Worship Night August 21, 2010

This past Saturday we had our first Worship night with the youth groups of Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship. We are hoping that it will happen at least once a month. I had the opportunity to help lead worship alongside my cousins, Gaddiel
(taller vocalist) , Luke (vocalist with glasses), and my brother Izak (not pictured, on the drums in the back) as well as the bassist Jessie and our lead guitarist Luke Richardson. The exciting thing about singing worship together to the Lord and is that not only are you singing with family your singing to the Eternal God with your eternal family. Pretty awesome to say the least.

There were actually four of us different teams that lead in succession with different teams Ed, Ernie, Art, and myself. It was a wonderful time. It was amazing how God pulled it all together.

I pray that we always worship the Lord in spirit and in truth John 4. Photo Credits: Top two: taken by Tanner Yates; bottom: taken by Micaela Hildebrand

The Name of Jesus 2010

I had the opportunity to go up to Green Valley Calvary Chapel Camp Ground a second time this summer. Yet, this time it was with my home church in Temecula: CC Bible Fellowship. I went as a counselor. It was a blessing the Lord was showing me a different or rather revealing to me a wider spectrum of what He is doing especially in the area of growth in and in walking with Him. Another sweet blessing was that there were 5 of us cousins at this camp. It is sweet to know that your blood relatives seeks the Lord. It makes the family bonds ground much deeper because they are rooted in Christ. The title of the camp was "The Name of Jesus." We had wonderful men of God guest speak during our morning and evening sessions yet I believe that many would agree with me that not much else besides the Word of God can do justice to the person and name of Jesus.

Summer Camp 2010 with St. George +

Izak and I went to camp with my brother's youth group and other youth groups from Arizona. I was mostly apart of helping out in whatever ways I could, like cleaning up to helping lead worship and also being leader/counselor.

The main focus or theme of the camp was entitled Organic: Rooted and Grounded in Love. The camp verse was Ephesians 3:17. The difference that I saw in this camp, that made it the best summer camp that I have ever been to, was that there was a realness to it. because often times as i have seen it become and I'm sure a few can vouch for the same that camp can be come a bit of a show. The name of the camp was appropriate in that we should as believers understand that the church is not something mechanic it is very much organic. Along with the fact that as Christians there is the elements of simplicity, sincerity, rawness, and realness that we should have. The worship and the devos were great and the teachings were awesome and refreshing. The Lord was doing a real work in the kids' lives because of the real Christ centered fellowship most of them got to see. There is so much more to say but all there is left to do is give glory to the Lord for changing and transforming lives and giving us such a beautiful hope in Christ Jesus.

CCBC Graduation: Murrieta Version

It has been about a month since the actual event but it is worth blogging. Faith and I graduated from the Bible college with our Associates in Theology along with my siblings, Ivan and Iza, who received their B.A. and walked with us. In the list of students two filipino familys (the Abads and Amargos) all walked to begin with and sitting right next to us was Sosimo. It was a good ceremony. s.God has been good to keep us walking with Him seeing that He is truly faithful in every generation with saving my parents, with bringing us up in the Word and giving us the desire to know more about Him through His Word that we might be thoroughly equipped for every good work. photo credit: 1st pic my self, 2nd & 3rd Ray Abad

Departure and Arrival

The trip back home was an interesting adventure in itself. I got

dropped off by John Bonner at the airport along with another student. Samuel, who headed home for the break in between semesters. Maggie as well dropped by to say good bye she had been a great sister during my stay in Peru. All I can say is how faithful the Lord has been to assure me that He has a plan set out for my life and that as long as I am yielded to Him He will take care of me and direct me. I was so grateful to be used of God and had the opportunities to share the love of God with some of the lost.

<[pic with the dude with glasses] This is Marco he is Italian I got to share the gospel with him during my wait for my connecting flight in Houston, it was a testimony of the Lord because I was able to talk to Him about the gospel in Spanish. He was very interested though he shared that he was a materialist and believed that he wouldn't go to heaven. I suggested that he read his Bible that he had back in Italy (he was going back home from Honduras). Pray that he seeks and finds the Lord.

^ [pic on the plane] (man right of me) Jehovah's Witness Joel. i talked with him and

basically talked about the deity of Christ. they don't believe in the trinity at all so we disagreed; (guy left of me): filipino Christian Aaron: did't really know that me and Joel were arguing or what we were discussing exactly because he said that he agreed with what Joel was saying ( he didn't realize Joel was JW until the end of the flight) .

^ [the last pic, off the plane] both of these men sat behind me during the flight, they are creation evangelists: Man in the suit: Kevan who sat directly behind me apparently was listening to my conversation with Joel because at the end of the flight he gave me a booklet entitled, Be Prepared how to win your Jehovah's Witness etc friends to Jesus, he said, "I was trying to find the most inconspicuous way to hand it to you" he gave me his card for his ministry and wrote a bit of encouragement on the back of it to the affect of encouraging me to continue to stand fo rhte name of Jesus; Man in the white shirt: Eric Hovind, Kent Hovind's son check out the website http://www.drdino.com/ , he had come out to California to teach at various SoCal churches his new series entitled Beginnings of which he gave me a free dvd of the series, after learning that I had just graduated from Bible college, he said it was a Graduation present.

God is good to have allowed me to have such an adventure by no means could i have seen what i had seen without putting my trust in the Lord. He really does reward those who put their trust in Him. I just was witness to all the things the Lord orchestrated from me missing my connecting flight to sitting down in the right spot in starbucks to perchance talk to a Spanish speaking person about the gospel after being in a Spanish speaking country studying the Bible for a few months. Talk about God's sovereign hand

Chau, Peru. Hola, el Proximo Paso.

It's been exactly a week to the day that I left Peru. To sum up my whole semester Peru because to try to explain it would not do the whole experience justice. The Lord had me there for good reasons though it was hard in certain circumstances I truly believe He did a work in a through me. Not only was this semester special because being in Peru but also because it was my last semester. I doubt I will have the chance ever again to sit under the teaching of the word every day of the week as I had had the opportunity to do so in the past four semesters of Bible college. I have learned so much, yet know that I have so much to learn. I am so thankful for the provision that the Lord has given to me to be able to study the Word so freely. Now continues life and life that I must learn to be more disciplined to make time for the Lord being that the pressures of urgent worries of this world might try to crowd out. Our growth and walk with the Lord should never stop even after two years of intense study in the Word. We should all continue to seek our Lord Jesus Christ as that precious jewel because to give up we would certainly be fools

Graduates in Peru 2010

It has actually been a whole week and a half since the actual event, but it was great. The Lord has definitely blessed the campus and church in Lima, Peru. This semester was the first semester that the Peruvian intern full-time students (they are funded by churches in the states to go through the Bible college in order that they might be better equipped to minister in their ministries in different areas in Peru) graduated in the accelerated Bible college program. We all had an awesome time. We helped the with leading worship. It truly was an honor for me to spend a whole semester with some awesome brothers and sisters in the Lord this past semester. The Lord has been good.