When I entered campus ministry, all I knew was I need to obey God. I never really knew what exactly their expectation was from me. Yes, making disciples, yes, creatives, but honestly I never thought we will grow this big.  Everyday becomes a a miracle encounter.

I’ve seen the rapid growth we’re experiencing. I really admire the leadership of our youth pastor and the impartation of each of our team. I’m really looking forward each staff meeting and prayer meeting we have each week. I never thought that in each meeting, I can actually see and meet God.  

  Again, it is not normal to have an average of three thousand students attending every week! We are increasing and increasing every month.  We are called to reach the multitudes upon multitudes. But we pray that each student, leader and volunteer will see God in their own personal lives, that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

We believe as we continue to build God’s name, we will not just impact this nation but the world. Missionaries from around the world, would want to be part of what God is doing in our midst.  Each ministry will be an testimony of God’s grace. Music Team will create and produce their own songs.  Creative Team will be an inspiration to all.  Technical and Ushering will be a testimony of excellence and even handle thousands of volunteers. More than that, we long to see a youth service where we can see God’s glory and where everyone will just bow down to His presence every single week.

  With the fast-paced growth, this is not impossible. It may happen for the next 5 or 10 years. Maybe it will happen during our time or the time of the next generation team. As we continue to obey God and send people to different parts of the world, it will always be a privilege for us to be part of this unique season. We will all remain very glad that we became part of God’s plan for the young people in the University belt. 

We live in a culture that covers up everything we think is not good. From the simplest and natural things like pimples, dark  or dry skin, to the deeper wrongs we encounter such as  divorce, sin, or pride. 

  We always think we need to be good, but in our nature, it is nearly impossible for us to forces ourselves to be good. Our minds can’t fully comprehend this fact, which is the reason why when someone stands out to be right, we become the villain who would to convince them to stay on our side.

  Growing up a Christian, I have been battling with my innate nature for a long time. I wanted to be good person.  However, along the way, we realize we can be a good person with out pleasing God. He revealed to me the true condition of my heart despite of my act of kindness. Still, God secures us with His unfailing love despite our fault and limitations. I began to discover how similar my heart is to the rest of this world.  I knew then, that it is not me who is worth standing in front of peoples. It is only through God’s protection that I have been set apart for this mission.

Personally, if not because of God, I would have been living like a single mom, desperately seeking for love of others. Ironically, He even calls us to minister to others, only to find out that each people is as clueless as everyone else, broken, naive, self- destructive, empty and lost. Ministering gives a sense of RESPONSIBILITY TO OBEY deliberately for the sake of the people who are looking up to you as an example: that in God, CHANGE CAN HAPPEN, it is possible!

  It gives us hope that we don’t need to prove anything. The point of our weakness is the opportunity to live like Christ! We are called to change, we are called in perfection and to holiness. We may be wicked in nature, but with God’s GRACE, we will be able to do things.  

John 15:5
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

They say it only takes 10 people who loves God to change the world. I’m thinking,  there are more people who are claiming that they love God, why is it the world is still the same? I’m not really the type of person who has dream of changing the world. Well, there was an instance where I was so frustrated with every people in the society that I wanted to blow up the whole Philippines and start a new one! I really can’t blame Hitler for his intentions because I myself felt the need of change. 

  If you don’t really know me, first look  and you will think that I’m a very kind, fun - loving person. But not really! I’m conceited in nature, ask my best friends! I can only love a few people, on the top of that. I find loving very tiring and dragging. So, I’ll just get what I want from them and I get the same relationship. 

But as I walked with God, my heart started to see things differently. I realized that God loves me, being the selfish person that I am- It breaks me.  My heart grows and it gets bigger every time I’ll meet God.  Then I realized,  if I love a person with all I am, it will drain and stress me until I am left with nothing.  But if I learn to love under God’s grace, it’s unlimited. It feels like I can love everyone! Loving becomes joy that I can always trust without fail, i hope so. Now, selfishness is a choice, but I’m is really amazing what God’s grace can do. It frees you from own nature and changes you in the process.   

I begin to feel the heart of God for others. The desire to let this love known to everyone becomes a personal goal. Nothing is impossible if you are bearing God’s love. You can do anything as long God is with you! Now, It is my prayer that God will teach me to love more so that I can change the world. It is my faith, that as God gives me the ability to love individuals, they will all meet God. The moment their lives start turning around, we start changing the world one person at a time. 

I always wanted to be a worship leader. 

When I realize we created to worship God, I decided to make it a practice to worship God by offering whatever I’m doing for him.  To my daily chores to doing my craft.  

I become desperate in knowing the emotion of worship. Because whenever I tried rendering a song I get bored and later on fall asleep. I won’t last 5mins singing songs.

Then I figure its not  its not about the song but about the heart. I perceived worship as the only thing I can do right in my whole lifetime. I said to myself “I may fail again and again but my act of worship will be the only thing that will count to God.” I always imagine myself kneeling down in the edge of a  cliff with my heart bowing down as I give praise to Him. 

I’ll exchanged all the comforts of life as a form of worship to God. I offered every right and every wrong thing I do as a worship to him. I stripped off my very self just to give worship to my God. Then Its true I can spend a day in God’s presence.  

After a while, this verse in Isaiah 6,  “holy holy holy, is the Lord God almighty” it says that angel are singing it everyday for eternity. I know I read it maybe a couple of times but this time it get me thinking, eternity? I really can’t grasp I’ll be singing for eternity.  Yes I know worship, yes I can stand maybe 2 to 3 days in worship, but for eternity?  

Then God made me understand how good He is in my life. I saw myself bare, exposed with my own sin then God clothed me with His grace. He keeps changing me and even entrusting me with his people. There is so much joy in my heart that I am thankful forever in His goodness.  My mouth overflows with worship and I now imagine myself singing with the angels singing the same thing in eternally. Then its real, to live is for Christ to die is gain because i can’t wait for the day that i will just sing for my God.  

Now, I just don’t sing but I worship in very lyrics with glad and sincere heart.  My fear is to be clanging cymbals before God, so I really deliberately OBEY God so that every time I’ll come to his presence he will enjoy my offerings. Then, obedience becomes a form of worship. 

Psalm 84:10
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere

Behind every great youth services are…

King of Lights, UST student Kevin Lao

Princes of Stage design, Ac Manahan

Friendly Ushers lead by Cy Maano

and Queen of Technicals  Geleen Pascua

With Passionate Music Team and Coy Nasario

plus, professional musicians, Sam Alas As

and soon to be full time drummer, Jalil Syed

Imported singer, Roland Viscara

and with soon to be married Musical Director, Julius Rola

to the beautiful Worship Coordinator, Krisna Pusta

 How can we forget the other pretty worship Coordinator, Dindi Familara

Lets all Shout with Toti Abaya and Francis Dumlao

Follow the lead of the game master OJ Mendoza

Dance with Keith Icaro

Watched the Innovative Videos of Communications, Timothy Paul

and Listen to the Handsome preachers and meet God. 

Behind every service is a committed team serving with passion to Honor God. Together with the volunteers and leaders, we will continue to change the world.  

Be ready to EXPERIENCE God every service! 

It all started in an adventure trip to Sierra Madre.

We build our friendship over dinners.

The fun of overnights!

We always look forward each week services.

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and monthly VIP meetings.  

We celebrate all occasions together..

Christmas…

 and Birthdays!

We even enjoyed to running in the fields.

We face storms together twice! 

But in the end w’ll choose to stand in faith.

Some will be missed…

Some decided to stay.

and some will always come back..

or Visit from time to time..

But it will not stop us to make God known in every generation.

As One Campus

One Team

One Family

We will serve the Lord! 

I so Love this team!  

When we enter into a room, we will surely stand out. 

Maybe its the new weird hair, unique outfit, nothing but the ordinary.  

There is just something in our character that will always make us different from the rest.

These intelligent beings understands who they are and their craft. We are not easily persuaded, we always think and reason out until every theory is logical in our mind. But really, we are just being HONEST to ourselves. We  value reality as source of inspirations.  That’s why if we found it we will fight and die for it. We will not stop until the truth is revealed or we have expressed ourselves and our perspectives.

We are very attached to ourselves and what we believe in to the very core. Our emotions is our tool in every work of art. We know extreme depression, sadness, hurt love and joy.  That very sentiments puts a soul to our work.  I will always be amazed how a song writer describe each emotions of a lyrics.

However, the more we dig in to our hearts, the more we find out its emptiness. No matter how we crave life, the reality of the world consumes us. Reasons why some of us, cut ourselves, or even suicidal for that matter. So we look for alternative happiness and satisfaction like drugs, hobbies that gives pleasures, sex or even love.  

I think everyone in the world is like this, the reason we can relate to every movie and songs. Some are just denying the world’s reality because it reminds them of the truth they are running away from. While some embraced the artist and make it as an excuse for their own actions. 

Artists are called to let God be known to the world. We shared the character of God in creating things. We have the gift of getting people’s attention. But somehow, we distort our purpose by using our creations for our own glory, to be praised or maybe, for a simple reason that our works secure us that we make something of ourselves.  

Nevertheless, we are created in his image and likeness and that’s why like God, we have the ability to see things in different perspectives. But we can never ignore the fact that if we continue to seek our selves we will just go in circles of sadness to temporary happiness. Though we give a little light to the world because of the way we think, soon the light will fade. Lost person can’t lead another lost person. No one can, only Jesus is the way the truth and the light. We might as well give up and just seek God to every question we have in our hearts  and be ARTIST for God. 

I was about 9 years old, when I asked my Dad if there was a job where in I can seek God. He suggested I should be a nun! The idea was OK, then, I started asking myself how it would be possible if I did not even believe in praying the rosary. I thought I could not fit the profile.

High school came, I was too desperate to explore my faith. I began sharing what I knew to the college students who were renting a room in our house. Then it dawned on me, the idea that I need a church. During that time, I was already conditioning my mind to go to the local Catholic Church. I was telling myself maybe I could fake praying the novena. I was convinced that my idea was a good one, after all, Martin Luther found his faith in a convent. As the saying goes, a pair of pink shoes could fix the uniform. I just needed a church! Any church!

Right before I made that step, my father’s friend invited our entire family to a local Victory church in 2003.  After a number of months of serving, through God’s grace, I managed to have my own Victory group. That very moment I knew that this is what I want to until Jesus’ return!  

It never crossed my mind that I would be a Campus Minister myself.  I was oblivious of God’s wonderful plan, that each day of my life that I spent for Him was a step, a way for Him, to make me who I am today. I can now see God’s grace and protection over my life. With everything He has done, I am glad to say I still can’t fully grasp the dream of God for my life- I just know it is more than this!  I’m standing in awe and I’m eternally grateful for how He is changing me and using me. I can feel God’s hand sewing every situation of my life and it is only now that I realize that it was what God has been doing to me since the beginning!

Today, it is part of my job to let everyone know how good GOD is! how cool is that!