US Vice-President Joe Biden holds talk with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad as part of his role to oversee the US departure.
Newsflash
Mabuhay, mga panauhin at mga kapatid! Welcome to our new webhome, sharingvillageone.org. 'Church of God Fellowship Manila' is now Church of God Sharing Village. Moving time is tough work, whether moving site, more so moving house, across towns, cities, oceans. But it’s good to keep moving as we build on the sure foundation of the Living Word. For just like men and women of faith past and present who waited for the city built and made by Almighty God, we are pilgrims after all!
The Passover and the Unleavened Bread Feast 2009 opened the doors of the first full-time office space and place of assembly the LORD God is providing for the Church of God Sharing Village! A humbling surprise and entrusting of responsibility no longer "in the near future" but right now...
And so it came to pass that the third child (for now), of Gilbert and Ann Deboma would be a sturdy baby boy named SHADRAC JAMES – wide-eyed, with a teasing grin, an extravagant excuse for hauling us over to Botolan, to be graciously hosted by the lively Deboma clan (waaaa talagang maghahanda si Nanay Lilian kahit sabihin nyo na “huwag na po! Kami na po ang magdadala!”). Imagine returning from a sun-bleached seashore to a long table al fresco lunch under the mango trees with ginataang laing, grilled bluefin tuna, stewed vegetables, green mango and tomatoes side by side with our adobo, chicken sisig... Not enough? Click on the video to be there!
And CLICK ON THE THUMBNAIL to view and download the photos... :)
“He Who Began A Good Work In You...”- In an age where nothing is expected to stick for more than 15 seconds, much more, a span of a generation, the Word of the LORD God rings clear: “...You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in the house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up...” What about when everyone seems to give in to the demand of the times? “Wala talagang magagawa, ganun talaga e...” Ask the fathers and mothers who remain faithful to God, what do they do? Through whatever ordeal, whatever threat of wrenching impending crisis, “is it all for nothing?” And they will say that despite every fault, God’s mercy endures forever, as can be seen in this video, stitched together with great warmth and affection by our Ate Vivian (Mrs. Vivian Deboma-Hipe), mother of Ralph and Arielle.
Have a breath of fresh air from the eastern coast of these islands! Ralph Ian David Hipe trekked with his cousins, eyeing mushrooms, trees felled by the tropical storm Emong, clambering over rocks that circle his grandmother’s ricefields in Botolan, Zambales, where the river flows from Mount Pinatubo. In the meantime, younger sister Arielle, who stayed behind to continue piano lessons, was treated to a tour of as many bookshops and NBS shelves as she could. And those of us who were left behind toiling in the city, hauling equipment for the church office... (a bit too much good-natured sour-graping here :)... well, we consoled ourselves with Ralph’s pasalubong stories... and this montage he put together!
OFFICE MOVING TIME - One week to find equipment, construct some furniture, "dress and keep it" in time for the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread 2009. If we want something done, we've got to do it!
SHARING VILLAGE OFFICE - The Church of God Sharing Village has its first real office space! In the midst of scarcity, who would think this would be the door the Almighty God would open for us? It wasn’t even the one Raul and Vivian Hipe intended to inspect, that morning they decided they were going to take the day off from work demands. “Let’s look for a [church] office...,” Vivian said, and there it was, across the street from the building in the newspaper ad... We had hit the streets before, in Manila, in Pasay, in Quezon City, but none of those places opened with the same favour and ease with which the LORD God provided this one...
