oy the Sunday service and the presence of the Lord is there and wow what a great day! Also, we greet the mothers because it’s a Mothers day and we prayed, appreciate and blessed them. Mothers, thank you for your loving and care for us!Anyway, we give you some updates what happened in last few weeks. First, last April 25-26 we have an overnight prayer meeting. We have some sharing, waiting and soaking in the Spirit, and as we pray, the Lord gave us a word and the word was found in Joel 2:12-13 “ Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn ye even
to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in loving kindness, and relenting of evil.” And as we receive that word all of us begun to cry and ask forgiveness, from that day we decided that we will start to have a prayer and fasting. It is good to obey God because He called us not only to serve and worship Him but also to OBEY Him! 
“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.” Galatians 6:9
Praise the Lord! God is Faithful to all His promises. Yap its true that His promises are YES and AMEN! Now we move again to another building and this is our third time. Yes, it’s tiring but EXCITING. On March 30 we had our first Sunday service in our new place. We had a very busy day in preparing the place. We were so tired, until the evening prior to our 1st service we are still trying to make our air conditioner to work but it did not work despite of our efforts. My wife and I went to bed around 12 midnight and were up by 5:30 am to pray. My wife shared to me that before the service begun her body was sore. While we were just beginning to sing she didn’t have that enthusiasm to join the singing, but she realized that she must focus her eyes unto Jesus. As she focused her eyes to God, she begun to worship God and God just pour His presence to my wife. My wife said that she sense God’s faithfulness and begun to weep. She sense that God is the one Who takes care of the church and whatever happens God will remain faithful and true. I also sense same thing like my wife, I sense God’s faithfulness and I also wept. We are strengthened by what God showed to us. We really can trust Him. HALLELUJAH… I really feel that its time to posses what God has promise. I believe that Santiago City will be saved by the power of the Cross.
Now, we are focusing on our top 3 priority and these are Prayer, Cell group and Communication. Prayer is our #1 priority because we believe that this is the backbone of the Church. Like the early church they are a prayerful church. In every plan and decision to make, we need to pray. I remember Martin Luther he said this word, “I have so much to do today that I shall spend the 3 hours in prayer”. And also Paul Billheimer said, “The effectiveness of the prayer program of a church will be in direct proportion to the depth of the individual prayer life of its members. Without a deep devotional life on the part of the participants, the group cannot muster great prayer power.” Our second priority is cell group which is every member belong to a small groups. And Praise the Lord, Pastor Jun the director of Cell group is doing his best to reach our goal. The third is Communication, we asked the members to give their mobile number to send messages that would encourage them to remain in the Lord, to contact them with the activities in the church. In communication, we included to it the follow up ministry to visit the members and those who came to the church for the first time.
I believe in my heart that the promises you received from God will be fulfilled. God is faithful. He will do what He said He would do. Keep on reminding God about His promises and hold on to that promises.
Cornerstone Church Santiagow/ Dr. John Andrews
There are times when we feel that our labors are in vain. These times come when people misunderstood our act of love, opposed our good deeds or ignored it or even rejected it. We even have the pity party, “Poor me, I helped these guys and now they don’t know me” we said to ourselves or we might even said “I cried with her when she cried, laughed with her when she’s happy. I was there beside her when she needed a friend and now this is what she repays me?” These are some of the thousand sentiments we hear from people who thought that their labors are wasted. In fact, I myself had these sentiments until I heard a man of God spoke about being a servant. I was misunderstood trying to help people; my good deeds are forgotten, was even rejected by a person I helped.
Dr. John Andrews, Marlou and Cristina
I was at a conference and Dr. John Andrews tackled on being a great servant. On one of our sessions he talked about the six (6) roadblocks that hinder a person to serve, from those six hindrances, the Lord caught my attention when Dr. John Andrews said the last hindrance. Imprisonment; because of disputes, pain, discouragement or some fracture of the past or present, we are unable or unwilling to serve. We are imprisoned by events or feelings surrounding those events that get into our way every time we stoop to serve. Voices whisper reminding us of what we did or what others did. It keeps us from getting to the people that need us. The Lord told me that moment that I was unable and unwilling to serve Him by serving others it is because I was imprisoned by the rejection and opposition that resulted pain and discouragement to me. God is so gracious to me, at the end of that session we have our workshop. The speaker made a question for us to tackle. The question is this, “Is Hebrew 6:10 a comfort to a servant?” God in His love opened my eyes. I realized, though people seems to be ungrateful, took for granted all our good deeds, rejects our helping hands or opposes our kindness. But, God will never forget our labor of love and He will surely reward us. On the service at night I went to the altar when Dr. John Andrews had the altar call. As I was standing there I said to myself that I will not cry. And I heard a still small voice said to me “I love you my daughter.” After I heard that word, I cried. It was a common word we already heard a million times that “God loves us.” But that moment it was a fresh revelation to me, knowing that I have a Father who loves me that all my labors of love were not in vain because He noticed even the little thing I have done. He appreciates me and surely will reward me. All my pain and discouragement were gone. Know I serve because I know it pleases my father and it makes Him smile.
Maybe you are in pain and discouraged because people were so ungrateful to you. Instead of appreciating you they criticized you. Remember that we serve because of our Father. All our services are noticed by Him and will not forget them but surely will reward you. People might forget your good deeds but our Father in Heaven will never forget it because He is just and fair.
God is fair; He will not forget the work you did and the love you showed for Him by helping His people. And He will remember that you are still helping them.
Hebrews 6:10 NCV
Wow here we are again! We have a great day the previous three weeks. First, we went to the “MILLION LEADERS MANDATE” by Dr. John 
Maxwell. Almost a thousand attended the seminar and it’s really a blessing for us as a leader to attend this seminar because God called us to be a leader for a greater purpose. One day, Heidee Baker received a Word from the Lord for Pst. Mark Ritchie and it’s all about the VINEYARD. We’re so excited about it, and this is the reason why we need to train more LEADERS!
Second, we went to Muntinlupa city because my relatives asked me to share the 
Word of 
God to them and it’s amazing because they received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Third, we visited a guy that is in a hospital and his situation is very critical. Before he died, he received Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and I believe he is now in the Presence of our Heavenly Father. And Praise the Lord, Malou (his wife) is now attending a church with her friends.
Next article, we will give you a news about what happened this week, on Dr. John Andrews’s leaders conference and the amazing testimony of a couple (Steven and Shelly Ward) from England.
But today we want you to give a good Illustration about a DEFFECTIVE CHURCH by D.L. Moody, and as you read this story we pray that God will touch your heart and be open of what God is saying to you right now!
A father took his little child out into the field one Sabbath, and he lay down under a beautiful shady tree, it being a hot day. The little child ran about gathering wild flowers and little blades of grass, and coming to his father and saying: ‘Pretty! Pretty!’ At last the father fell asleep and while he was sleeping the child wandered away. When he awoke, his first thought was ‘where is my child?’ He looked all around, but he could not see him. He shouted at the top of his voice, and all he heard was the echo of his own voice. No response! Running to a little hill, he looked around but all he heard is his own voice. Then going to a precipice at some distance, He lookdown, and there upon the rocks and briers, he saw the mangled form of his loved child. He rushed to the spot, and took up the lifeless corpses, and hugged it to his bosom, and accused himself of being the murderer of his own child. While he was sleeping his child had wandered over the precipice.
It is also a picture of the Church of God! How many fathers and mothers, how many Christian men are sleeping now while their children wander over the terrible precipice a thousand times worse than that precipice, right into the bottomless pit of hell? Father, where is your boy tonight?