By: Rina R. Manuel
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| District Lord's Day led by Kuya Badong & Ate Robie Laguda |
Last February 26, 2011, the District gathered once again as one big family to celebrate Lord’s Day as a community. This time, it was held at the Chancery Building of the Immaculate Conception Parish in Cubao, Quezon City.
It was good to see many of our brothers and sisters, together with their children in tow. The function room was simply overflowing with CDE families!
Kuya Badong and Ate Robie Laguda graciously led the Lord’s Day Celebration with the theme “It’s Good to Give Thanks!” while, Brother Bobby Quitain powerfully led the worship.
At dinner time, the mood turned very festive as everybody shared their potluck fare, with brothers and sisters hopping from table to table to taste the various offerings that night – pancit canton, adobo flakes, laing, lumpiang shanghai, KFC fried chicken, menudo, and home-roasted chicken, among others.
At dinner time, the mood turned very festive as everybody shared their potluck fare, with brothers and sisters hopping from table to table to taste the various offerings that night – pancit canton, adobo flakes, laing, lumpiang shanghai, KFC fried chicken, menudo, and home-roasted chicken, among others.
To celebrate the Lord’s Day theme, Brother Eric Bayron, who arrived from London for a few weeks here in Manila, shared about his new life as a Filipino migrant in the United Kingdom (U.K.) – his extreme loneliness away from family and community, and even from the Lord. He was then ever grateful to the Lord for giving him a wonderful, surprising chance to come home this February, even if he just flew there last January. As soon as he came home, the Lord enabled him to attend his MWG meeting, the Sectoral Assembly, the Community Conference and even the District Lord’s Day. Those opportunities to be with community were indeed wonderful blessings from the Lord!
Given this chance to share about the Lord’s faithfulness and goodness, Eric requested for prayers for the following three (3) “S” from brothers and sisters on behalf of his family so that they may live as bulwarks for God:
Given this chance to share about the Lord’s faithfulness and goodness, Eric requested for prayers for the following three (3) “S” from brothers and sisters on behalf of his family so that they may live as bulwarks for God:
1) Safety – that while he’s away from home, his family is kept safe from harm;
2) Steadfastness – that is, to live the life of Community even while in a foreign land;
3) to Seek - that is, to know and follow God's plan for the family while in the U.K.
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| Eric Bayron sharing about his life in U.K. |
The entire district then prayed over him, sister Kerry and their children.
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| Bayron Family being prayed over by the entire District as they embark on a journey to a new land. |
Afterwhich, the district also prayed for the end-February birthday celebrants.
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Who would forget the product intro voice-over by Monching dela Cruz with his lovely wife, Vi, as product model? The couple would definitely give Bob Barker and his bevy of models a run for their money. Who would also forget the either very high or very low bids on grocery items (such as Century Corned Tuna, Kikkoman soy sauce, Lysol, Goya raisin chocolates, Head & Shoulders shampoo and mini-puzzle cards) from Save More, by the contestants coming from the various men’s and women’s group, the YAs, the JYAs and even the FOJs?
Truly, after such a memorable night of celebration, prayer, thanksgiving, and games, everybody saw how good it was to give thanks to the Lord!
Here’s looking forward to the next District Lord’s Day!
