OUR LORD GOD IS AWESOME!
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Childrens Care Center (CCC)
This is the birthing of a new ministry from our Lord Jesus Christ.
Generous hearts have stepped forward to support this ministry. THANK YOU!
RRCP NEW MINISTRY
Month ago, as I sat on my office at first hour in the morning first day of the week, two parents came with tears in their eyes. They can hardly spoke because of the heaviness OF their heart for their two children were candidates for dropping because of their absences, tardiness and very low academic performance in the school. I have given my time to listen to their confession about their situation. The first parent is a widow and the one have many children that they cannot feed regularly and most of the time they ate one meal a day. After the conversation I scanned their records and to my surprise they were one among the severe malnourish children of our school. I can't hold my tears so I began to pray..."Lord Can I be your instrument to these hungry and least children so that they may know that you care for them? For what purpose that you put me in this office if I will don't mind them? In this campus they address me Pastor and yet I can't even touch their lives in a holistic way?... They need to see You through me because when I mention your name to them they cannot understand and feel your love!!
This prayer really broke my heart for God's kingdom are really for people like them. So my mind begun to visualized many things and for three sleepless night I was able to come-up with the ministry namely: "Children's Care Center"(CCC).
The Vision are the following:
VISION: Children's Care Center is intentionally committed to love and reach-out the least among the children in the community and cater their basic academic, health, moral and spiritual needs so that they will become physically, emotionally and spiritually strong and God-fearing individual and a productive citizen of the society ever ready to respond to the call of service for their community.
MISSION: Children Care Center will provide temporary shelter for the children to love and care by generating activities and resources that would cater their basic academic, health, moral and spiritual needs.
PURPOSE:
1. Improve academic performance of the least among the children in the elementary grade on the following areas: Reading comprehension skills in English to Mother Tongue, Reviving Elementary Mathematics focusing on its four fundamental operations, Health Education with elementary science integration, feeding program and values formation for moral recovery.
2. Reduced malnourished children by providing them nutritious meal during their sessions.
3. Be a help to the Department of Education in their programs leading to the reduction of the drop-out and failure rate and increase the participation rate of the school.
4. Becoming an arm of the government on moral recovery, value formation and Children's Protection Programs.
The sessions will be done every Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
MY THOUGHT IS THIS: "If the adults of our present generation will not respond to the call for transformation, then we will start with our children today so that together we can make a difference to the coming generation".
With the help of my beloved friend Pastor Steve, just this week many people from RRC-USA have responded to this program, THANK YOU LORD, WE REALLY SERVE AND AWESOME GOD. As we assessed, we are almost ready to start the program, please pray for us that before the start of September we can raise the exact amount to cover the finances for the entire program from September 2014 to March 2015.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THOSE WHO HAVE EXTENDED THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND THOSE WHO HAVE VOLUNTARILY TAKEN-PART FOR THE MATERIALIZATION OF THIS PROGRAM.
God's grace is so abundant. Amen, amen!!
Your partners in this ministry to Filipinos,
Pastors Steve Bragg
Questions On Our Philippians Missions
River Rock Church is a church planting organization based out of Antique, Philippines.
Our Philippines Missions are specifically focused on serving remote areas in the Philippines, planting churches and providing nutrition services to children in need.
Over the years, River Rock Church has done great work with our Philippines Missions, and we want to continue ministering with your help. Let me explain.
Since 2006, we have planted 35 churches in the remote isolated villages of the Philippines, bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to our neighbors in that part of the world. But in order to continue, our churches need financial support. Our Bible-believing, trained, ordained pastors earn $150 per month. They each typically pastor 2 or 3 congregations in remote villages, caring for many believers with limited resources. Your commitment to pay $150 per month will single-handedly support 1 pastor and his family.
In addition to pastoral care and support, River Rock Philippines Missions provides food to children who need it most. $50 per month supports a feeding program for a village and 50 to 100 malnourished children, so they can have the food they need to not only survive but thrive. Each summer, we have a VBS program that reaches 2,000 kids. A one-time gift of $1,500 underwrites the entire program, including food and materials. And because River Rock Church Philippines has no overhead at all, 100% of support goes directly to the Philippines to actual ministry work.
We would love to partner with you to ensure our pastors and their villages have the support they need with our Philippines Missions! When you visit our site, you’ll find our online giving portal where you can provide the resources we need to continue the good work with our Philippines Missions.
We aim to spread the Good News of Jesus and raise the nutrition level of kids in local villages in the Philippines through our Philippines Missions.
The goal of River Rock Church Philippines (RRCP) is "To plant New Testament churches in remote Barangays (neighborhoods) that have no other Christian churches that serve their communities." This is the RRCP mission statement.
In the Philippines most of the remote Barangays have no church to present the gospel, mature believers, and demonstrate the love of Jesus to the people. From time to time Philippines Missions have come to proclaim God's Word, but then leave. With God's blessing, we plan to be an unwavering church of faith in the remote communities.
We launch the church with a two day concert crusade. The concert crusade presents the gospel by song, drama skits and dance from the youth, and a clear presentation of the gospel with a call to repentance and salvation. We follow-up and start home Bible studies. Bible studies merge into a congregation. Once we have a congregation, we build a church building with a parsonage. A fulltime pastor lives among them. We have sponsors that support the pastor, so he is not a burden to the Barangay. The pastor continues to present the Gospel, and grow God's people to maturity. Christian maturity is "And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," (Luke 10:27). We teach the church to love their neighbors with acts of love not just words with our Philippines Missions.
Each Barangay church is a hub of outreach ministries to start house churches in the neighboring Barangays. The reputation of the Barangay church spreads to other Barangays that become churches. Join us and support our Philippines Missions today!
We are a nondenominational church. We have no denominational agenda of doctrine or organization. We only uphold Jesus, His Gospel of salvation, His Church. We prayerfully, establish His Church, in His name, for His Glory. RRCP believes that in the essentials of Christian faith, there is unity, and in the nonessential we have liberty. As best we can, we do not label or talk about the walls that divide God's Church. Most people in the remote Barangays are Catholic or denominational by tradition. Typically, there are no other churches where we go. In the remote Barangays, only once a year the Catholic Priest will visit for the Barangay festival. In the RRCP churches both Catholic and Christian worship together. We present Jesus Christ's Gospel clearly and only, without creating walls of division, and let the Holy Spirit do His work of redemption through a faithful demonstration and presentation of His Word. "I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth," (1 Corinthians 3:6).
Sharing the Good News
We hold Jesus and His Word only as the RRCP theology and philosophy. His Gospel engages people of all denominations to come and hear His redeeming message of salvation. Christ's Church is growing in the remote parts of the Philippines. In the last two years, we have grown twelve new churches, and we are fifteen now in total, thank you Lord! Please join us and support our Philippines Missions today!
Our Bible-believing, trained, ordained pastors earn $150 per month. They each typically pastor 2 or 3 congregations in remote villages. A commitment to pay $150 per month will single-handedly support one pastor and his family.
$50 per month supports a feeding program for a village for 50 to 100 malnourished children.
We have 2,000 kids in our summer VBS (vacation bible school). A one-time gift of $1,500 underwrites the entire program, including food and materials.
River Rock has no overhead at all. 100% of support goes directly to the Philippines to actual ministry work. Please support our Philippines Missions and Philippines Church Planting misson today!
You can support us online or by mail. Please follow this link for more information on supporting out Philippines Missions: https://www.river-rock-church.com/how-to-help.
We truly thank you for your support with our Philippines Missions!
Please feel free to contact us any time by phone at (360) 601-2339 or by email at steve.bragg123@gmail.com.
We plant new Christian churches in the remote Barangays where there is no other church that serve their communities. We look forward to hearing from you and fulfilling our Philippines Church Planting mission.