the master's community fellowship church & ministries consolodated annual report 2012-2017

THE MASTER’S COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH & MINISTRIES

(A ministry of Philippine Inland Island Missions)

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2012 - 2017

THE MASTER’S COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH AND MINISTRIES

December 31, 2017

My fellow slaves in Christ,

Greetings in the name of our Master, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ !

This is the second annual report that we have released. Since we did not get to release an annual report for 2012 to 2017, we are consolidating the reports for the past six years here.

We have always believed as the Bible has taught that the basic function of the church is to give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. All church activities are to supplement these two things.

With regards to prayer and the ministry of the Word, the plan was to preach through the whole testament verse by verse. However after more than two years of preaching in the book of Mathew, I have been burdened by the Lord to go back to basics. It seems that a lot of our members are not yet so grounded in the basics fundamental truths and doctrine and are not yet so grounded in the Word. So sometime in 2012 we went back to strengthening our discipleship program.

DISCIPLESHIP PROGRAM BOOK 1 (KNOWING GOD)

One o f t he ways whe re in we strengthened the program is aside from having small group discipleship before the service, the sermon during the main service is taken from Book 1 of our discipleship program. Book 1,

entitled “Knowing God” deals with the very fundamentals of our faith and discusses in four modules the subjects of Salvation, Your new life in Christ, Eternal Security and Baptism. After several years, we started all over again. Finally after two repetitions of Book 1 in four years, we held our first Master Discipleship exam with more than 30 who took the exam from our main church in Dumlog and our Candulawan church. More than 10 passed the first Master Discipleship exam for Book number 1 and was awarded the Master Discipleship Certificate for Book 1. Within the year 2017 another batch of more than 10 passed (First timers and re-takers) finally on December 2017 a total of 6 passed the exam. As of now there are several of those who are currently undergoing Book 1.

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2017 !2

TOTAL NUMBER OF PASERS FOR OUR MASTER DISCIPLESHIP EXAM BOOK

PASSERS:

25+ (From Dumlog and Candulawan Church)

BACK TO BASICS


We have printed a total of 300 copies of Book 1 since it was first released. Most of the first batch of 100 copies was given out to pastors in a conference sometime 5 years ago in order to promote our discipleship program. Several churches f rom di fferent denominations has been requesting copies of our discipleship materials which they view as very comprehensive and in depth. The second batch was used in our Discipleship program while

we the third batch is currently on stock and being currently withdrawn from time

to time to be used in ongoing discipleship efforts.

Passers of Book 1 cannot be awarded the certificate if they do not comply with the following requirements: First they must pass the Master Discipleship Exam. Secondly they must have made a profession of salvation & eternal security and lastly that they have been Baptised.

We look forward to conducting more Master Discipleship Exam for Book 1 this coming 2018. We hope that those from our other churches and Bible studies outside the church will finally take the master exam. Above all we look forward to those who passed the exam for Book 1 to start making disciples.

DISCIPLESHIP PROGRAM - BOOK 2 (GROWING IN GOD)

The Visayan translation for Book 2 which is entitled “Growing in God” has just been finished. We give special thanks to Marisol Paquibot (currently Dubai based and from another church) for tirelessly translating our Discipleship materials. We started Book 2 last April 2016. Book 2 is expected to be done in 101 sessions (Close to 2 years) More than 20 disciples from our main church

and Candulawan church is currently undergoing Book 2. We hope to conduct the Master Discipleship exam for Book 2 within the year 2019.


Passers of the Book 1 Master Discipleship exam

Taking the Book 1 Master discipleship exam


BOOK 3 AND BEYOND

We conducted our first church synod with 6 of our church leaders and pastors in attendance last December 2016. Among the main agenda discussed was the importance of the Great Commission which is discipleship, plotting our discipleship strategy and the content of our discipleship materials. Book 3 whose content is currently being finalised, (General theme will be “Going for God” fulfilling “The Command”of the Great Commission, topics will be on Other Christians, Giving, the lost world, personal evangelism, mission, discipleship etc.) is expected to be released within 2019 and expected to be completed by 2022. The following are the content of the next books to be used in our discipleship program and their expected date of completion.

BOOK 4 BOOK 5 BOOK 6KNOWING GOD DEEPER GROUNDED IN THE WORD HISTORICAL BASIS FOR

OUR FAITH

Topics: Attributes of God, Trinity, Christology, Pneumatology, Hamartiology, Soteriology

Topics: Biblical Hermeneutics, Church History, Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey

Topics: Church History, Creeds and Confessions, Historical Theology. Archeology and Bible History

2 to 3 years 7 to 10 years 8 to 10 years

Year 2025 Year 2035 Year 2045

BOOK 7 BOOK 8 BOOK 9

THE CHURCH MISSIONS APOLOGETICS

Topics: Ecclesiology, Church administration, Church

discipline etc.

Topics: Historical Missions, Modern missions, Culture etc.

Topics: Introduction to Apologetics, Logic, Cults,

World Religions, Islam etc.




BOOK 10 BOOK 11 BOOK 12

BIBLICAL LANGUAGES CREATION THINGS TO COME

Topics: Introduction to Biblical manuscripts, translations

Hebrew and Greek Basic and Advance in conjunction with studying actual passages

Topics: Scientific support for Creation, Intelligent design, Book of Genesis, Christian

responsibility on the environment & natural

resources

Topics: Eschatology, Israel, Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelations

etc.




The expected dates of completion are just the target maximum dates and may be adjusted base on the progress of the program.

A lot of you may be wondering why we have spent so much time projecting and planning our discipleship program even planning it for the next 50+ years and why the topics of our discipleship program seems to be very advance already as it progresses, it because of the following reasons:

1.) We believe it is good stewardship and that it is God’s plan for us to be good stewards to have a plan and execute our plan but always submit everything to the Lord. We believe that those who fail to plan will plan to fail. Further, planning always has an advantage as we will have a sense of direction and we will be able to “see the forrest” and not just the individual trees so to speak.

2.) We believe that every Christian should be a serious student of the Word. This is not only commanded by God, this was also modelled by the Apostles themselves and the early Christians. As the noble Bereans searched the Scriptures daily (Acts 17:11) we desire the sincere milk of the Word of God (1 Peter 2:2) by

being serious students of the Word. As the Apostle Paul commanded the young pastor Timothy to “Study” to show himself approved unto God and that Timothy should rightly divide the Word of truth.

3.) We believe that one of the hallmarks of discipleship is if we “continue” in His Word as Jesus said in that if we continue in His Words we are His disciples indeed. Continuing in His Word requires us to Read His Words, Properly interpreting His Words and Applying His Words in our lives.

4.) We believe that in-depth study should not be limited to pastors and scholars only. We believe in depth study is every Christians responsibility. We desire to have a discipleship curriculum that progresses from the very basic to the very deep things of God. We look forward to those completing our discipleship materials as having the equivalent of a Bachelors and a Masters program in Biblical Studies.


“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.”

Nehemiah 8:8

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

2 Timothy 2:15

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” 2 Timothy 3:16


5.) Lastly, we believe that discipleship through serious Bible study and prayer is the foremost responsibility of the church.

GENERAL FEATURES OF OUR DISCIPLESHIP MATERIALS

1.) Heavy emphasis on Scripture as the central basis for the lesson content. Although topical in nature, Scripture is presented in an expository fashion.

2.) Uses the 5 Ws for quick learning, easy recall, personal interaction and simple outline (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE , WHY, HOW)

3.) Encourages learners to go through a 52 week Bible reading plan through a comprehensive reading schedule

4.) Covers all the basic topics including advance topics in Christian living and progresses to advance topics with practical application even in the most advance topics

5.) Will be supplemented by quizzes, question and answer, summaries and other methods to promote learning

6.) Instructional material translated in local language to reach everybody

7.) “Ladderized”, designed to be an instructional material, lesson and curriculum that even ordinary church members are qualified to be graduate of Bachelor if they finish up to Book 5 provided they take a comprehensive exam and a subject in homiletics. Equivalent to a Masters in Biblical studies degree after finishing Book 12 provided additional classes on research & homiletics and a practicum for 1 year. (Details of granting of degree still needs to be worked out)

CHURCHES UPDATES

In our first church synod it has been agreed that all our churches under our network wil l choose whatever name they like provided that for legal identification purposes and to be identified under our network of churches the following has to be added underneath the church name “A ministry of Philippine Inland Island Missions Inc.” Philippine Inland Island Missions Inc. (PIIM for short) is a Securities and Exchange Commission registered non- stock non-profit entity whose purpose will soon be changed from civic to religious. PIIM has been involved in ministering to the saints by providing medical care and support to pastors, free clinic to churches and providing other logistics support such as Bibles, tracts, A.C.E materials, used clothing, books among others. PIIM has been in existence for close to 30 years now. With the recent approval of the PIIM board we are now the local church arm of PIIM. Considering that we work closely with PIIM this is the most pragmatic setup as registering a new entity will entail more paper works and more cost.


“But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:4

From 2012 - 2017 (For all churches within the

network)

Baptisms : 20+

Average Church Attendance: 250+

(adults 40 %, Children 60%)


So officially our legal identification will now be “Philippine Inland Island Missions Inc.”

In terms of governance, the PIIM board will run its own administrative affairs and will from time to time render support to our network of churches on the other hand our network of churches will have its own board and will run its own administrative affairs. Reporting for legal compliance will however be consolidated with each report drawn f r o m t h e i n t e r n a l a u t o n o m o u s administrative bodies of PIIM and TMCF network of churches. Further, in our first church synod, it has been agreed among church leaders that we subscribe to the Apostle’s creed, the Nicene Creed, the definition of Chalcedon, the Westminster Creed and the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. Denominationally we identify our network of churches as Reformed - Southern Baptist.

Our network of churches are in Dumlog Talisay (Main church) let by yours truly, Candulawan Talisay led by Pastor Rene Vi lan (Wi th ex tens ion serv ices in

Maghaway, and Inyagan Naga) Inayawan Cebu City led by Pastor Philip Bartolaba, Austrias, led by Pastor Calvin Nardo and Dalaguete which will soon be turned over to a new pastor (temporarily led by Rene Vilan & the men of TMCF Candulawan)

From 2012 to 2017 average attendance in our church network is 250+ adults and children with our main church in Dumlog having and average attendance of more than 50 our Candulawan Church and extensions with more than 135, Inyawan with an average of 35, Asturias with an average of 70.



E V A N G E L I S M , B I B L E D ISTRIBUT ION, TRACTS DISTRIBUTION ETC.

While generally we do not focus too much on figures and if we must report some statistics, emphasis should be given to discipleship stat ist ics above anything else. However we do not preclude disclosing professions of faith for your edification. By “professions of faith” we do not claim that these people are already saved as only God knows their hearts. Although our staff and extension pastors provide detailed reports of evangelism efforts, we do not keep strict tabs on these number to prevent focusing on the numbers and instead focus on making disciples. Further let me emphasise that the purpose of personal evangelism is just the starting point of the real work of the Great Commission which is discipleship, the main task that our Master, Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ instructed us to do.

For the year 2017, more than a thousand made professions of faith through the various evangelism efforts that our churches are engaged in, bringing a total of close to 10,000 professions since 2012. The professions of faith were made through evangelism efforts conducted in private and public schools, drug surenderees, parole probation ministries. Included in these efforts are close to more than 1,000 Bibles and more than 20,000 gospel tracts distributed from 2012 to 2017.


Professions of faith: Close to 10,000 (estimated)

Bible distributed : 1,000+

Gospel tracts distributed : 20,000+


OTHER MINISTRIES AND ACTIVITIES

As a means of personal evangelism and later on discipleship, our network of churches is heavily involved in the following ministries:

1.) PNP Values Formation - We are very much active in the Philippine National Police Values Formation Council (PNP-VFC) with two of our leaders in our network of churches in the highest positions and actively involved in the council. the PNP - VFC a ids hundreds of churches in penetrating government schools, police stations etc. in order that values may be taught there and that the Gospel may be presented which again is an avenue wherein we will be able to start discipleship.

2.) DSWD’s 4 Ps program - Aside from the PNP-VFC we have worked hand in hand for several years now with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (through the PNP-VFC) in handling the values formation for the 4Ps (Pangtawid Pamilyang Pilipino) The 4 Ps program is our government’s commitment to the international community to bring down poverty levels in our country. A component of the program is values formation. Pastors within our network of churches teach the values component of the 4 Ps at no cost at all to the government. Our main church in Dumlog is even the venue for the once a month 4 Ps program in the area. Average attendance in the once a month, 4 Ps values formation program is close to 1,000. Our involvement in the 4Ps program not only helps our community and our country but provides an avenue for us for personal evangelism and discipleship.

3.) OCC - Samaritan Purse - Another ongoing program we have been implementing for several years now is Operation Christmas Child. Working hand in hand with Samaritan Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association we were able to distribute more than 1,000 boxes from 2012 to 2017. These shoe boxes that contains children toys, books and other goodies has been used not only as presents for children but used as tools wherein we could start evangelising and eventually discipling children and their


Number of Police Stations with regular ongoing Bible studies through PNP-VFC : 5+

Number of average monthly attendance in once a month DSWD 4 Ps values formation program: 900+

Number of OCC, Samaritan Boxes distributed: 1,000+

Financial literacy seminars from a Biblical perspective: Churches - 2, Organisation - 1. Estimated total attendees: 1,000+


parents. Together with Operations Christmas Child we had also been active last 2015 in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's (BGEA) Operation Andrew. The aim of the crusade is to evangelise attendees. The crusade ran from March 27 to 29, 2015 and was held in Cebu City. Our church prepared for months for the event and has trained 7 counsellors. TMCF Dumlog is one of the centres for training in Talisay City. Aside from the 4 regular training session in which counsellors from other churches were sent to our church to be trained for soul winning, one of our staff regularly went to another church to train soul winners, (Conducted last January - February 2015) We devoted 4 Sundays to train church members for soul winning.

4.) Financial Literacy for pastors and churches - A new m i n i s t r y o f o u r c h u r c h i s spreading financial literacy from a Biblical view to pastors all across the country. This puts to good use the skills of your senior pastor as a Registered Financial planner and a Cer t i f i ed Secur i t ies Specialists. Further the contents of this seminar is in Book 2 of our discipleship program. We have conducted seminars all across the country on the subject “Biblical and practical principles on money

and financial possessions” for the year 2017. The first seminar was conducted at the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) Educator’s convention where close to 1,000 leaders and teachers from A.C.E schools was in attendance. It was followed by a seminar to members of the First Baptist church in Cebu City and then by an event organised for pastors in Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Davao. We look forward to upcoming schedules in Cagayan and Davao in the first quarter of 2018.

5.) Civic & Other programs and Ministries - We aim not only to produce disciples but responsible citizens of our country and in this connection we give emphasis to certain programs that helps make disciples more responsible citizens. We have conducted two environmental seminars and is continuing to decorate the backdrop of our church with painted scrap wood. The aim of the scrap wood project’s is three-fold. 1.) To demonstrate that scrap materials can still be utilised creatively. 2.)



To foster fellowship and bonding among members and so that this activity can provide an avenue wherein they could showcase their artistic creativity 3.) To create a unique creative backdrop design for our church stage. We look forward to producing more than a thousand of these blocks in a scheduled once a month activity such as this and we will soon be doing this in our TMCF - Candulawan extension. Last December 2017 we have conducted an eco bricks seminar in coordination with Sustainable Energy and Enterprise Development for Communities (SEED4COM) wherein mineral water bottles is stuffed with plastic. The resulting product made from recycled materials will then be glued together to make tables, chairs and anything useful.

Aside from these activities we have continued in hosting pastoral ministerial meetings, feeding programs, free clinics program, disaster relief goods distribution in

our network of churches in coordination with the Medical missions arm of PIIM, programs for the Youth and continuous training for our pastors and staff.



Defunct programs

In pursuit of our evangelism and discipleship main objective we have implemented several programs for the past 6 years. These programs has not been pushed through due to lack of funding and mainly because of lack of manpower resources. The now defunct programs are as follows:

1.) International Care Ministries (ICM) - ICM programs had been implemented through our main church in Dumlog wherein 30 families were given livelihood, health training, cash assistance and at the same time evangelised and discipled.

2.) B.L.E.S.S. - The BLESS program, presented by ACEM (Accelerated Christian Education Ministries), is active in reaching out to indigent and underprivileged children in countries around the world, such as the Philippines and India. BLESS Centers teach children reading and basic math skills but, most importantly introduce them to Jesus Christ through God’s Word. This 12–15 week program culminates with the reading of the Gospel of Mark. Our B.L.E.S.S program had 10 graduates.

3.) A.L.S - The Alternative Learning S y s t e m ( A . L . S ) i s a p r o g r a m implemented by the Department of Education of the Philippine government. The objective of the program is to raise the literacy of our country by increasing the number of graduates in the elementary and secondary levels. Our church has worked with our local DepEd ALS unit and has sponsored and organised a training program for A.L.S educators which we have opened to other churches so that they will have their won A.L.S program. Our A.L.S program has successfully helped 3 students to graduate from high school.


Families benefited under the ICM program : 30

Graduates of BLESS: 10

Graduates of ALS: 3


FINANCIALS

We thank God that our offering has been steadily increasing as the years has gone by. From an average monthly offering of Php1,700.00, 6 years ago now we have grown to an average of Php 17,178.75 in offering per month, and to think that we practice free will giving and do not even create events to push giving ! We believe in giving that is not done grudgingly nor of necessity, as God prosper each one and from the heart, because God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7)

Despite the increase in offering, internal church giving still could not cope up with ministry expenses hence we had always been net negative. The breakdown of our expenses are as follows:


TMCF Main Average monthly offering

Pastor’s support and allowances Direct ministry costChurch equipment Church Fellowship etc. Misc.

For 2012 - 2016


The deficit has always been coped up by external donations. What is reflected in the financials are only internal giving to emphasise the contributions within the church itself.

More than 80% of our expenses are devoted to pastors, staff allowances and support. Currently we are giving allowance and support to 7 pastors and staff. These people minister to our network of 5 churches.

Operational expenses refers to purchase, maintenance and repair of church equipment. Direct ministry expenses refers to expenses directly related to the various ministries we operate while Church Fellowship refers to expenses mainly related to food, Youth camp expenses and other activities related to increasing fellowship among the brethren. Further details about our income and expenses are attached in the the last pages of this report.

LOOKING FORWARD - PRAYER POINTS

Within the year we look forward to starting our Bible Institute which will formalise the training of pastors and staff within our network. In connection with this we hope we can setup a library of theological books and reference materials to further our intensive study of the Scriptures. We are praying that the Lord will provide for this. The Bible Institute will start off with classes in proper Biblical interpretation.

We will continue to emphasise our discipleship program and to run the current ministries that we have.

Most of the churches under our network badly in need of infrastructure development. Please pray for the following:

1.) The Master’s Community Fellowship - Candulawan - Needs to enlarge their building. They are already averaging close to 20 adults in attendance every Sunday. They are currently holding services in a 40 square meter building. Either the lot next to


Pastor’s support and allowances Direct ministry cost Church FellowshipsOperational expenses

For 2017


the church building will be purchased or they need to transfer to a nearby area. We have already been looking at a 100 square meter property. (No building yet)

2.) Obong, Dalaguete - This extension has no meeting place yet. They already have close to 10 adults and several children in regular attendance. Further please pray for the transition of leadership in this area.

3.) Gateway Baptist Church Asturias - Their meeting place needs to be improved as it is constructed of very light materials (Trapal roofing only, the church has no walls or flooring yet)

4.) The Master’s Community Fellowship Main - Not an immediately needed infrastructure as of the moment but with the planned Bible Institute and library, we are including this need here. Further, minor improvements needs to be done in our main church.

Considering the need for a network and fellowship of Reformed Baptist Churches in the Visayas and Mindanao area, we hope we can play a key role in the establishment of this network and fellowship. Please pray for the Reformed conference in Siquijor this coming February 2018. May this be the start of the seeds of this network and fellowship of churches with like minded doctrine and faith.

Our main church in Dumlog Talisay also badly needs instrument players, instruments and a praise and worship team. Currently we are utilising youtube videos for singing songs. Further, please pray for leadership and direction for our Young people. We plan to work closely with another church, merging our youth activities in order that we will have a more stable and efficient ministry and outreach to the youth in our area.

Please also pray that we can support more pastors this coming 2018 and the years to come. Several pastors from other denominations and groups who are open to fellowshipping and networking with us badly need financial support.

Further please pray for Philippine Inland Island Missions Inc. We are on the process of cleaning up a lot of paper works including the organisation’s Securities and Exchange Commission Registration, it’s amendment and taking care of PIIM assets that are either problematic or are non-performing. Please pray that we might be able to clean up all the necessary paper works and that we may be able to put to good use what God has entrusted to us at PIIM. A lot of work still needs to be done with PIIM as aside from cleaning up the paperworks, its online presence such its website and social media accounts needs to be worked on.

Lastly please pray for your pastoral staff as we continue to focus on discipleship, diligently studying and preaching the Word and take care of the administrative matters of our churches and ministries.

As we look forward to doing the Master’s work in 2018 and beyond may we continue to give Him our best and live lives fit for the Master’s use.

In behalf of all the pastoral staff, yours truly in the Master’s Service,

ZIGFRED M. DIAZ Senior pastor, The Master’s Community Fellowship Church & Ministries

Corporate Secretary, Member of the Board of Trustee, Philippine Inland Island Missions Inc.



ANNEX - INCOME STATEMENTS

THEMASTER'SCOMMUNITYFELLOWSHIPCHURCH&MINSTRIES

FINANCIALREPORT2012-2016

OFFERING(Actualchurchoffering)

Total

Offeringfortheyear2012 30,295.00





Totaloffering2012-2016 394,912.75

LESSEXPENSES

Pastorsallowancesandsupport 1,580,900.00

DirectministryacEviEescost

ProjectDiscipleship 11,000.00

SamaritanOCCproject 19,000.00

B.L.E.S.S 10,000.00

A.L.S 8,000.00

ValuesformaLon 9,800.00

4PS 8,000.00

Children'sministry 15,000.00

TotalDirectMinistryAcLviLesCost 80,800.00

Churchequipment 40,000.00

ChurchOccasions,fellowship,YouthCampsetc.,SponsoredacLviLes 60,000.00

Othertrainings,materials,etc.misc. 15,000.00

TOTALEXPENSES 1,661,700.00

NET -1,380,863.26




Detailsofmonthlyofferingfortheyear2017

January 14,750.00

February 17,920.00

March 10,806.00

April 38,291.00

May 29,363.00

June 9,880.00

July 11,415.00

August 8,110.00

September 11,049.00

October 11,662.00

November 11,369.00

December 31,530.00

TOTAL 206,145.00

AverageMonthly 17,178.75



INCOMESTATEMENT2017

TotalOffering 206,145.00

LESSEXPENSES

Pastors&Staffallowances&support 464,374.00

ProjectDiscipleship 13,000.00

Bibles 5,000.00

4Ps 1,000.00

SamaritanOCCproject 4,500.00

DirectMinistryacEvitycost 23,500.00

ChurchOccasions,FellowshipYouthCampsetc.SponsoredAcLviLes 20,000.00

Churchequipment 6,500.00

RepairofChurchequipment 5,000.00

OtherOperaLonalexpenses 50,750.00

OperaVonalexpenses 62,250

TOTALEXPENSES 570,124.00

NET -363,979.00

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