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sending off the quiwas

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ifugao musical

After endorsing the books to Ifugao’s only and newly opened science high school, we had to do the obligatory (hehe 🙂 ) jump shots , fortunately, not with the school’s teachers. Afterwards, we debated about which one to post in the blog. It had to be comparable or even better than High School Musical’s. So far, the best ones have Ate Grace’s and Kuya Roovin’s navels showing. So, pusod talaga ang labanan. Hmm, it was a toughie, but after much thought and staring at both pictures, Ate Grace’s navel wins! Well, in case you’re wondering, that’s Kuya Aleks behind Ate Grace’s and my arms 🙂 Thanks to Kuya Roovin and Dan who faithfully watched and documented our every move. For more pictures, check out:

http://picasaweb.google.com/roovin/EventsRebooked

http://picasaweb.google.com/mrdanjohan/IfugaoOutreach

http://picasaweb.google.com/mrdanjohan/IfugaoOutreach2

Anyway, we left Ifugao with hearts full of thanksgiving — for how students of Tribal Gospel Mission are committed to share the gospel to their communities, for how God has brought together Navs, Trumpets and TGM to be amazed at the how the same God works in us in different ways, for His provision, for the children and adults who eagerly and even sacrificially participated in the activities that we prepared for them… I could go on and on but the point is, God has made His goodness known through Rebooked and for that, we are so thankful to Him and to you who partnered with us.

This verse pretty much reminds me of Ifugao: The Lord reigns…let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy (Ps. 96:10,12,NIV). Indeed, God is to be praised and He is reason enough to jump for joy 🙂

— jean

First Day Success!

Success is the word to describe our first garage sale day in Antipolo. The activity is initiated by my wife, Maela, as part of the schemes to raise funds for the Rebooked project.

A few neighbors were already standing outside the gate when we opened this morning at 9AM. Since the opening, people would enter the garage by bunches of 5 and 6. Looks like people caught on our hand printed ads 🙂

It’s a very tiring activity but the reward is all worth the sweat. Overall we sold around 7K worth of clothes, accessories, bags, CDs and cassette tapes (yes, meron pa kami nun! 🙂 ), including those from your donations. Of the total sales, our(maela and mine, including your donations) sold items totaled 2.8K. 50% of the sales from our personal items plus all the sales from your donations is 1.7K Pesos! Yey!!

Thanks all for your prayers and donations. One more day of selling tomorrow. 🙂

[05222007Update: Overall we were able to raise 2.8K for the Rebooked project. The second day sales were not as high as the first day but a success nonetheless. Thanks all for prayers!

Chocolate Kissers

(Charm, Alex, Ram, Jing, Grace. Not in picture are Jean and Roovin)

roovin(talking in pictures…)