1. Everyone must submit himself to governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who REBELS against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves (Rom. 13:1-2).” It is God’s will that we respect the “position“ regardless of the personality behind it.

2. “Requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone – for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness (1 Tim. 2:1-2).” It’s easy to talk negative things about the politicians but we should be talking to God about them! We battle not on the streets but on our knees!

3. “Do everything without COMPLAINING OR ARGUING, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the WORD OF LIFE (Phil. 2:14-16a).”  AND,

4. Keep in mind the great responsibility and privilege God has entrusted to us – “He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God was making an appeal through us (2 Cor. 5:19b-20a).”

Beloved, if we really want a genuine change in our nation, it begins with us the church. Don’t blame the ills of our society only to the government. The question is, “Are we living a life worthy of our calling?” Are we living in a way that people around us are affected by our faith, our witness?

This verse is still timely for us to really consider and heed: “If My people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land (2 Chr. 7:14).”

Consider these things carefully and prayerfully.

Announcements:

ACTIVITIES TO LOOK FORWARD TO & PRAY FOR! 

THAILAND MISSION 2013

• Continue to pray for our upcoming Thailand Mission Trip on May 26-June 6, 2013.
• To those who wish to support this year’s mission trip, we are now accepting orders for this year’s t-shirt printing as part of our fund raising.
• Pay as you order at Php 250/shirt.
• Orders will be accepted until today only.
• Please approach the table at the back for orders.
• To those who ordered last May 5 and 12, your t-shirts are now available at the back after the service.

CHE PYPONCO MISSION SUPPORT

• Together with this year’s Thailand Mission team will be Che Pyponco. She will be staying in Thailand as a full time missionary with the Johansens and Jead.
• To those who desire to support Che, you may approach any of the Missions Committee Members: Dr. Lucille Teves, Dr. Silay Rosario, Ariel Teves, Joan Generoso, Sara Gaga-a, Ami Piñero, Nida Ragay, Lolit Jo, Jing Guevara, Ptr. Noe Verzano, Ptr. Uly Curilan, Jun Lapatha or Che herself after the service.
• We also have prayer cards and support forms available at the back which you can fill up to indicate your commitment in supporting Che.

YOUTH CAMP 2013

• Youth Camp starts this afternoon! Please continue praying for our young people that they will come out of this camp knowing Jesus more and excited to serve Him.
• At 2pm, a vehicle will be available for those who don’t have transportation to go to the campsite.
• And for those who still have room in their vehicle, please come by the church to help transport our youth.
• We would like to remind the parents/guardians of our youth that you are not allowed to come or visit your child anytime for the whole duration of the camp. But you may pick up their laundry at 6pm (dinner time).
• However, we would like to encourage you parents to go to Camp Lily Gamo on Thursday, May 23, 2013 @ 7pm to watch their Talent Night Presentation.
• In case of emergency, Glen and Abba Tantio’s Cellphone Numbers are available at the Church Office.

OLIVET PRESCHOOL

• We would like to inform you that enrollment is now going on for Nursery & Kindergarten 1. For inquiries please call CCTC @ 422-7774 or look for Dyna Delamin or Cindy Perkins after the service.

FREAKS

• If you have been praying for a ministry wherein you can serve the Lord and use your gift or talent in performing arts,  sign-up sheet is available at the back for the FREAKs (For the Reason of Exalting our Almighty King).
• PLEASE TAKE NOTE: you must be born again, have been baptized in water and is attending Calvary Chapel Dumaguete for at least 6 months.

If we fail, she does not love us less, but more. Wonderful, constant, miraculous mother’s love! This woman whom we have sometimes take for granted and forgotten in some ways is still the loving mother after all.

There was a mother who kept a candle burning in a window every night for ten years. One night, very late, a poor, wretched woman came in from the street. The aged mother said to her, “Sit down by the fire.” The stranger asked,” Why do you keep the light in the window?” The old mother replied,” That light is for my wayward daughter. She left home ten years ago. I am praying for her return. I have kept a light in the window for ten years!

Others often blame me for worrying about her, but, you see, I love her. I am her mother. Often in the night, I open the door, and look out into the darkness and cry,’ Annie, Annie!” The woman from the street began to weep. The aged mother looked closely at her and said,” Why, how cold and sick you seem! You must have trouble enough of your own!” Then suddenly the mother exclaimed, ” Can it be? Yes! You are my Annie! My own lost child! Thank God that you are home again!”

That is Mother. God’s gift to us. So, if you have a smile for Mother, give it now. If you have a kindly word, speak it now, she’ll not need it when the Lord and His angels greet her at the golden gate; give the smiles while she is living. If you wait, it’ll be too late. If you have flower for Mother, pluck it now. Place it gently on her bosom. Print a kiss upon her brow and tell her how much you appreciate and love her.

Praise God for mothers! “She is worth far more than rubies…Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’ Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate (Prov.31:10, 28-31). Happy Mother’s Day to you mothers, blessed by the Lord! Thank you for your lives.

Announcements:

ACTIVITIES TO LOOK FORWARD TO and PRAY FOR!

THAILAND MISSION 2013

• Continue to pray for our upcoming Thailand Mission Trip on May 26-June 6, 2013.
• To those who wish to support this year’s mission trip, we are now accepting orders for this year’s t-shirt printing as part of our fund raising.
• Pay as you order at Php 250/shirt.
• Orders will be accepted until May 19, 2013 only.
• Please approach the table at the back for orders.

CHE PYPONCO MISSION SUPPORT

• Together with this year’s Thailand Mission team will be Che Pyponco. She will be staying in Thailand as a full time missionary with the Johansens and Jead.
• To those who desire to support Che, you may approach any of the Missions Committee Members: Dr. Lucille Teves, Dr. Silay Rosario, Ariel Teves, Joan Generoso, Sara Gaga-a, Ami Piñero, Nida Ragay, Lolit Jo, Jing Guevara, Ptr. Noe Verzano, Ptr. Uly Curilan, Jun Lapatha or Che herself after the service.
• We also have prayer cards and support forms available at the back which you can fill up to indicate your commitment in supporting Che.

YOUTH CAMP 2013

• Please continue praying for the youth camp on May 19-24, 2013 @ CAMP LILY GAMO, Sibulan with the theme, “CONSUMED” (For Our God is a Consuming Fire).
• This year’s youth camp will be an exciting camp for the youth! It’s really a camping experience! From the sleeping quarters to their bathroom & CR. This will be a preparation for them to be involved in Outreaches and Missions Trips.  We encourage the parents to support their youth in their involvement in any church activity. Registration is now going on for all CCD and CCD Outreaches Youth @ Php1750/person.
• Registration ends today.
• To those who wish to sponsor the youth from our outreaches, please approach Glen or Abba Tantio after the service.
• For the what to bring list, please get it from the registration table at the back.

OLIVET PRESCHOOL

• A survey was done months ago regarding the desire to open a Christian School for Preschoolers at CCTC. We would like to inform you that enrollment is now going on for Nursery & Kindergarten 1. For inquiries please call CCTC @ 422-7774 or look for Dyna Delamin or Cindy Perkins after the service.

FREAKS

• If you have been praying for a ministry wherein you can serve the Lord and use your gift or talent in performing arts, please approach Gladden Echin or Cole Geconcillo of FREAKs (For the Reason of Exalting our Almighty King).
• PLEASE TAKE NOTE: you must be born again, have been baptized in water and is attending Calvary Chapel Dumaguete for at least 6 months.

Everybody longs for change. Every senatorial or mayoral candidate promised change. But can politics alone bring true and lasting change? The answer is NO! The gospel of Jesus Christ alone brings genuine change. Because if there must be change, it must begin in the heart. Can a believer of Christ contribute for change? Yes. Only if he/she remains to be salt of the earth and light of the world. Only if he/she uses His God-given position as a tool and means for the gospel of  Jesus Christ to be known. Only if he/she will remain true and faithful to God’s call upon his/her life. Only if the church of Jesus Christ would continue to be the church as Christ designed her to be and not be reduced to a mere political party nor a social club!

Precious people of God, with the unstable and shaky political and economic situation our country is facing today, rooted in religious bondage and spiritual blindness, let’s keep our eyes, let’s exert effort on man’s most important need – not a shelter to live in, food for the table, clothes to wear, money to spend (they are important, yes –but temporal) – but the salvation of the soul! Our country needs Jesus more than ever before.

As you go out to vote, I exhort everyone to pray even more fervently for our dear countrymen whom Jesus died for. More than a peaceful election, may many turn to Christ and be at peace with God and experience the peace of God in the midst of a troubled life. May they find the hope that only Jesus can give. As you drop that ballot on May 13, remember Prov. 14:34  “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” Exercise your God-given responsibility as a citizen of this country (Rom. 13). But as citizens of heaven, share with boldness the life-changing message of Jesus Christ!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

ACTIVITIES TO LOOK FORWARD TO and PRAY FOR!

THAILAND MISSION 2013

• Continue to pray for our upcoming Thailand Mission Trip on May 26-June 6, 2013.
• To those who wish to support this year’s mission trip, we are now accepting orders for this year’s t-shirt printing as part of our fund raising.
• Pay as you order at Php 250/shirt.
• Orders will be accepted until May 19, 2013 only.
• Please approach the table at the back for orders.

CHE PYPONCO MISSION SUPPORT

• Together with this year’s Thailand Mission team will be Che Pyponco. She will be staying in Thailand as a full time missionary with the Johansens and Jead.
• To those who desire to support Che, you may approach any of the Missions Committee Members: Dr. Lucille Teves, Dr. Silay Rosario, Ariel Teves, Joan Generoso, Sara Gaga-a, Ami Piñero, Nida Ragay, Lolit Jo, Jing Guevara, Ptr. Noe Verzano, Ptr. Uly Curilan, Jun Lapatha or Che herself after the service.
• We also have prayer cards and support forms available at the back which you can fill up to indicate your commitment in supporting Che.

HOPE FOR YOU BOHOL

• Please continue praying for our upcoming Hope for You in Bohol on August 2, 2013 at the Bohol Wisdom School Gymnasium.

YOUTH CAMP 2013

• Please continue praying for the youth camp on May 19-24, 2013 @ CAMP LILY GAMO, Sibulan with the theme, “CONSUMED” (For Our God is a Consuming Fire).
• This year’s youth camp will be an exciting camp for the youth! It’s really a camping experience! From the sleeping quarters to their bathroom & CR. This will be a preparation for them to be involved in Outreaches and Missions Trips.  We encourage the parents to support their youth in their involvement in any church activity. Registration is now going on for CCD and CCD Outreaches Youth @ Php1750/person.

OLIVET PRESCHOOL

• A survey was done months ago regarding the desire to open a Christian School for Preschoolers at CCTC. We would like to inform you that enrollment is now going on for Nursery & Kindergarten 1. For inquiries please call CCTC @ 422-7774 or look for Dyna Delamin or Cindy Perkins after the service.

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