Guest Preacher: Rev. Irma Mepico-Balaba of UCCP Pagbasa: Mga Taga-Galacia 3:28 Wala nang pagkakaiba ang Judio at ang Griego, ang alipin at ang malaya, ang lalaki at ang babae. Kayong lahat ay iisa na dahil sa inyong pakikipag-isa kay Cristo Jesus. […]
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Pastor Joseph Goes to USA for Leadership Training
2019 August 7: Pastor Joseph participates in the leadership program of Community Solutions in Washington D.C.. He is joined by Carl from Iloilo City and Sittie from Marawi city, together with 70+ other participants from around the world. Pastor Joseph’s focus is on LGBTQI+ youth and students under Women and Gender thematic. He will be […]
Participate in God’s Work of Justice
Reading: Luke 4:16-21 (NRSV) When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was […]
Statement on the Recent Discrimination of a Transwoman in a Shopping Mall in Quezon City
What Ms. Gretchen Diez experienced was one of many and daily forms of harassment and discrimination that many transgender persons experience in the Philippines. What transpired was one of the clearest and most evident expressions of discrimination and transphobia in our Philippine Society. LGBTQI+ persons, especially Transgender persons are on the receiving end not only […]
Deliver!
Reading: Matthew 16:21-28 (NRSV) From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, […]