Students enroll in college for many reasons. Even the good students, the one who work hard to make the most of their opportunities, put in long hours for a variety of reasons, so as in the Mission of the church.

Many times before I commit myself to go and do the mission training, I had asked myself why should I. Suddenly I have seen something, which has stirred my soul, and given me such encouragement for the future of the Lord’s work. I see great army of Christian women seeking. I see the services of God being swelled with Christian women at last realizing that God will use what they have to glorify him and bear fruit for his kingdom. I realized that in the mission, personal interest is set aside, your focus must be on God. It must not start on personal motives but to God alone. In real life we can say that this is idealistic in sense but too difficult to practice. But the real joy in it is that if you apply this philosophy, you have actually accomplished the 50% of the whole task.

There is a quotation of William Butler Yeats it says, " The light of lights, looks always on the motives not on the deeds."

Love motivates my parent to support me with my current decision of temporarily diverting my responsibility to them. They love my Ritchelle, she’s my two-year-old baby. Before hand they have known about the Central Baguio Church of Christ program MISSIONARY TRAINING, and when they’ve also known that I was being offered to have the training they voluntarily convince me to go. My father was so proud of me that he even asked me how did I come to know Bro. Alex. He was overwhelm when I told him that I am being offered to join the missionary training program, and be involved with the work of the Lord. He even told me a joke and say " Sana anak naging lalaki ka nalang." A rare opportunity such as this comes in our life only but once and I don’t want to waste it. I know in my heart that God really had made a way for me to work with him. It is also love that motives me to give my best day by day. The loving heart seeks to do things for the right reasons. As the Lord t old the prophet Samuel " The Lord does not look at the things man look at. Man looks at the appearance but the Lord look at the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). Our motive for what we do means everything to him.

On my second day in the Missionary Training Program, we visited a home with four prospects; they are Lailani, Arlynne, Jade and Janice. They were so young yet they are very eager to learn anything from the bible. As we go on with our study, two of them had realized that they really have to study deep, and God really work inside them because a week after they commit themselves for baptism. Now Arlynne and Lailani are members of the church.

Second interesting person I’ve been with while on my first month on the training is sister Christy Mayor, this old lady had a big heart. The first time she meet us as a team, she noticed that we don’t have umbrella and it was raining so hard we were soaked. She invited us in her little apartment and gave each one of us an umbrella, gave us money to buy something for "merienda" (snacks). I am so blessed by what she had done; because while conversing with her that same day, we came to know that she is in the midst of solving her financial shortage, yet she did not consider giving as another burden to her but a work of a good heart.

I feel close to my baby when I’m with my children class in Maria Basa, Pacdal. I teach children there every Friday afternoon my pupils are: Din-din, Cleo, Kyle, Shania, Aaron, Ishmael, AJ, Aldrich, Edmar, Sharon, Cookie and Lindsay, I really love those kids. They are teachable and behave. When we sing a song, I felt like I’m singing with the angels. God is good all the time. All things work together for good when the center of the work is he alone. He sees every heart; he knows the doer and his motives. Surely if your motives are pure and beneficial not to your self but for others, he will bless you with incomparable riches in spirit, sources and values.

Going back to the bible, there are characters that I really admire and sometimes their qualities are seen in some people around us. Abraham for example is an example of faith. Job an example of endurance. Joseph is an example of holiness and forgiveness. Moses is an example of humility. David is an example of worshippers of God. Daniel is an example of courage. Peter is an example of boldness. Paul is an example of self-sacrifice. John is an example of love. But of all this is Jesus an example of all that is listed.

Jesus himself made importance of our reasons for what we do and say unmistakably clear. Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them, " He said in Matt.6:1 " if you do, you will have no reward from your father in heaven. In other words, doing the right things in order to receive the praise of the other people will get you that and nothing else.

Doing the right thing for the right reason is a philosophy of Jesus that we must always be aware of. It’s nice to be recognized and praised when you had done something good for your brother or sister but do not be motivated by such thought because there’s a better reward when you choose to please God.

I would want your prayer for the success of the MISSIONARY TRAINING PROGRAM (MTP). This program is a challenge to each and everyone, to know in his heart his motives on serving God and his fellowmen. The reason is simple, most people feel no real meaning in life; yet deep within each of us, God has planted the truth that life aught to have meanings beyond "eat, drink and be merry. And until we align ourselves with the purpose, we can achieve and of all we want and will, still be bored and frustrated and empty. The only thing I would want to share to you is that: most of us are so busy, involved in many different things, that we’ve got a lot more than fourlegs pointing at us. As a result, our attention is divided. We just go with the flow of the day by day routine, and we love sight of the larger issues in life.

The great causes and important works God has for us are easily overlooked or endlessly postponed until some dreamed-of day when we’ll have less responsibility and more free time.

We need a central reference point - JESUS CHRIST - and we need to stay focused on that point so that everything we do is in proper perspective.