River Rock Church Philippines

Year-End Report 2015

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Greetings to all who follow and support River Rock Church Philippines and our ministry to Filipinos.

Thank you so very much for your prayers and financial support this year. Our Lord has blessed our partnership for this mission and ministry to Filipinos.

We also pray you will consider supporting and continue to support us in 2016. Together with our Lord Jesus blessing, we will start many churches, multitudes will be saved, and families and lives will be restored and blessed, we pray.

This has been a productive year! Thank you, Lord!

• We now have a total of 24 RRCP churches. We are fourteen churches with church buildings and ten house churches. These churches have grown to a weekly combined attendance of 1,200 plus. Thank you, Lord!

• We built three new church buildings for River Rock Church Anin-y, Maranat Christian Center and Hill of Zion. The donors were Shepherds of the Savior, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH of PHOENIX FOUNDATION and donors from River Rock Church USA.

• Two more church buildings for Barangbang and Maryogon are fully funded waiting for the completion of land registration. The donors for these two churches are RRC donors and Shepherds for the Savior.

• RRCP Fourth Annual National Convention was a success. Pastor Tony Williamson was our guest speaker. Tony is loved by all!

• Thirteen weekly feeding programs for malnourished children.

• Our CCC (Children’s Care Center) to tutor and feed 68 elementary schoolchildren most in need is a success. These children are classified as “severely malnourished” who are behind in school. The elementary teachers have noted a remarked improvement in health, academics and behavior with the children.

• Our ten churches on the island of Palawan have become a region. Pastor Stephen Mahusay is promoted to manage the Palawan Churches.

• Our fourteen churches on the island Panay are also a region with Pastor Gaudencio Valdez Jr. (JoJo) managing.

• As I visit our churches, I’m hearing barangay captains claim the overall blessings have increased for their communities, sicknesses are less, crops are greater, families are healed, and our Lord Jesus is providing many miraculous physical healings. OUR LORD IS INDEED FAITHFUL!

• Fruit of our Labor in the Lord 70 baptisms.

Personal Note

Juliana, Steven and I are well. We are happy and blessed. I gained too much weight while in the USA. I’m dieting now with some success. We hosted Pastor Tony Williams during our Fourth Annual Convention the first two weeks of November. Also the Hounshell family visited us the first two weeks of December. We were all blessings to each other!

We are hoping more people will visit and see what our Lord is doing here in 2016.

Thank You to Our Sponsors and Donors

• River Rock Church – Camas, WA.
• Individual donors from River Rock Church
• Grace Chapel - RRCP Partners
• Imbler Christian Church - Imbler, OR.
• Christ Church of the Valley - Phoenix, AZ.
• Filipino-American Faith Baptist Church – Houston, TX.
• FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH of PHOENIX FOUNDATION
• Shepherds for the Savior
• Nancy Elizabeth Landahl Memorial Fund
• International Disaster Emergency Service, Inc. I.D.E.S.
• Ted-Dee Bear Septic

This ministry is a partnership of you all who support us with prayers and donations and those of us here who are the hands and feet of your blessings. Thank you, Lord, we know that those who give and those who work can do nothing without the blessing from You Lord to all of us to make it all possible. Amen!

How to Support RRCP

ONLINE DONATIONS: http://www.river-rock.org/giving.html 
Create an account if you have not already.
Use the Operation Philippines drop down and proceed.

BY MAIL:
River Rock Church 3520 NE 3rd Ave, Camas, WA 98607.
Make the check to River Rock Church Philippines.

“The King will answer and say to them,
‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’

(Matthew 25:45)

July 2015 Blessings Report

My Dear RRCP Partners,

We have received a tremendous blessing from River Rock Church America. They are now financially supporting the ministry here. Always many RRC individuals have supported us and still do - thank you all! This new support from RRC itself is specifically to help with pastor allowances and hire new pastors. It is also for new church buildings. What a great blessing!

In praise of our pastors, they work hard with very little pay. Each pastor’s family understands the sacrifice and cost. If they can feed and clothe their children and send them to school they are quite happy. Often times, regular fasting is a way of life. Most of our pastors, when available, work other jobs, plant gardens and raise chickens or pigs to support their families. Work is not easy to find here. Four walls made of bamboo and no leaks in the roof is another blessings. They truly understand the need to save their people through the spreading of the Gospel. They are willing to pay the price and their families are willing also. They work tirelessly with no complaint and only continuous praise to our Lord. They are excited and eager to serve the Lord. The new Incentive Pay Program provided by RRC will help them support their families and stabilized them for the future of RRCP.

More Blessings

• We just completed the construction of church and parsonage in Barangay Anini-y. The church started as a house church one year ago. Already their youth meetings are 18-20 students. The average Sunday worship is about 50 including all ages. This church is busy starting two more house churches. Pastor Lachica lets no grass grow under his feet. Three of our 24 churches are fruits of his and wife Teodora’s labor. The money for the Anini-y church is from Shepherds of the Savior Foundation.

• We finished the construction of the Buenavista Tribal Church on the island of Palawan. This church building was funded by First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation.

• We are nearly complete with construction the Hill of Zion church. They recently started a new house church in Salaguiwan. The Hill of Zion church building is the result of the RRC donations.
• When Hill of Zion is complete we start the construction of Barangbang. We are completing the land donation papers now. They currently worship in a bamboo church that is no longer adequate. This is also from the RRC donations.
• This last week we started the construction of the Maranat church building. This one was also a house church for one year that has grown to a large congregation. The land was donated by the host family of the house church. It’s placed along a beautiful river where we recently baptized 7 from this congregation. We also baptized 12 here last year. We are considering to call it the Riverside Church RRCP. This church is the result of a donation from the First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation.
• We just started two more house churches here near Grace Chapel. Both have had three meetings. They are Minoro and Padang. Padang is held in a rented venue twice a month at Villa Alma. There were 68 in attendance for Padang this last service! We are not ready to add them to the count of RRCP, but they are very promising.
• There have been four deaths in the past month of people outside the church. We held services for each and the Lord is blessings our efforts to proclaim His Gospel.
• We have a new experienced pastor being mentored by pastors Lachica and JoJo. We certainly have room for him and more like him.
• As a result of RRC new donations, we just promoted Pastor JoJo to Regional Pastor with oversight of the island of Panay. We are 14 churches here and growing. One of his responsibilities is the oversight of new church construction on Panay. Because of Pastor JoJo’s oversight, the Hill of Zion church is coming in under budget.
• Pastor Stephen is the new Regional Pastor of the island of Palawan which is currently 10 churches. Already the construction of the Maranat church is ahead of schedule. Praise God and thank you RR.
• Our application is submitted at Shepherds for the Savior to construct a church in the tribal community of Maryogon. There is land available, at an extremely discounted price, if we are approved. We are praying for an approval this month.

Just finished RRCP Anini-y – ready for our logo

            

Buenavista Tribal Church on the island of Palawan.

     

Construction of our Hill of Zion Church in Maracrina, Patnongon Antique

                       

Breaking Ground to Construct our new RRCP in Maranat, Palawan

                

Our First Worship Service for Padang, Patnogon Antique

                

New Children's Feeding Program for Minoro, Apgahan, Patnongon Antique

                  

Thank you Lord!

Thank you everyone and blessings!

Your partner in ministry,

Pastor Steve Bragg

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

It is New Year’s Eve already in the Philippines. The good food is ready and waiting for the guest.

In my heart, I’m hoping for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ this year. I’m ready and watching!

In my prayers, I’m hoping that we will plant many more churches – that many will be saved – many lives and families will be healed – many malnourished will be fed. Amen!

I pray for God’s best in each of your lives! I will take time to left each of you in prayer over the next few days!

Because He lives!

Steve Bragg