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"Everything
with you is better / We got it good as long as we're
together
Anything we do whatever / Everything is better with
you"
"Everything"
Every
Sunday in the DCBC Youth Fellowship is really something
to look forward to! Be it a day for Bible Study, Evangelism
and Outreach, or some Special Event, it is always exciting
to see how God will move through each song, prayer and
time of sharing. It's amazing how He makes us realize
the most important things through the simplest activities.
But far more important than the programs are the people
we meet, and the friendships that are formed. Without
the programs we can still be a fellowship, but without
the people, we cannot. We are a group of people growing
together in love, friendship, and faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ.
"How
about Love? Measure in Love. Seasons of Love"
"Seasons
of Love"
One
thing we are constantly reminded of is to express genuine
Love – Love for God, Love for family, Love for
friends. Love is God's greatest gift. His unconditional
love for us is not something that we should keep to
ourselves. It is something that we should share. It
is meant for us all. We can only love because Christ
first loved us.
"Thank
You for loving me / Thank you for all you have done
I can never be all I was meant to be / If you hadn't
given your love"
"Thank
You"
Family
is a gift. Our parents are the stewards God has entrusted
our lives to. We want to express our gratitude to our
ever-supportive, ever-loving parents! Their love is
a reflection of our Father's love for us. If it weren’t
for their sacrifices, their guidance, and their lives
we would not be where we are today; we would not be
who we are today.
"Friends
are friends forever / If the Lord's the Lord of them
Though it's hard to let you go / In our Father's hands
we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends"
"Friends"
For
now we are together because God allowed it. But surely
in the not too distant future every one of us will be
leaving the fellowship. The thought may sound absurd
to us now, and most of us are not even thinking it yet.
However, Life must go on. Friendship rooted in God is
forever anyway. Circumstances may separate us physically,
but our hearts will always be tightly knit. Our paths
will cross again one way or the other, in this life
or the next. For as long as the Lord is the Lord of
us, we will always be friends — Friends Forever.
"We
are the reason that he gave His Life / We are the reason
that he suffered and died
To a world that was lost He gave all He could give /
To show us the reason to live"
"We
are the Reason"
"Lord
I will praise Your name forever
For you are love and life to me"
"Lord
of Love"
Why
do we do this? Why do we bother to come together every
Sunday as a fellowship? Why do we choose to go out of
our usual schedules and make time for all the meetings,
preparations, and paperwork? It is all about Him. His
message of love for humanity is meant to be shared.
Along with it comes God's call for us to disciple others
so that they may also disciple others in time. We are
investing in lives of young people faithfully believing
that God will use them for His glory, for His work just
as He uses us today. It is all about Him. And if we
really understand that, then we should also understand
that it involves sacrifice on our part — Selflessness.
It
is not about us doing some good in this world. It is
about God doing His work through us, for His glory alone...
for His glory alone.
We
are the DCBC Youth Fellowship. Everything I have said
so far is who we are.
We
performed our very first musicale, TGIS! (“Thank
God It's Sunday!”) at the UP School of Statistics
auditorium on March 18, 2007 for the English congregation.
After all the rehearsals, the long nights, the disappointments,
the delays, it finally went through! We even did an
encore at the Asian Theological Institute on March 24
to raise funds for our camp, “In Christ: Life from
the Grave.” We held the camp on April 9 to 14,
at Pook ni Mariang Makiling in Los Banos, Laguna —
six days and five nights!
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