Meet the Pastors

Pastor Rolando

    

During the summer of 2017, I became acquainted with Pastor Roland who lives in Calapan City. We have been communicating since that time.  Pastor Roland started Christlife in Jesus Name Church in 2013 and built a building. The building was damaged by a Typhoon in 2015 and again in 2016. You can imagine the struggle for the church emotionally and financially to build three times. This can also put strains on doing ministry.  A small group of people only have so much time and energy.

        

Since the church building has been rebuilt, Pastor Roland lives in the back of the church. He is a full-time pastor and has the opportunity to teach school values by way of the Word of God in the local school.  This gives him a great opportunity to make connections with students and other school faculty.

            

Pastor Roland has children who have followed in his spiritual footsteps.  He has a son and a daughter who are both pastors in the southern part of the Manila province.  Both children pastor churches which have the same name as their father's church plant.

            

Pastor Roland and his daughter

Meet the Pastors

-Pastor Juls-



            

This is Pastor Juls in Calapan City, Mindoro, Oriental Philippines. He is very much a God-called, Spirit-led man of God who loves his church people. My first year of experiencing the Philippines, I looked and looked for an SBC church plant and no pastors in the area new of one. After some research, contacts, and emails I found out that there was one in Calapan City and several in the Manila province.

        

The founding pastor and his church are located south of Manila and he directed me to Pastor Juls and the church plant, Calapan Christian Family Fellowship (CCFF).  The church was planted in 2015, Pastor Juls was asked to lead the effort, and the church has done very well in reaching men, women, boys, and girls.

              

        

The church offers Sunday morning worship, afternoon children’s programs, and Wednesday Bible study. The church is tremendously blessed with children. The weekend that I was at the church, on Saturday there was a continuous flow of people of all ages coming to the church. The church seems to be the “go to place” of the community. The Pastor and the people have done well in facilitating a welcoming presence in the area.

The Sunday I was there the service included praise music led by the pastor with his guitar, two music specials, two testimonies, a baby dedication, and prayer for the church and community. The altar call included people making decisions for Christ. The service was upbeat with people participating with much enthusiasm.  

        

Pastor Juls is single and lives in a rear section of the church building.  This helps to place him in a strategic location as the church continues to grow in its infancy. He has a God-given vision for the church and trusts in God for the vision to come to fruition.  Currently, they are out of space and considering what their options might be. Pray for this community of faith as they experience God’s direction and blessings.

         

Meet the Pastors

-Pastor Jaime-

I want to introduce you to a wonderful, sweet pastor couple in the Philippines.....Jaime and Corrie Aquino. Together they started the "I Am Redeemer and Master Evangelical Church" December 9, 1995. Pastor Jamie and Corrie have been faithful for many years reaching out to their community and loving people to Christ.






I was teaching a pastor's conference and they invited me to visit their home and church after lunch and tell me their story. The above right picture is their home which Pastor built along with the church. He is a very knowledgeable carpenter and is called upon quite often by other people because of his expertise.

As you can see from the pic of the three us the platform is bare. The reason is that a Typhoon came through months before and demolished most of the church. The left pic is where there is a Bible study in progress is the corner where Pastor's family and members took cover. A large tree was uprooted and fell directedly in that corner blocking the doorway. They had to crawl out through the openings in the tree branches. The pic on the right is Pastor Jaime and Pastor Alberto moving tables together for our afternoon time together. You can see the shell of the building has been reconstructed.


        

I did not realize the spread that Corrie was going to provide. She is a wonderful and hostess and a wonderful cook. We had my favorite dish, Talopia, homemade bread, and ice cold coconut juice...Yummy. I ask if we could do this again the next day. lol. On the right is a pic of completion...the building and the people celebrating the new facility.

     


Pastor and Corrie are blessed with church family and biological family. Pray for them and their various ministries to family and community.

P.S. I forgot to mention that Corrie has a roadside market stand that she operates on a daily basis. She is a very busy lady.

Meet the Pastors

-Pastor Jayson-

       


I was with Pastor Jayson's congregation two years in a row. Alcate Gospel Baptist Church was a warm, caring, fellowship that went the extra mile in how they treated all members and guests. They were a loving people.

Pastor Jayson and his wife, Emz, had come to Alcate about 7 years ago following the founding pastor. The congregation had come to love their humble and gracious Pastor and followed his leadership. Jayson was young but he had much wisdom and Godly concern for the people.

There seemed to be a lot of "families" in the church...extended families. Pastor Jayson, his wife and children, and her parents lived in the back of the church. Pastor Alberto's wife, Eleanor, had two sisters and at least three nieces at this church.  There were many children which made worship and other events lively.

In 2017, Pastor Jayson felt called to leave Alcate and his Philippine community to move to Japan for the sole purpose of starting a church for Filipino people. He already had family there and had seen firsthand the need. So, he left to do the job God had called him to do. Emz and the children are planning on joining him in 2018. Pray for them in this new work.

  

Meet the Pastors

-Pastor Alberto-

During my first year in the Philippines I taught a Pastor/Wives conference at Pastor Alberto's church, I was privileged to speak at the church's school graduation, and spoke in Sunday morning worship. Several days I went with him to visit members.

Pastor Alberto bought a piece of property in 1996 which was still nothing but brush and trees. He had planted a church, Naujan Baptist Church, and the time had come to contruct a building. Much time and energy were needed to clear the property so that construction could begin. In January 1997 the building was completed. The church is still in the original building although the property has experienced deep flooding from Typhoons. The church started the Naujan Christian Baptist Academy in June 2005 with many graduates over the years. 

Eleanor is Pastor Alberto's wife. She is the Admistrator/Principal over the school. She also is an awesome cook. Both have recently graduated with a Degree in Counseling Theology.

Meet the Pastors-Jun

--PASTOR JUN--


                                       



                                                         
         

This is Pastor Jun and his wife, Annie. I meet them both in 2016 during my first trip to the Philippines. He is the founding pastor of New Life Christian Church in Bagong Buhay, Naujan, Oriental Mindoro. The church was started in 1996. Soon a building was in place.  Since then the building has been renovated twice and then destroyed in 2015 by Typhoon Nina. The people are very poor and had no capacity to reconstruct so other arrangements were made. On December 23, 2017 the church celebrated its 22^nd anniversary and the completion of the new facility.

Pastor Jun coordinates a needs ministry to local pastors, leads various ministries to a Mangyan tribe, hosts/leads many pastor’s conferences, and manages medical/feeding/clothing clinics for the local community.

Annie is his very supportive wife. She recently experienced a stroke and is recuperating very well.

Missions Update..Philippines Mission 2018

(I guess this site now has a gitch...too much space in-between lines.)

Missions Update:

Simplified Mission 2018 Goals for the Philippines:

1. Speak in four churches

2. Lead four one day seminars

3. Connect with available known pastors

4. Help pastors as needed

5. Assist the ministry in the Chinese General Hospital

6. Visit an orphanage east of Manila

7. Fund the building of ten houses

8. Fund the Jollibee outing for children

9. Fund the Mangyan Tribe feeding

10. Continue promoting the need for cinder blocks for building a church in Haiti.

Brief Info on Each Goal:

1. Each year I meet new pastors and enjoy our time together. I know six pastors now. Churches always have their own calendars of activities but I would like to get into at least four churches.

2. Hoping to lead four day seminars on “Church Health: What Does That Look Like?”

3. The pastors that I will not be in their churches I would like to have lunch with all of them or meet at their churches. I want to keep updated on church happenings/needs so I might learn what I might be able to assist with.

4. Usually while I am there I have some one-on-one time with pastors, go with them to visit the sick, make evangelism visits, or visit members who have not been attending.

5. I learned of a mission project that happens at a Chinese Hospital involving providing medical, food, and clothing. This is a one day event each month. I would like to assist in this event.

6. I finally found an orphanage east of Manila and have been in contact with the administrator. Hoping to make a visit to mingle with the kids and see what future needs might be.

7. During the Typhoons and flooding many of the Mangyan tribe families lost their homes. They are attempting to rebuild at this time. I will see how many have been completed before I go. They can build for 3500 pesos or $65 per home.

8. In 2016, I visited the children from Squatter’s village. The group has grown to about sixty. Hoping to take them to Jollibee’s (our McDonald’s) for an outing and a meal.

9. One of my highlights last year was the feeding of the Mangyan tribe, roughly about 200 adults and children. This included providing a meal, a bag of clothing, a bag of food, and a gift for the children. This is where I was the first white man they had seen and the first to be in their village.

10. An interpreter I had has started a church and needs to begin a church building project. They have over half of the cinder blocks needed so they need the remaining blocks as well as the bags of cement.

This is much to accomplish. We have a MIGHTY God to provide for MULTIPLE needs through the help of MANY people who have hearts for MISSIONS. Pray for God’s provisions for this trip. I will be sharing more as the trip begins to materialize.