More News About Pastor Berlin Guerrero

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

Signs of the Times

These will give you something to think about.

Outing the Heretics

The Christian church is under attack as never before. Yes, we are undergoing attacks by seculars, atheists, non-Christian "religions" and occultists, but the most frightening attacks come from within - those who claim to be Christian, yet preach another gospel.

Matthew 24:23-27
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Galatians 1:6-9
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed

1 Timothy 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
(emphasis added)

Many of our churches and "pastors" are denying the divinity of Jesus, denying the crucifixion and the resurrection, denying that Jesus is the way and the only way that we can be redeemed.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(emphasis added)

Was Jesus lying when He said this? Was He delusional? I think not. I am posting a link to three other blogs that do an excellent job of outing the heretics.

http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/

http://bold-truth.blogspot.com/

http://herescope.blogspot.com/

The Goldie Mystery

March 20 was the first full day of spring. It was also a very sad day for the Paish family. My sister Val and her husband Mike made the very difficult decision that it was time to have their dog, Goldie, put down. She was an unusual dog with one blue eye and one brown eye. Goldie was getting old, thirteen years and she was deaf. Her joints were going, she could hardly walk and laying down and getting back up were becoming extremely difficult. It was all she could do to climb the three steps on their back deck. Her breathing had become loud and labored and she had lost control of her bladder. The time had come to take her to the vet.


I agreed to meet my sister at the vet's to give her emotional support and then we were going to spend the evening together. Goldie was given her shot and went peacefully to sleep. Val and I decided I would park my car at her daughter's and we would go out together. I got in my car, started it and the radio came on. As I was pulling out of the parking lot, the radio announcer said "and I just want to say, rest in peace, Goldie, rest in peace." I almost freaked!

When I told my sister what had happened, she was shocked. The radio announcer had no way of knowing about Goldie. Val's daughter, her son and her husband were just as disbelieving. My husband accused me of "hearing voices". Later, we tried to call the radio station and find out what the announcer had been talking about but the station office was already closed. It remains a mystery.

An E-mail About Samuel Golubchuk

On January 7 I reported on the case of Samuel Golubchuk - "The Grim Reaper Wears White" - and on February 16 I printed an update - "Update-Samuel Golubchuk" . Today I received the following e-mail from Mr. Golubchuk's daughter :

March 19, 2008

My name is Miriam Geller,
daughter of SAM GOLUBCHUK.

You recently signed an online petition demanding that the Grace Hospital of Winnipeg continue providing basic care for our father SAM. On behalf of our entire family, I wanted to thank you for your support and prayers, and to provide you with an urgent update on the current situation.
(If this message was forwarded to you from a friend, you may not have signed the petition yet. It can be found here.)
As you will recall, last fall SAM, who had been living in a long-term care facility, came down with pneumonia and had to be moved to a hospital. Thank God, the pneumonia was cured. Unfortunately, due to his weakened condition, SAM has been unable to return to his home. He is currently receiving basic care at the hospital which includes being given food and water and assistance in breathing through the use of a ventilator.
In November the hospital, without our permission, attempted to withdraw this basic care, letting our father die. We obtained an emergency Court Order to stop them from doing so, which the hospital tried - and failed - to have reversed.
Now we are being forced to return to Court again as the hospital fights, at taxpayers' expense, to have the Order overturned.
That's right - rather than giving up, the hospital is continuing to fight us for the right to kill our father.
Let me stress that SAM is not in a "vegetative" state, nor is he suffering from a terminal illness of any kind. He is not suffering and is in no pain whatsoever. The hospital wants to end his life because he's old, he's weak and he's disabled and it doesn't want to spend money on his care - although it doesn't mind using taxpayers' money to fund its legal crusade!
This is not just about our father's life. We're also fighting for ourselves, our children and everyone we care about; We're fighting for the kind of society we want to live in and leave to future generations. If bureaucrats can refuse to care for SAM because he's too old and disabled, then they can refuse to care for anyone they deem unworthy.
In short, we're fighting for you and your loved ones too - but we can't go on without your support!
This is a fight that we can win! A judge has already upheld an Order prohibiting the hospital from ending SAM's care, but we need need your help RIGHT NOW to be able to afford the next phase of the case as the hospital continues trying to have that Order overturned.
Please make a contribution right now by clicking the link below and following the simple instructions. No amount is too small.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW!Alternatively, you can send a cheque or money order to:

Save Sam Golubchuk Fund
P.O. Box 1318 Station B
Ottawa ON Canada
K1P 5R4

In addition to your financial help and prayers, please spread the word by forwarding this email to everyone you know: your church, synagogue, or any other organization, group or network that you know of. If you would like to help us by volunteering some of your time please send me an email at miriam@samuelgolubchuk.com.
Sincerely,
Miriam

St. Patrick's Day 2008

When I was a child we were required to wear something green to school on St. Patrick's Day or run the risk of getting pinched each time another student realised that we had not complied. St. Patrick's day is celebrated all over the world by both Irish and non-Irish people alike. It is an official holiday in only three places - Republic of Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian province of Newfoundland/Labrador. Although the first St. Patrick's Day parade in North America was held in Boston in 1761, the record for the longest continuously running parade is held by Montreal Quebec with a parade every year since 1824. Montreal's City Flag even has a Shamrock in one corner. St. Patrick used the Shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish.

The largest parade is held in Chicago, with 2.5 million spectators. They also have been dying the Chicago River green for the day for the past 20 years. They use an eco-friendly vegetable dye, it takes about five minutes to color it and it disappears by evening.

Other traditions include the wearing of something green, pubs and bars serving green drinks including green beer, stories of leprechauns and their pot of gold and eating corned beef and cabbage.

There are those who are Irish and those who wish they were.
old Irish proverb

Terrorists Need Passports Too

A Canadian citizen, Algerian born Fateh Kamel, who arrived in Canada in 1987, has been denied a passport from the Canadian Government on the grounds that he is a threat to the national security of Canada or another country. Kamel is a convicted terrorist. In 1999 he was arrested in Jordan and extradited to France, where he was convicted of plotting to bomb the Paris Metro and other targets and was imprisoned for eight years. He allegedly has a connection to Ahmed Ressam, who is in prison in the US for plotting to blow up Los Angeles Airport, and to Al Qaeda. A Canadian Judge, Simon Noel, has ruled that the order violates Kamel's rights as a Canadian citizen and has ordered the federal government to amend the law accordingly within six months and to then grant him a passport.

Their are two separate but equally important issues here.

1. Should a convicted terrorist be issued a Canadian passport? Does issuing a passport in these circumstances undermine the value of a Canadian passport?

Will other countries be unwilling to accept travellers with a Canadian passport when they become aware that the government is knowingly issuing them to convicted terrorists?

2. In Canada, judges are appointed, not elected. Should unelected officials be making our laws? Are judges not meant to interpret and enforce existing laws rather than actually making new ones or forcing the government to rescind existing ones?

These two issues need to be addressed before Canada loses all credibility in the international community. The rumor that Canada is becoming a haven for terrorists does not seem quite so far-fetched as it once did. Prime Minister Harper needs to act quickly and decisively on these issues.