Cornerstone Church

My Wife and Cristeta in Ilagan, Isabela

Our Worship Center In Ilagan, Isabela

Our Main Hall in Ilagan, Isabela

Front door of our Church
Cornerstone, Ilagan

Hi there! How are you?
Tomorrow we will go to Ilagan, to clean our new church building and to make it beautiful.And to be ready to used for next week. Hopefully no typhoon...
I'm so excited to plant a church in Ilagan, Isabela. actually I and my wife thinking to plant more Churches and praying that God will open more doors for us.Not only in Isabela or Region two (2) but beyond this region. Because I believe that it's time to possess what God has promised. I believed that Philippines will be transformed by the power of God! But God is saying to us, 'WHOM SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL GO FOR US?'Brethren the great comission is not optional it is mandatory, it is a command and we need to obey our COMMANDER IN CHIEF, Jesus Christ!

Praise the Lord... We are back again! May the peace of God be upon you always!

By next week I will bring ten (10)people(most of them are young people and I'm the oldest)in a mission/evangelism in Ilagan, Isabela. This is a six days mission where everyone of us will share the gospel. It is also to plant a Church because after this mission/evangelism we will start the sunday service (Ilagan, Isabela).

Maybe your thinking, where is Ilagan?

Ilagan is a 1st-class municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. It is the capital municipality and the largest town of Isabela (both land area and total population). According to the latest census, it has a population of 131,243 people in 24,085 households.

Ilagan, Isabela is politically subdivided into 91 barangays. Ilagan has the most number of barangays in the province of Isabela.Ilagan is the center of education in its neighboring municipalities of Tumauini, Gamu, Roxas, Quirino, Naguilian and Delfin Albano in the Province of Isabela. Ilagan houses the Isabela State University, some colleges and other educational institutions.

Ilagan’s major industry is furniture. Located along National Highway in Barangay Alinguigan 2nd & 3rd, furnitures are made of quality narra woods. These barangays of Alinguigan 2nd and Alinguigan 3rd comprises the so-called Butaka City of Ilagan, wherein the Giant Butaka(It is like a Rocking Chair) of the Philippines was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In December 2007, God gave me a very clear Word in Ilagan and said, "PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD!" That's why I and my wife prayed, waited, and prepared ourselves about this. After much prayer, waiting and preparing, we sensed that this is the right time to plant a Church in Ilagan.That's why we are asking you to pray for us.

We will always post updates about this mission.

Sorry for not posting our blogs in few weeks, many things happened to us especially to me and to my wife.
Did you experience God asking you about something? I mean about surrendering or giving up everything to God even your own dream.
I want to tell you a story what happened to me the day (Nov. 1994) I surrender my life to God until now. That day the Lord asked me to preach His Word, that is very hard for me because I am only a few weeks old Christian but one thing I know like Paul I saw a very clear vision and I responded and followed Him whole heartedly.
I got married in October 16, 1999 a couple of months after my wedding I encountered the Lord in a way that I could not imagine. In the living room of my brother in law, I met the Lord, where His presence is very strong, I was trembling, and afterward I heard the voice of the Lord saying to me, “I called you to be a Pastor.” It is a hard decision again for me because I was newly married; however, we have obeyed the Lord.
In year 2000, the Lord ask me to Pastor in a Church that closed, when I saw the Church building it is like a haunted house and a lot of stone. Nevertheless, I sensed the Lord was saying to me that those stone would be a living stone. Moreover, the Lord is very faithful to us and the Lord restored the Church.
In year 2004, the Lord spoke to us again and said to us that we need to move. It was not easy for us to leave the church because we love the people, for weeks we have bargained with the Lord just to let us stay and eventually the Lord’s will prevailed, we moved out and worked with Pastor Mark and other pastors to start a church in the centre of the city.
In March 2005, the Lord gave me a vision, and said to me that I will be the pastor of Cornerstone Church Santiago and after two years the Lord fulfil His Word.
I tell you the truth; I really love Cornerstone Santiago. We invested our life to the people and we became like a family. However, one day, the Lord spoke to us and saying to us, “are you willing to surrender all to me?” and we said, “Yes Lord.” But, the last question was a very hard to say, “Yes Lord!” the Lord asked us “Are you willing to give up everything even the church that you love so much?” What do you think we felt when the Lord asked that to us? We felt it was like giving your son to be sacrifice. We have owned our people us our sons and daughters even though some of them are older than we are. We have cried and laughed together and together we won battles after battles.
Even though this was hard for us, we obeyed the Lord. We made a resignation letter to Pst. Mark. The day came when our resignation letter need to be given, the Lord intervened. At 7:30am Pst. Mark went to our house and talk to me. I really sensed the Lord was saying to us, “Enough, now I know that you’ll obey me wholeheartedly and you passed the test. From now on, I will bless you, your children, and your children’s children. You will be a blessing to a city and nation.” You know I felt the warm embrace of God.
My question is, are you ready to surrender all to God? Even your own dream? Selah