Birthday Party 2010

This is last Saturday's August 28, 2010) birthday party celebration of our friend and neighbor's son and our children's school mate, Dan Michael.

There were so much funs for the childrens participating the activities just prepared for them.

However, after the party, when we were already at home and ready to sleep, our eldest daughter had a stomach pain which we didn't know what's the real cause. The next day, she went to the toilet many times disposing very soft wastes.

Later, we had learnt from other parents that their children also had the same problem.

With this, I had reminded of the same concern for many children few months back when we had attended the same kind of party celebration held at the same fast food center, but in different location.

Parent Teacher Fellowship

These are just some of the pictures taken today, Friday, August 27, 2010 during the Parent Teacher Fellowship at the Bangkok Baptist Learning Center, BBLC here in Bangkok Thailand.

The occasion was a mixture of many related things: learning the reasons why it's great to have our children learn in this school where God is the center of their learning, remembering the great roles parents have for their children and the overviewing of the bright and Godly future of our children based on the real experiences of the same school in the Philippines using the same curriculum for 23 years already, seeing the many beautiful fruits of the school.

It was great also to have been reminded of the importance of the character of the children which the school is committed to working hard to achieve it, and of course, with the cooperation of the parents and the children.
The pricipal had mentioned about the importance of teaching the chilren not only how to make a living, but also to teach them how to live.

What a great and wonderful day for all of us!

Walking the Talk

The Holy Spirit is really moving and working with the Couples for Christ (CFC) community. It's manifested in the undying commitments of the many leaders of the community, like Kuya Jesus (Jess) Monreal and his wife, Ate Lolit who not only leading the Rangsit Church Sunday Mass activities and yearly Christian Life Program (CLP) activities, but also leading one of the CFC household groups where my beloved family is belonged.

In spite of being so busy of his job as Managing Director in one of the biggest Electronic Company here in Thailand, he still able to manage all this, which, for some people considered extra activities. For him, it's his humble way of saying thank you to the Lord for all His generosity and faithfulness to him and his family, and for all the blessings not only to him and to his family, but also to all the members of the CFC community, especially to his household members, especially my family, whom he would always patienly carry within his car like his own family, whenever we have a household prayer meetings in far away places after the Sunday Mass.

It is in this unordinary gestures that my life is being touched by the love of God.

It's not only him and his beloved wife, Ate Lolit that I have seen walking on the talk, but many of our other committed CFC leaders, like Kuya Vic and ate Emily, Brother Pats and his wife Sister Carla, Kuya Edgar and Ate Monyeen, Brother Sim and Sister Nenit, Brother Art and Sister Laarni, Bro Tony and Sister Emily, Brother Joy-Joy and Sister Emilyn, and Brother Jun-Jun who already returned to our Heavenly Father and Sister Ann, his wife who is now in Canada with their son, Kerby.

Some are doing it secretly and some are doing it widely open. However, it doesn't matter. What does matters is that, it's so wonderful and inspiring to have a kind of life living in a community confined in the same culture, which is centered on the love of God.

Feeding the Birds

It was a wondeful day for all of us spending time together feeding the birds at the Chatuchack Park one Saturday morning right after my weekly tennis at the same park. It's our first time enjoying this kind of family outing, bonding together while enjoying the feeding of the doves.

Our children loved this so much and kept on asking us when would we be doing it again. It had made them laughed a lot and amazed of how close they were with the birds. They could touch them and even fed them on their hands.

It was very nice watching them joyfully, and playfully feeding the birds like their own pets.

Our joy had also made a big difference to the other three young children ( 2 boys and one girl) selling those foods for the birds for we had bought a lot from them. So, they made a lot for money that day from us. It's one good way of sharing our blessings to them.

Big Sea Waves in My Dream

Last night (August 22, 2010) I had a dream of big sea waves coming toward our second old home at Langub, Asturias, Cebu in the Philippines and in this dream I had recalled that I had already dreamt of it before and even now I can agree with this previous dream that it had occurred to me once before.

In this new dream I was so worried of my loved ones slowly running with me to the high level ground for safety, but when we reached there, I was sadden to see that even the highest mountains ahead of us had already been reached by the other big waves coming from different origin, and water already pouring down from these highest mountains.

Then losing the hope of escaping, I gathered my loved ones, holding hands together and we had prayed. Then suddenly, I woke up.

Ayuthaya Province Household Meeting

Today's household meeting was really a great challenge to our household leader. Apart from the distance of the location of the venue, which is in Ayuthaya Province, about 30 to 45 minutes from the Rangsit Church, we had difficulty of accommodating more than 20 people including 6 childrens in just two cars after one of our brothers who has a car had cancelled his plan to come with us for a very valid reason of bringing their son to the hospital for medical check-up.

However, with God's grace, all of us were able to get in those two cars, and with God's mercy, everything was fine. We had funs eating our lunch together and then having our main agenda of having the household prayer meeting, praising and worshiping our Beloved God and then finally our sharing for some of our life's experiences.

When we had finished our activities, we had thanked Mr. Peter and his wife - the hosts for today's household meeting and then hurried back to our place and making a stop for a shot of the elephants as shown in the third picture.

Our Future Family Pianist

This is our eldest daughter whom I encouraged and reminded all the time to do her best in her piano lessons.

She is now studying the notes and already doing well for some basic children's songs. I always tell her that one day, our whole family will serve the Lord through music serving churches, to sing songs while she's playing the piano during the Sunday Mass, or any occasion for the Lord.

This is my dream for my whole family, and I believe God will grant this to us one day.

Now our children, by their heart and mind are preparing themselves for their individual musical instrument they want to play by that time the Lord granted our desire to serve Him.

Our second daughter wants to play the violin while the youngest wants to play the guitar.