Greetings once again, to you all, in the precious name of our Redeemer;
Happy New Year to you! Perhaps this coming year we will hear the shout and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. But while we wait to hear His sweet voice may we be about His business for His glory.
It is hard to believe that another year is about to close. It has been a challenging year in many respects, but also a another year in which the Lord has blessed and encouraged our souls. This time last year we were anticipating our trip to Korea to minister to the saints there. What a blessing that was. It was a year full year of conferences, home bible studies, speaking engagements, and bible school sessions. I just pray that the Lord will used His word in the hearts of those who heard, and that genuine change for good will be the lasting result.
This week I was given the privilege to speak at a youth conference here in Baguio hosted by the Navy Base assembly. Eighty five young people along with several elders and workers from assemblies in the North were in attendance. It was a lively group of young people and we enjoyed hearing their special numbers and presentations. I spoke on the theme of “Looking unto Jesus”. They were such an attentive group and I very much enjoyed sharing with them a few thoughts out of Hebrews 12. I trust the Lord will use it for the encouragement and challenge of these young disciples of Christ. The message was followed by a nice meal and then fun and games in the afternoon I am told by the time the conference was over it was like no one wanted to go home. Such a blessing.
On Christmas day I spoke at the Navy Base assembly. We met to remember the Lord, and then went straight into the preaching time after a few songs. I was a nice way to remember the “Word which became flesh and dwelt amongst us”. It is wonderful to remember that He still dwells in our midst.
The week before the assembly at Navy Base celebrated their 36th year in the building they now occupy. That was a wonderful time of celebration of the faithfulness of God. The youth choir sang, the children performed special numbers and the adult choir sang the Hallelujah chorus and did a wonderful job. Then we all enjoyed a meal together and in the afternoon met together once more for a time of singing praise unto our Lord. A truly blessed day.
This week I will be speaking at the Anniversary Sunday down in Baguio Gold. I plan, Lord wiling, to share some thoughts on the Faithfulness of our God, out of Lamentations 3. This will begin a short series on that subject for the two Sundays a month that I speak down there. Then next Lord’s Day we will begin that last semester of bible school classes on Ecclesiology there as well. Once that is complete we will begin all over again with a new series of bible school lessons on Eschatology, beginning Lord willing sometime in February at Navy Base. So please keep these things in your prayers.
May the Lord richly bless you in the coming year. May He comfort and encourage us all through struggles that will come, may He cause our heart to soar with delight at gems discovered in His precious word, may He teach us and train us in righteousness, may He discipline us when it is necessary, and may we by this time next year have experienced real growth in our walk and relationship with Him.
