Youth Mission Camp month

Apparently it is now April.

And I only now have 3 weeks to finish everything that is needed for the 4th Youth Mission Camp which will be held in Davao City. Sometimes panic starts creeping in but I rub it off quickly, panicking will not help me, NOT AT ALL.

Anyways,  thank God it's already summer vacation, our youth leaders will now be able to help me big time.

I already filed my leave of absence in the office and it was approved! To be off from work for one week is a big relief even if it means working with more or less 150 young people.

I am so looking forward to this year's youth camp. Can't wait. :)

Durian Ice Cream

This is DURIAN, Mindanao's most famous fruit.

It smells bad,ok really really bad but they said it tastes good. I can't bring my self to taste it because of the smell, I attempted many times (recently on our trip to Davao this last weekend) but I can't take it talaga.

Surprisingly, the durian ice cream is altogether different. When I had a taste of it last Monday (still in Davao) It was good and I liked it! No smell and no after taste of the durian fruit :)

I guess I'm okay now with the durian ice cream, I'm giving up on the fresh fruit. :)

Kuala Lumpur Trip

yes, we're back from our trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it's our first time there and we enjoyed the food and the people. We attended a  conference for three days and we had a day city tour. It was an experience I will never forget :)

I am grateful that we are given the chance to come to this conference.Grateful for the provision and for the people we met.

Here are some of our pictures. Enjoy!

@ Malaysia Tourism Council, besides the Cocoa boutique/factory.

This was at the Indepence Square

Making funny faces at the King's Palace

Hotel lobby-tired and yet happy

With us is the founder of "The Fellowship International" Pastor Don Leavell from Corpus Christi, Texas

Some of  the TFI delegated from the Philippines

At the conference venue, it's huge! more or less 2000 people, 20 nations represented.

Back from the camp!

And that means I am also back to work, sad that I have not much time to rest and recharge and no time either to write a long post about that week long camp, anyways, here are some photos; 

 

We have 168 youth participants from different churches, 200 plus total including the staff. Such a big group. 

 This tent has been our home for 5 days :)

With Rachel, my niece who joined the camp for the first time. She had a great time!

 My husband did a lot at the camp, beside leading the worship most of the time, he also printed 200 plus shirts and helped us  in facilitating the games. I am one blessed wife :)

 With two of  our cutest camp staff :)

 part of the games

But here's what I love about the camp. The love, the acceptance, the healing and restoration.  

To God be all the glory!!

Pictures from our recent prayer journey

Prayer journey is a ministry of Global Intercessors where they go to provinces all over the nation to pray for the people forthe land, they meet with Pastors and church group to encourage them and to also pray for them.

Prayers for Legazpi City

My dear husband usually leads the worship

We visited this company that is formed with exceptional mission, to be able to bring a significant change in the community and right now they are doing exactly like that. Their products are from coconuts. You can check their website http://dignitycoco.com/ and see how they are doing things differently. :)

A bonus when you go to trips like this is you get to taste local food. Look at these :) They are all so delicious!

The green one is "laing" (vegetable dish cooked in coconut milk) and it is so good! Bicol is known for that recipe.

Me and Jiji (behind us is the gospel bus which was literally our home for 3 days)

Albay Mission Trip

Tonight, my husband and I will be joining  a prayer journey/mission trip to Albay province together with our Pastor and some church co-worker. We took the opportunity since it is holiday tomorrow (Chinese New Year) so we will only be absent on Friday.

This is our first local mission trip for this year. I miss doing this and I'm sure it's the same with Rudolf. He will be leading the worship so we are bringing with us his acoustic guitar, thankfully not the electric one like dean razorback because it is much heavier, and I on the other hand will just be there to support and will be doing whatever task is delegated to me.

Albay province is still in Luzon but travel time is approximately 10 hours by land and we are taking that route. We will be using a missionary bus that was lent to the group by a big city church.

It's exciting. So I'll probably be off the internet 'till Sunday but when I get back I'll have tons of pictures to share.

God bless everyone!