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| 1/16/2025 | USA National Martin Luther King Jr Day (1/20/25) A. PJ's Late Night Worship Master list - PJ Barner: actor · singer · director. YouTube: #300-201: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26FzOhEZ3k41BCzNbiSZ-qw2 B. #400-301: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26EAnhq36C3vdyKCuYefKUop Present Need: $300 for BCA "Bus L": $2-tire repair & $2 -Rubber boots, BCA "Bus M": $180 -diesel gas, $116 & starter. |
Churches, Schools & "Safe House" (orphanage): Barner Christian Academy: PHILS: PO Box 82,224 Davao City, Philippines 8000. USA: 18 (or #5) Eileen Drive, Rensselaer, NY 12144 OUR ACTIVE MINISTRIES: Abby- Student Moody Bible Institute PJ- Minister of Music Auburn Alliance Church (NY) Elvie- DEXCOM for CAMACOP MDD, Senior Principal at BCA, Sunday School teacher Paul- Senior Pastor at FAF church, President at BCA, President of PMBMI, 70.3-Ironman Triathlete Paul & Elvie- Paul & Elvie- Founders & Directors of FHF orphanage, Board members at FAF church. Rev. Paul, Elvie, PJ and Briana, & Abigail Barner Philippine cell# (977) 735-8714 PAUL; (838) 202-9437- ELVIE |
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| 1/9/2025 | National Day of Mourning for 1970's 39th USA President Jimmy Carter 1/9/25 COMING UP (furlough visits): Please pray for the students & teachers at BCA. Due to weather changes, many kids have colds and thus are absent from their classes, which they will have to make-up. Please also pray for the contractors who are continuing construction of the perimeter flower planter/wall on the back wall of BCA's orphanage. As they complete each section, the orphans dig up dirt in secluded areas of the property to fill-in the planters and then put-in the flowers. Please pray too as the BCA school bus drivers & parents are beginning to prepare one of the school's unused rooms to be the new 8th grade classroom for 2025-26. Praise God that this past Sunday Elvie & I visited the Westside Alliance Church in Greensboro, NC, and also spoke this past Wednesday evening at The Village Chapel in Pinehurst, NC. This church was one of those which had given to purchase plastic chairs and tables for BCA's new 7th grade class, and also to replace the chairs which had floated away in a recent heavy rainstorm. We are spending a delightful week with our dear hosts in North Carolina, before we travel onward in our journey west. Elvie & I even have a few new sponsors for Filipino students, and have made connection with some lovely Vietnamese sponsors, who pray consistently for God's work in the Philippines! "Beso beso!" While in Canada recently, we visited a church which our nieces attend. It was pretty cold & rainy, & as one of our nieces was backing up out of the parking lot, we heard a discouraging "crunch". The Filipino pastor was in the parking lot at the time, & saw the 2 cars collide, back bumper-to-front bumper. Since the car which was hit was his own, he glanced at it & realized there was no real damage. So, he quipped with a smile, "beso beso" (they were just kissing!) and left it at that. Since during this furlough we are visiting not only dozens of states, but also nearly a half dozen countries, we also encounter many languages & accents. Some joyful Vietnamese worshippers had joined the Sunday School class we attended in North Carolina, where the teacher asked, "Where do you like to spend your time…time where you have opportunity to share your faith in Jesus?" Some said they go to the store, others at work, & still others at the golf course or with family. When some mentioned they communicate with friends online, the Vietnamese members agreed with Elvie that the internet has given great opportunity to catch-up with those next door and around the world, while pursuing ways to reach the lost. Elvie especially keeps communication-up daily with our Filipino teachers, church leaders & orphans overseas, so they have clear direction even in our absence. One such individual who especially appreciates our continual contact is Faith, one of the 3 secretaries at Barner Christian Academy (BCA). After a New York woman who sponsors a BCA student mentioned in an email to me that another sponsor from her church is now in assisted living, she then continued that she was willing to pick-up the friend's sponsorship! Within the same few minutes I had received & read the email, I contacted Faith (by email) & told her of the switch. Amazing to consider that, what used to take months to accomplish before the internet, now can be accomplished within just a few minutes. That is not the only thing that Faith was busy with though. To streamline the process of being sure that pictures of "little Johnny" don't find their way into the envelope being mailed to the sponsor of "little Suzie", she developed a creative box-system. As she was stuffing, she considered the excitement she'd had just a few days ago that not one, but four of the annual permits which needed to be submitted by year end had all been approved: a. SF10-transfers, students' credentials; b. SEC Amendment-re-evaluation of Primary Purpose (addition of Jr high school, 7th grade); c. SGOD (School's Governance Operating Division) CID (Curriculum Implementation Division) to ensure equivalency of BCA's Christian curriculum with the DepEd's (Department of Education) Basic- education Matatad (Solidarity) curriculum; d. Permits to Operate for the next school year, #097 & #023. e. Business Permit Renewal in compliance to City Ordinance 0506-13. As all these things passed through the mind of Faith, she suddenly noticed a little hand reaching up to place pictures in one of the envelopes. It was one of the younger preschool students, who had found his way up to the offices. So, Faith escorted him back to his classroom & continued her work. Faith attended the LIS (Lerner Information System) online class for the DepEd, a Virtual Conference with Lene, the school principal. After the online lesson, she started stuffing envelopes again. Her mind wandered to earlier in the week, when she fulfilled the Random Drug Test at BMCDC. In the randomizer app that the government had sent, 2 teachers (3rd & 7th grades) & the school nurse were chosen for drug testing. So, Faith brought them to the drug testing center & they passed the test, as per the results which she picked up the next day at the PDCA police department. Suddenly, once more Faith noticed the little hand reaching up again. What? Evaluating what he had accomplished during her reminiscing, she noticed to her surprise that this little guy was accurate in his work! So, she scooted back downstairs to his classroom and requested from his teacher that he spend the rest of the day sorting pictures & envelopes to stuff them! When his mom came to pick him up from school, Faith made to tell her that her little guy was a great help. Until next time… Let the islands…rejoice! TOOLS FOR PERSONAL CHRISTIAN GROWTH: A. PJ's Late Night Worship Master list - PJ Barner: actor · singer · director. YouTube: #300-201: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26FzOhEZ3k41BCzNbiSZ-qw2 B. #400-301: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26EAnhq36C3vdyKCuYefKUop D. SPECIAL #434 - God Writes Our Story: Our Filipino Wedding (1/5/24). PJ Barner is with Elvie Egan Barner and 69 others. Tune in every Tuesday! One year ago, my wife and I requested a second wedding ceremony to be held in my hometown in the Philippines, surrounded by my family, friends, and loved ones. What we got was so much more! In what was truly a meaningful full-circle event, our ceremony was held at Davao City Alliance Gospel Church with Rev. Bert Labawan as the officiating minister -- the same church AND reverend from my parents' wedding almost 30 years ago! We were also honored by the presence of so many godparents, including the president of The Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines, Inc. himself Bishop Ed Cajes and his wife. After the ceremony we were treated to a dazzling reception at Sunny Point Hotel. We were prepared for both our first dance and the traditional Tinikling. We were NOT prepared for rising from the stage on a gleaming kalesa, enjoying delicious food from a "Be Our Guest"-esque chef parade, taking a slice from a descending multi-layered hanging cake chandelier, getting a flaming sword escort, and releasing real doves! It was the best day of our lives. We were blessed far more than either of us deserved. We cannot thank my parents Paul and Elvie Egan Barner enough for setting this all up in the midst of the already hectic holiday season (during which we gave stuffed toys and gifts to 600 children). We thank our friends and members and staff of Barner Christian Academy of Davao City, Inc , Faith Alliance Fellowship and Kiwanis Club Royale Davao for being a part of the festivities. Thank you to everyone involved in the wedding for the sacrifice of your time and talents, from our amazing coordinator Eunice Grace Chung to our dearly departed Luci Monte, for the staff and incredible photographers at Sunny Point, our talented wedding singers and caterers, and especially our ninongs, ninangs, bridesmaids and groomsmen! And to all my family and loved ones who have known me since childhood and helped raise me to be a man of God, I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now, on the 1-year anniversary of our stunning Filipino wedding, we are excited to share with you all the full movie-length video! 1 hr, 30 min, 50 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYiHXAyUOQ Present Need: $301.80: BCA Bus "H": $147 for gasoline 40 gallons, BCA Bus "Lx": $154.8 for gasoline 42.12 gallons Upcoming (General) Schedule: January-December, 2025: Paul & Elvie's 2025 USA Speaking/Visiting tour: (tentative):
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| 1/2/2025 | Happy New Year, 2025!!! (1/1/25) COMING UP (furlough visits): Please pray for complete healing for Gina (not her real name), a woman who was jaywalking & ran across the road in front of one of BCA's buses, as the driver was returning from distributing hundreds of backpacks, clothes, toys, stuffed animals & school supplies to poor & needy children on nearby Samal Island. Gina & her husband are a poor young couple with small boys & her leg was run over & she was hospitalized with internal injuries during Christmas. Praise God that this past Sunday Abby sang & Elvie & I spoke at Filipino Alliance Church of Toronto (F.A.C.T.) in Toronto, Canada. We spent a delightful Christmas Eve & Christmas Day with relatives in Canada, and also visited another church, which has invited us back in June to speak at their Church's birthday. We also enjoyed celebrating a belated Christmas in Auburn, NY with PJ, Bri & AZ! We celebrated (online) the New Year's "Ball drop" with our niece Elissa in Rensselaer, NY (she turns a ¼-century this Saturday). We also sang again "Happy Birthday" to our car, as we have now driven 12,000 miles this furlough (3k per month). "3-2-1…Happy New Year!" While in Canada a few days before 2025 began, every time we came to a crosswalk in the bustling city of Toronto, a blinking red sign would announce how many seconds before we were allowed to cross the street. We turned quite a few curious Canadian heads though, when every time we did so, we'd call out, Happy New Year! Some pedestrians even looked down at their watches, as if they'd missed something! Meanwhile overseas in the Philippines, they entered the New Year before us, since their clocks are 13 hours ahead of those in the Eastern USA. In just a few days, they'll be resuming classes at Barner Christian Academy. Enjoying her Christmas break, BCA's Teacher Rita thought back to one of her "Multigrade Prep & Nursery" classes at the beginning of December. She began her class with the daily routine, of prayer, greetings, and reviewing homework as a class. Afterward, she passed out coloring pages. To introduce numbers one through ten, Rita first led the class in counting together. Then on the worksheet of ten rows of ten animals, each line was to have colored the progression (1st line, 1 animal, 2nd line 2, etc.). Next worksheet had then students receive a page full of numbers and they were to circle the numbers with the color that Rita announced (3 is blue, 4 is red, etc). Rita then showed a video which had the kids sing and dance to the "Number song." This they really liked, since Filipinos love to dance. Finally, Rita opened her Bible and asked the students to repeat after her the following, "ONE: There is ONE God. TWO: The Bible has 2 sections: the Old & New Testaments. THREE: God is Trinity: Father, Son & Holy Spirit…" She went all the way through ten and passed out worksheets for the kids to memorize for homework. So, while we were counting DOWN "3-2-1" in Canada, BAC kids were counting UP "1-2-3". It all adds up: 2025 will be a wonderful year, since this is the YEAR that God has made! Until next time… Let the islands…rejoice! TOOLS FOR PERSONAL CHRISTIAN GROWTH: A. PJ's Late Night Worship Master list - PJ Barner: actor · singer · director. YouTube: #300-201: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26FzOhEZ3k41BCzNbiSZ-qw2 B. #400-301: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItygvjoq26EAnhq36C3vdyKCuYefKUop C. Happy New Year 2025, from the "Barner 6" (14 seconds) Auburn, New York, USA. https://www.facebook.com/100000033945519/videos/pcb.9435205709823800/1148740273628619 D. SPECIAL #433 - New Year's Eve. Briana Barner is celebrating New Year's Eve with Elvie Egan Barner and 3 others. Tune in every Tuesday! AMAZING GRACE (GRASYA NGA KAHIBULONGAN) Happy New Year from the Barners! (3 min, 51 sec). https://www.facebook.com/briana.cutting.9/videos/1100440664868764 Present Need: $325.12 for: BCA Bus "Le": $36 Seat belt & $190 replace tire 700x15 nf, BCA Bus "Lx": $99.12 for gasoline, 33.5 gallons. 3 Ongoing Construction Projects: Upcoming (General) Schedule: January-December, 2025: Paul & Elvie's 2025 USA Speaking/Visiting tour: (tentative): |
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