The first Encounter God Retreat of the EGR Pangasinan Network has been set on February 22 & 23, 2008 at the Villa Narcisa Vinoya Resort in Labrador, Pangasinan.

The Postman invites all who have not been to an EGR to take advantage of the February EGR which is likely going to be the last 2-day EGR of the Network. The next EGR is tentatively scheduled this coming May 2008 and it is a 3-day EGR.

The 3-day EGR is patterned after the EGR of Rev. Castellanos of Bogota, Colombia.

Interested parties should make sure they go through the Pre-Encounter Lessons. For more inquiries, please contact Rev. Charlie Loranza at cell no. 09203290415.

By now everyone has gotten back to normal day-to-day life.  The Christmas and New Year breaks gave us probably enough time to “escape” from the routines of our lives.  Parents get back to the usual office, business or home activities and look after the children’s classes.  Children resume schooling and make their teachers buzzing again.

But as we get past the first week of 2008, may we learn to look back one more time to the past years and thank God for whatever we had gone through.  Anyway, life is a matter of being grateful to our Maker whether we received more blessings or not in the past. 

Life is an enormous blessing in itself whatever your attitude toward it.  Your way of looking at the happenings of life does not affect the fact that you are alive. 

One thing that we should all learn to do is to live life to the fullest and this can only be done if we connect this life to its Author.  Only the Author knows the full extent of a life lived fully and only the one who confides to the Author knows if he/she is living a full life.

The year 2008 is the Year of the Lord, not the year of the earth rat.  Every year is the year of the Lord and if everyone just lives each day of the year for the Lord, then this year shall also be called the Year of the Lord’s favored ones.

I pray that you reader belong to the Lord’s favored ones this year and to eternity.

This is a rather late post but just the same, it is to the delight of The Postman to tell everyone that there was a December EGR which hosted 88 delegates from Zambales, La Union and Pangasinan.

The December EGR which was not actually in the schedule was held last December 21 & 22, 2007 at the Villa Narcisa Vinoya Resort in Labrador, Pangasinan.

It was thru a strong request that the December EGR was held.  The next EGR is tentatively scheduled on February.  Specific days are still withheld at the moment because there is a proposal to make the EGR a 3-day activity.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and may God make 2008 a year of breakthroughs, triumphs, blessings and hope.