you made us your own

In 2009, family of five* needed PhP 4,869 monthly

income to meet food needs and PhP 7,017 to stay out

of poverty!

In 2009, family of five needed PhP 4,869 monthly income to meet food needs and PhP 7,017 to stay out of poverty!

20% of children between the ages of 5 and 16 don’t go to school

4 Filipino children under the age of 5 die every 30 minutes due to poverty.

Instead, they work every day to put food on the table.

And if they are too young to work, they beg.

There was an increase of about 185,000 families from 3.67 million in 2006 to 3.86 million in 2009!

NATIONAL:In terms of poverty incidence among families, there was

only a slight reduction during the three-year period – from 21.1%

in 2006 to 20.9% in 2009.

NATIONAL:In 2009, a family of five needed PhP 231 daily income to stay out of poverty!

REGIONAL: Regions VII, V, and VI continue to have the biggest share in the

total number poor families! Cebu is in Region VII.

PROVINCIAL: Cebu and Negros Occidental continue to have the biggest share in the total number of poor families!

I’ve been taught that God is an unapproachable God. Angry and full of wrath. My only hope is that my good deeds will outweigh the bad.

► We bow before the Santo Nino and give this infant King praise.

► We are taught to trust in tradition, our priests and our own good deeds. Faith is not enough.

When I die, I have no assurance that I will go to heaven nor any idea that I should ever merit entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Is there no hope of a new tomorrow?

►Satan, the world and the flesh are continually bent upon falsifying the word of God or the pure doctrine, and never before has such perversion been carried on so variously and extensively as at the present time, so that in our day millions are being carried off in to eternal death by the poison of false doctrine.

►- A. Graebner, Theological Quarterly, 1898

Did God really create us to be so …

We are desperate and destitute. But by the grace of God, ...

… some Christians began feeding us nutritious meals and sharing the Gospel with us.

►… … the fatherless, and the widow, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that in all the work of your hands that you doyou do. . Deut. 14:29Deut. 14:29

So that he caused the cry of the poor to So that he caused the cry of the poor to come to him; and he heard the cry of the come to him; and he heard the cry of the

afflicted…. Job 34:28afflicted…. Job 34:28

And just like seasons change

… Winter into Spring.

Chains are broken and love pierces the darkness …

Lives are changing for good

We are taught to trust in God alone and that it is by faith alone in Jesus that we are saved.

We desire to live our lives guided by the Word of God.

God knows the number of hairs on my head.

Oh that our names might be written on the palm of His hands.

He has a plan for me …

For good and not evil.

He never leaves us or forsakes us.

And I am learning to trust Him in all things …

… that God is sovereign and just, holy and good all the time.

We serve a mighty God who loves to give good gifts to His children.

• We are the teachers, preachers, evangelists and doctors of tomorrow.

• Because of faithful people like you, -- because you have invested in our tomorrow, we are becoming the next generation of fishermen.

And now when we pray, we thank God He gave us Daddy Matthew, Mommy Lisay and faithful people like you.

And now when we pray, we thank God He gave us Daddy Matthew, Mommy Lisay and faithful people like you.

Thank you and God bless you everyone!

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