ore than 2 Million pesos of sacrificial offering commitments are set to be given today as the Metropolitan Bible Baptist Church celebrates Christmas Sunday in all our congregations, here and abroad.
Today’s sacrificial giving marks the last major giving of the MBBC just before the year wraps up. Also known as “our birthday gift to the Lord,” the annual sacrificial offering is being done to celebrate the day that God gave His greatest Gift of all—His only Begotten Son Jesus, our Savior.
Our beloved pastor, Dr. Benny Abante, Jr., had made it clear that while we do not believe that December 25 was the day Jesus was born, we believe in His birth, and use the occasion as a means of showing forth the testimony of His saving grace when He came to earth to be born of a virgin.
Christmas Sunday, as it does almost every year, comes at a crossroad of events that the MBBC holds during the final two-week stretch of the year. Our choir members just wrapped up their four-night Caroling Nights, where they had a chance to go to our members houses and render for them timely songs about the Lord’s first coming. Also, our annual Simbang Umaga will officially end tomorrow morning, just as everyone will be prepping up for the biggest three-day event of the MBBC for December, our first ever MBBC Family Conference starting this Tuesday.
The BP has been stressing the importance of the Family Conference, as this will be his own special time with his people to lay down the plans and activities the church is about to embark on come 2012. The theme and schedule of activities for 2012 has also been finalized by our BP, and he is set to discuss them also with the members during the confab. The church’s 2012 theme is “PRESENTING OURSELVES IN 2012 FOR HIS CHURCH AND COUNTRY” with the key verse found in Isaiah 54:2. More than 700 MBBC’ians are expected to attend this year’s three-day confab.
As it has already been mentioned since early this year, 2012 will be a crucial time in which the BP, our church, and the entire Baptist community are preparing for the mid-year elections of 2013, where our BP has a strong chance of landing a seat in the Senate and be the first-ever Baptist pastor in history to serve as a senator. Crucial preparations for this include our ongoing one million signature campaign, and the accreditation of the 1 Abante Na Pilipinas Party List.
Two more weeks and 2011 will become past event. As the MBBC braces for a challenging year in 2012, let us all be one and united in presenting ourselves for the Lord, our church and our country!
