I have been posting about the situation of Pastor Berlin V. Guerrero, who has been in prison in the Philippines for the past 10 months. (posts dated - August 10, 2007; September 9, 2007; November 13, 2007 and January 15, 2008) This is the latest news :
To All:
Last March 27 2008 marked exactly the 10th. month of Pastor Berlin Guerrero in jail after that May 27 2007 abduction. How was that day for him and for us?
1) Some 8 young members of the American Mission Team from the Valley View Community Church from Ohio, USA visited Ptr Berlin in jail. The Team was led by Ms Bickbick Mendoza-Miller (a Filipina Balikbayan in Dasmarinas). The visit was a surprise to Ptr Berlin and a tearful reunion between him and Bickbick as classmates from gradeschool to college in the Philippine Christian University. Ptr Berlin joined them for lunch with conversations on his past student activisms and a worship fellowship followed in the afternoon with his cellmates.
2) Ptr Berlin was visited also by his youngest son, 14 year old Pinyen, after the boy's hospital confinement due to his operation on the adhesions in his small intestines last week of February 2008. The boy wore face mask to protect him from further infections.
3) Ptr Berlin's brother Rev Leslie Guerrero, from the Church Among the Palms at the University of the Philippines-LB-Laguna, donated a handsome and strudy "beatbox" for the Prison Ministry to match the guitar used by the Choir.
4) A sumptumous Dinner sponsored by the Mission Team, with the Mendoza family and with the Guerrero family was held at Max's Restaurant. (Not known to everyone that the Mendozas and the Guerreros are family friends way back the UTS-campus life.) The 3 groups with mutual appreciations with each other were expressed thru a short but warm fellowship.
On March 29 was the 100th. graduation celebration of the Union Theological Seminary (UTS) where Ptr Berlin is enrolled for his internship program thru the prison ministry while in jail. Among the special awards given mostly to the graduating students, Ptr Berlin coveted the award on "Community Empowerment" for his excellence in empowering his community- the prisoners and the administration of the jail for the glory of God. While receiving the Certificate of award by his/our father Sam and his wife Mylene on the stage of the Salakot Chapel, a pre-video tape for his "acceptance speech" was shown to the audience. I saw Mylene smiling but with her tearful eyes. (Only if my brother is present to join her to receive his award ...)
On March 30, German Missionaries led by the National Office of the UCCP visited also Ptr Berlin.
Two more months to go, will Ptr Berlin be freed before then? Let us continue praying for the fast resolution of his case at the Supreme Court and his fast freedom.
May our life be inspired by the ministry of Ptr Berlin inside the jail. Thank you very much............ Danielle
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