Each year there is a sand-sculpting contest near the ocean in Newport Beach in California, USA. Artists create incredible works of art: castles, faces, dragons, cars, and so on—all built with sand. It takes incredible talent to be able to do this, and thousands of visitors come each year to ooh and aah over [...]
By Ptr. Chad Visca
Here are some of the highlights of the Visca family for 2008:
Trips to neighboring countries, Cambodia and Loas to renew Thai Visas and continue staying in Thailand.
Settling in and establishing new friends.
Renee working as an English instructor, enabling us to obtain a better visa.
Nav starting his pre-school days in a new [...]
by Rachel Ragaza
Ten years ago I remember sitting in our university auditorium, watching a controversial play and leaving the theatre with a heavy heart. The play was about a young prostitute who wants to have a new life but sadly found her freedom in suicide. Thinking of that play reminds me why The [...]
By Bro Egay Gomez
Missio Dei is the mission of God; it is not our work, it is the Lord’s. Dr. Joseph Suico emphasized this on his homily to the ICS congregation last January 18, 2009 as part of ICS’ month long 33rd anniversary. The focus for that week’s celebration was “Missions” and Dr. [...]
by Jennifer Legaspi
Ah, February! You can feel the air pulsating with all the romance, passion, sweetness and giddiness (kilig!) of this month of love. Soon we shall see bouquets of red roses, chocolates in heart-shape boxes, and streets filled with couples holding hands.
by Rodel Lacson
I try to balance my life the best way I know how. I am all the roles I play and I am so much more than all of them. I am great. But before you tell me how arrogant I am, let me tell you why I consider myself to be great.
I am [...]
by: Nio Manzano
It was a regular ICS Sunday service. The pastor called a young lady to the stage to share her testimony. She stood in front of the congregation and started sharing about God’s faithfulness to her life; how she was able to graduate from the course she chose, to having a job, to experiencing [...]
By Pastor Chad Visca
The year began with Chad delivering the first sermon for 2009 at ICA. He shared about the importance of remembering God in every step we take for Him to receive the glory and us to experience success. This teaching was based on God’s admonition to Joshua as they prepared to [...]
By Ptr. Jesse Dedel
We’d been talking about it for sometime.
We said we’d hold it after all the other Christmas parties of all the other ministries and family gatherings had been held. And we didn’t. We said we’d just hold it after the New Year. And still we didn’t. And so, finally, after putting it off [...]
by Hanilette Castillo
Last January 11, 2009, ICS’ youth and young adults had a joint gathering at the APTS room. We had fun during the icebreaker with the currently popular party favorite,“Hep-hep Hooray”, a riot of a game that involves lots of silliness and hand-clapping.
