Missionary Hymn

Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Sing to the LORD, praise His name;
proclaim his salvation day after day.
Declare His glory among the nations,
His marvelous deeds among all peoples.

For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;
He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols,
but the LORD made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before Him;
strength and glory are in His sanctuary.

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name;
bring an offering and come into His courts.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
tremble before Him, all the earth.
Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
He will judge the peoples with equity.

Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
they will sing before the LORD, for He comes,
He comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in His truth.
- Psalm 96

Happy New Missions Year!

Malipayun na Pasku. MJ, Thank you.

From: Krishna Kang Sonza [kangsonza@apc.essc.org.ph]
Sent: martes, 11 de diciembre de 2007 13:55
To: CFC-CA3@yahoogroups
Cc: Michelle Joy Francia
Subject: Present(Christmas) from MJFrancia

Christmas 2007

Dear 29AD,

You are very fortunate.

This Christmas, you have been given a wonderful present of helping educate over 100 indigenous children in Bendum, Bukidnon Philippines.

A DONATION was made under your name to Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) by MICHELLE JOY FRANCIA.

APC is a non-stock, non-profit organization working at the forefront of Culture-Based Curriculum Development in the Philippines. In 2004, APC gained recognition from the Department of Education as the FIRST FORMAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE-BASED EDUCATION in the country. It further works for culture-based education in Mindanao by partnering with schools and institutions in developing the capacities of IP educators.

The children of Bendum wish you and your loved ones a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!See attachment for the card which MICHELLE JOY FRANCIA got for you.

Know more about APC at http://apc.essc.org.ph/

Watch an APC video too. Click here.

Gumising na...

Araw ng pagasa'y narito na
Dumating din, haharapin natin....
Basta't tayo'y magkasama
Laging mayrong umagang kay ganda....

(Last song with SAGIP of Concepcion GK Village and other performers).
Pictures by Jamie Lihan. Thanks Jamie!
More at http://jamielihan.multiply.com/photos/album/51/Music_of_Hope_

Praise God!!!

I will be still and know you are God

MUSIC OF HOPE: We praise and thank God for a night of song and worship! We kept still, and God just showered us with His love.

Backstage, I saw every performer applaud for each other. I saw each performer pray as a group, worshipping God, before coming up on stage. That even includes the 4Bars, led by Tito Joe. I saw each one's nervous face but was overshadowed by a bright smile, a smile that of a child in the comforting arms of his Father.

It was a night all about love --- love for community, love for God!

Where in the world...

... is The Arena?

Be like one of the three kings.

Bring the most precious gift --- yourself, to the community that you love!

Two thousand years ago, the three kings must have asked "Where in the world will we bring this gift?". Guided by a star, they found God's greatest gift to mankind --- His love.

Today, we ask "After all that has happened to our community, where in the world will we bring ourselves, to help this community that we love?"

Bring yourselves to The Arena, brothers and sisters, and maybe we'll all find anew God's greatest gift to us --- His love!

God bless you!

ps. click and see the map below. be guided by the star....!





I will sing forever of your love, oh Lord!

IPTV TVU DVD 29AD

Sounds like an alphabet soup! The 2006 Abot Langit Concert DVD is now broadcasted via TVUnetworks. The DVD is a live recording of the concert done last May 2006. TVUnetworks also broadcasted live the "By His Wounds, We are Healed" Healing Concert last July 2007. Thru this live broadcast, more people were touched by the healing power of God.

To view, (1) go to www. tvunetworks.com and download the tvuplayer (2) choose the Philippine events channel 63256.

God bless you!

Music of Hope --- Video

Additional performers in this benefit concert --- our friends from WEST-B and our GK MasterRapper Greg Mercado (Yo!)!

Whoooaa!!! It's getting so exciting everyday.


My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul. --- Psalm 108:1

Music of Hope

Help our CFC home office and full-time workers. Experience a night of music, dance and praise with the 29AD, Kenosis, Central-C Band, Rene Henson and the 4Bars.

Ask your household heads. Bring your whole family, neighbors, officemates, classmates, and friends!

Help us find sponsors too!

As the song goes --- why don't you give love on Christmas day!

Tickets available at the CFC Center and at the gates.

Ticket prices
Court Seat @ P200
Ring Side @P150
Lower Box @P100
Upper Box @P50

Contact Phil de Guzman thru mobile number 0922-8149446 / 0919-5536753 or landline number 727-9607 or Gina Nagrampa at landline number 727-0682 to 87 loc. 37.

God loves you! God bless you!

My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul. --- Psalm 108:1

We bid farewell...

... to our brother Joel Umali.

Bro! Peace be unto you. And pray for us up there.

A Roll-call of Healing

I praise God for a beautiful healing worship last night!

I cannot call it successful, for God's work is always a success. It was simply an awesome and beautiful night of prayer for healing.

So now I invite you to a roll-call of healing. If you were healed, or even in the process of healing, or you know someone who got healed, let's hear about it. Let's share it to the world that, indeed, Jesus lives, and by His wounds, we are healed.

Write about your healing in the Comments below, or email it at lordhealme@gmail.com.

God loves you! God bless you!

O Lord my God, I called to you for help and You healed me - Psalm 30:2

Healing Concert writeup @ Daily Inquirer

Praise God for Josephine Darang for writing about the concert on her column Purely Personal at Philippine Daily Inquirer dated July22.

Read about it here.

http://www.fatherfernando.com

The Healer and the Music Makers

Glory and praise to our God for Rev. Father Reuter who writes about Rev. Father Fernando, 29AD and the concert in his column at Philippine Star.

Read about it here.

http://www.fatherfernando.com

The Concert Video Ad

Gary V. talks about the Concert

Or click here.



Read about Fr. Fernando here.

A Message from Fr. Reuter

Or click here.

Be There!

The BHWWAH posters are out!
The pictures in the mosaic were from people who asked for healing. And we believe, by the grace of God, these people will be healed.

For inquiries, send an email to lordhealme@gmail.com.

For tickets, look for Phil de Guzman at the Couples for Christ Center Social Ministries, Ortigas Ave., SanJuan, Metro Manila. Or at 0922.814.9446 or 727.0682 Local 63 or 727.9607.

Read about Fr. Fernando Suarez here.

God makes a way

June 10 - Some of the 29AD singers participated in the MUSIKAPELLA, an A CAPELLA competition organized by CFC. Elimination rounds were held June 10, with the winner representing Metro Manila for the National Finals on June23, on the eve of CFC's 26th Anniversary.

They sang a 12-voice arrangement of "God will make a way". And God indeed made a way for 29AD to the Finals.

Praise God!

Pictures? Click here.

Spread the Good News

Click on the poster to read.
Leave a comment if you have inquiries.
God bless you!

Read about Fr. Fernando Suarez, click here.

29AD on Studio23

June 3--- Well, it was actually Bob and Aileen who were featured at the Family Rosary Crusade TV program on Studio23. It was aired in its regular time slot on 8am Sundays.

But the segment "Kuwentong Buhay" that kwento'ed the buhay of Bob and Aileen, also featured the sotry of 29AD!

Videos are here --- Portion1 and Portion2.

Portion1


Portion2


By the way, what was featured last June3 was just PART1.
PART2 will be on June10 8am (I hope)! Watch it!
(Parang tele-novela pala ito...)

Did you know that --- Fr. Patrick Peyton, who founded the Family Rosary Crusade, died on June 3, 1992?


“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.”- 1 Chronicles 29:11

Our Blog is One Year Old

Flashback - Fr. Manoling Concert

March 16 - 29AD Singers and instrumentalists played for Fr. Manoling Francisco's Holy Week Reflection Musical concert at the Christ the King Church, Greenmeadows.









To see all the pictures, click here.

May Rafa na si Biboy

May 22 - Praise God for His marvelous gift to Biboy and May!
A 5-pound wonder with a bass guitar in his hand!
Read more about it http://biboylaboy.blogspot.com.

We Have Come to Mount Zion

May19-20

Baguio (again)!!!














29AD made music during the Entertainment Night of Central-A's HOPE WEEKEND at Baguio's Teacher's Camp. We played the dancing tunes for 2 straight hours as our brothers and sisters danced to their heart's content... and till their feet tired. It became hot in Baguio!

We also led the Praisefest at the culmination of the weekend.

Pictures will be posted soon (ang dami e!).


"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us His ways,
so that we may walk in His paths."
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 2:3

Get out and VOTE!!!

Senador, alcalde, o councilor? Ano ba talaga, kuya?

Remembering Tito Bob

A great musician.
A good friend, a good brother.

Comedy quotes:
"Last song... last song...." at two o'clock in the morning!

Nativity of the Lord Parish

May 9 - No doubt about it, God was in His house that night! Bob gave a talk at the Nativity of the Lord Parish (Cubao, QC) about "Forming Your Music Ministry" for a cluster in CFC West B. Sharings were done by Aileen, Mimmon and Chris.

After the talk, there was a mini-praisefest, led by a handful 29AD band --- Chris on guitar, Biboy on Bass, Mimmon on e-drums, and Roy on vocals. Grabe! Luuupet!

We really felt God's presence that night! Our brothers and sisters of West-B went home with our Lord in their hearts. We continue to pray that that night would be the nativity of their music ministries.


And how lovely is Your dwelling place, Oh Lord, mighty God, Lord of all!

Talk about "Forming Your Music Ministry" during David's time ---

David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand are to supervise the work of the temple of the LORD and six thousand are to be officials and judges. Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose."
-1 Chronicles 23:4-5














Thanks to Biboy for the pictures.

Manila Sound at QC Circle

May 5 - Played for the GK Kapitbahayan Family Day at the QC Circle. Had the opening slot at 10am! People braved the heat and danced with the Manila sound. Whew! A great way to start the day!

Praise God!

Sssssssummer Outing

May 1 - Labor Day, labor for fun at Antipolo.

















We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 1:3

Guess who are the people in your (29AD) neighborhood...

With the group PASSAGE (The album's cover shown). Wow, long hair pala nuon! Strong contender for Tito Glenn's throne. The best rhythm section bastion and leader you can play with.

Who is he?

Joke Time

Pedro, itaktakwil mo ako ng tatlong beses, bago titilaok ang manok ng tatlong beses.
At ikaw naman, Hudas... Hudas.... Hudas... makinig ka. Huwag ka basa ng basa ng blog dyan....

Remembering Prolife

Love at the Rally

We were the music ministry for the Central-A Evangelization Rally held at the Mandaluyong Gym last Sunday Feb18 1-5pm.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- John 13:34

+Click on the pictures for a bigger view. Picture taken by Mimmon.

But the greatest of these is....

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

- 1 Corinthians 13

At the February CFC Social Ministries Forum and 4BARS

We were the music ministry for the CFC Social Ministries Breakfast Forum at the Gabaldon Room of Club Filipino last Saturday Feb10.

These fora are regularly held every month by the CFC Social Ministries. For this month of February, the speaker was Atty. Alex Lacson, talking about "Good Citizenship". Atty. Lacson is the author of the book "12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country".

The day also launched the 4 BARS, four singing members of STMA. They were taught by our very own arranger-extraordinaire Nonong Sampang. They sang "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" and "Blowing in the Wind". Members of the 4BARS are:
- Former Deputy Executive Secretary Bro. Joe Tale
- Former COA Commissioner Bro. Nonoy Dalman
- Atty. Bro Nides Respicio
- Justice Bro. Joey Reyes

Buy Pilipino. See you in the next forum?

Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good....
-Titus 3


By the way, here's an interesting read about Alex Lacson and Max Soliven:
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/show_content.asp?article=229905

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9 Degrees for 29AD's

B A G U I O !!!
29AD was one of the two bands who made music during the recent CFC Mission Core HOPE Weekend held at Camp John Hay, Baguio, playing for the entertainment night Saturday February3. It was 9 degrees outside but because of the music, the dancing, the laughter, and the Holy Spirit, it was hot on the convention center where 29AD performed!

Missions like these are always a long story. And no words could ever describe it. It's best to experience it. So... see you in the next mission!?!


*** Missionary Hymn***
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Sing to the LORD, praise His name;
proclaim His salvation day after day.
Declare His glory among the nations,
His marvelous deeds among all peoples.
--- Psalm 96

And the stage!!!

Xmas piX thanX 2 manniX

Just one of the CA3 Cluster XMas pictures. Stay tuned for more!

Music at 1st STMA Coordinators Meeting for 2007

January 20. We were the music ministry for the 1st STMA Coordinators Meeting held at the Layforce Multipurpose Room, San Carlos Seminary, Guadalupe Makati.

Did you know that St. Thomas More coined the following words, thus contributing to the english language: fact, taunt, shuffle, paradox, anticipate... and a handful more. He also termed the phrase "to be the best of something".

That's one of the greatest ways to start the Year --- to be the best of something!

To give and to be the best in music and in our service,
and to give and be the best in praising God!

This is what the Lord says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go"
--- Isaiah 48:17

Recorded...

First batch of new compositions for 2007 recorded Jan 17 and 18.

It's 2007! Let's shout it out!

January 10 Wednesday. It was the FIRST rehearsal for the new year 2007. Hush-hush about the 2007 Concert.