Courageous

Courage is defined in the dictionary as "The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, bravery and resolution"; I like the word resolution.  It is said that courage is not about the abscence of fear but rather despite the presence of fear, challenges and unknown you are still resolved to do something about it.

So by definition courageous is a character, trait and qualities of a person who is resolved to do something he have previously declared despite overhwleming presence of fear  and possibilities that he may not succeed.

Knowing Your Purpose

"For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar. My name is the Lord of Heaven's Armies and I have put my words in your mouth and hidden you safely in my hand. I stretch out the sky likle a canopy and laid the foundations of the earth. I am the one who says to Israel, 'You are my people!'" - ISAIAH 51:15-16

We are here for a purpose. We are made the way we are with a purpose in God's mind. It is our job to discover this purpose and find out the reason behind our existence and part of discovering our purpose we must discover our strengths, our talents and our abilities.

God has a specific, unique and distinct plan for our lives. God, who have carefully design and created the complexities of universe, is the same God who have breathed His Spirit in you to fulfill a purpose.

We are created with a special skills set unique to us to fit perfectly in His grand design. We are not here by accident.

Have you ever taken the time to discover your strengths? your skills? and your talents? As soon as we discover our strengths, developed our skills and enhance our talents we also discover our purpose in life, then as we discover our purpose in life we developed a passion for life, we have a renewed outlook, new persepective and new joy in living.

Take time to discover your talents, be encouraged, we are created the way we are with a purpose in God's mind. 

Taking Action

Read: 1 Samuel 13 : 23 - 14 : 23

In times when we thought that we dont seem to be moving ahead, we are often trapped over analyzing about the situation, but sometimes all it takes is just one action and everything else will follow according to what God purposes in our lives.

Just like when the Israelites don't seem to be moving ahead with their campaign and it seems they are greatly overwhelmed with the disadvantage. It only took one soul who have big faith in God that if He will allow it they can win the battle even with only few resources.

Jonathan had faith in God, and Just as he have hoped, God had used him and his armor bearer to start winning, what seems to be a losing battle.

In our ministry, we may feel that we are alone but with God's grace it is enough to accomplish His purpose, that is only if we are willing to trust Him and offer our all, for His kingdom.

Community Service

ALS (Alternative Learning System) is one of our ministry that provides opportunites to practice Shepherds and Stewards principles.

Last April 13, 2012, we conduct community service at one of the Learning Centers that we support. In cooperation with the Brgy.149 Baseco Compound local government unit and LALAF (Life and Livelihood Assistance Foundation) we were able to teach, model and mentor social responsibility to our learners by doing clean up campaign on their bayside.