December 1, 2011
Share your inspirational story
A member emailed me and requesting to have a post for member's inspirational stories. Well, its a nice idea. Ill just give the format for a Convert Story, and for an Inspirational Story. (please follow the format^^)
Let's do it!^^
Sharing your convert story,
1. Name, age and/or location.
2. How do you know about the church?
3. What is your impression to the INC before knowing more about the church?
4. What are your great sacrifices just to be a member of the INC? (do you chose to attend worship services/bible studies than to your job? did your parents rejected you as their child because you wanted to become an INC? are you being hated by your friends/loved ones on joining the INC? and etc.) (optional)
5. Experiences after getting your baptism (ex. are you persecuted? or do your life becomes better?)
6. What thing convinced you to really believe this is the true one?
7. Related experiences you want to share. (optional)
Sharing your inspirational story,
1. Name, age and/or location.
2. Story you want to share. (problems, miracles happened to your life, good things happened to your life, persecution experience on being a member and etc.)
3. (If it is a problem) How did you overcome those?
4. Related experiences you want to share. (optional)
It is best if you can write these in ENGLISH, but its okay if it is in FILIPINO.
How to share your story?
Just comment under this.
Be an inspiration to others.
Thank you!
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I admire your assiduousness in posting the fundamental beliefs of the true Church of Christ in these last days for the welfare of the souls of our fellowmen who are seeking for the truth.
ReplyDeleteI felt your sincerity, your patience and your carefulness in attending those who have queries and replying those who are trying to malign and dispute the stand of the Church.
I hope this site may use by the Father to reach my love ones, relatives, co-workers, former schoolmates,friends and acquaintances who are using the internet to know and fully understand the master plan of salvation in the Christian Era and hopefully be brought in the true Church.
May our beloved Father and Maker bless you always and continue to supply the knowledge you are needed to fulfill this task.
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Hi my name is Bro. Walden D. Corpuz. I am a INC member in the locale of Kent, Wa. I was baptized on March 31, 2013. I converted from Catholic.
DeleteTHE TEXT MSG THAT CHANGED MY LIFE...........
It all started last year June 2012 when I got officially divorced. I literally lost EVERYTHING including my marriage. I hit ROCK BOTTOM! I had no where to stay. So I went to the Kent chapel and talked to the resident minister. Keep in mind this was probably the 3rd time meeting this minister. I was a complete stranger to him. After talking to him we figured out a place for me to stay but it was only temporary. On the second day I received a text msg from my cousin (who is also a member) in which he was asking me an unrelated question and I told him my situation. He had no idea what I was going through. The first thing he said was "do you need a place to stay?" Ever since that day my life changed forever.
While staying with my cousin, I began to attend bible studies and worship services on a regular basis. By going to church it allowed me to understand what was going on in my life and realize that this was a test sent from God. I also realized that in order for my life to get better I had to surrender my life to Him. I had to stop being selfish trying to live my life for myself and start living my life to serving God. So I prayed every single day for my life to get better. The Brethren at the Kent, Wa chapel has been, up to now, so supportive and inspirational to me. Not once were they negative about anything. It was all positive support. They kept telling me to keep coming to church and keep being active. With the power of prayer and the strongest belief in the faith my life began to change.
So in October 2012 I finally moved out of my cousin's house and got a place of my own. My faith in God just got stronger and stronger every day. I prayed constantly for God just to give me the basic necessities in life to survive. I began to slowly receive those blessings. From the time I moved out of my cousin's house up until I got baptized I had many trials and tests. I was told by a fellow Brethren that before a significant blessing there will be many trials and tests that I will have to overcome before I receive that blessing. I went through a lot of hardships and struggles and one of the greatest blessing I received was by Baptism on March 31, 2013 in Seattle, Wa. I will never forget all the Kent Brethren that came to my baptism to support me. I was like "you all came here just for me." I even had a old elementary school friend come down with her kids last minute. I was the only one from the locale that was getting baptized. I could not believe all the support I got. It was overwhelming. It was great! I will never ever forget that day!
My life now is filled with happiness and joy. I still have difficulties but now I have God and the Iglesia Ni Cristo church behind me. Right now I am in the process of buying a house and just got officially hired with a great company. To all my fellow Brethren, especially at the Kent chapel, I am forever grateful to for all the support in guiding me to baptism. I feel that you are ALL my family! I much love for God, Jesus Christ, Iglesia Ni Cristo Church, Family, and Brethren! Thank you so much for everything! I love you all!
You encountered a lot of trials before your baptism, just like what I am going through right now. It's peculiar because it is because a fellow brethren is my biggest problem. Reading this made me say "This is what I needed now and God made me read this." Praise be unto the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
DeleteI have so many...let me share at least one this time.
ReplyDeleteIt was in the year 2005 that I decided to come back here in Middle East to work. Prior to my official medical examination, I took a pre-medical examination just to ensure that nothing was wrong with my health. Unfortunately, it was found out that I had a button-sized spot on my left (if I remember it correctly) lung. At first, I tried to convince myself that there was only some sort of mistake in my x-ray result but all my denials were all gone upon hearing the same on second opinion.
I could not forget that scene when tears just fell naturally. I was crying silently yet so hard in front of Lung Center. Then suddenly, as if I heard myself asking me, "Why are you crying brother? Don't you have God?". So I wiped my tears and got up with full hope in my heart once again.
So while I was waiting for my visa to arrive, I decided to come back home in our province. I took advantage of that short vacation to ask one of our deacons to conduct a "pagpapahid ng langis" on me. It was quite emotional. I poured my whole heart out to our Lord Jesus Christ begging for His kindness to cure me.
Finally, my visa arrived after two weeks. So, I went back to Manila for my medical examination. I already told my agency regarding my situation and they already prepared my waiver for my employer to sign, yet not sure if it will work just in case considering how strict KSA is when it comes to lung problems.
Three days after my medical examination, the agency declared that my lungs are clear. HEALTHY, hence, FIT TO WORK.
When I shared this story with our KL President, his thought was more inspiring.
"God destined you to have a job here in Middle East.....not really for the work you needed as you thought...BUT BECAUSE THE CHURCH NEEDS YOU HERE."
Who am I in the sight of the Lord? He is GREAT while I am NOTHING. Nevertheless, He has chosen me to serve Him in the midst of multitude. So, with all my strength & might, come what may, I will serve the Lord throughout the days of my life.
I was about to go to our worship service as a choir member. It was about 6:00 in the evening when me and my sister went to do our church duty, when suddenly two men driving a motorcycle blocked my way and asking for money. It was then that I realized what was happening, I was being robbed by the two man one of them was pointing a gun at me. I was so terrified and all I can think of is i want to perform my church duty. They grabbed my bag with my choir uniform in it. At the back of my mind "I was saying NO!" I begged them to return my bag because all I can think of was performing my duty. For me it is something worth pleading for and to my surprise they did and left me unhurt..and for that I praise GOD for my safety. Another thing is I have an exam that will determine if I am going to graduate as a nursing student. My Exam was exactly the same time with my choir duty. I was determined to put my faith first and attended my choir duties. for me I am still a winner even if I graduated or not. while I was in worship service I prayed hard to make me strong no matter what happens. I left my test and put my TRUST TO GOD..AND AGAIN TO MY SURPRISE..I AM NOW A REGISTERED NURSE.
ReplyDeletecongrats my sister for being a registered nurse, like you I am also a choir member in our locale in Cotabato Southeast. . the truth is I just finished doing my duty awhile ago. . .we have church services here on saturdays at 6pm. . .we must do our duty to Him first. .
Deletenice to know that you are happy now. . .my best regards. . .
ReplyDeleteKapatid tama ka nicaea kaya. Marami nalito saatin totoo tlaga any iglesia ni kristo
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to meet you kapatid. I'm a blogger too ( http://angiegaliza.blogspot.com/), I have here a POST about our "faith" on introducing the TRUE NATURE of Lord Jesus Christ and and on how he can be our savior as well as the pertinent links on this topic from our official INCmedia website...your readers may want to see..
ReplyDeleteHere are the posts links http://angiegaliza.blogspot.com/2015/01/here-is-how-can-christ-be-your-true.html and http://angiegaliza.blogspot.com/2015/01/is-savior-jesus-christ-our-god-fact-or.html
Here's my convert story http://rianaysobel84.xomba.com/invalid-devotion-convert-story and my article about the Phiippine Arena with links on National Geographic Channel about it http://rianaysobel84.xomba.com/man-made-marvel-philippine-arena-planets-largest-indoor-arena
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