God is graciously and continually at work in Christ’s Heritage Church, beginning the new year’s first quarter already with many reasons to praise Him. May God be glorified in this!
CHC celebrated its fifth-year anniversary last January 11, 2025. From the collective struggles such as the period of the COVID-19 pandemic to the different individual trials providentially decreed by God, the past five years have been a clear demonstration of the Lord’s steadfast love for His Church. The anniversary event’s theme was “A Missional Church” with preaching shared by Pastor Reuben Saywell from Grace Church Santa Maria in Bulacan. The event was an opportunity to literally count our blessings in the past year as a local church, be encouraged and challenged by the Word through God’s call to a Gospel-lived and Gospel-preached life inside and outside the local church, and have edifying and joyful fellowship with the brethren and guests. Lord-willing, CHC will be sustained for another five years and more for His glory!
After more than two years starting in December 2022, the Lord has allowed the sermon series on the book of Matthew to be completed last February 23, 2025. We thank the Lord for sustaining CHC and the sermon series’ different preachers to finish the Gospel account according to Matthew. From this, the church has begun a new sermon series on the book of 1 John. May the preachings from God’s Word continue to edify the church!
It is also a joy for CHC to welcome three new members this past quarter last January 12 and March 9, 2025, which even includes being able to witness the sacrament of baptism for one of our new members!
By God’s grace, the ninth batch of applicants for membership have started their membership classes last February 16, 2025 and are expected to go through a total of 10 classes to know more about the theological doctrines and stances of CHC as a reformed baptist local church. Lord-willing, the applicants will come to a clearer understanding of the Word and its call for God’s children to be committed to a local church.
As CHC continues in its Adult Sabbath School series on Reforming Worship which started last September 2024, the church is currently blessed to look deeper into Who and What the object of our worship is. This includes being able to study the absolute and relational attributes of God, the Triunity of God, the eternal distinctions of the Three Persons, and most recently starting to look into the characteristics of God’s eternal acts. We look forward to how this will continue to reform and strengthen the church’s perspective when understanding and approaching our holy God in worship.
Opportunities for learning more about God’s Word have been graciously provided by God through different ministries on Fridays and Saturdays. Tabletalk sessions on the book of Revelation and live podcast episodes ℅ CHC’s Saved Media ministry take place on Fridays, while a women’s book study on Samuel Renihan’s “Order and Honor in the Household” takes place almost every other Saturday.
Starting this year, together with CHC’s members and guests from other local churches, Saved Media has already been able to go through different Christian topics for their podcast episodes such as:
Christ’s Heritage Church would highly appreciate your prayers for the following as the church and its members continues to trust and depend on in its Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
