I Love C.O.O.K.!

Last Sunday, we had our culminating activity for the "I Love COOK (Church of Our King)" campaign. This was done to relaunch our small groups. After some 16 weeks, the small groups did various presentations and testimonies on how their lives have been changed by attending the small groups.

Doug and I handled the parenting/marriage small group and the one that studied the book of James. We had enormous fun interacting with the different group members and grew to love them more as we got to know them better. I believe that we were able to achieve our goal of connecting and building a community of love and care for each other. The next cycle of small groups will start on the second week of November and end before the Christmas break. Already, they have announced the new curriculum which includes a study of the book of 1 Thessalonians and 2 aspects of the Purpose Driven Life among others. We are looking forward to having new members be a part of the groups we will be handling.

For the church bulletin, I wrote a short piece on why I love COOK. Here it is:

I love COOK because:

We’re multicultural – we have members from America, Canada, Burundi, Switzerland and from all over the Philippines like Bohol, Syquijor, Samar, Leyte, Iligan, Nueva Ecija, Bacolod, Davao, Bukidnon, Manila and many other far flung places

We’re multi-age – from lovable infants, hyper toddlers, equally hyper pre-schoolers, precocious elementary kids, cool hi-schoolers, uber cool college kids, hip young pros, newly married, not so newly married but still happily married, to secret seniors

We’re multi-lingual – we speak various forms of English: American English, Canadian English (EH!), British English (that’s you Lollette), Indian English (that’s you again Lollette!) Taglish, Vislish and of course French, Swiss German, Chinese and a kaleidoscope of Philippine dialects

We’re multi-talented – singers, dancers, scripwriters, video makers, props men and women, directors, keyboardists, guitar players, bloggers, painters, photographers, song writers, stage actors/actresses, bakers, coordinators, from all walks of life!

We’re multitaskers – we have a motivational speaker as our youth pastor, a manager in a telecom company who is heading our Sunday School, a great cook who keeps the office going, a pastor who is also a missionary, a candidate for a PhD making videos, a masscom senior in charge of church communications, successful businessmen handling small groups, and many others just waiting to serve.

We’re all this BUT we all love one God, one Lord, one Savior!

That’s why I love COOK!