Misc. reports from the year

While other posts covered reports from Bulabog (Ptr Marlon Gabion), Prieto Diaz (Ptr Benjie and Elah Camar), and San Jose Bulusan (Ptr Lorenzo and Abigail Fugen), this post includes miscellaneous other reports. Click on links below to see reports from various PAMI ministry locations from throughout the year (some are Word files and some are pdf files).

Bulan Partition of Churches (Bulan Church and its daughter churches, overseen by Pastor Virgilio Fulo):

Vision-Goals of Bulan Partition Churches for 2022–Spiritual Aspect

Continuation of Vision and Goals of Bulan Partition of Churches 2022–Physical Aspect

Bulan Church 1st Quarter Report from Ptr Virgilio Fulo

Fabrica Church 3rd Quarter Report from Ptr Felmar Guray

Monte Calvario Church Oct 2022 Report from Ptr Noni Polo

Emmaus Bible Institute Partition (overseen by Sister Ofel Mendizabal):

Compassion (i.e. Padaba–well loved children that are sponsored) Report received April 2022 from administrator Brother Elmer Besa, including info back to May 2021

EBI Update received 3-29-2022 from Sister Ofel

EBI Update received 6-22-2022 from Sister Ofel

Pena Francia 1-26-2022 report from Ptr Rolly Catubig

Pena Francia 4-3-2022 report from Ptr Rolly Catubig

Pena Francia 6-14-2022 report from Ptr Rolly Catubig

Pena Francia 3rd Quarter report from Ptr Rolly Catubig

Other Churches Partition (overseen by Pastor Gumer Gile):

Castilla 1st Quarter 2022 Report by Ptr Redgie Bonifacio

Castilla Report from Ptr Redgie Nov 9 2022

Bulusan Church Report from Ptr Lorenzo Oct 14 2022

Barcelona Church Report from Garduques April – June 2022

Barcelona Church Report from Garduques July – Sept 2022

Matnog Report from Histas received 12-13-2021

Matnog Report from Histas received 3-23-2022

Matnog Report from Histas received 4-22-2022

Matnog Report from Histas received 6-29-2022

Matnog Report from Histas received 9-26-2022

Matnog Report from Histas received 11-23-2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer Jan-Mar 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer April to May 21, 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer May 21 to June 21, 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer June 21 to July 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer July to Aug 24, 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer Aug to Sept 21, 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer Sept 21 to Oct 21, 2022

Irosin Report from Ptr Gumer Oct 22 to Nov 24, 2022

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 Posted on December 23, 2022 by

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Pastor Marlon and Bulabog Church

 This post has info about the ministry of Pastor Marlon Gabion of PAMI’s Bulabog Church near Emmaus Bible Institute.  You can see that he is quite active, is good at reporting and providing pictures, and would be an interesting pastor for someone to sponsor.  Pastor Marlon is 36 years old, graduated from EBI in 2013, pastored the Bulabog Church since his cousin (Pastor Nanding Gabion) passed away about 9 years ago, teaches EBI classes (both regular and modular extension classes), serves as a Compassion Padaba teacher, and coaches the Emmaus Christian Fellowship community basketball team.  Besides heading the Bulabog Church, he also teams together with Pastor Benjie and Elah Camar, and various EBI workers and Compassion staff. The following pdf file has highlights of Pastor Marlon’s ministries from January to July of 2022. Along with a lot of other things, it includes more pictures from the PAMI youth Cluster Camp that was highlighted in the previous post.

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More recent info from Pastor Marlon includes the following:

Dec. 12, 2022: Hello Brother Mike! How are you? How’s your preparation for this upcoming Christmas? Yesterday Bulabog church celebrated its 9 year anniversary since I started in 2013 there. I’m very thankful to God for always guiding me in that ministry, specially how to handle situations when they arise inside the church. I’m grateful in every season in our ministry–every year passing by is a different experience. I’m always excited for every additional year added by God because I’m praying and hoping that every season there are new souls added in the church.This year we only have a simple preparation and celebration due to bad weather of a typhoon. I’m only asking to the members to just bring food. We combine also a simple Christmas party celebration.Thank you very much for our budget that you are giving for our Christmas party.

Scroll through the following pictures from the Dec 11th celebration:

Video of Bulabog youth dancing to All I Want for Christmas is You (which can be expressed to Jesus)

This is modular in Bulan last November. The subject that I taught was the book of Acts

I’m very thankful to God for safe travel last month every time we go there to teach in modular with pastor Raf, because last month always a heavy rain.

Here in Emmaus with sister nova and sister cristy (modular class)

Also here in Emmaus next week is an end of first semester classes. I’m thankful to God to finish the first semester in my teaching class, but I’m staying here because December 25 maybe we have a child dedication. I cancelled my plan to spend a Christmas holiday with my family because I have some activities this coming December 25–maybe we have a child dedication in our church.

On behalf of Bulabog family, thank you very much brother Mike and Pami board and supporters for always giving support of our ministry–in prayers, financial and guidance. May the Lord bless you in return for all the effort you’ve done. Once again thank you very much, and Merry Christmas in advance to your family. God bless.

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 Posted on December 22, 2022 by

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Cluster Camp photo summary

As stated in the December 2022 PAMI newsletter of the last post, one of the highlights of the year was the PAMI youth Cluster Camp held by the seashore in Candumaay, Sta Isabel, Matnog, with theme Time of Refreshing. Although a little late, I’ve been meaning to post this wonderful photo summary composed by Adonis, the brother of Sis Espie.

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Additional photos of the cluster camp can be found in the pdf of the next post on Pastor Marlon and the Bulabog Church, as well as July postings of PAMI’s Facebook page:

July 18, 2022 Facebook post

July 19, 2022 Facebook post

July 20, 2022 Facebook post

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 Posted on December 22, 2022 by

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December 2022 Newsletter

Here’s the latest PAMI publication:

PAMI NEWS Dec2022BDownload

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Camar ministry in Prieto Diaz & Bulabog (Padaba, feedings, Bible studies & 5-day kids club)

Pastor Benjie and Elah Camar live near EBI and the PAMI Bulabog Church (part of the municipality of Sorsogon City), and are involved in ministry in these places in addition to starting outreaches a few miles away in the neighboring municipality of Prieto Diaz that they plan to eventually turn into a church plant. Sister Elah is especially active as a Compassion case worker/teacher. Click here to see a pdf report with a lot of pictures of their ministry activities and family situation.

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The most recent activity of Pastor Benjie and Elah Camar has been to do a 5-day kids club in Prieto Diaz, which was sort of a Daily Vacation Bible School right before the school year started:

Soon to follow after this will be the distribution of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes from Samaritan’s Purse, along with follow-up discipleship. You can see in the background of some of these pictures that the boxes are already on site, but they are awaiting the teaching materials to arrive from Samaritan’s Purse before dispersing.

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 Posted on August 23, 2022 by

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San Jose Bulusan Church construction update

As noted in the July 2022 PAMI Newsletter, we are thankful for an August 2021 $5000 gift from ReStored Thrift Store of Lakeville, MN that went towards a 5 x 7 m chapel, along with a 5 x 3 m back room with Comfort Room (i.e. toilet) & sink & a front to back sidewalk. Here is a video of church members singing a song of appreciation:

Here are the stage and benches within the new Bulusan chapel

Here is a video of a kids song within the new chapel:

And here are a video and pictures of ongoing finishing done since last August. This included adding a 5 x 3 m extension off the back of the chapel (which can be either used as pastoral living quarters, classroom or meeting space, food preparation space, storage space, etc.), and cementing the floor of this back room. Note that a sink was roughed in but not yet finished with tiling.

The chapel (front 5 x 7 m) portion was improved with wall plastering/smoothing on a couple of the more prominent walls and addition of front double doors. More of the inside and outside walls still need plastering and painting.

For reference, you can see the following reports from Pastor Lorenzo Fugen:

Sept 28 2021 Report

Jan 27 2022 Report

May 4 2022 Report

July 15 2022 Report

Also note that the San Jose Bulusan Church also created their own Facebook page, which you can see here:

https://www.facebook.com/Bulusan-Christian-Church-PAMI-115272147737776/

For further reference, you can see the Aug 27, 2021 blog post. Note that the $5000 from ReStored covered both the $3300 of initial chapel construction, along with the additional $1700 mentioned in the Aug 27th post. Construction also freed up $40 per month that was previously designated towards Bulusan rent, which has been redirected to ongoing property improvements. Bit by bit, they’ve been adding doors, curtains, drapery, etc. Additional funds would be nice for further finishing (e.g. smoothing the inside and outside walls, painting, tiling, upgrading windows and ceiling, adding chairs/benches, adding musical instruments) and to add a kids Sunday school cottage. A kids Sunday school cottage hasn’t been built yet because funds were used instead to make the back room be full concrete rather than half concrete to be more storm resistant and longer-lasting, and for other improvements. Until a separate Sunday school cottage is built, the kids can meet either in the back room, outside in the yard, or in the cottage of a neighbor.

This is Ptr Lorenzo’s wife, Sister Abigail, teaching a Bible lesson to kids in the cottage of a church member that is near the church. This is the type of cottage that the church would eventually like to construct for themselves.

Here are other members of the San Jose Bulusan church that can help teach. Sister Carmela and Sister Cristy attended April 20th training along with Ptr Lorenz and received certificates given by Samaritan’s Purse, in preparation of teaching/discipling kids who will receive Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. They are still waiting for more teaching materials to arrive before the shoeboxes can be disbursed.

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 Posted on July 19, 2022 by

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July 2022 Newsletter

Here’s the latest PAMI newsletter:

PAMI NEWS July2022Download

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 Posted on July 9, 2022 by

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10 big boxes of books from ICLD received & distributed

Thank you to International Christian Literature Distributors of Minneapolis, MN ( www.icld.org ) for sending two batches of five balikbayan boxes each, totaling over a ton (2000 lbs) of Christian printed materials. This included study Bibles, reference/study/devotional books, kids books, teaching materials, and other media. Sister Ofel Mendizabal, director of PAMI’s Emmaus Bible Institute, has been distributing this literature to various pastors and Christian workers of PAMI and other missions/churches throughout Sorsogon Province from January – June 2022. Some books were given to EBI students, and some distributed to attendees of Province-wide workshops and seminars of partner organizations that are fairly often hosted at EBI.

The first five boxes arrived on January 9, 2002 and contents sorted into stacks for distribution:

EBI students were happy to each receive a couple items each:

Bags of books distributed to various pastors and ministry leaders:

The second batch of 5 boxes arrived March 27, 2022 and contents sorted into stacks:

Books distributed to attendees of March 30-31, 2022 God’s Appointed People seminar hosted at EBI:

Books distributed after Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child teacher training hosted at EBI in April 2022:

Books distributed after Faith Comes By Hearing Bicolano Proclaimer audio Bible training hosted at EBI in early June 2022:

After all these distributions, Sister Ofel still has 10 more bags of ICLD books yet to give away. All these materials provided and sent by ICLD are much appreciated. We send a big thank you to John Stacknik and the rest of ICLD’s volunteers, and all those who donated these wonderful resources.

For more pictures of ICLD book distribution, you can view previous blog posts:

Fifty bags of ICLD books distributed to Christian workers
VVMI/VVM Minneapolis visit and Ptr Lorenzo film showing testimonies

Or see the following Distribution of ICLD Books pdf file listed in the following December 22, 2018 post:

EBI partition updates

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 Posted on June 10, 2022 by

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2021 Summary and January 2022 Bulletin

Here’s a summary of 2021 PAMI highlights that was included in donor year-end statements:

Dear Friends:

Thank you for your gifts and prayers for PAMI in 2021.  John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son..."  God is a giver, and he wants us to be like him.  We give because God gave first.  Our giving is a way of saying thank you for all that we've been given by God.

Despite the continuing challenge of COVID, much was accomplished this last year.  172 people were baptized (about twice a typical year)!  The first graduation of the new Emmaus Bible Institute Modular extension program was conducted on December 20, with 21 students in 6 locations who completed 12 months of weekly classes.  EBI also continues its regular 4-year program, with 16 on-campus students.  Weekly on-line ukulele music lessons have been ongoing since April.  160 Compassion sponsored kids continue to be served with home-based visits by case workers/teachers.  Food distributions were conducted, along with some in-person feedings.  Several balikbayan boxes were sent with books, CDs, games, toys, school and office supplies, hygiene supplies, clothes, and laptops.  New chapels were constructed in San Jose Bulusan and Juag Island Matnog.  And we are soon ready to buy the property of the PenaFrancia Sorsogon and Candumaay Santa Isabel Matnog churches.  It’s through the partnership of dedicated Filipino workers and faithful supporters like you that all this is possible.

Here’s the latest PAMI publication that was also included with donor year-end statements:

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 Posted on January 28, 2022 by

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December 2021 Newsletter

Here is the latest PAMI publication:

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 Posted on December 23, 2021 by

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