APRIL 2011 REPORT
May, 2011
Dear Brethren,
Hello. So good to find a little time this morning. I thought, I write a note
before I hit the road again and hope to finish it. I plan to visit the prison
(Medium and Maximum compounds) this morning . And then proceed to Calamba,
Laguna in the afternoon to visit brethren whose house was demolished. At night I
will join bro.Moises Gonzales in a Bible study in Sto.Tomas, Batangas. I also
hope to visit a brother who had a mild stroke in the next town of Tanauan,
Batangas. My problem with these trips is the gas cost plus toll fees that went
high recently.
Tomorrow, I have scheduled a whole day bonding time with three (3) families. It
will be where the goats are in Cahafi, Indang, Cavite. We will just be together.
Well, I told them about the river where we go to cool off when we visit the
area.(No entrance fee). There will be a BAPTISM tomorrow also.
On Saturday, a seminar to be conducted by “woman missionaries” on how to have a
tutorial center is scheduled from 10am-4pm. We are recipient of a “kit” (lesson
plan/materials and other benefits) and so we need to attend said seminar. I am
also encouraging others to attend a seminar this Sunday on friendship evangelism
and seminar for new mothers in the same venue. Again problem is gas money, venue
is in the other side of the metropolis.
I need fund to do all these. I am so frustrated when I can’t do what I want to
do because of having no fund. I have been intentionally limiting my activities
due to having not enough funds to travel. I guess I will not be held liable BUT
I just don’t like the idea of missing opportunities of serving and teaching.
Many activities just went by:
April 1-Sports Fest in Pasay City
April 5- Church Planting Institute 1st graduation ceremonies.
April 7-visit to Batangas and had meeting with our fieldworkers.
April 8-2nd Sports Fest in Pasay City
April 9- Door knocking (should have attended but had to meet older sister with
her scouts at the airport).
April 10-Mini medical mission at Metro South. Fellowship lunch in honor of
graduates and honor students.
April 12-Meeting with Cooperative Board of Trustees.
April 16- Door Knocking and Preachers’ meeting in Tagaytay.
April 18-19VBS, 6 sessions, in four locations with “women missionaries” from
Kansas.(Pls see pictures).An approximate of 200 kids were taught of God’s
word.(lesson from Jonah). Non-Members Bible class was taught by Rose Shady. TWO
YOUNG PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED.
April 20-23-METRO-WIDE YOUTH CAMP. EIGHT (8) WERE BAPTIZED.ONE IS FROM METRO
SOUTH.
April 20-21-Attended a regional fellowship in Pangasinan and also visited Bible
campsite in the region.
April 24- Preached in Calamba, Joint worship of three congs. Also preached in
Calauan, Laguna in the afternoon.
April 26-Co-worker reported 5 baptisms in Lucena, City Quezon.
April 27-Wife and I assist 2nd son to be enrolled at University of the
Philippines in Los Banos, UPLB. He is finally enrolled yesterday. He had 2
offers of scholarships in 2 prestigious universities but we don’t want to
pressure him to maintain scholarship in those schools. We ended up paying 20,000
pesos (around $500) for his enrollment at UPLB. He plans to become an engineer and help me later put up a school where we can offer secular courses and the Bible. UPLB has a very good
reputation in the country. A graduate from the school can attract enrolees
later in a college we start, Lord willing.
May 1-I preached at The Orchard Church of Christ at 7AM worship.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY.
In His service,
Bonifacio Patricio Jr.
Dear Brethren,
Hello. So good to find a little time this morning. I thought, I write a note
before I hit the road again and hope to finish it. I plan to visit the prison
(Medium and Maximum compounds) this morning . And then proceed to Calamba,
Laguna in the afternoon to visit brethren whose house was demolished. At night I
will join bro.Moises Gonzales in a Bible study in Sto.Tomas, Batangas. I also
hope to visit a brother who had a mild stroke in the next town of Tanauan,
Batangas. My problem with these trips is the gas cost plus toll fees that went
high recently.
Tomorrow, I have scheduled a whole day bonding time with three (3) families. It
will be where the goats are in Cahafi, Indang, Cavite. We will just be together.
Well, I told them about the river where we go to cool off when we visit the
area.(No entrance fee). There will be a BAPTISM tomorrow also.
On Saturday, a seminar to be conducted by “woman missionaries” on how to have a
tutorial center is scheduled from 10am-4pm. We are recipient of a “kit” (lesson
plan/materials and other benefits) and so we need to attend said seminar. I am
also encouraging others to attend a seminar this Sunday on friendship evangelism
and seminar for new mothers in the same venue. Again problem is gas money, venue
is in the other side of the metropolis.
I need fund to do all these. I am so frustrated when I can’t do what I want to
do because of having no fund. I have been intentionally limiting my activities
due to having not enough funds to travel. I guess I will not be held liable BUT
I just don’t like the idea of missing opportunities of serving and teaching.
Many activities just went by:
April 1-Sports Fest in Pasay City
April 5- Church Planting Institute 1st graduation ceremonies.
April 7-visit to Batangas and had meeting with our fieldworkers.
April 8-2nd Sports Fest in Pasay City
April 9- Door knocking (should have attended but had to meet older sister with
her scouts at the airport).
April 10-Mini medical mission at Metro South. Fellowship lunch in honor of
graduates and honor students.
April 12-Meeting with Cooperative Board of Trustees.
April 16- Door Knocking and Preachers’ meeting in Tagaytay.
April 18-19VBS, 6 sessions, in four locations with “women missionaries” from
Kansas.(Pls see pictures).An approximate of 200 kids were taught of God’s
word.(lesson from Jonah). Non-Members Bible class was taught by Rose Shady. TWO
YOUNG PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED.
April 20-23-METRO-WIDE YOUTH CAMP. EIGHT (8) WERE BAPTIZED.ONE IS FROM METRO
SOUTH.
April 20-21-Attended a regional fellowship in Pangasinan and also visited Bible
campsite in the region.
April 24- Preached in Calamba, Joint worship of three congs. Also preached in
Calauan, Laguna in the afternoon.
April 26-Co-worker reported 5 baptisms in Lucena, City Quezon.
April 27-Wife and I assist 2nd son to be enrolled at University of the
Philippines in Los Banos, UPLB. He is finally enrolled yesterday. He had 2
offers of scholarships in 2 prestigious universities but we don’t want to
pressure him to maintain scholarship in those schools. We ended up paying 20,000
pesos (around $500) for his enrollment at UPLB. He plans to become an engineer and help me later put up a school where we can offer secular courses and the Bible. UPLB has a very good
reputation in the country. A graduate from the school can attract enrolees
later in a college we start, Lord willing.
May 1-I preached at The Orchard Church of Christ at 7AM worship.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY.
In His service,
Bonifacio Patricio Jr.
MARCH REPORT
Dear Brethren,
Greetings to all.
Many things are going on since I last wrote you. I always intend to write at the end of the month or the first days of the month but many things as usual have overtaken me.
One of those that kept us busy was our graduation on the 5th of April. Finally, after four (4) years of operation as a training school, we graduated four. We started with four students. But these four are not the same with the four who first enrolled. In fact only one of that batch made it. As if only one student for every batch made it to the graduation. I suspect that I was too strict to our students that a little problem dis-qualified them in the program. But I can’t be blamed (?), it is hard enough to raise fund for their scholarship and so when they misbehaved I tend to just send them home and no longer waste the Lord’s money for their training. On the other hand, maybe it was the right thing to happen, as of now, two of our four graduates are still waiting for an opportunity when and where to plant a church. It’s not because they are not ready but because they don’t have the fund yet. (You see, we had advertised that we will help our graduates plant churches where there are none. And that we had started livelihood program four years ago (like piggery and goat raising) that was intended to help support our graduates, but we are not that successful yet in those endeavors, maybe in the future). Our OPTION NOW IS TO FIND BRETHREN WHO MAY WANT TO HELP SUPPORT OUR GRADUATES PLANT CHURCHES. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SUPPORT TO DO THE LORD’S WORK, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US. Our four year operation was really a learning experience for us in the teaching and administration staff.
For other news, let me share with you the following: Just recently , April 3, a husband and wife in their later years were baptized. I had a Bible study with them years back but they didn’t see any need for them to become just Christians. I am glad they see the need this time. (Pls. see picture).
Another new congregation was started in Sto.Tomas, Batangas (about 2 hour drive from my place). They have been worshiping for three consecutive Sundays now. A “born-again” family became discontented of their group and since the husband and wife were students of WBS in the past, they decided to look for us. Bro.Moises Gonzales, CPI teacher and member of our preaching team was contacted and made the arrangement for us to meet them. We hold Bible study in their house every Thursday night.
We just ended classes at CPI (I used to teach every Tuesday). I continue to do our prison ministry in the Maximum compound and Medium compound of the Bureau of Corrections every Wednesday. We also have ended classes at PIBI-Batangas but we still go there every Thursday for evangelism purposes. On Fridays, I do whatever is to be done, sometimes we do “special” door knockings. On Saturdays, I attend meetings and fellowship with preachers in Metro Manila area. And we also have our own meetings with preachers in the Cavite area. I was sent to the province early part of March to do Leadership seminar, Goat rising seminar and Vermi Culture seminar.
As for the churches we are assisting, I have these to report: METRO SOUTH cong.(we are members of this cong.) , just had a medical mission in our meeting place. Children were checked and given medicines. We also hope we can have prospects as a result. SALAWAG CONG.(We worshipped with them every other Sunday).We are trying to recover from a problematic situation. They lost their preacher and I am assisting them now until they find another. We’ll have a VBS there this Wednesday up to Saturday. CALAMBA, PARIAN CONGREGATION is in a better situation. It was planted more than a year ago and served by our CPI student (now a graduate), who received a “Church Planter” award. They continue to grow. PIELA cong. is served by one of our CPI students who received a leadership award in our closing exercises. They continue to increase in number. A “cooperative” or peoples’ organization was formed there first. We are now trying to register it with the government. General Trias cong. Continue to strive. Two of our CPI first year students lead the work there. Very limited opportunity. Very poor condition. The same situation is the BAUAN CHURCH OF CHRIST.PIBI students go there on Sunday afternoon to assist in their worship services. CALAUAN Church of Christ is also striving. It is a 3 hour drive from my place. She is served by one of our graduates who received the “Personal Evangelism” award. THESE DAYS, I HAVE PURPOSELY LIMITED MY PARTICIPATION WITH THESE CHURCHES BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE THE AMOUNT FOR GAS.I wish I can visit them more often.
OUR CPI students and graduates will be in “field work” this summer. This means they will be involved in the work with local churches. Those who are already serving congregations will continue doing the same and do more. We will be doing some door knocking and VBS as many as funds will allow us.
These are all for now. Please pray with us for the Lord’s work here.
In His service,
Bonifacio
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
.jpg)
