Arise, My God My Healer!

Here we are ready to celebrate the name of God, "Jehovah Rapha" in our praise and worship. My God my Healer shall arise among us. Revive us in our spirit to trust Him more and more in time of weary.

"The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit." (Ps.34:18)

"Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." (Matt.5: 4)

"God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. " (Ps. 46:1).

Let us come for we shall be rejoicing in His Healing, glorifying Him in our midst.

Arise, Arise, Arise! Jehovah Rapha.

12 Baskets Ministry means;

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Our motto of 12 Baskets ministry...

Offer to God with a little thing that we have for He will multiply it.

Serve God with however we can even though it may be small.

Do more in things that we do when we serve God.

Field Trip for Compassion

A few of us made a trip to visit some of our members who were not feeling well. The purpose of this trip is to learn how we response compassionate way to the needs of other. We want to activate our sensitivity of mind toward others. So little things that we discover out of vast needs of people, will at lease stimulate our compassionate heart. Most of us feel closer to the families when we get closer to their struggles. We start to realize that we are so blessed and taking granted for a little thing that we have.

Our prayer after tonight is that Lord fill our heart with the compassion; fill our basket with compassion.

Compassion field trip

Here we are, the first month of the year doing the first basket ministry movement around the Oakland area. We are going for field trip this Saturday 3:00 PM to the neighbors, come and join us. We will be back by 6:00 PM for dinner and night of evaluation and action discussion time. It will be fun and touching moment for everyone who join us. Church van will be leaving at 3:15PM sharp. Don't be late....

First Basket is "Compassion"

This month, January is the month of “Compassion.” We have twelve baskets for twelve months in this year where we are focusing on “Twelve Baskets ministry.” We have launched the first basket called “Compassion” after the example of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 14:13-21. Jesus was moved with compassion for the multitudes. Actually at that moment when multitude followed Him, he was trying to separate Himself from everyone. The reason was that Jesus heard the news of John the Baptists who was killed in prison by be-heading which previous verses mentioned in context. Jesus was over warmed by the sad news and definitely He was sorrowful. Normally, no one can really have compassionate heart for anyone at this kind of circumstance that Jesus was in. Regardless of His situation, Jesus’ heart was full of compassion (Ps.145:8).

Compassion; I can understand this way;

• Giving extra favor for someone


• Doing more than necessary for someone


• Being in love with


• Understanding someone’s need more than self


• Standing together in single need
  
  So, let us practice our lesson from Jesus that we will show our compassion to others, especially this month. Let us do something extra for someone who would need your compassionate heart.

Twelve Baskets Ministry

We are marching into New Year 2008 with our ministry emphasis called "Twelve Baskets Ministry." It is about Matthew 14:13-21 where Jesus fed five thousand. When multitudes followed Jesus to hear His teachings disciples asked Jesus to send them away for evening dinner time. Amazingly what Jesus told the disciple was "You give them somethings to eat." (v.16) Here are the facts; disciples have no ability feed five thousand for they are fishermen. And Jesus is just a carpenter son and does not have enough money to feed five thousand. Above all no shop nor a cook to prepare for dinner, Bible mentions "This is a deserted place". (v.15) Then how Jesus would ask disciples to give them food. The fact is that Jesus wants disciples to do something with what they can in order to feed five thousand. The rest is His job (He is God). It means, go and find some food like "five loaves and two fishes." This is the first lesson we should learn from this text; serving God with what we have or can.

The second lesson is learned by asking this question, why Jesus make more than enough? The twelve baskets full of fragments remained. (v.20) When Jesus is able to perform miracle of feeding five thousand with a little dinner plate, then why can He do it with exact amount to feed them? Yes, He could, yet He made it more than enough. Definitely, people packed home with what they had for dinner. So we must do more when we serve others in God's ministry.

God is able; then we should offer our best which may be small, He can make it large. It is a miracle that's happen when someone does a little thing for God. Let's do more in this New Year as we serve Him. Remember, the "Twelve Baskets Ministry."