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Objective:
Desire to have a righteous holy family that is pleasing to God
Experience God's wonderful blessings this way:
- Admit that you have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23), believe that Jesus died for the penalty of
your sins (Rom. 5:8), and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. (John 3:16) You now have eternal life. You are sure of a home
in heaven (John 14:1-3) Now that you are a child of God (John 1:12), you are ready to receive the greatest blessings
in the world.
- Join a community of the followers of Christ called the "church." Pray for and find a prudent, righteous, Christian
wife. Love her with all your heart. (Eph. 5:25)
- Pray to have children. When the Lord gives, train them up in the way of the Lord. Inculcate in them the fear and love
of God.
- Give at least 10% of your income to the Lord and save another 10%. Make the second 10% grow big and become capital accumulation.
Avoid swindlers. Invest wisely. Pray to the Lord for protection.
- Pray for and establish a family business. Involve all your children in it. Increase sales and decrease expenses.
- Have a foundation. Dedicate at least 10% of your business profits to it and give them all away to God's pastors, missionaries,
and churches. Give scholarship to the poor. Obey the Lord Jesus' command, "Didote kai dothesetai humin" (Give and it will
be given you)." You now have abundant life (John 10:10).
- Involve yourself in fulfilling the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ in every way you can, either as a preacher,
a prayer warrior or a provider. Seek to be a blessing to the whole world.
Greatest News
Good day. Let me share with you the greatest news in the
world
God desires to bless us because He loves us.
But our problem is that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” I have sinned. You have sinned. All people have sinned.
The only solution to our root problem is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, because Jesus died for
our sins. He rose from the dead. He ascended to heaven. He is now preparing eternal homes for us. He will return soon to take his followers to be with him
forever.
Jesus is now inviting us to come to Him, accept Him as Lord and Savior, and receive His free gift of
eternal life and abundant life.
Say to him, “Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner. Thank you for dying on the cross for
my sins. I repent of all my sins and receive you as my Lord and Savior. Thank you for my forgiveness. Thank you
for your free gift of eternal life and abundant life. Amen.”
Did you pray that prayer sincerely? If so, then congratulations! You are now an inheritor of God’s eternal life and abundant life. See you in heaven.
Rex
October 21, 2008
My Legacy
By Rene S.L. Resurreccion
God is a God who gives inheritance to his children. The great men of the
Bible gave inheritance to their children. This is the same pattern I want to follow. I believe that the best legacy anyone
can leave to his children is to ensure that the Lord’s favor rests with them, long after I am gone. Psalms 112:1-2 says,
“Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands. His children will
be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.” The Lord has spoken; so shall it be. Thus, to
the best of my ability, I seek to influence my children – Pepin, Nowa, Miki and Kara – to desire to be holy, righteous
children, pleasing to God. I pray that by my loving him and keeping his commandments, the Lord will show love to my descendants
up to a thousand generations, as he promised. I want my children to learn to fear God because this is the beginning of wisdom,
which will see them progressively through old age.
I do not go far from Scripture in determining what heritage to leave to
my children. Scripture says that a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Thus, this early, I tell
my children to pass on to their children the strong Christian traditions that my wife and I show them – church-going,
seeking Christian spouses, Bible reading before every dinner, leading Bible studies to our employees, doing missionary work,
practicing Biblical work ethics, tithing, etc.
The Bible says, “Houses and wealth are inherited from parents…”
(Prov. 19:14) Thus, this early, my wife and I save money to buy some properties, which we can leave to our children in the
future. For example, we bought a farm lot and built a house there and called it “Prayer Valley” to serve as our
family vacation house. We already contracted our children, and they agreed, to allow us to teach Christian values to their
children, in obedience to God’s command in Deut 4:9, “Teach them (God’s laws) to your children and to their
children after them.” Paul says, “Children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their
children.” (2 Cor. 12:14) Thus, we tell our children that they too must not be a burden to their children, but should
save, so that in their old age, they may live comfortably and are able to pass on handsome inheritances to their children,
consistent with the pattern followed by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I influence my children to love their country. I tell them that it is part
of their sacred stewardship duty from God. It is no accident that Jesus Christ, the Sower of good seeds, planted them in the
Philippines. The Philippines is where they will raise their children. The Philippines is the only country of Filipinos; there
is no other.
I pass on to my children my excellent ancestors’ progressive values
– frugality and common sense. My ancestors were not big money earners, but they were intensely thrifty and hard working,
and this paved the way for them and their children to become financially stable. Their conservative values regarding money
matters enabled them to purchase prime real estate properties, which their descendants now enjoy. I teach my children to appreciate
their family history. I interviewed the elders in my clan and wrote a book on my ancestors’ life stories so that my
children may emulate their progressive behaviors. This will give them strong roots.
This early, I tell my children not to be satisfied with just being employed
by others. I motivate them to become entrepreneurs. I repeatedly quote to them the Chinese proverb, which says, “One
generation plants a tree under whose cool shade the next generation takes its ease” and interpret this to mean building
a stable, profitable business and then passing it on to their descendants. This is why my children must inherit my business
Passion for Perfection, continue it, and pass it on to their own children. I inspire them that our family line
should become an entrepreneurial clan, which gives employment to our countrymen.
I want to leave a legacy that is greater than my life, and longer than my
lifespan. I want my children to become the mighty in the land. And the starting point for this is for me to revere the Lord.
February 23, 2008
My Search for My God’s Best
By Rex Resurreccion
Introduction
Houses and wealth are inherited from
fathers
But a prudent wife is inherited from
the Lord
Let me tell you how I found my God’s best
PAST
As a small boy, I fell infatuated with my beautiful teachers – Ms. Navarro,
Miss Gonzales or my young First Year HS Art teacher. But of course, these were
just trial love – puppy love that normal immature kids experience.
When I reached adolescence and felt the natural inclinations of manhood, I
started getting interested in girls. I looked around in Sta.
Rita College, our neighboring
school, for a possible girlfriend, but no one appropriate was there to be found.
I visited other schools and attended their college days and looked around but
what I was looking for was also not there.
I saw a lovely girl from Real Village Number 1 named Bingbing and she danced
Hawaiian dance. She was graceful, sexy and beautiful, but she was just a mirage.
I finished HS just imagining about my dream girl but her image quickly vanished
as soon as I wake up in the morning.
In UP, I met many beautiful, intelligent girls – Menchie, Julie, Djoh;
but God said to me, “No.”
I became a member of CCC and my antenna went up sensing if there was anyone
there for me. But the proverbial thunder bolt I was waiting for did not
hit me.
I became active in The Lord‘s Church, ABCOP camps, and interchurch fellowships. The one I was looking for was still not there.
I felt no magical feeling in the presence of Emy, Erna, Dory V, or the others.
No one really met my expectation; no one really fully satisfied my image of my God’s best.
The Day Came
At the age of 22, I prayed hard to the Lord, “Please, show me my God’s
best.”
I just finished college and was aimless.
I did not know what to do. Will I go back to Bible School or will I look for a job? At the bus stop, my friend Ditas saw me and asked if I was looking for a job; she
knew that UP ISSI was looking for a male psychologist and that I should call Joy Alvarez if I was interested. That night, I called Joy and she said, “Yes, there is an opening for such a position in that office. Look for Anji Bajaro.”
I went there in the morning of the next day.
I asked the guard where Anji Bajaro was. He said I should go to the Entrepreneurship
and Management Development Department (EMDD). I went there and I asked a staff
where Anji was. She pointed me to a young, thin, be-spectacled, petite, pretty
girl. I thought, “Oh no, she looks pretty.
I hope she will not have a crush on me.”
I approached her and asked, “Hi, are you Anji Bajaro? I am a friend of Joy Alvarez.” Our eyes met for the
first time. She gave me that beaming, sweet smile she is well-known for. She asked me to sit down. The first thing
I noticed, she could not help stare at me. When she spoke, she looked at me straight
in the eyes; it could either mean complete sincerity or complete infatuation.
All along she maintained that sweet smile as she mostly listened to me. I
noticed that she had very nice looking teeth. I don’t know, but something
inside me told me, “She is the one. She
is the one.”
She asked me to stay in the Resource and Materials Development Center (RMDC)
as she arranged for interviews with Patsy Diaz, Sonia Aquino and Director Pat Viloria.
Maybe because she was very popular and credible in that office, I passed the interviews quite easily. They asked me to start work on July 16, 1979. My first salary
was P702 a month. My first assignment was to work with Anji. We implemented the Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) for the Delta Motors suppliers and subcontractors. We conducted the program in romantic Caliraya.
Together with us were Patsy Diaz, Zeny Macaspac and Bert Capati.
I immediately saw the contrast between Anji and the other UP staff. Anji was more sincere, focused, polite, and professional. In
the office, she was also a huge contrast with the likes of Josie C, Marilen, Linda, Brenda, Adel O, and the others. The others were loud, gossipy, backbiters, slanderers, quarrelsome, naggers, and absolutely irritating. Anji stood out; she was one head and shoulder above the rest. She was a comfort. She was sincere, she was genuine, she was friendly, she was sweet; she was a true sister
in the Lord. I could not help write a note to her, “You are like an oasis in the desert.”
I had a trip to Bicol and I bought her that handicraft handbag that she still
keeps somewhere in our home like a precious religious relic. But she never used
it. Anji, another officemate named Loida Nario and I met together and we agreed
to hold bible studies together. I will be the main teacher and the two of them
would invite those who would attend. Those bible studies gave a big boost to
my morale. It gave me a feeling of importance.
I finally found something where I was good at – I was a good, creative teacher.
I have mastery of Bible doctrines. I can command the attention of big
audiences whose ranks were higher than mine.
UP ISSI implemented a Course Leaders Course with Anji as project manager and
I was one of the participants. My first real exposure to modern training techniques
came from that. And apparently I excelled in that course. When I reflect back
– I realize that almost everything that I know in my profession, God used Anji to give it to me – my skill in
training, my skill in SLE, my knowledge of entrepreneurship, my skill in CEFE, my knowledge of BMS. Everything I use to earn a livelihood today really came from Anji.
While all of these things were happening, suddenly the thunderbolt hit me. I realized that I was growing in love with this girl.
So one lunch time, I just had to tell her.
After lunch, I told her, “Anji, do you have time after lunch? I just want to tell you something.” She said yes. I don’t know if she already felt what I was going to say. But she seemed somewhat excited.
We went to the second floor balcony of UP ISSI. No one was there except the
two of us. Right below us was the wide green meadow of UP, a garden and some
trees.
Then I said to her, “What I will tell you, please don’t change
your attitude towards me after I say it. You see, I am growing in love with you.”
She just kept silent. I didn’t
know what was going on in her mind. But I was pretty confident that she would
not reject my feelings because I already noticed clear signs of her fondness for me.
A few days after that, on my way to the gym to do my daily fitness routine,
a flash of inspiration came to me and I wrote down this poem:
Adorable is Just the Word
By Rex Resurreccion
Adorable is just the word
To describe this gem of the Lord
She’s sweet, cute and oh so gentle
A girl of dreams t’earth
has settled
Never e’er have I encountered
Such kindness she always rendered
When all are in the mood for fun
You’ll find her give care
to someone
Giggles are part of her being
Because she has a child's seeing
Say corny jokes; that won’t matter
I promise she’ll burst in
laughter
Enchanted I’m when she’s
around
T'her lips, her stare, her face I'm bound
Those lovely teeth I always see
When she gives that sweet smile
to me
Little she is; perhaps that’s
true
Her heart's big though, owned by just few
Gracious is she to all in need
Ask for her life; e’en that
she’ll feed
I am amazed how so much wit
Into that head of hers can fit
The whole world seems so insecure
When they can’t find this
girl demure
“Terrible!” You might say to me
What I think of this girl to be
Exaggerate, I don’t want to
But shudder in fear I’ve
to do
And now I’m sure you want to
know
Who's this girl to whom I bow low
Just pick the first letter of each
Stanza and the name they will teach
- ANGELITA
End
To Anji:
I want to take this opportunity to
thank you for many things.
- Thank you for being my friend when I was all alone, lost and traumatized by the nagging environment of UP ISSI
- Thank you for teaching me about entrepreneurship
- Thank you for teaching me Structured Learning Experience
- Thank you for teaching me CEFE
- Thank you for teaching me BMS
- Thank you for being a wise, prudent wife – with you, I am confident that our home and office are in good hands
- Thank you for giving me four lovely, intelligent children
- Thank you for excellently managing our office Passion for Perfection Inc.
- Thank you for supervising our office and home staff well
- Thank you for being my best friend and companion
- Thank you for being patient with my weaknesses and ugliness. You realize
that I am far from Christlikeness
- In other words, thank you for being my God’s Best, the girl that I have always been waiting for to come to my
life.
- I thank God that you are my inheritance from Him
- Thank you that we can share this one life on earth together till death do us part or till the Lord comes to take us
to heaven.
The Bible is so accurate when it
said,
Houses and wealth are inherited from
fathers
But a prudent wife is inherited from
the Lord
Love
Rex
Kenneth John Samuelson, my wedding godfather and model of Christian service
February 4, 2008
Dear godmother Valeda,
May God’s blessings
of peace and grace be upon you. I am sad to hear that my godfather and inspiration
Ken is no longer with us on earth, but at the same time I rejoice that he is now in the presence of the Lord and enjoying
bliss in his mansion in heaven. I pray that the Lord will give you strength and
spiritual joy now that your one flesh is with the Lord. I pray that God will
be with you to comfort and support you. I wish I could come to you, be with you
and give you my love, care and support. If there is anything I can do to help
you, please do not hesitate to inform me. If I can do it, I will help.
I will always remember you
and my godfather Ken because he was the one who gave me emotional and spiritual support when I decided to follow the Lord
and everyone seemed to have abandoned me in 1978. I may not be a full time pastor
or missionary in the classic sense of the word, but I follow and serve the Lord full-time through my business Passion for
Perfection Inc. and Floodgates of Heaven Foundation. Ken inspired me. Ken is my model – an example of persevering service to God despite all the odds. Right now, I support more than 30 missionaries and churches through my Foundation. My Christian orientation, focus and passion were all influenced by my godfather Ken. I consider myself as your and Ken’s true son here in the Philippines. Thank you for the short biography of Ken that you enclosed in your last mail. I will read his biography to my children tonight. I want my
kids to realize and appreciate the sacrifices that Ken did for the Philippines. I am touched by his deep love for the Filipino people despite all our ugliness, foolishness
and inadequacies. I pray that Ken’s faith in the Filipino people may not
be disappointed. I pray that the Filipino people will be truly God-fearing people,
imbued with the wisdom of the Lord, and may we stand up in the world as champions of God’s Kingdom. May all the sacrifices and faith of Ken bear fruit.
Just last week,
I preached the gospel and prayed the sinner’s prayer to about 120 people of Rangtay sa Pagrang-ay NGO in Baguio City;
two days ago, I preached the gospel and prayed the sinner’s prayer to 100 people of Lamoiyan Corporation; and last month,
I preached the gospel and prayed the sinner’s prayer to about 150 people of Synergy Corporation. I may not be an evangelist like Dr. Billy Graham. I may be
operating in the corporate world, but God has given me breakthroughs to share the gospel to secular and business people. I lead the Kingdom Providers Group in church and I teach Christian business people
to become generous givers. I organized the Sons of Joshua community and inspire
the 50 plus members to be excellent in service for the Lord. Everything I do, I attribute to the grace of the Lord Jesus and
the example of my godfather Ken Samuelson. Dear godmother Valeda, I will continue
to serve the Lord with passion and keep the memory of you and Ken alive wherever I go.
I will forever be your faithful son here in the Philippines
Love,
Rene Resurreccion (with my
family Anji, Israel,
Hannah, Mikhael and Milcah)
BIOGRAPHY OF MR. KENNETH JOHN SAMUELSON
Kenneth John Samuelson, 88,
Page, ND, died Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at
Union Hospital, Mayville, ND.
Kenneth John Samuelson was
born in Superior, WI on April 16, 1919, the son of the Jule and Emma (Halverson) Samuelson.
He graduated from High school in Superior and from University
of Wisconsin in Superior.
He received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Bethel Seminary in St. Paul,
MN. He later went on to graduate from Eastern
Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI with a Master of Education degree. On September 4, 1948, He married Valeda Jean Kenward.
Kenneth was the US Army in
the Philippines during WWII. He and other
GI’s were thankful for the Lord’s sparing them in the war and pledged in a prayer meeting to return to the Philippines
after WWII and build a Bible School and Seminary because the one there had been bombed out. He and Valeda sailed on the California
Bear freighter 21 days to the Philippines,
ending with a storm at sea. At once he began teaching in the new Febias College of Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek,
Hermeneutics, Life of Christ and other subjects.
On the weekends he led Bible
students in nearby areas in evangelism and beginning a church. One man, Mr. Deato, told a student, Mr. Allocod, that he, Mr.
Deato had a dream that an American soldier would come teach him how to know the Lord. Kenneth went and told Mr. Deato how
Jesus died and rose again so those who believe Him could miss hell and go to heaven. Mr. Deato, as others, repented of his
sins, believed and received Christ as Savior, personally. Bible meetings began in his home. Student Virgilio Oberes, Mr. Allocod
and others helped teach.
After 10 years of prayer
for the area, in 1971, Kenneth and Febias student Agapito Bernardo with others went to a tribal group between two mountains.
They were the first to preach the word to those people. Today four cement churches with believers are there. The present President
of Febias College of Bible, Dr. Anacleto Carag, first heard the Word then as a boy of 8 years.
After 31 years in the Philippines and retirement Kenneth went to Israel
yearly. 18 times he went until 2000. One that he taught the Bible in English was a communist Russian young man, Danny, who
also believed in Jesus. Kenneth taught young Filipino workers in Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv. Some of those in Tel Aviv formed a church of believers for Filipinos and others.
In North
Dacota, after retirement, Kenneth also taught Filipino Bible Meetings (FBM) but poor health set in and his wife
took over the FBM. He also was very much a part of FBM in Winnipeg, MB
and started in Twin Ports, Duluth, MN – Superior, and WI area.
Green Bay Packers was his
favorite team, which everyone knew. However, he missed the first Super Bowl when they won, by being in the Philippines at the time. He was near the TV for the November
4, 2007 Green Bay win, but unable to see it. Everything is
better now.
He is survived by his wife,
Valeda (Kenward) Samuelson; nephews, Thomas Leuma, Michael Leuma, and Donald Broeten; nieces, Jacque Haugen and Valorie Hoffmeister;
nephew-in-law Evan Thomas; niece-in-law Esther Estrella; cousin Harvey Halverson; and their spouses, children, grandchildren
and great-grand children; brothers-in-law, Donald (Frances) Kenward, Richard (Violet) Lee Kenward, James (Eloyce) Kenward
and Joe (Mary) Kenward; and their children, grand children, and great-grand children.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Blessed be the
memory of Kenneth J. Samuelson
A happy new year to you and
yours.
This is the year that Kenny
went to be with the Lord. His last illness was heart, lung and kidney failure. He couldn’t squeeze the doctor’s hand.
My North Dakota brothers James and Joe Kenward, their families and friends have been
with me and helped me physically and spiritually, so much at this time. My brother
Donald in CA andRichard in OR, their families and Ken’s help me.
November 13 at night Ken
was brighter then I’ve ever seen him. His eyes were so shiny and blue. He was on oxygen and couldn’t talk. I
reminded him how he invited Christ into his life at 16 years old, how he was in WWII in the Philippines,
met Christian GI’s in the Manila mortuary and sang “Jesus Saves.”
… How Kenny and others
thanked the Lord for their lives being saved in war and vowed in prayer to build a Bible School & Seminary for Him, of
different experiences there. All the time his eyes were so bright. I sang to him, “Beautiful, beautiful blue eyes” and his favorite hymns. I think we had 2 or more hours like this but I didn’t know it was his last night on earth. About 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 14,
2007, Kenneth John Samuelson went to be with the Lord at 88 years old. “…Absent
from the body…present with the Lord” (II Cor.5:6). How I miss him.
Kenneth began
Filipino Bible Meetings in 1986 at our retirement from Philippines work,
and also taught many a Bible class to Filipinos and others in Israel
18 different years, until 2000. We were always together in the work. When he stopped, I continued, at the same time attending to him.
New Address:
Valeda J. Samuelson
311 May Ave Apt 2A
Page, ND 58064
Tel # 701-668-2473
Filipino Bible Meeting Schedule: December 8, January 12 & 26, 2008, February 9 & 23 & on Communication
Schedule. Daily.
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