February of next year, Grace Place in Makati will start a message series entitled “30 Days to Live”. The basic premise of the series: How will you live your life if you know that you have only 30 days to live.
To prepare for this message series, we are researching and looking for possibility of interviewing on camera 2 to 3 followers of Jesus who are terminally ill. Yung parang may taning na.
Here’s where you can help us. If you know of a person who :
* is a believer of Jesus.
* terminally ill, probably s/he has cancer or any other similar disease.
* has a positive perspective on life despite his/her situation
* preferably living within Mega Manila (Metro Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal). We may not be able to travel further than that. But if his/her story is really inspiring, we will try to consider traveling further.
* preferably not older than 49 .
* most especially, willing to share his/her story on how his perspective in life changed because of the life threatening disease.
You don’t have to convince them. Just give us a tip — who this person is, way to contact (ie, cell phone, land line, who to contact initially). We will be the one to talk to them and share with them the vision of the interview. We are hoping that they will agree to be interviewed after we explain the tremendous impact their story can create to the lives of people.
You can email me :
arnold.gamboa [at] graceplace.ph
Your contribution to this project is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.
I mentioned in my last post how proud I am of our creative team. Last week, they did an incredible job. On top of their regular day jobs, they were able to find time to shoot on locations and edit the video for our Sunday service. Armed with a simple Sony Handycam, a good actress, a great crew that do not mind discomforts and God given creativity, the team produced an mtv that sure hits the core with a message!
Guys, you’re setting a tradition here. When Grace Place is already blessed with tens of thousands of weekend attendance, top of the line video production room and a huge team of creative volunteers, you will look back to this day and will sure cherish it. Rock on!
God bless your talents and dedication — Jael (the lead actress), Enjel, Gayle, Joyce (yes, my wife, :D ), Ghelo, Glen and Mimi.
So, without further introduction, here’s the video entitled “Bricks”.
Here are some of the videos we used at the celebration:
With the band singing “Higher” by Creed (live, this one’s with the original soundtrack), we showed this very inspiring slide picturing what has transpired pre-launch and post-launch September of last year.
I wanted to compile some videos of last week’s Anniversary event but I was sick all week. I specifically wanted to show how the 2 revolving heads (computerized lightings) we rented have really set the mood for this special worship event. I wonder what will happen if we have these kind every Sunday? I wonder what happens when Sunday becomes like a celebration — because honestly, it should be! We’re praying for God’s provision on this one. Our people saw what we will become, time to support the vision.
One more quick thought. God gives up to our capacity to receive. Whether its financial blessing or the number of people you minister to, that statement is, I believe to be true. Last Sunday, our hall’s capacity is 80+. God gave us a sample of what will happen if he gives us more than that. He gave 101 people last Sunday. Result: we’re overwhelmed, the people overflowed, some simply stood at our Grace Place cafe. This means that our regular attendees of 60 (ave.) is simply what we can accommodate at this time. Either we stay at Tiara Oriental Hotel and got stuck at 60 or we find an auditorium of at least 200 capacity and max it out as God wills. You choose, Grace Placers.
We are overwhelmed by the number of people who showed up today at Grace Place’s first year anniversary celebration. For a church plant with a normal weekend attendees of 55 to 60 in a hotel function room that can accommodate 80, a hundred and one to show up is big deal.
Here’s a video we shot last week for our opening of the message “Death”. We featured Frendel who talked about his nephew who died at age 19 and Gayle who talked about her friend who died at age 25.
