Christmas Celebration

Butuan church had our Christmas celebration last Sunday, Dec 13. There were around 180 people; our Taligaman brethren joined us as well as the key leaders of our Bonbon outreach. Bonbon outreach will have their celebration this coming Sunday. Our new children ministry playground equipment was used for the first time. This equipment was on our prayer list and the Lord touched a dear family in Canada to answer this need! The kids (around 60 of them) were overwhelmed with joy when they arrived in church and saw this playground equipment.

We also had a Singaporean guest speaker who spoke to us about being salt and light in the community. This is a word that the Lord has laid in our hearts for several weeks now, something we will look at as a ministry for 2010.

We had Sunday service in the morning, lunch, then presentations, games and a Christmas shopping (our exchanging of gifts) in the afternoon. The celebration is a fitting event for what the Lord has achieved in our midst in the year 2009. He alone is to be praised.