Article by: Kristel Biliran CAM
Gallery Photos: Jester Asong

Jesus Is Lord Singapore held its commencement exercise for 2009 Batch 1 graduates of the Education Program on 14 June 2009 at Hotel Royal, Singapore. With the theme, “Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more,” from Proverbs 9:9 (NIV), Resident Pastor Norlyne Gagarin encouraged the graduates to have the desire to learn more to become relevant and effective servants of God.

20 June 2009. The Jesus Is Lord Church Singapore Children ministry has recently gathered at the Chinese Garden for a Family Day Outdoor. Spearheaded by the Children Ministry teachers and the leadership of the local church.

9th May 2009, Bukit Panjang. The Jesus Is Lord Church Singapore workers composed of ministry coordinators and cell group leaders gathered for a day of prayer and fasting. The whole day event was highlighted by a team building session and breaking of the bread.

Every Christian is a recipient of the anointing of God. We must nurture this anointing to become an effective Christian. This was the message of the Lord through Reverend Pastor Edgar Valdoria, the Director for Asia, Micronesia and Middle East in his preaching last 22 March 2009.

The preaching centered on John 2:1-11 which speaks of Jesus’ miracle at a wedding at Cana in Galilee. This was the first miracle performed by Jesus when He turned the water at the banquet into wine. Rev Valdoria highlighted that the wine symbolizes the wine of the Spirit of God which is manifested by our love for the Lord. It is observed that when we are ‘on fire’ with the Lord, we are passionate in serving Him, in tithing and in praying. This normally takes place when we are in our comfort zone and everything seems to be in its perfect place.

It is all over the headlines and still constitutes worry beyond our society’s norm. It’s a depressing season for most people, people losing jobs, huge corporations closing down, and banks on panic mode. You name it, you’ve read it. But beyond a horizon of great challenges lies a peaceful calm, a joyous expectation, a praiseful worship. Are we watching a “feel-good” movie? Sort of, but it’s not actually a movie, though the end has been written and testified in glorious ways, there is this land full of hope, a land who watches not the setting of the sun but who waits for its rising. It’s a land where people believe in grace, in mercy in a redemptive agenda to fulfill a written Word, it is where God inhabits the praise of His people.

The Power of Attachment
Pastor Norlyne Gagarin
January 5, 2009
Royal Hotel

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

Jesus is the vine and we as the branches must remain attached, dryness for some reasons make Christians un-attached, they become disconnected until they eventually fall from the Body of Christ. It is important to keep in heart that as long as Jesus is alive, there is hope.

JIL Singapore receives the Outstanding International Church Pioneer Award. Sis. Mila Gagarin accepted the award in behalf of Pastor Norlyne Gagarin. The awarding ceremonies were held at Isla Ballroom Shangrila Hotel- Edsa Manila during the 62nd birthday dinner celebration of Bro. Eddie Villanueva coinciding with the recently concluded 30th anniversary celebration of Jesus Is Lord Church at the Quirino Grandstand.

Delegates from JIL Singapore were present to witness the event along with other JIL pastors and workers from different parts of the world.

Gracing the dinner celebration along with Sis. Mila Gagarin were; Sis. Joan Ravelo, Sis. Cecile Ventura, Bro. Arnold Francisco and Bro. Erwin Arcillas.

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