The Master's Community Fellowship - Church annual report 2011

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Reaching the WORLD

by preaching the WORD

. . .one verse at a time

The Master’s Community Fellowship2011 ANNUAL CHURCH REPORT

“Till I come, give attendance to READING, DOCTRINE and EXORTATION.”

- 1 Timothy 4:13

Read the text, Explain the text, Apply the text, that’s what expository preaching is all about

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”

– Mathew 28:19

The Master’s Community Fellowship Annual report 2011

January 3, 2012

My fellow slaves in Christ,

Greetings in the name of our Master, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ !

This is the first ever annual church report since we began The Master’s Community Fellowship in February of 2010 and by God’s grace certainly not our last. The purpose of the annual report is not to blow our horns and boast of our accomplishments but rather to inform and reflect on the goodness that God has bestowed over His ministry every year. It is also my desire that this annual report will help encourage you to become more active in church activities realizing that indeed God has blessed us so much as we see him doing great things in our midst. This report will encapsulate church and ministry activities and will be posted in our church bulletin board and website.

PREACHING THE WORD ONE VERSE AT A TIME

As you all know our church motto is “Reaching the WORLD by preaching the WORD one verse at a time.” We are so glad to have made a commitment to preaching the word verse by verse since we started. It has been such a blessing and a thrilling experience. We started off with Mathew chapter 1 and continued to preach verse by verse through the book of Mathew every Sunday, except on certain special occasions. We ended the year 2011 in Mathew chapter 9 and will hopefully work our way to the middle of Mathew’s Gospel by the end of this year 2012. Personally I have

been so blessed to have studied the book of Mathew and I’m sure you have all been blessed as well. Please pray for our steadfastness in our commitment to expository preaching.

FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION

Jesus last instruction before he left was to make disciples of all nations. Sure we recognize the importance of evangelism but we should certainly not stop there, hence we remain committed to a structured discipleship program. We kicked off our discipleship program in April of 2011 starting off with Module #1, which focused on the topic introduction to discipleship and the subject of how to become a real disciple and on salvation. We ended the year almost finishing Module #7 on the subject of the church. We have also tackled subjects on New life in Christ, eternal security, Baptism, How to Study the Bible and prayer. We have been utilizing existing available discipleship materials available for download in the internet but have expanded and revised some of it to add some inputs. Our discipleship materials are really a work in progress. Exams are scheduled after 2 to 3 lessons to gauge if indeed the concepts in the lessons has been absorbed. It is my desire that in the near future the materials will be compiled so that it can be used by those who have finished the discipleship modules when they want to disciple somebody else or will be used by another church if they want to start a discipleship program. I look forward in the near future when those who have undergone the discipleship course will start doing one on one discipleship on their own. Our discipleship program is from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. every Sunday. Average attendance for our discipleship program is from 15 to 20 every Sunday. I sure do hope and pray that all of you who are attending our main service will start attending our discipleship program because in the discipleship program we start with the basics of our faith and progress to more advanced topics. By the end of the year 2012 we hopefully would want to complete all modules if not almost finish it. Some are requesting that past modules be made available. So hopefully by the 1st quarter of 2012, we will be uploading the materials in our website and will be compiling it into leaflet/notebook format, so please pray for this. Those who have requested to take the previous exams, we will schedule it soon and will also schedule a mastery exam.

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CHURCH IN NUMBERS(Based on last quarter 2011

estimates)

Average Adult attendance in discipleship

Average Adult attendance in main service

Average Master’s Youth attendance

Average Children’s Worship Service attendance


EXISTING AND NEW AVENUES OF MINISTRY

You all know that we started off initially with the Children’s ministry which is named as “Train a Child Ministry” way back in 2009 and God has been so good and has blessed the Children’s ministry so much. They had their second year anniversary last February 2011. Life skill classes are conducted almost every Saturday from a wide variety of topics while children services are conducted every Sunday at 4 p.m. Average attendance for the children’s service is 30 to 40 every Sunday. Train a child ministry has so much activity each month that I could not write about all of them here. You can visit the ministry website at www.trainachildministry.com or perhaps they might be able to come up with their own annual report. We are praying that we could start a BLESS (Basic Life Empowerment and Support Services) which will teach children basic English literacy in 16 weeks. The program has been used by several evangelical churches and has been very effective also in opening doors for evangelism to the kid’s parents. So please pray for this planned project.

A new avenue of ministry that has opened up for us is in the young people’s ministry. Children above the age of 12 would no longer fit in the children’s ministry so a new door for ministry has opened up. More than 10 of these children have been transferred to our youth ministry which we are calling as “The Master’s Youth.” The youth program kicked off in June of 2011. I have delegated this area of ministry to youth leaders who have regularly attended our morning services. The next months after it started the young people’s programs seemed to be going nowhere until sometime in September 2011, I told the youth leaders to

follow the discipleship program. I am not directly involved in the Sunday after Sunday running of the youth ministry but have delegated the discipling of the youth to youth leaders who have undergone the discipleship program and are mature enough to handle this area of ministry while I just serve to guide the youth leaders. In the next months after September, “The Master’s Youth” has progressed in the discipleship program. They ended the year finishing Module #1. They also had their first every Christmas party which was filled with much fun last December. Attendance has risen from an average of 15 to about 20+ every Sunday afternoon. Other young people who are not once part of Train a Child Ministry have been regularly attendees.

It is my prayer that as the church grows, new avenue of ministries may be opened in order that those of you who are in the body of Jesus Christ may exercise and serve the Lord with their spiritual gifts. In the near future God has laid a burden in my heart to start livelihood seminars that would invite people in the community while at the same taking making this as an avenue to share the Gospel and disciple people for Jesus Christ.


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35+

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ATTENDANCE, BAPTISMS, SERVICE SCHEDULE AND OTHER MATTERS

Although we have not constantly kept tracked of our main service attendance in 2011, The Lord has been blessing us and has increased our numbers. When we started off in 2010 average attendance is less than 10. In the 3 rd and last quarters of 2011, average adult main service attendance is now more than 35. About 60 % are old believers. There are some of these who are members of other churches but have stopped regularly going to their churches but were revived to go back to church when we opened up in the area. Others are regular church attendees from other churches but would like to fellowship with us for various reasons. About 40 % are new believers or attendees.

Although I am personally happy with the growth in attendance, we however need to remind ourselves that the best measure of success in God’s ministry is not the number of people in attendance but the number of real disciples but we have presented the figures in order for us to know how our church is growing to encourage us. However let me emphasize again that no amount of attendance can ever be construed as a mark of success. In the eyes of God, the real committed disciples and true worshipers matters more to him than the number of church attendees. It is my desire that this will be your prayer as well so we hope that you keep this in mind when you invite someone to church. The objective is not to boost attendance but to disciple people for Christ.

In the year 2011, 6 new believers have followed the Lord in the waters of baptism. We make sure that the reason for being baptized has been properly explained first before believers are baptized. There are those that have not yet been baptized and I do hope that within this year we can schedule another Baptism so that those of you who have just become new believers will testify to the whole world that you have indeed surrendered your life and would like to be identified with Jesus Christ through baptism.

Some have suggested that we should integrate the Master’s Youth to our Main service, but we do not have space anymore as our present worship center can only accommodate around 40+ adults which is our average attendance already. If we integrate the Master’s Youth we would reach about 60 already although some of youths including youth leaders are attending our morning services. So we are praying that we may be able to transfer to another worship center which is just a stone’s throw away from our present one. Since it is a garage it will just need a little bit of construction work. Hopefully by this year 2012, we will be able to move there.

Since it is not very practical to hold Wednesday prayer meeting services as we only have 5 or more in regular attendance, we have dissolved our Wednesday prayer meeting services in the third quarter of 2011 and have integrated the prayer meeting in our regular Sunday services. Prayer meeting is either on the 1st or 2nd Sunday of the month. But it is moveable to other Sundays depending on the situation.

Last February 2011 we celebrated our 1st year anniversary. Our speaker was my father in law, Pastor Eddie Gerodias Senior pastor of Bible Baptist Church San Carlos City. Please pray as to who our speaker will be for our second anniversary this February 2012.


FINANCIAL FIGURES SNAPSHOT

(Excluding outside giving)

Average offeringPer Sunday

Average OfferingPer month

Average expenses Per month

“Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

– 1 Corinthians 16:2


GIVING AND FINANCIAL MATTERS

Since the start we have practiced free will giving and have been so blessed. Our total offering has reached P 27,795.00 for the whole year 2011. (including some gifts from outside the church as indicated in the attached report) Take note that this does not include my family’s personal offering. Being a business person means I am having my own personal income, I do not draw any sort of salary or allowance from the church. I am mentioning this as I have heard that some are reluctant to give because I as a pastor do not need salary since I am earning income. With more reason that you should give freely as everything you give in our church will certainly be devoted to the ministry of the church. On a personal note, of course I believe that full time pastors should derive their means of living from the church as this is biblical, but since I am not a full time pastor and that God has also blessed me and my family financially that is why I do receive not any sort of salary or allowance from the church. Our total expenses for the year reached P 24,916.00 leaving us a balance of P 2,879.00 in cash. Since it cannot be afforded by the budget of the church our electricity and office supplies are sponsored while our rent is free as well. Details of our offering and expenses are attached at the end of this report. It is my prayer and earnest desire that our offering will increase more in 2012 in order that we might do more for the work of the Lord.

Overall 2011 has been a great year. We look forward to what God has in store for us for the year 2012. We pray that God will guide us in everything we do as we make plans for our activities and programs for 2012. Let us continue to strive as one body in Jesus Christ to Know more about God through His Word, Grow more in our Christians faith and Go and make disciples for Jesus Christ and may we be united in this ministry as we continue to reach the World by preaching the Word, one verse at a time.

Yours in the Master’s most precious name,

Zigfred DiazPastor-teacherThe Master’s Community Fellowship


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P 1,700+

P 2,000+


THE MASTER’S COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIPINCOME STATEMENT 2011

TOTAL OFFERING FOR THE PERIOD ------------------------------------------------P 27,795.00

LESS EXPENSES:

Missionary Support P 500 per month July to December 2011-------------------- P 4,000.00 Pastor Ernesto Saguindel (Toledo)(Including additional cash gift on December)

Coffee, Bread during services -------------------------------------------------------------P 5,250.00(P 150 per Sunday X 35, there were about 17 Sundays where no snacks was served or was directly sponsored)

Young People’s Department budget ----------------------------------------------------- P 7,666.00(P 1,000 per month starting June, P 1,733.00 starting September. No budget for November, December P 1,200 for Christmas party)

Church support for Train A Child Ministry ------------------------------------------------P 7,500.00 (P1,500 per month x 5 - starting August to December)

One time rental fee given to Felicisima Diaz ------------------------------------------- P 500.00

Sponsored expensesElectricity expense – Sponsored Office supplies (Bond paper, ink etc.) – Sponsored Rental – Sponsored

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TOTAL EXPENSES -------------------------------------------------------------------------P 24,916.00

TOTAL CASH ON HAND ------------------------------------------------------------------ P 2,879.00 (Ending December 31, 2011)



THE MASTER’S COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIPOFFERING BREAKDOWN PER SUNDAY FOR THE YEAR 2011

Date Details AmountJanuary 9, 16, 23, 2011 General Offering Fund P 1,156.00January 30, 2011 General Offering Fund P 671.00February 6, 2011 General Offering Fund P 650.00February 13, 2011 General Offering Fund P 550.00February 20, 2011 General Offering Fund P 250.00February 27, 2011 General Offering Fund P 520.00March 6, 2011 General Offering Fund P 770.00March 13, 2011 General Offering Fund P 120.00March 20, 2011 General Offering Fund P 240.00March 27, 2011 General Offering Fund P 320.00 April 3, 2011 General Offering Fund P 250.00April 10, 2011 General Offering Fund P 170.00April 17, 2011 General Offering fund P 540.00April 24, 2011 General Offering Fund P 300.00May 1, 2011 General Offering Fund P 470.00May 8, 2011 General Offering Fund P 330.00May 15, 2011 General Offering Fund P 780.00May 22, 2011 General Offering Fund P 860.00May 29, 2011 General Offering Fund P 1,010.00June 5, 12, 2011 General Offering Fund P 500.00June 19, 2011 General Offering Fund (With gift from Bro.

Jack Newsome)P 2,250.00

June 26, 2011 General Offering Fund P 170.00July 3, 2011 General Offering Fund P 850.00July 10, 2011 General Offering Fund P 350.00July 17, 2010 General Offering Fund P 1,052.00July 24, 2010 General offering Fund P 170.00July 31, 2011 General offering Fund P 840.00August 7, 2011 General offering Fund

(With one time gift of P 800.00)P 2,320.00

August 14, 2011 General offering Fund P 300.00August 21, 2011 General offering Fund P 720.00August 28, 2011 / September 4, 2011

General offering Fund P 470.00

September 11 and 18, 2011

General Offering fund P 630.00

September 25, 2011 General Offering fund P 306.00October 2, 2011 General offering fund P 150.00October 9, 2011 General Offering Fund

(One time gift of P 1,500)P 1,500.00

October 16, 23 General Offering Fund P 450.00October 30, 2011 General Offering Fund

(One time gift P 2,000)P 2,250.00

November 6, 2011 General Offering Fund P 240.00November 13, 2011 General Offering Fund P 200.00November 20, 2011 General Offering Fund P 480.00November 27, 2011 General Offering Fund P 200.00December 4, 2011 General Offering Fund P 400.00December 18, 2011 General Offering Fund P 720.00December 25, 2011 General Offering Fund P 320.00

TOTAL OFFERING FOR THE YEAR P 27,795.00



THE MASTER’S COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP & MINISTRIES“Reaching the WORLD by preaching the WORD one verse at a time”

E.H Bascon St. Diaz compound Dumlog Talisay City, Cebu Philippines


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