When I was asked to write my reflection about this year’s theme, Finding Hope In Christmas, I thought I might as well get to know this word “hope” in however it would want me to know it. I wanted to know when does one start to hope? How does one distinguish this from a wish […]
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#3 Christmas 2013: Revisiting and Recreating A Community of Hope
Redefining Hope It is but timely and appropriate that the Metropolitan Community Church in Quezon City (MCCQC) has chosen to reflect on hope as the central theme for this year’s Christmas season, at a time when so much destruction and tragedy—whether natural or man-made—has left our country in chaos and our countrymen in desperation. Indeed, […]
#2 Christmas 2013: A Different Kind of Hope
When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger – this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star […]
#1 Christmas 2013: A Journey of Seven Decembers
“You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I […]
First Woman & Lesbian Pastor of MCC in the Philippines
We officially welcome Pastor Kakay Pamaran as the new Interim Pastoral Leader of Mcc QuezonCity tomorrow, June 16 in a special ceremony. A little something about her: Pastor Kakay responded to the call of leadership while pursuing her Masters in Divinity at Union Theological Seminary. She will be the first woman and lesbian pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church […]