The Episcopal Diocese of Santiago, Philippines
and the
Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, USA
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The Episcopal Diocese of Santiago, Philippines and the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, USA
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Some Photos of St. Joseph's Church
St. Joseph's Church, Marabulig, Cauayan City Fr. Ed Lovelady transcribed this from notes used by the Senior Warden of St. Joseph's parish in his welcome on Sunday, August 23, 2009. Good morning to all of us, specially to our guest Bishop and Fr. Ed Lovelady. On behalf of our congregation, welcome Fr. Ed Lovelady from Nevada. It is a great honor to have you here in our worship. We are thankful and very elated that you visited us here. As you see this is our little place or worship. We started to worship here in August 5, 2007. Before we started with four families but now we are composed of different tribes or ethnic groups. We have Ilocano, Tagalog, Visaya, Pampanga, Pangasiman, Igorot, and other tribes. From four families we are now 90 plus members and we have prospect members. Our regular activities are Bible study, Adults and children Sunday school, Pastoral visits. As we go along, we realized that we are becoming bigger so we decided to build up our chapel building for us to worship with the help of St. Luke's Medical Center. But as we are still not enough for us to accomplish that building and that's our problem, but we hoping a praying we can do it with the help of God and each other. We heard, Fr., that you are from Nevada, Las Vegas. That place is popular for us because of Paccao who are playing boxing. Father, thank you again for visiting us. We are very happy to meet a friend, and brother from other country. We hope that this is the beginning of our partnership with you and your church. We are praying that you keep on coming to our humble community in Marabulig. Again, welcome Fr. Ed Lovelady from Nevada. Welcome to all. St. Joseph's place of worship is a section of a grain warehouse, with an old desk serving as an altar; the order of service is written on a chalkboard, and singing (wonderful singing) without musical instruments. After the worship service, representatives from each of the tribes represented in St. Joseph's congregation made a presentation of song or dance from their tribal culture; the children and youth sang a song, and we all had lunch at the Senior Warden's home, next to their place of worship.
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