Report for September, 2005
The following is an email sent from Christopher Natava to Rhodore Geronaga on Oct 10, 2005:
The progress concerning our goal to mobilize all members to the work of the Lord i.e. "making every member a disciple and a disciple maker" has making exciting signs of the growth of His church here in Bulacan. I have 12 people who are members of my core group, and so are Bro. Jerico Buganan, Bro. Raymond Puertollano, Bro. Rolando Santiago, Sis. Mary Ann Santiago, Sis. Carmen Catipon and Bro Crispin Claor. Each of them is targeting twelve members to equip for the works of God. They are also the first six members of my core. The other six are still in the process of equipping. they are Bro. Edward Cao, Bro. Marcelo Roxas, Sis. Lilia Roxas, Sis Susan Perez , Bro Richard Medina and my wife Cynthia. These are the fruits of our labor:
1. Bro Raymond is leading his core of 12 (teenagers) young people. He is equipping them to win souls and lead young people to Christ. Under his leadership Sis. Roxanne Ileto and Sis. Esther Calma are now leading their own cell of young people. Numbers of prospects of young people and also adults are 39. Averie Santiago is leading our praise and worship band. Sis Sugar Bulaon and Robabel Bulaon lead the praise and worship team.
2. Bro. Jerico has his cells at Emil Subd. Subic, and Concepcion Subd. (both in Baliwag) and Maronquillo, San Rafael, Bulacan. Most attending his cells are prospects and not yet baptize but already attending Sunday worship at Subic. though he is targeting twelve persons to become leaders, he has three because most of his members in cell groups are prospects. Prospects: 23.
3. Bro Roland is leading his men cell at Sulivan, Baliwag every Tuesday. he has six attendees and one of them is prospect, bro. Mar Barbado. Throught his leadership Bro. Jesus Bulaon and his family (they are not attending church ofr a long time) are now revive to attend every Sunday. All of these six which include three deacons are target for mobilization. bro Omar bulaon will lead his own cell by October.
4. Sis Mary Ann is also leading her cell at Sulivan every Tuesday. She has on baptism, sis. Lilia Barbado. Actually she has two baptism since she started her cell. Neighborhood women here are attending her cell and some even though not yet baptize are attending Sunday worship. Prospects: 9.
5. Sis. Carmen a retired businesswoman is leading her cell at Aldama St. Baliwag. She has her first fruit, Sis. Margie villanueva whem we baptized last Sept. 25. She also leads the family of Bro Randell Villanueva to attend Sunday worship. He and his wife Sarah are both members of the church but not attending. now their testimony is that they cannot survive without God in their lives. Some prospects are also now attending Sunday worship. Prospects-8.
6. Bro Crispin, one of our elders, is also leading cell here in Aldama and just started a new group at Dona Rosa St. He has four prospects.
7. I have seven cell groups at different place which include Paombong, Bulacan (I have two at Paombong, one is for equipping and the other is for evangelism). I have 84 prospects. You may think I am a desperate man because of big numbers I evangelize. I do this to show example for my mentors: evangelizing as more as possible. I can do them because of God's help and support of church members by using their cars and driving for me to my Bible study. It is also easy because all materials for teaching are available. The other reason why I have 84 prospects: I lead the Bible study at business placess of our brothers and sister. Bro Roland and sis Mary ann have garments business. they have 56 employees. Bro. Edward Cao has 16. The rest of prospects are attendees of cell groups.
Total prospects: 168
CHURCH PLANTED IN 2005At Maronquillo, San rafael, Bulacan where we are planning to start Sunday worship, evangelism is underway.. sis Cora Reyes receives our brothers and sisters who are coming here to help spread the gospel. She prepares lunch and merienda every Sunday for Bro Jerico, bro Raymond, Bro. Marcelo roxas, Sis. lilia roxas, bro Crispin Claor and Bro roland Santiago. The prospects here are included in the prospects of bro Jerico and Raymond.
CHURCH AT PAOMBONG BULACANThis is the only church planted since inception two years ago. it is established August 8, 2004. Forgive me for not including other year when I was with Bro Glen Pintuan and Bro Edward Pagador. that was a close book. I discontinue the work at Pulilan and Bagong Nayon because of things I had already reported to you. The church of Paombong has 20 to 30 range in attendance. In rare occasion we hit 40.
TIMOTHYS
I have already listed my Timothys above. I will be mentoring these twelve for life. These are numbers of timothy names not mention:
1. Raymond has twelve.
2. Jerico has three
3. Bro Roland Santiago has six
4. Sis. Mary Ann has four
5. Sis. Carmen has two
6. I have twelve
Total = 39. Our goal this year is 36. we already surpass the goal.
PROVINCIAL CONVENTION IN BULACAN
The team (VCM) is busy for the promotion and preparation of Bulacan Provincial Convention of churches of Christ. since I am currently the chairman of First Bulacan Churches of Christ Mission, it is my responsibility to make it successful. We will be discussing in this convention the Eight Qualities of Growing Churches base on the survey to 1,000 churches around the world, growing and declining. The book is entitled Natural Church Development by Christian Schwarz. the eight qualities are : 1. Empowering Leadership, 2. Gift-oriented Mininistry, 3. Passionate spirituality, 4. Functional Structures, 5. Inspiring Worship Service, 6. Holistic Small groups, 7. Need-oriented Ministry, 8. Loving relationship.
This convention is the reason why we believe God is enlarging our territory. We will launch in this convention "the Church Growth Movement" here in Bulacan. It is not a one-day activity and then nothing. We have prepared a seven months equipping process to those who will be motivated to be part of this "Movement".
The "process" includes: 1. Win souls - evangelism. 2. Consolidation - Edification; 3. Discipleship - Equipping; 4. Sending - release to ministry. In our discipleship, we teach them about leadership, church vision and mission, and mastering how to lead small groups. Materials for these comes from John Maxwell, Rick Warren, and books about small groups. In sending we mentor them for life. We call it 12OJ (12 OF JESUS).
I have to tell you that I am attending a lot of seminars about evangelism explosion and church growth. Lately my team attended G12 seminars. You may know about it. This method has many detractors from our brotherhood in churches of Christ and some are CCMP advisers. We respect them and it is not our intention to fight them with their views. We don't want to be dishonest by doing this secrectly. I believe we are not doing anything wrong. But we won't fall to either-or trap by accepting Purpose Driven Church and ignoring G12. I think both can help us understand principle that can help our churches to grow.
The whole process I think answer your questions about EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP and EMPOWERMENT. We are already using this to churches of Subic, Baliwag and Paombong. And our team VCM is very excited because churches here in bulacan want also to esposuse our vision.
PRAYER AND WORSHIP
We are intensifying our prayers and make our worship inspiring. All cell groups have components of worship and prayers. We are also doing the Power of three where three members pray for nine prospects simultaneously every day. Leaders of small groups teach their groups the importance of Sunday worship. this may be the reason why some prospects are attending now the every Sunday.
The progress concerning our goal to mobilize all members to the work of the Lord i.e. "making every member a disciple and a disciple maker" has making exciting signs of the growth of His church here in Bulacan. I have 12 people who are members of my core group, and so are Bro. Jerico Buganan, Bro. Raymond Puertollano, Bro. Rolando Santiago, Sis. Mary Ann Santiago, Sis. Carmen Catipon and Bro Crispin Claor. Each of them is targeting twelve members to equip for the works of God. They are also the first six members of my core. The other six are still in the process of equipping. they are Bro. Edward Cao, Bro. Marcelo Roxas, Sis. Lilia Roxas, Sis Susan Perez , Bro Richard Medina and my wife Cynthia. These are the fruits of our labor:
1. Bro Raymond is leading his core of 12 (teenagers) young people. He is equipping them to win souls and lead young people to Christ. Under his leadership Sis. Roxanne Ileto and Sis. Esther Calma are now leading their own cell of young people. Numbers of prospects of young people and also adults are 39. Averie Santiago is leading our praise and worship band. Sis Sugar Bulaon and Robabel Bulaon lead the praise and worship team.
2. Bro. Jerico has his cells at Emil Subd. Subic, and Concepcion Subd. (both in Baliwag) and Maronquillo, San Rafael, Bulacan. Most attending his cells are prospects and not yet baptize but already attending Sunday worship at Subic. though he is targeting twelve persons to become leaders, he has three because most of his members in cell groups are prospects. Prospects: 23.
3. Bro Roland is leading his men cell at Sulivan, Baliwag every Tuesday. he has six attendees and one of them is prospect, bro. Mar Barbado. Throught his leadership Bro. Jesus Bulaon and his family (they are not attending church ofr a long time) are now revive to attend every Sunday. All of these six which include three deacons are target for mobilization. bro Omar bulaon will lead his own cell by October.
4. Sis Mary Ann is also leading her cell at Sulivan every Tuesday. She has on baptism, sis. Lilia Barbado. Actually she has two baptism since she started her cell. Neighborhood women here are attending her cell and some even though not yet baptize are attending Sunday worship. Prospects: 9.
5. Sis. Carmen a retired businesswoman is leading her cell at Aldama St. Baliwag. She has her first fruit, Sis. Margie villanueva whem we baptized last Sept. 25. She also leads the family of Bro Randell Villanueva to attend Sunday worship. He and his wife Sarah are both members of the church but not attending. now their testimony is that they cannot survive without God in their lives. Some prospects are also now attending Sunday worship. Prospects-8.
6. Bro Crispin, one of our elders, is also leading cell here in Aldama and just started a new group at Dona Rosa St. He has four prospects.
7. I have seven cell groups at different place which include Paombong, Bulacan (I have two at Paombong, one is for equipping and the other is for evangelism). I have 84 prospects. You may think I am a desperate man because of big numbers I evangelize. I do this to show example for my mentors: evangelizing as more as possible. I can do them because of God's help and support of church members by using their cars and driving for me to my Bible study. It is also easy because all materials for teaching are available. The other reason why I have 84 prospects: I lead the Bible study at business placess of our brothers and sister. Bro Roland and sis Mary ann have garments business. they have 56 employees. Bro. Edward Cao has 16. The rest of prospects are attendees of cell groups.
Total prospects: 168
CHURCH PLANTED IN 2005At Maronquillo, San rafael, Bulacan where we are planning to start Sunday worship, evangelism is underway.. sis Cora Reyes receives our brothers and sisters who are coming here to help spread the gospel. She prepares lunch and merienda every Sunday for Bro Jerico, bro Raymond, Bro. Marcelo roxas, Sis. lilia roxas, bro Crispin Claor and Bro roland Santiago. The prospects here are included in the prospects of bro Jerico and Raymond.
CHURCH AT PAOMBONG BULACANThis is the only church planted since inception two years ago. it is established August 8, 2004. Forgive me for not including other year when I was with Bro Glen Pintuan and Bro Edward Pagador. that was a close book. I discontinue the work at Pulilan and Bagong Nayon because of things I had already reported to you. The church of Paombong has 20 to 30 range in attendance. In rare occasion we hit 40.
TIMOTHYS
I have already listed my Timothys above. I will be mentoring these twelve for life. These are numbers of timothy names not mention:
1. Raymond has twelve.
2. Jerico has three
3. Bro Roland Santiago has six
4. Sis. Mary Ann has four
5. Sis. Carmen has two
6. I have twelve
Total = 39. Our goal this year is 36. we already surpass the goal.
PROVINCIAL CONVENTION IN BULACAN
The team (VCM) is busy for the promotion and preparation of Bulacan Provincial Convention of churches of Christ. since I am currently the chairman of First Bulacan Churches of Christ Mission, it is my responsibility to make it successful. We will be discussing in this convention the Eight Qualities of Growing Churches base on the survey to 1,000 churches around the world, growing and declining. The book is entitled Natural Church Development by Christian Schwarz. the eight qualities are : 1. Empowering Leadership, 2. Gift-oriented Mininistry, 3. Passionate spirituality, 4. Functional Structures, 5. Inspiring Worship Service, 6. Holistic Small groups, 7. Need-oriented Ministry, 8. Loving relationship.
This convention is the reason why we believe God is enlarging our territory. We will launch in this convention "the Church Growth Movement" here in Bulacan. It is not a one-day activity and then nothing. We have prepared a seven months equipping process to those who will be motivated to be part of this "Movement".
The "process" includes: 1. Win souls - evangelism. 2. Consolidation - Edification; 3. Discipleship - Equipping; 4. Sending - release to ministry. In our discipleship, we teach them about leadership, church vision and mission, and mastering how to lead small groups. Materials for these comes from John Maxwell, Rick Warren, and books about small groups. In sending we mentor them for life. We call it 12OJ (12 OF JESUS).
I have to tell you that I am attending a lot of seminars about evangelism explosion and church growth. Lately my team attended G12 seminars. You may know about it. This method has many detractors from our brotherhood in churches of Christ and some are CCMP advisers. We respect them and it is not our intention to fight them with their views. We don't want to be dishonest by doing this secrectly. I believe we are not doing anything wrong. But we won't fall to either-or trap by accepting Purpose Driven Church and ignoring G12. I think both can help us understand principle that can help our churches to grow.
The whole process I think answer your questions about EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP and EMPOWERMENT. We are already using this to churches of Subic, Baliwag and Paombong. And our team VCM is very excited because churches here in bulacan want also to esposuse our vision.
PRAYER AND WORSHIP
We are intensifying our prayers and make our worship inspiring. All cell groups have components of worship and prayers. We are also doing the Power of three where three members pray for nine prospects simultaneously every day. Leaders of small groups teach their groups the importance of Sunday worship. this may be the reason why some prospects are attending now the every Sunday.
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