24 May 2009
Church members share Hope in Silang
Two days into the three-week health and spiritual expositions, May 24-June 13, hundreds of visitors and church members made the event a good start.
Balloons decorating cars, scooters and bicycles that paraded the streets of Silang town signaled the opening of the event that was designed to introduce the populace into various health topics and demonstrations and evangelism series that help people cope with crisis in today’s world. The activities of the day besides the caravan were distribution of invitations and literature.
Three Adventist churches pooled their members to participate in this big event as leaders from the regional headquarters led by Pastor Alberto Gulfan, Jr, president; and Pastor Abraham Carpena, health director, and the pastors in the Silang area, led out. They were assisted by the students from the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS) and several volunteers. These three churches were the Silang Adventist Church, Tubuan 1 Adventist Church and Biga Adventist church.
On time for the people to go out of their homes in the morning, the church members handed them information of the three-week health expo and evangelistic series.
At the opening night, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to start the health expo. Mrs Helen B Gulfan, SSD women ministries director led in this ceremony. She was assisted by Dr Liza Capopos, program head of the Provincial Health Office and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion of the Province of Cavite.
The first night’s presentations were the overview of the healthy lifestyle program given by Pastor Carpena and Facing Tomorrow Unafraid by Pastor Gulfan. The second night topics both on health and Bible inspiration messages were Choice: The Cradle of Your Destiny and World History in Advance
Health screening to determine blood sugar, cholesterol, and some other tests were scheduled on the third morning at the SSD headquarters.
Pastor Gerry D Karst, vice-president for the Seventh-day Adventist world church headquartered in Silver Springs, Maryland, will be the last two weeks’ presenter for the biblical messages. Later in the series, he will be joined by the Emmanuel Quartet from the United States. [RTDeles]
