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Link: http://www.kodachrome.org/spiritgift/Grabbed from Pastor Winston Reyes of Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI)
This on-line Spiritual Gifts Test (sometimes referred to as a Spiritual Gifts Inventory, Assessment, Survey, Analysis, or Questionnaire) will help you determine what Spiritual Gift(s) God has given you. The test performs an assessment of 28 Spiritual Gifts by presenting you with 140 statements that you are to respond to by clicking on: Always, Often, Seldom, or Never to indicate how well each statement applies to you.
|  | Held at Cagayan State university Amphitheater on July 24 (Thursday) with a full house attendance. Pastor Jay (of Every Nation -Santiago City, Isabela) delivered the Word: Deut 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live...
The students made a commitment to CHOOSE LIFE, after a prayer lead by Pastor Ross Resuello, Senior Pastor of Every Nation - Tuguegarao City. We had a great time worshiping the Lord. Every Nation Youth Scholars were recognized and received their checks/stipend, and lots of prizes were raffled off. |
MAYO CLINIC: Consuming fewer calories is often the most effective way to lose weight. Still, an increase in physical activity is an important part of any weight-loss program. And walking is a great way to get started. For motivation, do the math: To lose 1 pound, you must burn 3,500 calories. If you cut 250 calories from your daily diet, you could lose that pound in about two weeks. If you add 30 minutes of brisk walking to your daily routine, you could burn another 150 calories a day. Make that 60 minutes of brisk walking and you could burn about 300 calories a day. Of course, the more you walk and the quicker the pace, the more calories you'll burn. Keep it up and you'll walk your way to a healthy weight. Better yet, walking can help you keep the weight off for good. READ the Article>MORE ABOUT EXERCISE: Aerobic exercise: What 30 minutes a day can do
| | Victory Christian Fellowship (aka Every Nation) -Tuguegarao held the graduation rites of our Everey Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI) students last Sunday, April 13, 2008 with our special guest PASTOR MARC CONSTANTINO of Victory Christian Fellowship-Quezon City, who earlier, conducted a youth service and a leadership training seminar. Had a great time.... |
Logan the Sky Angel Cowboy, is a 13 yr old boy from Nebraska that called into the station a few months ago. What transpired was only of God. (My thanks to my multiply friend Rina Victoria)
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Everytime you play the game, free rice will be donated by advertisers to the World Food Programme (WFP) for distribution to countries like Bangladesh, etc. My thanks to my online friend Lynn Nawata. Click on the LINK: http://www.freerice.com/
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Pastor Ross Resuello is now the Acting Vice-Mayor of Tuguegarao City after Mayor Delfin Ting arrived from abroad on official business. However, because our Vice-Mayor is still out of the country, Pastor Ross (our No. 1 City Counsellor), was appointed as Acting Vice-Mayor. Hope he can resume as City Counsellor soon, otherwise, he will be over-acting na!
| | Victory Christian Fellowship-Tuguegarao and a Team from VCF-Quezon City led by Pastor Christian Flores successfully completed the Seminar of Spiritual Gifts and Prophetic Presbytry. It was a very powerful event attended by ENLI students, ministry heads, and small group leaders. Our sincerest thanks to Pastor Christian, Lila, Gaviene and Glen. MABBALO! |
TIME Magazine: The Democrats - Trying Out a More Soulful Tone
A few days after the Democrats' November defeat, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings suggested that the party needed a "come to Jesus" moment.x x x Senator Hillary Clinton gave a speech praising faith-based programs and reminded everyone that she is "a praying person." x x x Democrats have been agonizing over how to reach more religious voters. House Democrats have organized a 20-member faith committee that will design messages that emphasize the moral dimension of Democratic policies. x x x Clinton offered some suggestions along those lines last week when she addressed abortion-rights supporters in Albany, N.Y., marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. While affirming her view that women should continue to have the right to choose, Clinton urged Democrats to support measures to reduce the number of abortions—encourage abstinence among the young and force insurers to cover contraceptives—and surprised some by saying the goal was not just making abortions rare but eliminating them altogether. Ano ba talaga Ate? Are you pro or anti-abortion? READ MORE>
TIME Magazine has made a list of the most influencial Evangelicals in America - some of them are: financiers, a culture warrior; a high-fidelity messenger (owner of 104 radio stations); President George Bush's spiritual scribe (White House speechwriter); the Senate's third-ranking Republican; the Almighty's Attorney-at-Law; a man called God's Lobbyist; and many others. Also in the list is Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life (over 20 million copies sold). READ MORE>
Rica recalls that God set an appointment with her when a message was revealed to her about a woman's heart bleeding for 12 years and healed by faith, “I was in showbiz for 12 years and all my wounds, san pa ba naman yun nangagaling kung di dito rin sa business na 'to. Ito lang naman ang mundo ko. It was the turning point in my life.” Pretty Face
She is Rica Peralejo. She is one of the prettiest face in the Philippine entertainment industry and that is not what is all to her. She has it all. For twelve years she has proven her worth as a total performer and a star which will continue to shine not just for the next twelve years but for as long as she can perform even long after the camera lights are off. After all, she is Rica Peralejo; an actress, a singer, a writer, a sister and a daughter. She started young in the entertainment industry armed with her talents and charm and her zest to amuse the world with what she is best at which is being the prolific artist that she is.
LINK: READ THE WHOLE STORY
   Its good to read an article like this, once and a while, in one of the major newspapers in the Philippines.
I f the link doesn't work, here's the article: Jesus Christ & SuperstarsHOT FUSS SUNDAE By Paolo Lorenzana Saturday, September 22, 2007There’s probably enough dirt here to go around — enough to quash the significance of all those gossip shows, scandal-glorifying blogs, and rumor-fueled conversations that keep the showbiz kiln burning brightly. In such a pristine environment — a church heralding liberation from sin and spiritual sustenance from the imperfections of humanity — was a congregation scattered with the broken, the weary and, interestingly, the famous.The woman singing from the expansive stage facing a couple hundred people espoused all of the above. Kitchie Nadal, no stranger to the public’s speculation and who’d resonated with the inner pain of female singers she’d once idolized, was now singing a song entitled Grace. This gig demanded no talent fee or attempt at promoting a new EP. She wasn’t even singing for an audience that, despite having its fair share of CD-purchasing youthful-demographic types, was diverse in all respects. No, one of local rock’s most regaled female denizens was singing for God.SpotlightenmentWhat has stirred the showbiz community more than Gretchen Barretto’s dalliances, Ruffa Gutierrez’s caustic marital life, or any scandal worthy of Boy Abunda’s two cents, is God. Victory Christian Fellowship, which began in 1984 as a relatively tiny assembly of 150 students in Manila’s U-Belt, has become the leading purveyor of this movement, now evangelizing 24,000 adherents in 11 venues around the metro, including a flagship church located in Bonifacio Global City. Nationally, its church has grown in all regions, and globally, its track record just as impressive — Filipino missionaries setting out as far as Afghanistan to spread Christ’s word. Still, its most visible envoys are its celebrities — sexy ‘80s persona Carmi Martin, a smattering of basketball stars, and MTV alum Donita Rose-Villarama, one of the church’s most stalwart devotees — listening raptly to the preaching on the power of grace after Nadal’s exclusive performance; the “guest list” on this particular Sunday but a fraction of Victory’s stellar army.With today’s most luminous personalities — namely Piolo Pascual, Sam Milby and Toni Gonzaga — having clung to this rampant conversion, subtly dropping their beliefs in interviews and raising the public’s speculation in a country whose culture is permeated with the sins of its stars and is buttressed by its solemn Catholic backbone, skeptics have been driven to taint Victory and the progression of Born-Again Christianity with the sort of celebrity domination that Scientology has harbored in Hollywood.Yet in the ministry of Victory, there is no alien ruler or iconic member known for jumping on couches that have made it an easy target of ridicule. And though the church itself resembles any modern corporate structure — with elevators, escalators and high-tech audiovisual slideshows projected in an auditorium used for its regular services — its mission, put simply, is the development of a willing visitor’s personal relationship with Christ rather than the hawkish throttling of a new religion. This, as Victory’s senior pastor Joey Bonifacio declares in a service interspersed with comedic repartee and his enrapturing lilt, is “supernatural grace,” or rather, Christ’s call enabling a person to become what He has created him or her to become, no matter how littered with sin one’s past is.Saved! No, Really...Siguro the most attractive thing about all of it is that sinners are allowed in,” says Rica Peralejo, a Mary Magdalene of sorts you might be familiar with from movies like Balahibong Pusa and Dos Ekis, a week after Bonifacio’s preaching on grace. “I lived a hardcore life — everything you can think of — downing 11 glasses of Kurant and staying up ‘til 10 a.m., drugs and sleeping around ‘cause I thought that was the way to be somebody. My weakness was that no one protected me.”She’d been around the Christian type before and initially reacted as many have — “turned off” by its “corniness”: members’ exhilarated sing-and-clap worship at the beginning of a service; the whole business of admitting you were a sinner and being “saved”; and having to make life all about God while denying herself the hedonistic perks that came with the celebrity lifestyle. She remembers the exact date she was “shaken” by God — May 1, 2006 — when, after much resistance, her “weakness” was neutered; Rica finally unshackling herself from her desperation for male adoration and, with discipleship from actress-turned-evangelist Coney Reyes, dedicating her entirety to Him.Apart from suffering mockery from family and friends, her admission was one that laid her career under a guillotine, paring down her selection of roles as she declined dancing sexily on variety shows and the half-naked laddie mag features — an arduous transition after being known for writhing against a tree in Tatarin rather than baring her soul to the Lord. “People really saw me as stupid. And then a pastor said ‘Don’t worry, nothing can go against the miracle of a changed life’ and I was like, ‘Okay, whatever that means…’ But now, I know it’s real. If you were to come up with your own words, you can’t explain Him. There’s just so much change in me that was impossible.”As Rica speaks, eyes glazed with childlike wonder, we are sitting at a café across the Ateneo de Manila University, where the 26-year-old is a freshman majoring in creative writing; this second life of schooling she considers her “fuel and inspiration” and a decision she counts as one of the many dramatic transformations brought on by her faith. Indeed, that former starlet is buried six feet under but what has sprung forth is a rejuvenated star who admirably balances a demanding education with a morning show and a new teleserye entitled Pangarap na Bituin, a show that illustrates the rocky road showbiz may sometimes lead its stars down.Boundless doubt to all of this is welcome, of course, and Rica realizes that, especially when the God of Born-Again Christianity seems to have become an all-encompassing manager and publicist in the realm of showbiz, shifting past scandal into salvation and turning sexy stars and drug-dredged lotharios into disciples. Still, Victory will relentlessly continue its fellowship in the hippest way possible, whether to the life-threatened Afghans or star-steeped community, and Rica, like each member of the celebrity stronghold who have sacrificed their careers for the sacrifice of Christ, will continue to keep the faith. “I have my human tendencies but the difference is that I’m well aware of the sinner I am. There’s a spirit in you that tells you that you gotta ask for help. For now, work is such a godly act for me. ‘Cause if you ask me, I don’t want to be in the business. But if I disciple and tell you there’s a God, so what? But He put me somewhere I can serve him best. It’s funny, and you may not believe me, but my job is where I see the hand of God move the most. Every damn day of this business, I see him.”God as local Tinseltown’s most sincere endorsement may be a bit of a stretch, but maybe all the admission that results decrees a little admiration. It even makes all the dirt we’d sought all along seem irrelevant.
| | VCF-Tuguegarao held a water baptism for another batch of the latest addition to the ever growing family of God was held at the Uy residence swimming pool followed by fellowship lunch (potluck). |
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