VBS in Kanawan is awesome!

I’ve been in Kanawan for 3 three times, but, still it was an awesome experience everytime I go there. It seems I couldn’t get enough of fun, excitement and touching experience of being a blessing to kids, to church and to the community of Magbukon tribe on the top of the mountain.

Last April 5-9, BK ministry of Youth Mobilization(YM) together with 9 youth leaders went to hold a VBS for kids in Kanawan Christian Church. It is located on the top of the mountain in Bataan (4 hour drive from Manila and an hour hike). A week before, the Training Department of YM held a training for youth leaders who will join the VBS. Youth leaders shown excitements as they prepare for VBS. They were all excited as they made crafts for kids, lesson plans, and materials for the entire VBS.

The VBS theme for this year is entitled, “HOME PLANET”. It is about caring for our planet, nature and communities. It is fun to see kids learning how to care for our environment.

I was the host of every session. I love doing it. I love seeing kids enjoying, shouting, singing, dancing and learning from the lessons we prepared. I even lost my voice in the last day. It was painful yet I love do it again and again. I love firing their excitement up and making them ready to sing, dance and listen to bible stories. It was totally fun!

What touching part of the trip in Kanawan is when we had a farewell party in our last night because we will be heading home (Manila) in the morning, both kids in Kanawan and youth leaders are crying while saying goodbyes to each other. That is a big proof that we made big impact in the lives of the kids. We made long lasting impressions, built relationships and communicated a very special message. Kids gave many souvenirs to the youth leaders and wanting to get connected with them as much as possible. The 9 youth leaders we brought there were all blessed. They gave testimonies to church and the church were blessed by their testimony their experience in VBS in Kanawan.

Me. I have great stories to tell but to be honest until now I am still mesmerized by my experience there and I don’t know where can I start telling those great stories. I can let pictures to tell you all of it.


making their ID's before the session starts

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youth leaders telling bible story


telling story of Joseph the Dreamer


pledge allegiance to the filipino flag, christian flag and for the bible

we mobilize youth!

Why mobilizing youth is important?

It is a great investment for ministry to train, mobilize and equipped youth to do ministry! Being part of the Training Department of Youth Mobilization, I am thankful for a privilege to see youth from different churches joining themselves to missions. It’s either volunteering themselves to different ministries or fully grasps the call for a short-term mission, it’s very fulfilling to see their desires to help out ministries. Not only me, one of their trainors is happy, but also the ministry, itself is benefiting from their commitment to serve. That’s why we see great potentials to the youth we are training because we know, in time, they will become great leaders who will take lead of the ministry.

What are advantages of equipping the youth?

There are many advantages of equipping them. Two of them are:
1. We want to see ministries still running in the future.
I saw, personally, ministries who died or stopped because of the people leading it are old enough to go to another journey. Off course, we are growing and changing. We cannot deny it. God call them for another purpose and let’s face the truth that we are getting old. Some things we can do will someday we just can’t do because we are getting old. That’s why, if we love to see the ministries running still because we believe to the purpose of the ministries, it’s a good call to train future leaders who have potentials to lead or even level up the ministries. Let’s pass the baton to them, trust them, train them, and support them, for we know God will enhance them to be great leaders. I am a big testimony. If there’s noone invested to train me, I would never be what I am right now. I owe a big one to people who are training me, mentoring me and equipping me. I thank God for their commitment to the ministry by investing in my life.

2. Not only one but many.
By investing to the lives of the youth, we are not only helping one specific ministry but different ministries that a youth can help. Most of our youth today are blessed to have technologies that they can use to do multi-task works, involved in different ministries and get connected to many kind people. Not only that, they are also very gifted (like music, theater, writings, teaching etc.) that they can use to blessed ministries. What a nice way to support ministries. We are not only blessing ministries but we also investing to lives that will eventually continue to works of the ministries in the future.

Why we need your support?
Mostly of our partner churches that we are helping came from an urban community and have self-supporting ministries. We are challenged to see their church grow to their full potential that’s why we are training and equipping their youth to respond to the call of service and be a blessing to their churches. The task is great and we need all help we can get. Your help is a blessing not only to us but to the youth and their churches.

In what ways you can help?
You can support us thru prayers. Time to time we are sending prayer letters. And if you want to pray with us, you can email me (mackie_youthmob@hotmail.com) and I will get back to you and put you in our prayer partner list. Your prayer is a big encouragement to us, let us know your desire to pray with us.
You can support us by being a Training Department worker. If you have skills, talents or gifting that will blessed youth, come and be part of the training team. We are in need of volunteers/intern/full-time workers. If you want to take part, please contact Anne Benavidez (open_heavens777@yahoo.com). She is the Training Department Director and the best person to get connected if you want to be part of us.

You can also support us thru financial giving. Training Department is geared up with trainings, seminars and workshops that will surely blessed the youth and their churches. We are in need of fundings and resources. Any amount you can give is a great help and will be highly appreciated. Send Anne or me an email if you are interested to support us thru financial giving.

Imagine numerous youth getting trained, equipped and involved to the ministry, their lives changed because of your investment, and imagine how far they can reach, WOW! Surely countless results and many lives will be touched thru their lives. What a great way to support ministries!

Windows YP 2010 - be a blessing!

I am excited for this windows yp! whoooo!!!
This is a youth missions conference and I will be one of the teachers.
Please pray with me for wisdom and may this conference move the hearts of the youth to response to the call of missions work. Please also for the provisions of the youth so that they attend to this conference.
Thanks and God bless!
To God be all the glory!

I love the church.

I love the church.

Last Friday, I had a mentoring time with Joshua (YM team leader). He opened our mentoring with a question of how am I doing concerning my status in Jesus King of Kings Community Church.

For some or most of you who didn’t know what happened to me about the church, Brett (who is currently pastoring the church) asked me to find another church. He asked me to find another church not because I doing some sort of disrespect to the church. That is clear that I didn’t do any disrespect nor disobedience. But it is because he (as the pastor) can’t handle my spiritual growth. He admitted that he failed me in terms of pastoring me. That’s the reason why he asked me to find another church. So, in respect of his leadership and I don’t want to disobeyed what God instituted, I humbly submitted and followed.

Back to my mentor’s question, my answer is very simple. “I love the church”. I love the church that’s why even the pastor asked me to find another church, I will still continue to help to the extend of what I can. I will help even in a simple way. Even without position or recognition. I don’t need those. I believe that there’s no law against love. As long as we do everything in love, I know we are doing what God instructed us to do. I don’t need a leadership role to help my friends in the church. I don’t need recognition to visit, counsel, encourage, uplift and pray for them. I love my church that why I care and I assured them that I will still be here, near to them when ever they need me or my help. They are not burden to me. I love serving them in all I can. God blessed me that is why I want to be a blessing to them.

When my mentor heard that, he commended me and keeps on encouraging me to love the church regardless of no position nor recognition. I was encouraged so much by his affirming gestures and exhorting me to not getting tired doing good.

What I am really praising God is the friendship with in the workers and friends in the church. There were times, they were the ones who reminded me that there’s no circumstances that will separate me from them. They continue to call me as their pastor, a big proof that pastor is not a position I get but a relationship they give.

Be:E will start this coming Sunday and I wont be teaching it. But students told me that they are still praying that someday God will bring me back as their teacher. I was encouraged so much of their love to me. And I really thank God for them.

I know I am not worthy, I have failed, I have sinned but by the grace of God I stand, standing back again. He promise restoration to those who repent. Who am I compared to great people around me, I have nothing but only God’s grace. That’s where I stand and that’s why I am here. His grace enables me to love the church.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Love
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Day Care Center Snap Shot

KIDS ARE LEARNING HOW TO READ AND WRITE

KIDS ARE LEARNING HOW TO PRAY

KIDS ARE LEARNING HOW TO ENJOY BEING KIDS

Day Care Center

It was started with a desire of caring for kids, Toph (BK Coordinator) started a day care ministry. Having nothing in terms of fundings but just few dedicated people volunteered, and few kids attended, then a day care was started Last Novermber. A desire became a reality, a dream, fulfilled!

Little by little, one step after another, kids which are not currently enrolled to a formal school, learning how to read and write in a safe environment. These are kids who usually play out the street unattended of their parents now enjoying their time studying lessons from their volunteer teachers and playing with their co-students. All of the students came from a really poor family that's why this day care is really a blessing for both parents and their kids. Seeing them learning and enjoying their time being kids in a safe environment is such a huge fulfillment to the teachers. Teachers are encouraged by a word in the bible, Zechariah 4:10, Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin.

This day care is not yet registered, teachers are yet licensed and the curriculums are still in the process. But we knew this will come to fulfillment. Everything will fall in their proper places. Please do pray with us as we seek God's wisdom for this day care to be well established. We need people. One to be a curriculum developer, a Filipino licensed teacher. Day care also needs funds for the salary for people like teachers and their assistants, for students and teachers' uniform, for food budget and facilities like books, notebooks, pens and papers.

We are praising God for the fulfillment of a desire and we will continue what God has started in the lives of street kids for we know that He who started a good work will surely be faithful to complete it!

If you are interested to help us out, please do not hesitate to do so. At the last page, you will see how to send support. Or you can contact directly Kristofer (BK Coordinator) thru email: eagleman_1986@yahoo.com.ph

be a blessing.

The Youth Mobilization (YM) team, opened the year with a declaration that this year 2010 will be the year for us to “be a blessing”. Joshua (YM team leader) remembered how God been faithful to us for the past years. He shared with us the story of how God fulfilled His promised to us, as a team. We saw many miracles unfolded in our eyes for the past year and we won’t stop believing what God can do thru our team and we will keep on moving forward because we know, God will do many more new miracles in our lives in our ministries. And from there God impressed to Joshua’s heart how the year 2010 will be for us as a team in God’s vineyard of missions.

Last 2008 had been the year of stretch and growth. And God fulfilled it! Ministries had been stretched out, grown in many ways. Even team members who’s handling ministries saw how God stretch their faith in dealing ministries, yes, there could be many obstacles but those are milestones on how God stretch our faith. As the 2008 closed, we saw the growth.

And last year 2009 was the “time to fly”. Right after we claimed it in our heart, we (YM Team) received an invitation for a conference which will be held in Macau. We grabbed the opportunity and listed ourselves, having nothing in our pockets to assure our registration. But we continue on holding God’s promise that 2009 will be the time for us to fly. And God didn’t fail us faith, He brought it to a reality. All of us (YM team), went to Macau and attended the conference. We enjoyed our trip and celebrated God’s faithfulness to us. Right after our trip to Macau, I went to Canada. Whoo! God is really awesome for providing all my needs to go to Canada. I saw a big miracle unfolded. God is the God of miracle and I am a witness of that.

Now, this year 2010, Joshua exhorts us to “be a blessing”. Find ways to bless others, in our small or big way. That would be our aim for this year, we would be a blessing to our partner churches, youth leaders and even for a single person. We will extend our help to everyone. As we set our goals and plans for this year, we are preparing ourselves on how we can be blessing.

Please pray with us as we continue to seek God’s ways to be a blessing. Please pray for our upcoming activities to be a venue to help partner churches and youth leaders. Pray for the success, provisions and people who can help us help others.

If you need updates of our activities in YM and how you can help and/or involved, please don’t hesitate to inform me in email or facebook. I would highly appreciate it.

God bless the works of your hands and plans in your heart!