Members from the Living Rock Church Iloilo City on their way to Living Rock Guimaras.
Living Rock City Church members walking the 250 meters from the main road to the church site.
Almost there...
Sis. Bebing and Bro. Roy lead the praise and worship...
Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and in Truth... (John 4:24)
Our Guimaras congregation....
Welcome Song: "You're my brother, you're my sister, so take me by the hand, together we will work until He comes. There's no foe that can defeat us when we're walking side by side. As long as there is LOVE we will stand..."
Sis. Midlred Teorima giving the Welcome Address...
Pastor Pol Cubing with his Congratulatory Address...
Pastor Norman (center) introducing the Living Rock Guimaras officers and workers. From left to right: Hasmin Gaborno (Church Secretary), Cynthia Gaborno (Church Treasurer), Imelda Saplagio (Church Caretaker), Jose Eden Saplagio (Men's Fellowship), Mildred Teorima Ferrer (Women's Fellowship), Freddie Gaborno, Jr. (Youth Fellowship), Roelph Gomez (Music), Joy Gomez (Children's Church), Irish May Caro (Sunday School Teacher)
Introducing our Officers and Workers in Living Rock Guimaras
Bro. Freddie Gaborno, Jr. read the opening Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Sis. Irish May's children with their special number: "Big, Big House"
Sis. Joy's children with their special number: "Agila" (Eagle)
Sis. Cynthia prays for the Offering....
Pastor Norman gives the Sunday Sermon on Teamwork based on Mark 2:1-12, the story of the Paralytic and His Four Friends.....
The Living Rock congregation as they listen to God's Word...
A commitment to work together in unity....Teamwork...
Pastor Norman speaks to Dave Ferrer and Maryann Lapoz before the Wedding Ceremony...
Praying for the Couple...thanking God for their decision to get married....
Dave and Maryann exchanging vows and rings....
Sis. Bebing prays a special prayer of blessing for the couple before the pronouncement...
The husband may now kiss his wife....
Dedication of Dave Ferrer, Jr.
Pastor Norman explains that we dedicate infants and very young children, we do not baptize them. Baptism is a PERSONAL choice which clearly infants and very young children are not yet able to do. It also involves FAITH (belief in Jesus), REPENTANCE (turning away from sin) and COMMITMENT to follow Christ (thus, the term Christian). All of these an infant or young child cannot do. We wait for them to reach the proper age when they will, on their own, with the guidance of their parents and church, come to a personal faith in Christ. So, we dedicate infants and very young children to the Lord. The Lord Jesus Himself was dedicate in the Temple when he was 8 days old and was baptized when he was 30 years old. Some are afraid that if they will not have their babies baptized and they died that they cannot enter the Kingdom of God (Heaven). These fears are unfounded since Christ himself said, Mark 10:14:
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."
Preparing to dedicate the church building with Pastor Delia (Living Rock Amparo) and Pastor Lloyd Basco (Living Rock Maasin)
Laying hands on every part of the building...dedicating it to the Lord....
Ribbon cutting....
Fellowship snacks...
WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE to the following for their help:
1. Living Rock City Church members here and abroad
2. Living Rock Guimaras members
3. Pastor Norman's Classmates at St. Clement's Academy Batch 81
4. Pastor Norman's Classmates at the Assumption Iloilo Batch 81
5. Pastor Norman's Friends and Neighbors in Lapaz
6. Pastor Norman's Family and Relatives here and abroad
7. Friends abroad
GOD BLESS AND PROSPER ALL OF YOU!
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