Feeding 2013

Feeding updates!!!!

Pew.,. What's new with the feeding this 2013?

We started the feeding last July in celebration of the Nutrition month.

We started with 160 children at four schools, two of these schools we just started this year. And because God is a generous Papa there's more extra food always so we are adding to maybe up to 40 more children. Yay Jesus!,!!

So here's what we do: 

At the two schools which are far from our center, the food is being cooked there by our volunteers with the supervision of the feeding teacher. We give them budget for two weeks and when we give the next budget they will have to give us receipts of the spendings.

With the other schools the food is cooked at our center and be brought at the schools by our volunteers everyday.

What's new and exciting this year?

1. We have about 22 volunteers it's huge comparing to 8 or so last year plus some more people who didn't commit theirselves but they go and help on some days.

2. We are now having a monthly meeting with them. 

Last week i had meeting and lunch time with them. 

There are so many testimonies. Some of them Never experienced feeding children who are malnourished. 

One lady shared how she felt joyful seeing one kid just smiling after eating. Another shared how she felt when the children gets excited upon seeing them coming in from the school gate.. Amazing!

The monthly meeting with them is to help them grow more in Jesus. Feed them Spiritually so they can give more. 

The meeting would be just like that of a house church meeting or we go out and eat or we go at the park and have fun. Different every time but would be very encouraging to them and them being filled with Jesus.

I am dreaming that God would use these bunch of ladies to move and transform the whole city of Baguio. God is investing and making these people be anchored in him, be firm in him, and be in love more and more in him. And then he's gonna send them put! 

I cry every time i think about what God has for these people. 

Some of them are house wives, and they are just at home taking care of their children. Some of them haven't even finish any degree. Some of them barely has enough food in their house. But they gave their lives to Jesus, offering what they only have, theirselves. 

I remember they boy who gave the fish and loaves of bread to Jesus. He might be hungry by that time but he chose to offer it to Jesus. And Jesus was able to use these few fishes and bread to feed thousands of people.. I'm imagining the boy might have been so overwhelmed and fell more in love with Jesus.

Awesome! 

We started this House Church in another area last December and there's so much stories of what God's been doing in their lives.

-- One couple shared how God provides for them, and how He comes and rescues them at the right time, at the right situation..

-- One wife had been praying to see her sister and after 16 years, they got in touched with each other and finally reunited last month.... Seeing each other wasn't the end of the story... Since then they have been in contact with each other. The sister lives two hours drive away. The sister texted her and told her that she and her husband agreed that they will support one of her children to go to school!!! 

Wonderful, not just restoration but sharing love, and care...

-- We visited a man who can't come at our house church because of frequent epilepsy attacks. We thought we go and encourage him but it turned out we were the ones being encouraged by him... His faith.. 

And how he chose to believe that though it's a mystery why God isn't healing him, his affliction doesn't come from God,..

-- Last week i told them we will go and visit people. Everyone started to talk about the time, which house first, etc's.  In my mind, i said no one will come.,. 

The day of the visiting, i was amazed because they were waiting for me, almost all of them waited and even texted me while i was on my way!.

Such an open hearted people,..

-- when God said to go, He won't let us go unprepared. We don't have to struggle on what to bring, because we are being equipped before we go,.

-- In a little while i knew some of these ladies and even our gentlemen will become leaders..

Reflection

While I’m writing this I’m listening to a worship song that goes “Author of the world walk with me'.

What I big big word for us. Isn't it overwhelming to know that the most holy is indeed walking with us.. Isn't it overwhelming enough that even the the most impossible things in our lives will look so tiny..

Year 2012 has been a year of growing more in him for me.,. There has been ups and downs but knowing His love, and knowing that He is in us makes us secure on who we are,. Knowing His plans in our lives will never change.. makes us secure..

"Jeremiah 29:11

For I know what I have planned for you, 'says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope." (NET)

Five years ago, God had implanted a dream in my heart. I was barely a Christian by then. I was just water baptized December of 2008. At the same year He started to make it happen, I became a church intern midyear of 2009. In those two years of internship so much had happen. I had come to know Him more. On the other hand, the pressures of ministry started to crawl inside of me which I had to hide from everyone. It came to a point where I entertained doubts in my mind, started to ask Him if He really had called me to do full time ministry.
End of year 2011 when I came out of ministry and do something else.

I was so broken inside, I worked and made myself occupied but bedtimes were always so painful. There were lots of tears. There were lots of blaming and questions.

But God in His word again reminded me that no one can and will ever hold me in this time of brokenness and depression but him.

It was a decision to let him come into my time of trouble. It was a decision to let him deal into this weakened Spirit.

He indeed came, and where his presence is there is healing, the broken becomes whole, every ruin becomes new.

He renews every dream that was shattered because it's him, it's what he does it's his nature. That's what he did when he gave Jesus to die on the cross. That is to restore the relationship he has with us.

After almost a year, I made a decision to stand up and fight for this dream. Willing to plunge into the adventure God has for me.

I'm so excited for this year. I've been back to full time ministry almost four months now.  

And while I was spending time with him he showed me another promise for this year:

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, “gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

This was a promise to Abram. It was impossible but God made it possible. God fulfilled his promise.

And so is to us. This promise is for us of this generation. God's gonna make all things possible for this dream that he himself had put in our hearts to happen.

He is a father who doesn't want his children to just daydream but dream big things knowing it will come true..

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