The Mission Team
The Mission Team
Our First worship Service
My Uncle whose wife died in accident
The Mission Team & the youth from Ilagan
Our first service at our Worship Center
It is such a joy to write what God has done in our church and through our church. Seeing the wondrous work of God in people’s lives that you have never imagined makes a heart sing for his goodness and mercy.
It has been my desire to see my family come to know the Lord; I prayed for a decade that God would send someone else to share the gospel to them. Until September of this year, a tragedy happened; it was very hot evening, my uncle and his wife were sitting outside near the car park (the street is narrow and a lot of motorbike and car are parked in the street). At that same night, my brother and his wife were going out and came into the car. While he manoeuvres the car and his foot reaching the brake, his foot slid to the accelerator. The speeding car hit my aunty (my uncle’s wife) and it brought her against a wall. They brought her to the hospital but died after a few hours because of hemorrhage. My sister phoned me that night asking me to go home because my brother was devastated. I was hesitant to go home because I do not know what to say to my brother. However, the Lord spoke to me and my husband letting us know that he is about to turn this tragedy into blessing where people will come to know Him. My husband and I spent the night praying in the Spirit and prayed even while travelling to Ilagan the next morning. I remember one specific prayer that I ask from God, I said, “God, you know that I do not know what to say to my brother. However, I ask you to fill me with your presence in such a way that my brother and his family will sense it, that even if I do not have many words to say they will know that you are here with me. Indeed God granted my request; my sister-in-law testified that when we arrived they felt such strength and peace that defies description. In that we saw an open door for us to share God’s Word, my husband was able to deliver God’s revelation to their family about “the new beginning”. God did an amazing work in their family, for two Sundays they have to travel 2 hours just to attend the service here in Santiago and in their second time they even brought with them one family to attend in our service. In this situation, we saw the need to start a church in Ilagan. We prayed and plan for a one-week mission to start a church. Cornerstone Church Santiago set a mission the same time as the school holidays for we have brought with us our young people to do the mission.
All we saw in this mission is God’s faithfulness, mercy and grace. We talked to the owner of the place the we are renting now, the time we talked to him we have no money yet but bearing in mind that it is God’s will for us to start a church we step out in faith. We went to mission with no enough funds and having the faith to believe that where God guides He provides. God did not fail us; everyday God used different people to provide our needs. Halleluiah, what a faithful God we have, so faithful and true!
Finally, we started our Sunday service in Ilagan on November 1. And 15 people turned up that day (kids excluded). Now the church is 5 weeks old and it grew up in number, there are 30 people (kids excluded) attending every Friday night and Sunday morning. Moreover, I am amazed by what God has done, my uncle (whose wife died in the incident that I mentioned above) and 9 of his grandchildren are actively coming to church every Friday night and Sunday morning. In addition, my sister-in-law’s relative had started coming in church. I never imagined that I could be able to minister to my own family and relatives.
It has been my desire to see my family come to know the Lord; I prayed for a decade that God would send someone else to share the gospel to them. Until September of this year, a tragedy happened; it was very hot evening, my uncle and his wife were sitting outside near the car park (the street is narrow and a lot of motorbike and car are parked in the street). At that same night, my brother and his wife were going out and came into the car. While he manoeuvres the car and his foot reaching the brake, his foot slid to the accelerator. The speeding car hit my aunty (my uncle’s wife) and it brought her against a wall. They brought her to the hospital but died after a few hours because of hemorrhage. My sister phoned me that night asking me to go home because my brother was devastated. I was hesitant to go home because I do not know what to say to my brother. However, the Lord spoke to me and my husband letting us know that he is about to turn this tragedy into blessing where people will come to know Him. My husband and I spent the night praying in the Spirit and prayed even while travelling to Ilagan the next morning. I remember one specific prayer that I ask from God, I said, “God, you know that I do not know what to say to my brother. However, I ask you to fill me with your presence in such a way that my brother and his family will sense it, that even if I do not have many words to say they will know that you are here with me. Indeed God granted my request; my sister-in-law testified that when we arrived they felt such strength and peace that defies description. In that we saw an open door for us to share God’s Word, my husband was able to deliver God’s revelation to their family about “the new beginning”. God did an amazing work in their family, for two Sundays they have to travel 2 hours just to attend the service here in Santiago and in their second time they even brought with them one family to attend in our service. In this situation, we saw the need to start a church in Ilagan. We prayed and plan for a one-week mission to start a church. Cornerstone Church Santiago set a mission the same time as the school holidays for we have brought with us our young people to do the mission.
All we saw in this mission is God’s faithfulness, mercy and grace. We talked to the owner of the place the we are renting now, the time we talked to him we have no money yet but bearing in mind that it is God’s will for us to start a church we step out in faith. We went to mission with no enough funds and having the faith to believe that where God guides He provides. God did not fail us; everyday God used different people to provide our needs. Halleluiah, what a faithful God we have, so faithful and true!
Finally, we started our Sunday service in Ilagan on November 1. And 15 people turned up that day (kids excluded). Now the church is 5 weeks old and it grew up in number, there are 30 people (kids excluded) attending every Friday night and Sunday morning. Moreover, I am amazed by what God has done, my uncle (whose wife died in the incident that I mentioned above) and 9 of his grandchildren are actively coming to church every Friday night and Sunday morning. In addition, my sister-in-law’s relative had started coming in church. I never imagined that I could be able to minister to my own family and relatives.
"With God’s power working in us, God can do much, much more than
anything we can ask or Imagine."
(Ephesians 3:20, NCV)
Posted by:
Pst. Maria Cristina Javier
Pst. Marlou’s (Senior Pastor - Cornerstone Church Santiago) wife
Posted by:
Pst. Maria Cristina Javier
Pst. Marlou’s (Senior Pastor - Cornerstone Church Santiago) wife
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