The long-awaited Touch of Hope Dream Center will soon rise in a 5,130 sq mtr. property of Touch of Hope Foundation, Inc. in Cabaluna St., Brgy New Visayas, Panabo City. The center will house the multi-purpose gym, main theater, swimming pool and clubhouse, and offices. TOHFI Board, barangay offi- cials, and ROL members were present during the groundbreak- ing ceremony. “I am glad that the dream center of Touch of Hope Founda- tion, Inc. will be built here in Cabaluna which is part of Barangay New Visayas under my jurisdiction”, these were the words of Hon. Dizon P. Namuag, the Barangay Captain of New Visayas, Panabo City in his short speech during the blessing of the property and the ground breaking ceremony of the Dream Center of TOHFI, January 25, 2015 . He added, “as the father of the barangay, it is my joy and honor in receiving big projects and establishments as part of the progress and development of the barangay.” The ground breaking was spearheaded by Rev. Brendo S. Medina, the Host Pastor of River of Life Family Worship Center located at 3 rd Floor Northlink Technological College, New Pandan, Panabo City. As gratitude to God for the given property, a blessing and ground breaking ceremony was purposely done to give honor to God for all the things He has made and to prepare the land for future construction of the pro- posed buildings. A short program was made, singing of praises and worship to God, unveiling of the perspective plan and the releasing of bal- loons as a sign of confirmation of God’s blessings. Fellowship snacks was served also. Prior to the blessing of the property and the ground breaking, two Saturdays of January were spent for “OPLAN BAYANI- HAN” in preparation for the said event. Members of Hang Out Center Plus, a student center of the foundation, members of ROL and some other stakeholders of the city joined the cleaning and clearing of the site . Tohfi dream center soon to rise By: Imelda Yamit What’s inside? COME TO THE RIVER... COME TO THE RIVER... p6 p6 ‘Mission is possible’ in ‘Mission is possible’ in 2015! 2015! p3 p3 Know ROL’s 3 original song Know ROL’s 3 original song compositions compositions p4 p4 Passion... Passion... p7 p7 #Status: Single but happy… #Status: Single but happy… p9 p9 “Wings” spread in tune of “Wings” spread in tune of Musayaw Para sa Ginoo Musayaw Para sa Ginoo p10 p10
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The long-awaited Touch of
Hope Dream Center will soon
rise in a 5,130 sq mtr. property of
Touch of Hope Foundation, Inc.
in Cabaluna St., Brgy New
Visayas, Panabo City.
The center will house the
multi-purpose gym, main theater,
swimming pool and clubhouse,
and offices.
TOHFI Board, barangay offi-
cials, and ROL members were
present during the groundbreak-
ing ceremony.
“I am glad that the dream
center of Touch of Hope Founda-
tion, Inc. will be built here in
Cabaluna which is part of
Barangay New Visayas under
my jurisdiction”, these were the
words of Hon. Dizon P. Namuag,
the Barangay Captain of New
Visayas, Panabo City in his short
speech during the blessing of the
property and the ground breaking
ceremony of the Dream Center of
TOHFI, January 25, 2015 .
He added, “as the father of
the barangay, it is my joy and
honor in receiving big projects
and establishments as part of the
progress and development of the
barangay.”
The ground breaking was
spearheaded by Rev. Brendo S.
Medina, the Host Pastor of River
of Life Family Worship Center
located at 3rd Floor Northlink
Technological College, New
Pandan, Panabo City.
As gratitude to God for the
given property, a blessing and
ground breaking ceremony was
purposely done to give honor to
God for all the things He has
made and to prepare the land for
future construction of the pro-
posed buildings.
A short program was made,
singing of praises and worship to
God, unveiling of the perspective
plan and the releasing of bal-
loons as a sign of confirmation of
God’s blessings.
Fellowship snacks was
served also.
Prior to the blessing of the
property and the ground breaking,
two Saturdays of January were
spent for “OPLAN BAYANI-
HAN” in preparation for the said
event.
Members of Hang Out
Center Plus, a student center of
the foundation, members of ROL
and some other stakeholders of
the city joined the cleaning and
clearing of the site .
Tohfi dream center soon to rise By: Imelda Yamit
What’s inside?
COME TO THE RIVER... COME TO THE RIVER... p6p6
‘Mission is possible’ in‘Mission is possible’ in
2015!2015! p3p3
Know ROL’s 3 original song Know ROL’s 3 original song compositionscompositions p4p4
Passion...Passion... p7p7
#Status: Single but happy…#Status: Single but happy… p9p9
“Wings” spread in tune of “Wings” spread in tune of Musayaw Para sa GinooMusayaw Para sa Ginoo p10p10
PASTOR’S NOTE
By: Rev. Brendo S. Medina
A dream come true!
For almost two decades
now, finally, our church of River
of Life can now spread its wings
to provide essential information
to our members here and abroad
on what is going on inside the
ROL family. My warmest con-
gratulations to the ROL Multi-
media Team for making this
dream come true.
We started the year right!
Our experience during Directions
2015 has been a tremendous one
to everybody. There, we were
taught how to wait and know
God's will for our lives. We see
the value of listening and seek-
ing, not just His hands, but His
face.
Month of January was a
good start also. The Lord brought
us to the theme, "Finding God's
Will", with emphasis on our
relationship with God, which is
the first step in knowing His will.
Then came February with
the theme, " Loving God
Deeply". Here, our intimacy and
faithfulness are measured by the
way we love God and His words.
The month of March was
the one that ignites all of us to
stand up and claim our victory.
Our theme, “Walking in Vic-
tory", inspired us that as children
of the Lord, we are destined to
victory as Jesus is victorious over
death and the grave.
In April, we welcomed in
“Commitment". Our best exam-
ple here is our Lord Jesus Him-
self. His willingness to suffer
shame and death is a concrete
and a vivid picture of commit-
ment. The heart breaking story of
crucifixion will attest to this
claim.
My personal encourage-
ment to all is for us to be com-
mitted to the task God has
planned for ROL family. Our
commitment should be first to
God, second to our family and
lastly to the legacy that we would
like to leave to the generations to
come. Let us hold on to His
promises.
“Being confident of this,
that He who began a good
work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of
Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 1:6)
God bless everyone!
EIC Speaks. . . The Start of a Lifetime
By Marjorie Bustamante
The River of Life Family
Worship Center formed its ROL
Multimedia Ministry on Decem-
ber 2012 with only three mem-
bers, Erma Ronquillo, Paola
Medina and yours truly. And
while we were three, we dreamed
the ministry to grow in members
count as well as its skills and
capabilities, and also develop-
mental projects.
In 2013, the team added
two members who have helped
us to widen our pace. And in
February 2014, the ministry's
members boomed into fifteen!
Aside from that, as of the first
project of venturing into give-
aways and invitation productions
to raise funds, we have now
come up with so much exciting
occasions and projects like quar-
terly fellowships and skills as-
sessment activity, to participate
in multimedia-related skills
workshops, audio-video produc-
tion of ROL, and the latest – this
publication which the body enti-
tled The ROL Today.
Because God has given us
talents not just in creation and
photo-audio-video production
but also in writing, we envi-
sioned The ROL Today as a
source of information in and
outside activities of the ROL.
This endeavor is to respond the
mission of bringing the lost to
the knowledge and intimate rela-
tionship with Jesus Christ as well
as to promote to every reader that
there is more a lot than being a
church spectator.
ROL has a wide variety of
events and we want everyone to
know about it. Thus we strongly
foresee this project to last a life-
time and desire it to be the best
tool of opening the eyes of every
reader's heart that it's more joyful
being a Christian!
To God be the Glory!
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ROL Missions
Department
kicks off in
2015 By: Karlo Cua
As a fulfillment of the
Lord’s command for us as His
people and the church’s deep
desire to engage in missions,
the River of Life Family Wor-
ship Center church council
introduced and developed a
new missions and evangelism
department early January 2015.
Appointed by the coun-
cil, the department is headed by
Jun Cua, alongside couple
Roed and Grace Hilado.
The department brain-
stormed different programs,
objectives, policies, and strate-
gies for the incoming year as
they joined the 2015 TOHFI-
ROL Hoshin Leadership Plan-
ning held at Northlink, Panabo
City last January 9, 2015.
Their objectives for the
year include going on a mis-
sions trip locally and interna-
tionally, conducting a specially
enhanced missions festival, and
incorporating the missions and
the evangelism department
with a radio program.
Last October 29 to No-
vember 2, 2014 the department
and 10 volunteers from the
church went on a missions trip
to visit the natives of the Ara-
kan Valley in North Cotabato
as an accomplishment to one of
the department’s objectives.
Moreover, the missions
depar tment successfu lly
launched test broadcasts of
ROL’s local radio station that
would incorporate the depart-
ment’s goal of spreading God’s
Word to
the peo-
ple of
P a n a b o
City.
I n
the fu-
ture, the
d e p a r t -
m e n t
aims to
send missionaries not only
within the locality but also
abroad. They are aiming to
send volunteers to go on trips
to countries such as Cambodia,
Thailand, and Vietnam to con-
duct programs and missions.
ROL GFF digs
deeper in GOD’s
Word By: Jezzriel Rado
G e n e r a t i o n
Full Force of River
of Life Family Wor-
ship Center contin-
ues to pursue a
stronger and deeper
relationship with
God through its
Bible Study Program
led by Mr. Keith
Medina, the ROL GFF President
together with the cooperation of
the officers.
The gathering piloted last
January 24, 2015 with FY Ad-
viser Ruel Montefolka heading
the group. In one of his mes-
sages during the Bible Study
Program , he emphasized, “it’s
good to know our weaknesses for
us to determine what areas we
are weak at so that we can focus
our life as growing Christians”.
Every Saturday of the
month, the GFF group gathered
together at different venues to
foster camaraderie, uniqueness
and belongingness among the
group.
The weekly gathering has
its prepared topics to follow
during Bible Study Lessons.
The theme of the sharing
during the whole month of Feb-
ruary was about love. The topics
were as follows: 1st Saturday –
Brotherly Love; 2nd Saturday –
Motherly Love; 3rd Saturday –
Love for your Partner; 4th Satur-
day –Love for the Lost.
The following month
dwelt about Victory .
With the support of the
parents, the growing teenage
Christians were starting to de-
velop a more intimate relation-
ship with God and knowing more
of who He is. As of now, the
officers keep on encouraging
other youths to join and experi-
ence an elevated life in exploring
the truth of God’s word.
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One Life group
Mt. Horeb dedi-
cates fellowship
cottage By: Karlo Cua
Eleven-member One Life
group Mt. Horeb offered a
cottage for dedication to the
Lord last February 7, 2015, at
the Touch of Hope Inc.
(TOHFI) Dream Center, Ca-
baluna, Brgy. New Visayas,
Panabo City.
Mt. Horeb built a semi-
concrete cottage on a rectangu-
lar lot located within the
Dream Center complex as allo-
cated by the TOHFI to fulfill
its goal to provide individual
fellowship centers for its 19
One Life groups.
The members of the
group, along with TOHFI
President Lisa Medina and
TOHFI Board Chairman Rev.
Brendo Medina, enjoyed after-
noon snacks and fellowship
shortly after the prayers and
dedication of the lot and cot-
tage.
The group started build-
ing their cottage shortly after
the Dream Center’s ground-
breaking ceremony and bless-
ing of the property last January
25, 2015 with the help of each
of the members’
individual contribu-
tions.
“This cottage
will serve not only
Mt. Horeb; but we
are also inviting
other groups and
members of the
church to come and
join us through lunch or after-
noon fellowships, prayer meet-
ings, Bible studies, etc.,” said
Jun Cua, leader of Mt. Horeb,
“and we are praying that many
memories with the Lord and
with our fellow churchgoers
will be made in the said fellow-
ship center.”
River of Life creates original songs By: Rozeny Diaz
"Finally!”, was the word
of relief and satisfaction uttered
by Mr. Elejo Candelario, Music
Director of River of Life Fam-
ily Worship Center, as he intro-
duced the first originally com-
posed song of ROL Worship
Team on February 2015.
"Many years ago, Pastor
Brendo Medina challenged the
team to make our own compo-
sitions. Now, after years of
waiting, naa na jud, dili lang
isa, Praise God!" Kuya Lee, as
he is fondly called, further
stressed. He composed the first
song entitled "UMARI KA"
which speaks about the great-
ness of God's love unto us, that
if we come to Him we can find
true rest, healing and assur-
ance.
The next two songs were
composed by Rozeny Gonzales
-Diaz entitled "IKAW ANG
GUGMA", which is based on
her own description of who
God is in her life; and Keith
Medina's "SIMBAHA ANG
DIOS" which is a song of
praise.
The compositions were
arranged by ROL's Fresh Start
Band Director Lenjun Diaz,
together with the help of its
band members' Ian Abapo on
bass, Alan Registos on guitar
and Keith on drums. These
songs are now being played in
the Sunday service several
times.
Producing at least one
song per month is one of the
team's 2015 HOSHIN goals.
ROL's Worship Team is look-
ing forward to creating more
compositions and finally come
up with an all original song
album to give glory and honor
to God.
Finding
S o m e o n e
Never Ends. . .
By: Monna Fe Quibuen
“The greatest challenge
in our lives is to find someone
who knows our faults and
weaknesses and are willing to
embrace us with so much love
without a doubt”.
To give emphasis to this
guiding principle in finding our
missing half, The TFC (The
Friendship Company ) a club
for young adults aging 22-45
had its annual membership day.
This year, the renewal of com-
mitment of being a member of
TFC at ROL was done last
February 21, 2015 at Cara’s
4
Food Haven, New Pandan,
Panabo City. The fellowship
was anchored on the theme
“Love Bites” with Dr. Seth
Sabuga as the guest speaker.
The event focused on the
renewal of the love that is felt
and acted upon by our couples.
It is also a way of reviving
what has been lost through the
years and to remind them of the
sweet memories they once
shared. The message of the
speaker simply gave reminders
and guidance for the singles in
preparation for finding their
perfect partner in life and hav-
ing a happy family in the fu-
ture.
The Bible clearly states
in Gen. 1:27 that a man and a
woman is being created by God
to live and rule the earth. For
this reason, a man and a
woman will leave his father
and mother and will unite to-
gether to love each other in the
Lord. This is the design of God
for every human being. To love
and be loved.
How I wish I could al-
ways cherish my singleness in
life. Because being single is a
matter of choice and commit-
ment to work, to live happily
and to honor and serve God
wh o leh ear t -
edly. But as
the years went
by and the age
gets older, I
can say to
myself, God
has prepared
s o m e t h i n g
best for me and I have to em-
brace it. I believe in the verse
found in Jeremiah 29:11 which
says, For I know the plans I
have for you declares the Lord;
plans to prosper you and not to
harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future. This is a true
statement of God that never
ends and never changes. Find-
ing a perfect partner never ends
and it’s all in the hands of God.
Let’s just wait, see and pray.
ROL Kauswagan Ministry cele-brates 3rd anni-versary By: Karlo Cua