It's Sunday!

Woke up at 9am and we'll be leaving at 10:30am to go to my former church, the Winnipeg Foursquare Gospel Church. I'm still maintaining the site for our former church @ bethelfoursquare.blogspot.ca until now. It has been two years since I met them. At first I thought that we'd make it at 10:30pm, but my ate C stepped out to help preparing food at tita B's house. She came past 10:30pm, and then we drove there. I felt really excited to see everyone again. When we parked our car, I wanted to go ahead and enter the church first, because I was super eager to meet my folks again, but I got super shy all of a sudden.

When I entered the church, one of my sisters of the Lord saw me and she smiled from ear-to-ear and hugged me. I hugged her back too. Then a few heads turned to our direction and I just waved them telling, "I'm back." I can see that they were pleasantly surprised and I walked up to them to hug them too. My ate A pulled my hand and said that she'll find me a seat. My little sister, ate C and her girl were the only people with me that morning and I told them to follow ate A. When I ate A asked if my mom and dad would come, I told them that they would follow after service at the Winnipeg Christian Family Ministry.

In fairness, the stage looks awesome. When I looked at their program, we already missed their first two itinerary. We were already at Praise and Worship, and I immediately glued my eyes on their drummer, my disciple. All I can say is this: at his pace, he'll become better than I am playing the drums. Also, I couldn't help notice but they also followed up How Great Thou Art after singing How Great is Our God. I did that during our first anniversary, though I'm not taking credit. I just remembered it immediately when they did.

They had played a video presentation about their journey how we started with a handful of families and conducted service in a big basement, and look at them now, they have their own church building after 4 years? It's a big church too. It has its own kitchen, Sunday school, a baby room, an office, and the whole place for worship. After that is the Sunday School children dance, and a dance for the tambourine dancers too. Then the Youth played a skit about the reality of being a Christian and the circumstances of Christians.

The message was brought to us by Rev. Steve Falkiner, the President of the Foursquare Gospel of Canada. He pointed reasons why he's passionate about sharing the gospel. I forgot his first point, but he points out that he's passionate because Hell is real, he wants to share the free gift of salvation, and that he's passionate because believes that time is short. I looked behind me and I saw my mom and dad already seated. What time did they come?

We took pictures after service, of course. Then we ate lunch there. Lots of food. There's always a lot of food here. I also sat with the youth, because I wanted to see how they were doing. They were doing real good, I can say. There's a lot of things that happened since we were gone. They've made big progress and I'm very happy. I've seen a lot of unfamiliar faces.

Since I'm a drummer here, I checked the drums out because I also sat there to play about 3 years ago. I can't say that I didn't miss sitting there. We jammed too. We stayed there until 2pm. They didn't want us to go yet, I can tell. My old pastor bid us goodbye and he urged us to come visit again anytime.

We were expected at my tita B's house at 3pm because of tito N's birthday. We already left full and now we're heading to another feast. See? Lots of food. Well, they did have my favourite sea food kare-kare so I still ate. Then I found myself napping in my cousin's room. Funny. They wanted to watch a movie tonight at 8pm, and I was feeling drowsy.

I woke up at 6pm, but they said that the movie plan was called off. Baby duty. We went home after trying to fix the laptop so that they can watch the finale of The Voice Philippines. They like'a Lyca. My relative lola was even gonna riot if she heard you say Darren actually won and that it was just a rumour Lyca won. We went home past 9:30pm, double filled. But of coures there's still padala.

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