2018 Vision and Summertime Activities of Irosin Church
Under the leadership of Pastor Gumer Gile, the Irosin Church has the following vision and goals.
Ptr Gumer meeting with Irosin Church leaders
PAMI IROSIN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
CHURCH VISION AND MISSION FOR 2018
VISION:
Our vision is seven fold:
- Love God and worship Him in Spirit and in truth –Mathew 22:37,John 4:24
- Love people – Mathew 22:38
- To be like Christ – Romans 8:29
- To evangelize the world – Marcus 16:15-16
- To make disciple for Christ – Mathew 28:19-20
- To baptize believers for Christ this coming May 13 2018
- Church lot with an area of 300 meters at San Agustin.
MISSION:
Our mission is to:
- Proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ in the target place
- Train believers to follow Christ instruction that was stated in Mathew 28:19-20
- Encourage every members of PAMI ICC to undergo discipleship and evangelism training.
- Make more workers for mission fields.
- Make a battle of the bands this coming April 7,2018
- Make a DVBS this coming April 30 to May 5, 2018
- Conduct water Baptism this coming May 13, 2018
- Encourage ever members to pledge for church lot.
Note that The Battle of the Bands was already covered in a previous posting, but here are some pictures of other activities. Read More
April 2018 PAMI Newsletter & more Ptr Gumer highlights
Ptr Gumer & Ofie Gile with adopted sons, Moses (7) and Jason (13), heading to Juag Island in the outrigger of Mang Jose Fruto.
Here’s the most recent PAMI publication, which includes highlights from the EBI partition and Bulan partition on page 1, and highlights of Ptr Gumer’s ministries on page 2:
April 2018 PAMI Newsletter
Note that Ptr Gumer could use sponsor(s) to cover his $200/month allowance (travel and family living expenses) and $25/month milk feedings, which are currently just covered from PAMI’s general budget. He has sponsors for his housing and radio time, but not for the rest of his expenses. In addition to what’s on page 2 of the newsletter, many more nice pictures from Ptr Gumer are located below. These include photos of the April 7th Rock for Jesus Battle of the Bands held at Irosin Public Auditorium, an April 17th Mabini crusade with mini-concert, March 12-13 Camilig relief distributions and film showings, and other film showings. Ptr Gumer has been very active with film showings using equipment and films provided by Vernacular Video Ministries. Praise the Lord that many people attend these film showings, and respond by raising their hands to commit themselves to Jesus. Read More
Candumaay Christmas Love; Hista's Still Need Sponsors
The ministry in the Candumaay barangay of Matnog was boosted by an abundance of Christmas love, both at Christmas-time and extending to Easter. Last December included Apple Giving to Values Instruction Classes taught by Histas at a local public school and a wonderful church Christmas party sponsored by Filipino patrons. Then during Easter week, Samaritan’s Purse provided Operation Christmas Child gift boxes and Biblical booklets. Ptr Michael and Michelle Hista do a great job there, and still need sponsors. They still need one or two sponsors to cover their $90 per month allowance and $25 per month motorcycle payment. They’ve been in Candumaay almost a year, since getting married April 26, 2017. The breadth of their ministry is quite impressive for being there just one year. For more info on their ministry in Candumaay, please see the August 2017 PAMI Bulletin. A lot of great photos of their various ministries, as well as a nice report from last October can be found below.
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Reports from Ptr Vir on Bulan Partition Baptism & Other Activities, Fabrica Construction, and All PAMI Worker Monthly Meetings
Below are links to Ptr Virgilio Fulo’s summary reports, including many photos:
Bulan Annual Meeting and Vision for 2018
Variety report of Bulan Feb16 2018
Bulan Highlights and All PAMI Worker Meeting 3-9-18
Bulan Christian Church Summer Report 4-6-18
Fabrica Construction Budget 4-6-18
Ptr Raf Minutes of the All PAMI Workers Meeting in Irosin March 28, 2018
Minutes of monthly all PAMI workers meeting – March 28, 2018 by Ptr Vir
Proposed Order of Program – 4-30-18 Overnight Prayer of All PAMI Workers
Also below are more pictures from the March 31st baptism of 15 people from the Bulan Partition, Easter and the latest Fabrica Construction pictures: Read More
Irosin Church Updates and Church Multiplication Coalition
Ptr Gumer wrote in January about a CMC seminar recently held at the PAMI Irosin church:
“This is our picture during the CMC seminar that was held at PAMI ICC where the subject is for discipleship and evangelism training. 8 people from the Irosin church attended and Ptr Jess from Patag and Ptr Felmar from Bulan came also. CMC stands for Church Multiplication Coalition, which focuses on the Great Commission of the Lord in Matthew 28:19-20 and aims to help plant a church in every village that have none. Read More
Newsletters and State of Union
Here are the two most recent PAMI publications:
December 2017 PAMI Newsletter
January 2018 PAMI Bulletin
For a summary of 2017 ministry, below is a copy of what went out to those supporters that received year-end statements in January:
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Fabrica Church Hoping to Build on Newly Purchased Lot
This is the current rental of the Fabrica Church.
Fabrica Church recently bought a lot approximately a football field length away from the place they’ve been renting for many years. Fabrica is one of 63 barangays of the municipality of Bulan, on the west side of Sorsogon Province. Fabrica lies along the main highway as you approach Bulan town proper from the east. Fabrica Church is the oldest daughter church of the Bulan Church. Fabrica Church will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in January. It was founded by and is led by Pastor Joel Homo, a long-standing elder of the Bulan Church. Pastor Joel is a part-time pastor and part-time photographer. The Homo family were the first converts of Rev. Norval and Ardelle Thorud when they started work with PAMI in Bulan 35 years ago.The Fabrica Church has wanted to acquire a lot and to build their own church building for a long time. They’ve been searching for a lot with a good location and good price for many years. Several years ago, we came close to buying a lot in Fabrica, but there was a problem with the title, and the deal fell through. Thankfully, this time it worked out. The Fabrica and Bulan Church members have covered the 120,000 peso = $2400 cost of the lot themselves. But they would like help with construction costs, which could be $4000. If funds become available, they hope to start building early next year.
Click on the following link for more info: Fabrica Lot and Bulan Church Improvement Report 11-30-17
This is a 11-30-17 report from Ptr Virgilio Fulo, the senior pastor of Bulan Church. It addresses the Fabrica lot, and also mentions a couple improvements to the Bulan Church that were recently completed with the tithes and offerings of their own members. Note that the stairway railing shown in one of the photos goes up to the new second story Sunday school classrooms mentioned and pictured in a 11-25-17 report that was towards the bottom of the previous PAMI Post article on the Bulan Church. It is great that the local church covers a lot of their own facility improvements.
Bulan and All-PAMI Worker Activities
Since Ptr Virgilio Fulo is both the senior pastor of Bulan Church and the overall PAMI field director, his reports include info and pictures from both arenas. Since Ptr Vir is the main pastor certified to perform marriages, he is occasionally called on to conduct marriage ceremonies throughout the mission. He also presides over monthly PAMI pastor/worker meetings, which include fellowship, discussion of business and plans, and distribution of allowances. In the past, most of these monthly meetings were held at Emmaus Bible Institute, but lately they’ve been rotating between various PAMI church locations. PAMI pastors also stay interconnected by doing a pulpit rotation one Sunday per quarter. Below are links to two of Ptr Vir’s photo summary reports.
Bulan and All-PAMI Workers Activities of Early May 2017
Bulan Church and All-PAMI Workers Activities May-Aug2017
Sept. 10 Film showing in Zone 2 Bulan conducted by Ptr Lorenzo:
More film showing pictures and other communications and pictures from Ptr Vir are found below.
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Sept. 2017 PAMI Bulletin on Bulan Church
Click on this link to view: Sept. 2017 PAMI Bulletin
August 2017 PAMI Bulletin
To see the latest PAMI Bulletin: click here