Newsletter 6.24.11: Grand Opening and Other Highlights

These past few weeks have been busy ones, but we've been having a great time! Last weekend was Hope Chapel Metro's Grand Opening, check out the highlight video we made in this episode of our newsletter update. There's been a lot of other things too so be sure to check out the photo gallery down below the video.

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For those of you who don't have facebook and have missed some of our photos, here are some pics over the past couple of weeks. We've eaten some good/interesting food, had a worship night, grand opening, attended my cousin's wedding in Manila and more...

Hope Chapel Metro - Outreach to the Children!

This past weekend Hope Chapel Metro had a "Family Fun Day" outreach to bless the children in a nearby barangay community. Over 500 people attended and 200 children received backpacks full of school supplies. We also had clowns, face painting, nail painting, free ice cream, balloons, a magician and of course a message about God's love for them. It was an awesome day!

 

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Newsletter 6.7.11: Welcome to our new home!

We've arrived in Quezon City here in Metro Manila and have just settled into our apartment. We'll be staying here for a month before we move to another location nearby. Here is a little tour of our current crib!

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We made it to our new home!

We finally made it to our new home here in the Philippines after two years of praying, hoping and confirming! Big thanks to those who came to the airport early in the morning on a Saturday to see us off and for all the text messages and phone calls.
We were blessed to have been upgraded to business class for free, definitely a nice treat on a 10 hour flight!

It was Sunday afternoon when we arrived and we were taken to our apartment located in the same building as Pastor Nolan and Jay. We spent a little time freshening up and headed off to the Hope Chapel Metro service, our new church home! It was great to see a young crowd and a team that is passionate to love this community.
Stay tuned for our Video Newsletter coming soon!!!

Newsletter 5.11.11: We packed some guests into our car!

Come and join us at our Mission Vision Night coming up on Sunday, May 22nd at 6:00pm @ Hope Chapel West Oahu. It will be a night to share about our call to the Philippines, support raising, and as well as a night to say farewell to our wonderful friends and family!

If you are interested and would like to be on the Mission Vision Night Evite, email us your email address at dj_lynnette@garcesunplugged.com. Looking forward to seeing all of you!

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Completed our rigorous 12 day missions training today! Check out our classmates...

 

After 12 days, we finished our final day of missions training today. We met some amazing people while we here, the FMI staff and the trainers have incredible hearts, vast knowledge and experience. For anyone within Foursquare considering long term missions, this training is a must! We thought that after a dozen or so short term trips that we had under our belt, we were well equipped...we were wrong! We didn't realize how much we didn't know until we came through this. 

The rest of our classmates/missionaries in training, were equally amazing. My faith increased immensely just hanging around them. Sooner or later they'll be heading to places like, Peru, East Africa, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Singapore/Thailand, Israel (or India), China (or Cambodia), Foster kids in the U.S., and of course the Philippines. We are grateful for the new family we've gotten to know! 

Took a day off to visit a couple of magical places...

We had a day off from our intense missions training on Sunday, so we decided to enjoy our day with some of our new friends from class!