Some help will be great

Hey friends and family, so as some of you might recall we have a busy summer ahead of us. For those of you who didn't read our last post we have a youth camp the middle of June, specifically the 20th-22nd. All the youth camps our family plans include free sleeping quaters, no entrance fee, free food, and all the materials for the activities. Also in July we have a kids camp and where we will supply one meal, supplies for games and activities, and prizes for all the kids. As for our Sunday school ministry we are in the process of starting to build classrooms for our sunday school classes, because currently we are having classes in our living room and a the living room of someone elses place. We just really want our kids to have proper classrooms with chairs and some tables for their activities. Lastly we have two wonderful young men from church who are graduating highschool this school year and would love the opportunity to go to college next school year. But with limited finance from their families we would like to find them some sponsors who might be willing to pay for their college education. Now we know that this is a lot to ask but this is part of ministry and life here. So if any of you want to give one time gifts, help us build classrooms for our sunday school kids and maybe finance a couple young mens schooling then please contact my mom on messenger at Jessica Cajigas or Gmail at jcajigas111081@gmail.com We thank you all for your undying support and hope you can all help us in these upcoming events that are close to our hearts.

Happiness with tears

Hello to all our friends and family, so since the last post we have had a kids camp, kids are preparing for closings (end of the school year programs), and fully scheduled our entire summer. Our first Kid,s camp of the year was on March 16, 2024 and had a theme of the Armor of God. This year we did some things different, like the staff put on a little skit to introduce the kids to the theme, we had new staff members and tried new songs and attention getters. We started the day with decorating the venue and praying over the day, the kids, and the staff. We prayed that the kids hearts would be open to the word of God and that they would learn how important it is the put on the full armor of God. We had a total of 140 kids from our church and the surrounding villages.

This is all the kids with the staff

We had our traditional coloring and activity page table with coloring pages and activity sheets that were all about the armor of God.

For the short skit the teachers did, we had the boys and me (Precious) dress up in the armor of God that we hand made and we had the armor on when the kids started to arrive so we had their attention even before we started.

We invited three people from our church to be speakers and the three speakers divided up the 6 pieces of God's armor. A couple weeks after camp we had a meeting with the staff to asses the camp. At the same time we took the staff to a really nice beach and gave them a day and a half to swim, enjoy themselves and just relax. We also got to celebrate of the staff memebers birthday.

In order to get to the beach/resort where we would have the retreat we had quite a drive so we borrowed a relatives dump trcuk put some plastic chairs in the back and loaded all the people and bag in the back of the dump truck. It was a fun drive with everyone in the back taking turns on what worship song to sing.

We cooked together, swam in the pool and in the ocean and took lots of beach pictures.

The entire team including my family was able to just relax and refresh themselves.

The morning after we arrived some of the girls woke up really early to do a prayer and devotions on the beach where they were greeted by one of the prettiest sunrises. reminding us of how beautiful God really made our world, our home. After the retreat the entire church busily prepared for its annual Thanksgiving (Anniversary). The Youth prepared a dance and drama. The kids did a dance so did the moms. But the highlight presentation was the dads' dance. We were also able to update our family photo.

As you guys may see we are missing one. Back in January Things came to a head with Mickaila. There have been some problems leading up to this but at this point tried to discipline her and she tried to run away. We thought to give her a couple of days and she might settle back in but insisted she wanted to move back to her sister. We decided to drop her off and thought after a weekend she might want to come back when she realized that life was so difficult there. Jonah kept in touch with her sister and we learned that Ella was telling the sister lies about us and our pastor/sister in law. Jonah tried to go meet with her to discuss the lies and when he arrived he was met with anger and a refusal to even talk about the issues. It was also at this point that Mickaila said she would not return to Juagdan and basically wanted nothing to do with us. We still love her and Pray that God softens her heart. We also still support her for school and food. As of this point though we are proceding with the adoption of the other three and Just praying she finds peace in the life she chose for herself. Anyway, now that you are all caught up on what has happened in this year so far, how about I tell you on what we have planned all summer. The very beginning of summer will start with a bang as me and daddy will be heading to Negros (Another Island) for our churches national convention. where all of the churches in our donomination get to together in one place and celebrate. We will be accompanied by our children's ministry staff and some other people from our church. We will leave the third of June and be back either the 6th late at night or the seventh midday. A couple weeks after that my mom is putting together a youth camp for all christian churches on our island and every young pchristian who comes is encouraged to bring a non believer friend. The camp will be held on lcal camp grounds and will start on June 27th and end June 29th. THen in the beginning of July my parents new ministry will begin. They are starting a bible school for anyone who wants to become a pastor. My mom will be a teacher, and my dad will be part of the first batch of students through the school. Then towards the middle of July we are gonna plan on another kids camp in one of the surrounding villages. Then after that it is back to school. Please keep our family in your prayers as we go through this upcoming summer and prepare to start a new kind of ministry. Also that throughout the rest of the year of family can experience lots of Joy and less sadness. we thank you all for your undying support and hope you all have a joyous summer. Until the next post friends and family. Love from the Cajigas family