Our new church email is ccdgte@gmail.com

Volunteers needed for Children’s Ministry at PNP every Saturdays at 3 pm. If interested please approach Baby Jambora or Janice.

COVENANT KEEPERS fellowship meets today, May 31 at 6:30 pm here at CCD. Inviting all couples for a time of fun, fellowship, and instruction!

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• You can’t answer the question, “Where are you from?”

• The vast majority of your clothes are hand-me-downs.

• You speak two languages but can’t spell either.

• You embarrass yourself by asking what swear words mean.

• You read National Geographic and recognize someone.

• You have a time zone map next to your telephone.

• You would rather eat ‘kinilaw’ (raw fish with vinegar) than cafeteria food.

• You consider a city 500 km away to be ‘very close’.

• You watch nature documentaries and think about how good that animal would taste if it were fried.

• You can cut grass with a machete but can’t start a lawn mower.

• You speak with authority on the subject of airline travel.

• You read the international section before the comics.

• Strangers say they can remember you when you were ‘this tall’.

• You have friends from or in 29 different countries.

• You do your devotions in another language.

• You sort your friends by continent.

• You realize that furlough is not a vacation.

• You wince when people mispronounce foreign words.

• You’ve spoken in dozens of churches but aren’t a pastor.

• The majority of your friends don’t speak English.

• Someone brings up the name of a team and you get the sport wrong.

• You like everything from Reggae to Japanese rap.

• You never take anything for granted.

• You watch a movie set in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are REALLY saying into the camera.

• You know how to pack.

• Fitting 15 or more people into a car seems normal.

• You refer gravel roads to highways.

• You haggle with the checkout clerk for a lower price.

• You get upset when people don’t finish their food and feel worse when they scrape it into the trash.

• You don’t think that two hours is a long sermon.

• You never have a special meal on Sunday, since it is your busiest day.

• You don’t do well in job interviews because you were taught to be modest.

• You think nothing of straddling white lines to pass between trucks or buses traveling side by side, because “There was plenty of room, officer. Honest! At least 15 cm clearance.”

• Someone in your passport country has to explain to you that the double yellow lines mean ONLY oncoming traffic can drive on that side of the road, even when there ISN’T any oncoming traffic…and you don’t understand why.

• You feel odd being in the ethnic majority.

• You go to the local Filipino restaurant just to listen to the conversation.

• You have to have five hot sauces on a Big Mac.

• You really do enjoy Oriental folk music.

• You marvel at the cleanliness of gas station bathrooms.

• Your last memories of your parents’ families are twenty years old.

• You think you’ve died and gone to heaven when you go into a foreign grocery store.

• You have a name in at least two different languages, and it is not the same one.

• You miss the sub-titles when you see the latest movies.

• You feel you need to move after you’ve lived in the same place for a month.

• Your idea of a good night is a Japanese cartoon and ‘Cup Noodles’.

• You cruise the internet looking for fonts that support your ‘native’ language’s alphabet.

• You think a ‘foreign school’ conducts classes in English.

• You try to get onto a military base by showing your passport.

• Your carry-on luggage weighs more than you do.



Does your life seem boring and dull after reading the list above?  Maybe a Missionary’s life is for you.  Pray about it.  Start packing your bags and go where our Lord leads you…

Then maybe we can add on the list (for Filipino Missionaries only):

• You go camping in the wilderness just so you can satisfy your craving for your favorite Filipino food.   Finally, you get to cook and eat your beloved  ‘bulad‘ (very smelly dried fish) -  aaahhhh yuuummmy ...   





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Have you ever eavesdropped on someone when they pray? In John 17, we have the opportunity to eavesdrop on Jesus as He prays to His Father. It’s the longest prayer of Jesus recorded in the New Testament, and what makes John 17 so wonderful is that you get to see what’s important to Jesus. In this chapter the veil is pulled aside and you get to peek into the very heart of God, in this intimate conversation between the Son and the Father.

Jesus meant for us to eavesdrop on Him. He spoke this prayer out loud so that people could hear it, and so that it would be recorded for all history. And we should pay close attention to it, because these were the things that were on Jesus’ heart to pray for; these were His priorities. After praying for Himself and the disciples, in the last verses Jesus prays for “those who will believe in Me through their word” (v. 20). That’s us, you and me. Jesus had you in mind when He was speaking to His Father. Can you imagine that–Jesus putting you on His prayer list? Does that excite you? Jesus Christ loved you enough to pray for you and He’s still praying for you, even today (see Romans 8:34Romans 8:34
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34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.  

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Because Jesus prayed for the things in John 17, it means that this is the basic will of God for our lives. When we cooperate with the very things we read about here, when we pray for the same things, we are lining ourselves up with His will. The secret of prayer is to find out what He wants, and pray that. When you pray for the will of God, you will see results, and you’ll see joy and power in your life. 1 John 5:14-151 John 5:14-15
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14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: in: or, concerning ¹⁵ And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  

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John 17 is the greatest prayer ever prayed, and it’s wonderful that Jesus allowed us to eavesdrop on Him. Read it over, study it, and become conformed to what Jesus expresses to His Father. You can’t go wrong that way!

Volunteers needed for Children’s Ministry at PNP every Saturdays at 3 pm. If interested please approach Baby Jambora or Janice.

Change of Schedule: COVENANT KEEPERS fellowship will be moved to next Sunday, May 31 at 6:30 pm here at CCD. Inviting all couples for a time of fun, fellowship, and instruction!

Please pray for our YOUTH CAMP this week: that God will pour out His Spirit upon our young people and be transformed to be the kind of young men and women God intends them to be! (Note: Talent Night will be Friday, May 29 at 7 pm)

Please pray for our YOUTH CAMP this week: that God will pour out His Spirit upon our young people and be transformed to be the kind of young men and women God intends them to be! (Note: Talent Night will be Friday, May 29 at 7 pm)

Change of Schedule: COVENANT KEEPERS fellowship will be moved to next Sunday, May 31 at 6:30 pm here at CCD. Inviting all couples for a time of fun, fellowship, and instruction!

Volunteers needed for Children’s Ministry at PNP every Saturdays at 3 pm. If interested please approach Baby Jambora or Janice.

CORRECTION: Please check our website at http://ccdumaguete.com. Our new church email is ccdgte@gmail.com.

A colorful rainbow brings to light the interconnected nature of one of the world’s most familiar books.

The Bible’s 1,189 chapters are plotted along the horizontal axis at the bottom of the image, with each bar’s length determined by the number of verses.

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“It almost looks like one monolithic volume,” said Carnegie Mellon’s Chris Harrison, who–along with Christoph Romhild of North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg, Germany–won an honorable mention for illustrations in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

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• This diagram arose from a collaboration between a Carnegie-Mellon Ph.D student and a Lutheran pastor to create a grand map of Biblical cross-references: “We wanted something that honored and revealed the complexity of the data at every level –- as one leans in, smaller details should become visible. This ultimately led us to the multi-colored arc diagram… The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate in color between white and light gray. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63,779he 63,779
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• “Although the Bible is made up of 66 individual books written by several different people, a scientific graph of the intersection of the content shows it to be so united that it appears to virtually be the work of one hand. Just another proof of the veracity of the Word.” – Ed Hodge

• Read the original post from the National Geographic.

• Check out the original image at Chris Harrison’s site.

Take a look and see why his promising career as a lifeguard did not flourish…
Smile and have a blessed day with our Lord and Savior!



Moses did not make it as a lifeguard, he failed! He also had his own share of run-ins on several very serious setbacks. Read the following post about how God gave Moses second chances. If you’re experiencing failures like Moses did, there too, is hope for you:

• God is the God of ordinary men who accomplish extraordinary things.

Dear Reader,

If you have anything that we can use for “Things that Make You Smile and Think”, please give us the link or email us at calvarychapel.dgt@gmail.com (this is the CCD email address exclusively for website matters), and we will post it here with the name of the contributor…We however,  reserve the right to edit and choose which contributions will finally be published.

We would love to hear from you!

Thank you,

The CCD Bezalel Circle

Have you ever wondered, “Where will I spend eternity?” God’s Word gives only two ultimate destinations for all humans. The first one is called hell and the Bible describes another ultimate destination called Heaven.

The question may at first make you smile…”"How will you spend eternity-Smoking or Non-smoking?” But seriously, think for a moment and ask yourself the question…



Non-Smoking or Smoking?

Philippians 4:6-7Philippians 4:6-7
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6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  

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6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 29:11Psalm 29:11
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11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.  

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11 The LORD gives strength to his people;
the LORD blesses his people with peace.


The attitude of gratitude. The healthiest human emotion is the attitude of gratitude, having a grateful heart, being thankful. It actually increases your immunities. It is a physical benefit to express the attitude of gratitude. If you’re depressed, make a list of fifty things you can be grateful for. When you’re grateful, it gets the focus off your problems and gets the focus on the benefits in your life. We have so much that we take for granted. Develop the attitude of gratitude and watch the stress level in your life go down.

People try pills, fads, drugs, therapy, rock crystals, stress reduction seminars and listen to tapes, books — anything to give just a little peace of mind. Paul says God’s peace is a gift to you. It is a gift that cannot be explained, duplicated, fabricated or understood. It is the sense of peace that comes over your life. THANK THE LORD FOR HIS PEACE TODAY!



• Read the full post : A Divided Mind

No, I’m not talking about evolution’s missing link…there’s no missing link – that’s why it’s still missing! Read on. God offers instruction, but then it’s our move. We must accept His instruction and apply it to our lives. Then, and only then, can we expect to cash in on the benefits of His instruction. So you see, application is the essential link between instruction and change.

Imagine, if you will, that you work for a company whose president found it necessary to travel out of the country and spend an extended period of time abroad. So he says to you and the other trusted employees, “Look, I’m going to leave. And while I’m gone, I want you to pay close attention to the business. You manage things while I’m away. I will write you regularly. When I do, I will instruct you in what you should do from now until I return from this trip.”

Everyone agrees. He leaves and stays gone for a couple of years. During that time he writes often, communicating his desires and concerns. Finally he returns. He walks up to the front door of the company and immediately discovers everything is in a mess—weeds flourishing in the flower beds, windows broken across the front of the building, the lady at the front desk dozing, loud music roaring from several offices, two or three people engaged in horseplay in the back room. Instead of making a profit, the business has suffered a great loss.

Without hesitation he calls everyone together and with a frown asks, “What happened? Didn’t you get my letters?” You say, “Oh, yeah, sure. We got all your letters. We’ve even bound them in a book. And some of us have memorized them. In fact, we have ‘letter study’ every Sunday. You know, those were really great letters.” I think the president would then ask, “But what did you do about my instructions?” And, no doubt, the employees would respond, “Do? Well, nothing. But we read every one!”

In the very same way, God has sent us His instruction. He has preserved every word of it in a Book, the Bible. It’s all there, just as He communicated it to us. When He returns for His own, He is not going to ask us how much we memorized or how often we met for study. No, He will want to know, “What did you do about my instructions?” Be NOT hearers only but DOERS of the Word (Jam.1:22). What instructions from the Lord that you’ve not been doing? Do it now…and change will surely come.

Please check our website at http://ccdumaguete.com. Our new church email is ccdgte@gmail.com.

Volunteers needed for Children’s Ministry at PNP every Saturday at 3 pm. If interested please approach Baby Jambora or Janice.

Volunteers needed for Children’s Ministry at PNP every Saturdays at 3 pm. If interested please approach Baby Jambora or Janice.

Please check our website at http://ccdumaguete.com. Our new church email is ccdgte@gmail.com.



From SownSeed.com

Emergency numbers may be dialed direct. No operator assistance is necessary. All lines to Heaven are open 24 hours a day! Feed your faith, and doubt will starve to death!



Please pray for our upcoming YOUTH CAMP! The DATE is changed to May 25-30 due to finals for summer classes. Registration forms is now available at the youth table at the back.

BEREAN IBS CLASS will resume this Tuesday, May 5 at 7:15 pm starting with Level 2: Understanding and Applying Parables. This is open to anyone who has gone through the previous Getting Deeper Class.

The COLLEGE CORE will meet at the Florendo’s residence at Habaña’s Subdivision this coming Wednesday, May 6 at 7:15 pm.

Change of schedule: MISSION FELLOWSHIP meets every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month at CCD, 5:00 pm. For those whose heart beats for Mission, come and join us!