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God bless you! :)
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Church Location
The estimated boundaries of the new church lot. Photo courtesy of Google Earth. Click to enlarge.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Just Keep Holding on to Him
Earlier in this blog, we told you about a group of young people from Tagum City who attended our Summer Camp Meeting last April and how they composed [in about two days] an original song especially for that camp meeting's theme.
Most of you may have been curious about how that song turned out, so we are sharing a recording here. This video was taken during their visit to the radio station right after the Vacation Bible School.
God bless you, everyone! :)
Most of you may have been curious about how that song turned out, so we are sharing a recording here. This video was taken during their visit to the radio station right after the Vacation Bible School.
God bless you, everyone! :)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Summer Tract Distribution
One of the bigger ministries we have at church is the Publishing Ministry. We print a total of 20,000 flyers each year and make it a point to involve as many of the brethren as possible in the work of distributing them.
Publications must be multiplied, and scattered like the leaves of autumn. These silent messengers are enlightening and molding the minds of thousands in every country and in every clime.--Review and Herald, Nov. 21, 1878.
For several years now, we've been printing and reprinting flyers on the Sabbath (Why Don't You Ask God About the Sabbath?) and on Health (GODSPLAN) both in English and in the vernacular. Other churches and ministries have also used these same flyers for their tract distribution activities. A ministry in Northern Luzon, for example, had 10,000 of these flyers printed and sent to them for use in their medical missions. It is our delight to be able to connect with other ministries in this way.
Just this morning, more than 30 brethren came out to walk the streets of a subdivision in Bangkal to distribute the flyers. Young and old cheerfully participated in the activity..
Publications must be multiplied, and scattered like the leaves of autumn. These silent messengers are enlightening and molding the minds of thousands in every country and in every clime.--Review and Herald, Nov. 21, 1878.
For several years now, we've been printing and reprinting flyers on the Sabbath (Why Don't You Ask God About the Sabbath?) and on Health (GODSPLAN) both in English and in the vernacular. Other churches and ministries have also used these same flyers for their tract distribution activities. A ministry in Northern Luzon, for example, had 10,000 of these flyers printed and sent to them for use in their medical missions. It is our delight to be able to connect with other ministries in this way.
Just this morning, more than 30 brethren came out to walk the streets of a subdivision in Bangkal to distribute the flyers. Young and old cheerfully participated in the activity..
Our little trouper straining to get the flyers into the mailboxes. :)
Our "folding crew" who stayed in the jeep to fold the flyers to be supplied
to those who distributed them.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
two months worth of updates
yes, it really has been two months since the last update on this blog and we owe you so much news.
since the last time we posted on this blog, we have been really busy preparing for camp meeting, holding that camp meeting, preparing for Vacation Bible School, and holding that one too.
for camp meeting, the theme was Hold On! Prepare, Prepare! Get Ready, Get Ready! and it was perhaps the most successful camp meeting to date. the attendance was double that of the previous camp meeting and the enthusiasm was overwhelming. the camp meeting was held at th campsite in Aracan and was attended delegates from several churches, among the most enthusiastic of whom were the youth of the newly-formed home division in Tagum City. they even composed a song based on the theme of the camp meeting! the pillars of faith were tackled and reviewed, health studies opened to the understanding of youth and adults alike. everyone was truly blessed as never before.
two weeks after the camp meeting, we held our vacation bible school in Talomo, Davao City. we had invited the youth from Tagum and other churches to be part of the activity. we had a total of 25 staff members (more than ninety per cent of which are youth), not counting the loving brethren and sisters who volunteered to prepare the staff meals. the theme for the activity was Happy with Jesus and aimed to present faith and obedience to be the keys to happiness. at the end of the weeklong activity, we had a total of 147 names registered. the parents came to the closing ceremony on Sabbath and were truly happy to see their children so eager to learn about Jesus.
this Sunday, we are going to hold a Tract Distribution activity for the youth and adults of the Royal Valley Free SDA Church. we continue to pray that God will bring the same success and blessing to this activity as He has so wonderfully done for our camp meeting and vacation bile school.
since the last time we posted on this blog, we have been really busy preparing for camp meeting, holding that camp meeting, preparing for Vacation Bible School, and holding that one too.
for camp meeting, the theme was Hold On! Prepare, Prepare! Get Ready, Get Ready! and it was perhaps the most successful camp meeting to date. the attendance was double that of the previous camp meeting and the enthusiasm was overwhelming. the camp meeting was held at th campsite in Aracan and was attended delegates from several churches, among the most enthusiastic of whom were the youth of the newly-formed home division in Tagum City. they even composed a song based on the theme of the camp meeting! the pillars of faith were tackled and reviewed, health studies opened to the understanding of youth and adults alike. everyone was truly blessed as never before.
two weeks after the camp meeting, we held our vacation bible school in Talomo, Davao City. we had invited the youth from Tagum and other churches to be part of the activity. we had a total of 25 staff members (more than ninety per cent of which are youth), not counting the loving brethren and sisters who volunteered to prepare the staff meals. the theme for the activity was Happy with Jesus and aimed to present faith and obedience to be the keys to happiness. at the end of the weeklong activity, we had a total of 147 names registered. the parents came to the closing ceremony on Sabbath and were truly happy to see their children so eager to learn about Jesus.
this Sunday, we are going to hold a Tract Distribution activity for the youth and adults of the Royal Valley Free SDA Church. we continue to pray that God will bring the same success and blessing to this activity as He has so wonderfully done for our camp meeting and vacation bile school.
Monday, March 14, 2011
God Calls for Our Best Affections
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24. {OHC 79.1}
Many are on the enchanted ground of the enemy. Things of the least importance--foolish social parties, singing, jesting, joking-- engross their minds and they serve God with a divided heart. . . . The declaration of Christ, "No man can serve two masters," is unheeded. {OHC 79.2}
One of the most marked features of the earth's inhabitants in the days of Noah was their intense worldliness. They made eating and drinking, buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage, the supreme objects of life. It is not sinful, but the fulfillment of a duty, to eat and drink, if that which is lawful is not carried to excess. . . . God Himself instituted marriage when He gave Eve to Adam. All God's laws are marvelously adapted to meet the nature of man. The sin of the antediluvians was in perverting that which in itself was lawful. They corrupted God's gifts by using them to minister to their selfish desires. . . . {OHC 79.3}
Excessive love and devotion to that which in itself is lawful, proves the ruination of thousands upon thousands of souls. To matters of minor importance is often given the strength of intellect that should be wholly devoted to God. We need always to be guarded against carrying to excess that which, rightly used, is lawful. Many, many souls are lost by engaging in those things which, properly managed, are harmless, but which, perverted and misapplied, become sinful and demoralizing. {OHC 79.4}
If we are constantly thinking of and struggling for the things that pertain to this life, we cannot keep our thoughts fixed on the things of heaven. Satan is seeking to lead our minds away from God, and to center them on the fashions, the customs, and the demands of the world, which bring disease and death. . . . {OHC 79.5}
In this world we are to obtain a fitness for the higher world. God has left a trust with us, and He expects us to use all our faculties in helping and blessing our fellow men. He calls for our best affections, our highest powers. {OHC 79.6}
-Our High Calling
Ellen G. White
Many are on the enchanted ground of the enemy. Things of the least importance--foolish social parties, singing, jesting, joking-- engross their minds and they serve God with a divided heart. . . . The declaration of Christ, "No man can serve two masters," is unheeded. {OHC 79.2}
One of the most marked features of the earth's inhabitants in the days of Noah was their intense worldliness. They made eating and drinking, buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage, the supreme objects of life. It is not sinful, but the fulfillment of a duty, to eat and drink, if that which is lawful is not carried to excess. . . . God Himself instituted marriage when He gave Eve to Adam. All God's laws are marvelously adapted to meet the nature of man. The sin of the antediluvians was in perverting that which in itself was lawful. They corrupted God's gifts by using them to minister to their selfish desires. . . . {OHC 79.3}
Excessive love and devotion to that which in itself is lawful, proves the ruination of thousands upon thousands of souls. To matters of minor importance is often given the strength of intellect that should be wholly devoted to God. We need always to be guarded against carrying to excess that which, rightly used, is lawful. Many, many souls are lost by engaging in those things which, properly managed, are harmless, but which, perverted and misapplied, become sinful and demoralizing. {OHC 79.4}
If we are constantly thinking of and struggling for the things that pertain to this life, we cannot keep our thoughts fixed on the things of heaven. Satan is seeking to lead our minds away from God, and to center them on the fashions, the customs, and the demands of the world, which bring disease and death. . . . {OHC 79.5}
In this world we are to obtain a fitness for the higher world. God has left a trust with us, and He expects us to use all our faculties in helping and blessing our fellow men. He calls for our best affections, our highest powers. {OHC 79.6}
-Our High Calling
Ellen G. White
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
what we will be busy with in the coming days and months
In the coming months, we will be busy with church visitations to Malita, Davao del Sur and Tagum City. We have been visiting Malita once a month over several months and have installed workers there in the person of Bro. and Sis. Benhur Negre. In Tagum City is sprouting a revival for an extended family and a few of their friends. We have decided to visit them for two Sabbaths each month, holding a home division church service for them. The remaining Sabbaths of the month, they make the two-hour trip to worship with us at the Royal Valley Free SDA Church.
This month, we'll be holding our second year anniversary celebration at the Ray of Hope Village, the female division of the Davao City Jail where we hold Bible Study sessions with the inmates every other week. This particular field of ministry has been very special to us, especially for the women in the congregation who felt it their duty to reach out to their sisters and help them find a way to Jesus, our Saviour.
On April will be the annual Summer Camp Meeting. As a refreshing change, we will hold the meeting in the church Campsite up in the mountains instead of the usual school grounds of the Royal Valley Academy - a way of breaking away from the summer heat of the city during this holy convocation. Preparations are already underway at the church campsite. More on the upcoming camp meeting will be posted here in the coming days. Also on April, we will be strengthening our personal labor programs so each of the church members can be equipped to labor personally and efficiently with God.
On May, two years after we held our last Vacation Bible School, we are revitalizing our Children's Ministry and holding a one-week program for kids and teens in a community in suburban Talomo, Davao City. It will be a simple program but will be filled with wonderful Bible lessons and praise songs and fun activities for children. Best of all, the youth from church will be the ones teaching and leading out in the VBS - making it a fun learning experience for all. As this is sure to be a challenging activity, we ask you to join us in prayer for the success of this program and every other endeavor put forward for God's glory all the world over.
We'll keep you posted. God bless you. :)
You might also want to visit our Church Building Project page. The church has been working and praying hard for this project to be fully realized and every day God brings us closer and closer to the mark. With the help of friends and brethren, we have almost reached the goal amount we need to make the initial payment for the land on which to erect the church.
This month, we'll be holding our second year anniversary celebration at the Ray of Hope Village, the female division of the Davao City Jail where we hold Bible Study sessions with the inmates every other week. This particular field of ministry has been very special to us, especially for the women in the congregation who felt it their duty to reach out to their sisters and help them find a way to Jesus, our Saviour.
On April will be the annual Summer Camp Meeting. As a refreshing change, we will hold the meeting in the church Campsite up in the mountains instead of the usual school grounds of the Royal Valley Academy - a way of breaking away from the summer heat of the city during this holy convocation. Preparations are already underway at the church campsite. More on the upcoming camp meeting will be posted here in the coming days. Also on April, we will be strengthening our personal labor programs so each of the church members can be equipped to labor personally and efficiently with God.
On May, two years after we held our last Vacation Bible School, we are revitalizing our Children's Ministry and holding a one-week program for kids and teens in a community in suburban Talomo, Davao City. It will be a simple program but will be filled with wonderful Bible lessons and praise songs and fun activities for children. Best of all, the youth from church will be the ones teaching and leading out in the VBS - making it a fun learning experience for all. As this is sure to be a challenging activity, we ask you to join us in prayer for the success of this program and every other endeavor put forward for God's glory all the world over.
We'll keep you posted. God bless you. :)
You might also want to visit our Church Building Project page. The church has been working and praying hard for this project to be fully realized and every day God brings us closer and closer to the mark. With the help of friends and brethren, we have almost reached the goal amount we need to make the initial payment for the land on which to erect the church.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Ellen White Books Available
We are constantly trying to make reading materials accessible to as many as possible. To start off the year, we acquired quite a number of Early Writings and Last Day Events (Cebuano Edition), both by Sis. Ellen White. If you would like a copy of these books, email us at royalvalleyfreesda@gmail.com or leave a comment here.
Other books on our shelf include:
The History of Redemption - a set of ten books by Sis. White in pocket-size, in a convenient box, and with a free History of Redemption chart
The Natural Remedies Encyclopedia (limited stocks)
We try to make as many books as possible available free for those who would really value them, but thank you for understanding that though this isn't always possible, we always make it a point to make such materials available at the lowest reasonable price.
God bless us all. :)
Other books on our shelf include:
The History of Redemption - a set of ten books by Sis. White in pocket-size, in a convenient box, and with a free History of Redemption chart
The Natural Remedies Encyclopedia (limited stocks)
We try to make as many books as possible available free for those who would really value them, but thank you for understanding that though this isn't always possible, we always make it a point to make such materials available at the lowest reasonable price.
God bless us all. :)
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