Happy New Year!

2008-- another year for CONNECT to look forward to.


15 people gathered on Monday, January 17 as Connect resumes for breakfast fellowship. We missed a lot of faces but indeed it was great to have seen each other again (after the two week break).

We welcome our first time guest - Eric Daza from SITEL Care Philippines - Pioneer, and although he has to leave early we enjoyed having fellowship with him.

Hope to see you again Eric!

Kudos to Jenna (ICT- Ortigas) for being the early bird of the day!

And indeed we are privilege to have P. Kevin Alamag speak to us about "Setting Your Priorities Right". A wake up call on how to assess if things important to us our things that is important for us. The sumarry of the message is as follows:

Priorities in the Life of Jesus:1. Being with God and doing his will (Luke 2:41-52)
2. Resisting Temptation (Matthew 4)
3. Passion for the Lost (Luke 19)- reaching out to them; wanting them to know God is looking for them.
4. Not to worry (Matthew 6:25-34)
5. To lay down his life for others (John 12-:1-26)
6. Being a servant- serving others, even his enemies
7. Glorifying God through his disciples (John 17:1)

Five Things to ask to bring PRIORITIES in line with GOD's:
1. Where do you spend most of your time?
2. Where do you spend most of your resources?
3. What do you dream about the mosty?
4. Whom do you idolize?
5. What do I often talk about?

Essential Qualities
1. Discipline- "chosen suffering"
2. Vision- includes optimism and hope
3. Wisdom- applied knowledge
4. Courage- ability to make bold decisions
5. Decisiveness
6. Humility
7. Integrity/Sincerity
8. Humor
9. Anger
10. Patience- thinking before speaking
11. Friendship
12. Able to inspire others
14. Administrative capbilities
15. Listening skills
16. Ability to Communicate the Vision

As per next week we will have Teacher Carol Felipe speak to us. Please read John 9:1-10 for advance study of the lesson.

See you and God bless!