Life in the Spirit Seminar for Youth

May 27-30 saw 28 youths with ages ranging from 14-22. Most were experiencing this seminar for the first time. Unlike the usual praise and worship, sessions, cell group sharings, fellowship, creativity, prayer ministries, there were also games! By and large everyone experienced God's love in a differently new way and wanted an extension! Next year guys!

Update on BALIKATAN MINISTRY

It was a record breaking seminar with..
a) the largest group of participants for a Balikatan seminar (16 participants)
b) the most number of male participants (4 men)
c) the oldest participant (71 years old)
d) the youngest participant (14 years old)

The only thing that remained unchanged from previous seminars… God’s faithfulness in providing all needs, in touching and changing lives! He is truly an awesome God!


14-15 June 2008. Balikatan Life in the Spirit Seminar, batch number 4 with ICPE members.

Snippet of the week

DID YOU KNOW? The elementary school pupils (ranging from 7 to 12 years old) use writing paper that’s unique to each grade. As foreigners to the local education system, we quickly learned the difference between writing pad, spelling pads and one quarter writing pads, not to mention Oslo paper, Bond paper and Cartolina paper amongst other essential stationery!

For their school needs, the parents write down a list of essential stationery for their child. The materials are then purchased and disbursed by ICPE members.


10 June 2008 - Back to school!!!
Distributing essential stationery and school needs for the start of the academic school year to children under the children educational sponsorship ministry.

Children Library

We started a trial run on June 7 for books that we received from donors. The trial is only with 6 books and even while we were explaining the borrowing system, the kids were already eyeing on them! At the word 'Go', all the books were snapped up that morning. When we met them again later that afternoon, they were still hanging on to their books carefully, devouring every word. Here's how some kids were enjoying their book!