PAST OR LEO ORDI AL ES AN D F AMIL Y
The Blessedness of being
a blessing..
Blessings of being able to help in the Calamity.
The Calamity that
hit our country last
October gave op-
portunity for the
people of God to
be a blessing to those
who have been greatly
affected by the horri-
Isaiah 7:14
ble disaster.
Therefore the
Lord himself will give 50 families of Grace
from Heaven CRC
you a sign: The virgin
were given food assis-
will be with child and tance by Grace Point
will give birth to a Fellowship through
son, and will call him David Rose.
Immanuel.
30 families in the
neighborhood of Sam-
paguita, Maricaban
received groceries
“If God is with us through Christian
and in us; the bless- Nuesa and friends.
ings are likewise with
us, in us, and most
especially, through
Blessing of healing..
us” Pastor Leo
Merisha, my second daugh-
ter, was hit by dengue virus
brought by mosquitoes. The
kind of dengue she had as
the doctors said was virulent
that scared us a whole lot.
She was confined for 6 days
in a hospital and recovered
slowly until she was able to
go to her classes.
The doctor seeing no im-
provement from her condi-
tion alarmed us that we
need to be ready for blood
transfusion anytime. We
needed blood donors with
type A blood type.
Christmas Special
December 2009
Michaels, Warren
Classis Metro Manila Panaligan and Global
churches received Mission Fellowship, all
sacks of rice and used helped in this over-
clothes from Marvin whelming challenge to
and Harriet get the pastors and
Vandekamp. their communities
back to normal.
250 families were pro-
vided food assistance My service vehicle and
and used clothes by the school van which
Zeeland Christian were totally sub-
School along with merged in the flood
many repairs in the were reconditioned
school. through the help of
friends. My vehicle was
Many pastors in the used for ministry right
affected areas were away. The ministry of
given financial and reaching the flooded
other resources to victims.
help their families and
their people. White We believe you are now
Fields, Dr. Ramon experiencing greater bless-
Quesada, Darryn ings as a result of yielding
to God.
Let us count our
When we texted our generously helped us
blessings...
friends for prayers and cover almost half of our 1
Blessings of being
blood donations, the hospital bills through the
response was over- Dengue fund that they
whelming that we could helped raise. The rest is Healing.. 1
have collected a drumfull billed in Elma’s plastic
of blood if we did get all card.
of them. Visitors New Vision 2
swarmed for prayer We thank God for the
opportunities that made opportunity to pray with
us move to a bigger Darryn and Gavin Mi- Partnership 3
room. chael as we lift up Wanda
Michaels recovery from
Zeeland CS 3
The blessing of friend and operation.
supporters overwhelmed
us so much that we cried We thank God for the
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in so much appreciation. opportunity to pray with
ZCS children’s health as
Bill Van Dyk and family they were affected by
Love and Family 5
influenza in the school.

The Blessedness of being a blessing..
Blessings of a New Vision
As we transition to a new area
after my term ends in Grace from
Heaven CRC this 2010, we have
“To plant a Christ envisioned the planting of a new
centered-Bible centered
church in Cavite.
church in a very
progressive province
where population is
Two of my trusted and long time
rapidly growing. friends who live in Cavite also,
To be able to equip local respond to the call to address a
pastors rightly handle the pressing demand to plant a Christ-
Word of God. centered, Bible-centered church
To proactively respond to
that will model Biblical expository
the spiritual demands of
the fast developing
preaching and church that will
province ” stand not just by the trends in the
market but by the Word of God.
Pastor Johnny Gaco (green shirt)
Blessings of Partnership
Major partner in our ministry is
White Fields ministry. From 1986
until now, the passion and chal-
lenge never ceases: to walk with
Filipino churches and church planters
expand the Kingdom of God by
planting churches nationwide.
Pastor Steve Wheeler visited us
this year to provide encourage-
ment to the men in the field espe-
cially at this time of economic
Zeeland Christian School
ZCS is our family in the US. They are
so dear to us. We have truly enjoyed
God’s provision of a relationship that
trust each other a lot.
As recipients of this generosity, the
privilege indeed is on our end as we
Blessed to be a bless- benefit from the enormous blessings
ing…. of this relationship. We have estab-
We have been blessed lished an organization called: Part-
ners in Christian School Develop-
always by ZCS!
ment Philippines, Inc. (PCSDPI)
to facilitate and regulate the assistance
graciously extended to more than 80
is the current director of Thomp-
son Chain Reference Bible Insti-
tute and Pastor Joel Alfonso a
seasoned church planter with
expertise in small group ministries
and me will be members of the
pastoral team. Our friendship
goes way back twenty years and
we have shared lots of common
vision and ministry emphasis.
The core group has conducted
two worship services already in
the span of two months (Oct –
Nov., 2009)numbering from 50 –
70 in attendance. This coming
challenge.
The partnership of Philippine Rural
Ministries, Inc. (PRMI) boosted the
passion and provision to reach and
minister to neglected pastors and
hard to reach remote areas.
There are currently 42 church
planters in the Philippines program
this year. It is our desire to set a
training program along side the
sponsored families from three schools
(GCCS Pasay, GCCS Paliparan and
New Life Christian School in Oriental
Mindoro).
The link among teachers of both coun-
tries through prayers and communica-
tion enhanced the ability of teachers
to understand the rich culture and
wealth of education of the US and
learn more skills to develop their
craft. Through teachers exchange, the
standard of education went high to the
advantage of the children in Philippine
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December 20, we will hold our
3rd which will also include a
Christmas fellowship following the
worship service.
The group is praying for a place of
our own where there will be a
venue to hold Pastoral trainings
among the 50 pastors within
Cavite in fellowship with White
Fields. A church and a training
center for pastors is what we
envisioned. Our hope also is to
impact Cavite with the true mes-
sage of the gospel for the glory of
God!
ministry support for church plant-
ers. The Supplementary Training
in Expository Preaching (STEP) is
hampered for a while by lack of
funds but we hope to reformat it
in a way that will be economical
but never losing the emphasis
that we are passionate about.
Pray for White Fields Philippines as we
dream of our own facility for training and
ministry resource center for pastors and
church planters around the country.
schools.
Student exchange proved so beneficial
especially to our kids as they became
comfortable in relating and communi-
cating to Americans by speech and
communication technology as well.
Our school system was greatly en-
hanced by this.
ZCS has helped with the building
construction, relief, repair and expan-
sion of GCCS Pasay. We were also
generously blessed with school sup-
plies and medicines many times.

Christmas Special
Blessings of Training opportunities..
It is a go for me to join the Shep-
herd’s Conference in Los Angeles.
White Fields will host me while in
LA and will give me opportunities to
inform and challenge the churches
and donors about the work in the
Philippines.
Dr. Ramon Quesada of PRMI cov-
ered the plane fare that I will need
to attend the very important confer-
ence. It is our hope that the more I
become equipped in handling the
word, I can effectively proclaim it
and train more pastors in the Philip-
pines as well. I will be in the US from
March 1-17, 2009.
Blessings of Love..
We are specially blessed by the love
extended to us by our new friends in
Calgary, Canada from Grace Point
Fellowship. We have felt their love
with the ministry here in the Philip-
pines. We are so privileged to know
them. Our Christian Education minis-
try will expand their outreach because
of the partnership we have with GP to
sponsor a periodic “Feeding Program
in the indigent neighborhood of Pasay.
We thank the leadership of Pastor
Blessings of Family...
My whole family have been blessed as
always by the dear partners and good
friends we have in the ministry that
God has entrusted to us. If not for
God’s provision of good people who
trusted us, we could not have done
much. We thank God for all of you so
much!
It is always a blessing to see my family
serving the church with delight in
whatever capacity the Lord has gra-
ciously bestowed. Merisha and
Aletheia are very much in singing while
Personal development
Marvin and Harriet
Vandekamp have been
helping my studies from
Bachelor’s degree until now
that I am almost done in my
Doctor of Ministry degree. I
have gained two Master’s
degree (MA and M.Div.)
through their unwavering
belief that what they are
doing for me will ripple in
the lives of the pastors that I
minister and will minister.
They are my inspiration as
well as the Filipino pastors
is the cause of my ministry.
It is just amazing that the
Brian Lavender, Don King, David Rose
and Darryn Michaels.
First Love International Minis-
tries sponsored a Marriage Enrich-
ment seminar for pastors
of White Fields and net-
works.
The Seminar was held at
Caliraya Recreation Center in Lumban,
Laguna. 30 couples gathered for a
three-day seminar. Dr. Tom and Linda
Clinton, Dr. Lareau and Evie Lindquist
Isha plays keyboard for the church.
This is besides being members of
other ministry groups in the church.
Joshua has played drums with the
school band.
Isha and Aletheia are both working
now since they have graduated from
College already.
Merisha will graduate from college this
school year while Joshua from Elemen-
tary. Elma has plans of pursuing a
doctorate degree once I am done with
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Lord gave me the blessing to
minister and complete the
courses at the same time by
providing classes that are
flexible.
Help from Iowa: George and
Dorothy Van Beek, Gene and
Dee Vandergiesen are very
faithful partners helping our
outreach in Cavite as well as
our training programs called
Christian Leadership Train-
ing Center (CLTC). Two
ongoing leadership classes
are on while two are on a
break.
Luke 16:12
I visit Iowa: March 14-16, 2009. Lord "And if you have not
willing!
been faithful in the use
of that which is
another's, who will give
you that which is your
were the speakers and facilitators for
that blessed time for couples in the
own?
ministry.
“This is such a blessing for us especially as we
went through the calamity the past month”
Pastor July and Nett David
“This is our first time that we have this kind of
ministry for couples like us. It is such a blessing”
Pastor Michael and Myreen Bausin
“This is God’s treat for us, thank you for your
very important ministry” Pastor Jojo and Cora
Parana
my program by March, next year.
What a joy to see all of them love the
Lord and grew up dreaming.
This inspires us to keep on and hope-
fully we will have more hands in our
family that will serve and be a blessing
to people now and the days to come.
What a way to thank God for
Christmas! Thank you and Merry
Christmas!