The G12 and Church Growth of Region I

To God be all the Glory. Because of the G12 strategy that we applied in our JCSGO Families in Region I in this 4 years of transition to the Cell Church, we had a paradigm shift. Before, we see the church as a place where Christians are fed and maintained so that they will continue to live godly lives through the message of the pastor. But now we see that the whole church is needed to evangelize our nations, and every disciple must be mobilized to reap the harvest. Before the G12, our goal is to increase members in the church. Our thinking ,after we embraced the G12, is changed to training our people to shepherd our community. We are not waiting for people to go to church but we make the community as our congregation and the people who attend church are leaders to be equipped to do the work of the ministry. As a result, we experienced multiplication in our disciples, from Pangasinan, La Union, Benguet Province, Ilocos Sur, and Ilocos Norte.

Our recent 24th Year Church Anniversary of Region I on August 9, 2009 was unprecedented. It was held in the Narciso Ramos Sports Gym with more than three thousand church disciples who attended. And during anniversary we have 66 SOL graduated and 6 ordained pastors, Ptrs Jaime Jose and Minerva Aquino, Ptrs Manuelo and Cecilia Cabanlong and Ptr Amelita Ventayen and Ptr Christina Jose
We also celebrated the Church Anniversary of Dagupan Sector led by Ptrs. Joel and Jet Bravo which was held in Stadia, CSI Warehouse on September 5, 2009 with approximately two thousand disciples who attend. In Ilocos, led by Ptrs. Eugene and Cristy Medina, we celebrated our Church Anniversary on September 6, 2009 at the 4 Storey Building of the Eagle Vision owned by the Bro Ruben and Sis Yolly Cortez who are our coordinators in Ilocos. Our 8 sectors in Region I are regularly conducting the Encounter God Weekend seminars separately. Every family is conducting the PEPSOL and everyone is excited to CONQUEST-evangelize. At present we have 53 churches, there is Holy Spirit revival going on in Region I. We are aiming high for the Glory of God.