. To his amazement, he sees his father standing in the garden, and he looks right at him. The young man and the father begin running towards each other. The son runs towards his father with arms wide open and – BAM!!! The father punches the son square in the face, sending him flying to the ground. “Do you know what you have done? What kind of a man are you? How dare you show your face here?! The people in the town know of your crazy ways and spit on my name – all because of you! Get out of here. I never want to see you again.” The son then, crawls and scurries away before the father sends his dogs after him.

But that’s not what happens in the story. You know what happens. The son gets to the top of the hill, sees his house and his father, and hurries down towards him. “Father! Father!” he says as he approaches him.

The father, extends a hand to hold him back because of the smell. “You’re back,” the father says.

Father,” the son says, “I don’t deserve to be your son. Let me be one of your hired hands.”

The father nods. “That sounds fare. Okay, how’s this sound? I’ll let you work among the workers in the field for seven years, then you can move into the house as one of my butlers. Then after another seven years of this, maybe, MAYBE we can talk about you earning your right to be my son again. Now get your bags and make your way to the cabin in the fields with all the other slaves…

But that’s not what happened. The son runs to the house and sees one of the hired hands. “Where’s my father?” he asks. “Oh wow,” the hired hand says, “you’re alive? Heh, thought you were dead. Guess I lost the bet. Hold on, I’ll go get your father.” The hired hand runs in the house. The young man looks up and can see them talking in one of the windows. Then the hired hand runs back down. “Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that he’s too busy to meet with you right now. Your father is an important man, you know. The good news is that he can squeeze you in for an hour next Tuesday.”

But that isn’t also what happens. What happens is the son is still a long way off from the house. He doesn’t know that his father has been looking out for his return every day since he left. His father sees him, and runs towards him. The son barely has time to look up before the father embraces him, despite all the filth, all the smell, the father embraces him tightly. The son tries to speak, but the father doesn’t let him. Back in the Bible times, if a son rebels against his parents, he gets stoned. The villagers probably saw him coming back and prepared the stones for a good stoning. But the father not only hugs him to show his son that he loves him, he hugs him to protect him, telling the villagers that they’ll have to kill him if they want to kill the son. The father then, still not letting his son speak, grabs the best robe and puts it on him and brings him into the house where they prepare a feast.

See, many of feel that we can’t go to God unless we’re clean already. We commit constantly to stop sinning, to give up giving into temptation. However, when we fall again, we feel ashamed, like we can’t go to God anymore. It’s like we will go to God when we have cleaned ourselves up. But we shouldn’t because we can’t clean ourselves up. Think of a little boy who trips and falls and cuts his knee. He doesn’t hide and clean his wound up, no, he runs straight to his mother or father and asks to be clean. When we sin, we should go straight to God, open and say, “God, I’m sorry, I’ve sinned, please clean me and help me not to do it again.” So that is how we must approach God: unashamed and humble.
Lastly, how do you view yourself in Christ?

Let’s read Luke 18:10-14. "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."


As a Christian, we always want to do our best for God. We get involved in ministry. We come to church every day. We give tithes. We pray each night, we pray in the prayer room, we pray in church. But it is so easy to fall into the trap of the Pharisees. It is so easy to do the actions and forget about the heart.
Take this pot for example. It is a wonderfully clean perfect pot. We want others to see us this way. We’re perfect. And inside it is a candle, and it shines its light up to heaven. Perfect communion between you and God. We’re perfect, like this pot. But is this how we really are? This is what the Pharisees did. They always would put themselves as being perfect, being holy, being the examples. Everyone sees their perfection. But this is not how God wants us to be. SMASH POT! When the pot is broken, shattered, shards, it loses all resemblance of perfection. We’re really like this. We’re really broken. We struggle with sin, we are prideful, we don’t really pray, we have our doubts. But we don’t want people to see us this way. In vain, we try to grab all the pieces and try to put it back together, but we can’t. “Don’t look!” we say, “I’m okay, yeah, I’m okay.” But we’re not. People come up to us and say, “How are you?” and we tell them “Praise God, it’s Friday!” We act like we have it all together because we don’t want people to know we’re really broken. But what happens when we let others know that we are broken, that we struggle with things? Look at the pot again, there are the shards of broken pieces, but now the candle can be seen. When we are real with people, when we are broken, we bring glory to God. People don’t see us, they see Christ. We give Him the glory.

Look at 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Paul is talking about the thorn in his side, the thing that keeps him constantly hurting. “But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” I’m not perfect either. We all struggle with things, but what matters is that we always point to God. Because it is in our weakness that God is shown all the clearer.

So here’s my challenge for you. Don’t be like the Pharisees. When the Pharisees saw Christ, they did not see their sin. They did not really get to know Him. They did not know their scripture. It was all about how they looked to others.
When you look at God, see Him for His holiness, his justice, his love. See Him as truly your Lord, your God, your Savior. See who you are compared to Him. Appreciate His sacrifice for us, because we are so wretched that we don’t really deserve it, but He still loves us.

When you approach God, go as a son to a father. Don’t hide, don’t try to fix yourself without him. Remember, He loved you even before you knew you were living in sin.


When you view yourself, especially how you want others to view you, see yourself as broken and see Christ in you. Bring Him glory in all you do.

To close, look at Galatians 2:20. It says, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Indulgence Deli Cafe

Our Series Break was a blast! There were 26 people present yesterday for the morning fellowship at Indulgence Deli Cafe -Makati, with our Pastors of the day; P. Mau and P. Ro.

A million thanks for Rescy and Ghandi Bagwani (owner of Indulgence) for sponsoring Connect's Breakfast Fellowship. May the Lord bless you for your kindness and generosity.

To our first time guests; Lakan of Convergys-Makati, Mira of ePerfomax-Makati, Ralph and Richie of ICT Group-Makati, WELCOME!

Here are few photos taken:


GCF Connect goes wild over the camera


Girls, girls, girls


And more of them


Raya and Mrs. Rescy Bagwani


with the guys





More pictures, more fun!


No left overs


Claire with her ala-Model pose


ICT-Panasonic People


And of course, our group picture!




More pictures will be uploaded in the Series Break Multiply Album (just click on the link).

As per next week, we will resume with a new study series. We will keep you posted of our whereabouts.

Hope we all enjoy the rest of the week! Godspeed! And until next Monday!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

November 19th gathering


It is the 3rd and last Monday for CONNECT's breakfast fellowship in the study and Series on PRAYER. We Hope that everyone was reminded and will practice the discipline of Prayer, not because we are obliged to, but because we want to, because we love the Lord our God.

21 people gathered yesterday for the morning devotion with Teacher Carol Felipe (Christian Education Director of GCF) as the speaker. She challenged us all to design our life with prayer and follow the example of Jesus-- Thy Will be done!

It is also a privilege for CONNECT to have a newbie in Olive (invited by Vin) from Convergys-Ortigas. We, the whole family of CONNECT, welcome you with arms wide open! We hope to see you again next meeting!

A big hand to our early birds- Venus and Sager, in setting a good example in honoring God by coming in early (not just on time, but early!). May the Lord be continuously glorified by your efforts and your commitment.

Another praise item-- someone was lead to Pray and Receive Christ. As we welcome her to the family of believers we also look forward of walking with her in this journey we have in the Lord Jesus!


Here are some photos taken:


Janet and P. Mau in Praise and worship



Teacher Carol in Connect


And her class...





actively listening


and sharing their thoughts


Rajsh with a Bonsai for T. Carol as token of appreciation


Group picture of the day





With the Christmas Tree at GCF lobby


NEXT MONDAY in GCF Connect, we will be gathering in Makati for our SERIES BREAK! Kindly confirm your attendance-- Raya at 09163658627, as she will post-celebrate her 22Nd Birthday. We'll keep you posted if there will be people meeting up in GCF or you may go straight to Greenbelt in INDULGENCE Restaurant. Again, this is RSVP!

Hope to see you, and may God bless us all!