Thank you Holy Spirit

for a legacy of glory!

LGI celebrates its 9th year!

Thank you Holy Spirit for gifting us with a legacy of glory. The word of God declares

that the Holy Spirit ministry is a ministry of glory. LGI recipients of the blessings from the

Holy Spirit gathered together last July 27 in LGI's Thanksgiving Dinner at Dolce Latte.

Together, we gratefully acknowledged the revelatory nature of the LGI ministry, i.e., reaching

God’s heart, revealing God’s kingdom-secrets, and releasing God’s power. Thank you Holy

Spirit for teaching us to move in Your Presence and in Your Power. Thank you for teaching us

how to love God and even how to exercise the complexities of loving one another.

Through the years, the Lord has established a Learning Center on Biblical Studies and

Christian Life Skills. An offshoot of this center is our Prayer Ministry we call WindWatch,

managed by LGI-trained prophetic teams of lay pastors, prayer leaders, intercessors, worship

leaders and preachers. We have over 10 WindWatch prayer meetings held weekly, about 5 in

Metro Manila and Pampanga, and mostly in Mindanao. A Prayer group in Sydney also uses

our WindWatch messages for their meetings.

I thank LGI, led by Pastor Cris Navarro, our new Executive Director, and our founding

Board members: Pastor Bernie Morales, Pastor Bing Dakanay, and Pastor Sonny Navarro

for honoring my retirement as LGI Executive Director for 9 exciting years. Our beloved Board

Secretary-Treasurer, Atty. Carmel Perfecto, peacefully went home with the Lord just about a week

before our event. Pastor Liza Garcia is currently pastoring a church in the USA but was with us in

spirit. I also thank God for giving LGI a Work Team who loves the Lord and flows with the Spirit-

Cookie Calaguas, Dr. Mimi Damian, Aaron Dait, Laarni de Belen and Ptr. Ester Bartolome.

Thank you LGI Family for blessing me with your presence that evening, and your

delightful testimonies of our Holy Spirit experiences together. I will not forget those who were

with me in the very beginning when LGI was struggling to survive- you supported me

spiritually, emotionally and financially. I honor you unto the Lord, asking Him to reward you

as He sees fit- siksik, liglig at umaapaw! Today, many others have joined us in this ministry.

They are just as excited, reaping the benefits of the hard work we have put in. They too are

working hard- teaching, preaching, healing, giving. They too shall be rewarded! Together, we

are expanding to include many others who will reach God's heart, reveal God's kingdom-secrets

and release God's power to heal and to transform, from glory to glory! Thank you for your

partnership. It was fruitful, powerful and mostly, it was fun!

And now, everyone, the Holy Spirit invites us to welcome a new season of breakthroughs

and expansion, for LGI and for all of you!!! Thank you Lord.

Advancing the Jesus Agenda with you,

Pastor Mina

LGI praises God

for the life of Atty.

Carmel C. Perfecto

LGI gives thanks to our Lord Jesus

Christ for the life of our beloved Board

Secretary-Treasurer Carmel who

peacefully passed on to the next life

last July 24, 2012.

Carmel took charge of all our legal

papers and transactions from the first

day of our incorporation in 2003 up to

2012. She actively raised funds for us

especially during the first years when we

had practically nothing. She was a

founding member of our 5-year-old

WindWatch Prayer Ministry and served

as a prayer intercessor for 4 years.

Carmel retired from the NEDA as one of

its Directors. She is one of the pillars of

the Cosmopolitan Church where she sang

in the Choir for 60 years. Praise God for

gifting LGI with a competent and

committed servant of God. Till we see

each other again Carmel. We miss you.

LGI welcomes new

Board members

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to

us to add Dr. Mimi Damian and Pastor

Vida Mei Rivera as the newest members

of our LGI Board of Directors.

Both are co-founders of the WindWatch

Prayer Ministry which was launched in

January 01, 2007. Pastor Mimi is

currently serving as LGI’s WindWatch

Coordinator. Pastor Vida Mei established

a WindWatch Ministry in Pampanga last

year. Both are also members of the LGI

pool of faculty.

BIOS The Quarterly Publication

of Life-Growth Inc.

Issue 25, September 2012 BIOS is Greek for “life”

Issue 25, September 2012

LGI Awardee of the Year

Pastor Ester Bartolome was the

Executive Director’s choice for this year’s

award. She was presented the “Prophetic

Prayer Minister of the Year” award (with

a love gift of P5000) by the LGI Board

during the anniversary celebration last

July 28, 2012.

Pastor Ester demonstrates eagerness in

revealing God’s will for His people

through the words of knowledge from the

Holy Spirit. Praise God for her

willingness to serve God’s people with

readiness and joy in her heart.

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WindWatch Pampanga will

celebrate their first founding

anniversary on October 05 with

Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno as

their speaker.

Pastor Vida Mei Rivera was used

mightily by the Holy Spirit to

establish His work in Pampanga.

She raised up her own team of

prophetic prayer intercessors.

The Prophetic Leaders and

Gatekeepers Fellowship will be

held on November 09, 2012, Friday,

6:00 - 8:30 at the LGI Training

Center.

LGI offers “From the Inside Out:

A Praise and Worship

Workshop” on November 3 & 10

(Saturday) with UP College of Music

Extension Program Instructor

Mr. Juro Kim Feliz as trainor.

The workshop is designed to help

worship teams rise to a new level of

Spirit-filled and Spirit-sensitive

worship leading with artistic and

technical excellence.

Call the LGI Office at 413.6803 to

reserve slots and for more details.

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LGI Updates

BIOS│

Rev. Dr. Mina N. Palomo ▪ Editor-in-Chief

Rev. Criscelyn C. Navarro ▪ Managing Editor

Arlene Joy C. Calaguas ▪ Lay Out Artist

Eleanor Paraan, Mike Garol ▪ Photographers

LGI turns over its one-year-old WindWatch

Holy Spirit Ministry to Puno UMC

Thank you Holy Spirit for using five Spirit-filled people to usher the birthing of the glorious

ministry of the Holy Spirit. During the last quarter of 2011, the wind of the Spirit started to

blow in the hearts of Rev. Dr. Mina Palomo, Rev. Dave Sablan, Atty. Charles Puno, Ms. Ester

Lee Paragas, and Chief Justice Reynato Puno (Ret.). The Holy Spirit gave them a common

vision of enabling Christians to rise to a new level of faith and worship. The Church Council of

the Puno United Methodist Church (PUMC) in Quezon City through the leadership of their

Council Chair CJ Puno eagerly welcomed the works of the Holy Spirit in their church. They

generously and graciously allowed LGI to hold WindWatch in their beautiful sanctuary. On

September 01, 2011, WindWatch Don Antonio (WWDA) was born from the heart of God. About

thirty people gladly received this ministry.

The Holy Spirit established this ministry through the leadership of Rev. Criscelyn Navarro as

she taught the people about the works of the Holy Spirit for one year. WindWatch co-founders

Pastor Mimi Damian and Ms. Cookie Calaguas supported her from the very beginning. The

well-crafted and anointed messages of the WindWatch Curriculum written by Pastor Mina cut

people to the heart and empowered them to hear and obey God’s voice. They were impassioned

to worship and emboldened to pray in Jesus’ Name. Many received the anointing and baptism of

the Holy Spirit and experienced various healings, deliverance, signs, wonders, and miracles.

A year later, WWDA has doubled in size as around eighty people gathered to celebrate its first

year founding anniversary last September 6. LGI also officially turned over WWDA to the

leadership of PUMC. Pastor Mina was overwhelmed by the hunger, passion, and anointing of

the people at WWDA for God. In a letter of commendation to them, she wrote, “I did not

anticipate the powerful anointing of the Holy Spirit upon you. Now, after one year, you can very

well manage WindWatch on your own. You managed to raise up Holy Spirit preachers and

prophets and prayer leaders! I praise God that you were able to establish the ministry and

secure it in one year, even less!”

Our confidence is in the Holy Spirit who blesses us with spiritual gifts to build up the church.

He has equipped godly men and women who are sensitive to His voice and will. The PUMC

pastors Rev. Noel Legaspi and Rev. Dave Sablan will now oversee WindWatch Puno together

with: (1) WindWatch Preachers: CJ Puno, Rose Regalia, Ester Lee, Charles, and Cookie;

(2) Prayer Leaders: CJ Puno, Fred and Rose Soberano, Joseph Velasquez, Reynato Velasquez,

Isaac and Rikki Puno, Bella Panggabean, Ester Lee, Rose, Charles, and Cookie; (3) Worship

Team: Benedict Samonte, Laarni de Belen, Jake Crisolo, Tristan Santiago, Bogs Feliz, Jovanni

Maquiling, Charles, Cookie, Joseph, and Bella; (4) Usher: Mye Regalia; (5 ) WindWatch

Coordinators: Charles and Ester Lee.

We look forward to the new year ahead with greater revelations from God! We declare a

stronger blow of the Spirit’s wind that will take WindWatch Puno to greater heights of glory,

mightier exploits in the faith, and deeper excitement for the mysteries and revelations of the

Spirit. Let there be an increase in anointing as you continue to hunger and thirst for the Lord.

God will surely finish this good work that He started in you! Mighty miracles, signs and

wonders shall accompany you and usher you into a life of glory! - PCN