Timothy Joseph "TJ" Caparros

The ACES Basketball Team, a ministry of Living Word Christian Ministries of Pastor Mel Caparros based in Cebu City was invited to minister at Grace Baptist Church, a fundamental baptist church of ABWAY.

We visit this church at least once a month to minister to the congregation. One of the reasons why we support this church because Pastor Sam Pascual who is the Senior Pastor is also into sports ministry. His church has been part of ICBL for the last nine (9) years.

Timothy Joseph or TJ as he fondly called was assigned to share the message. TJ was just recently commissioned to be a minister last October 21 in their church in Cebu City.

When TJ was sharing the message, I could really feel the Holy Spirit ministering to all of us. I was just blessed by the testimony of this young man who gave his life to the Lord at a very young age. Pastor Sam even mentioned before the end of the service that he would like to invite TJ again in their church.

I believe TJ and even the whole ACES team has been a blessing to the churches here in Davao and even to the young players.

We pray that our partnership in the sports ministry would continue to give glory & honor to our God.

We are so proud of you TJ!

Cebu City Sports Ministry Seminar...

I travelled to Cebu City last October 4-6, 2007 upon the invitation of Coach Lawrence "Tata" Merced and Coach Alfonso "Al" Solis in relation to our sports ministry seminar.

We had fifteen (15) churches represented in the meeting. Most of them are yet to start a sports ministry in their local churches. Joining me in this seminar was Pastor Francisco "Kiko" Sanchez from Manila. Pastor Kiko has a long experience in starting a sports ministry and organizing church leagues.

The pastors and church leaders got to understand the importance of sports ministry in relationship to their church planting program. We taught them about How to start a Sports Ministry, The Biblical Approach to Sports Ministry and How to start a Church League. During the open forum, we were able to answer some of their questions with regards to sports ministry.

The pastors requested for another seminar in the future. We felt that there is a need for us to have a follow up seminar in the future.

A visit from our Mommy Ivy...

LAST September 28-30, 2007 our Mommy Ivy visited us from Bacolod City. The last time she visited us was ten (10) years ago. Grace and I together with our boys Brian, JJ & Stephen spent quality time during her short stay with us.

She still remembers that during her first visit Davao only had one (1) mall which was Victoria Plaza, now it has five (5) malls. Mommy Ivy loves to go to the malls, she doesn't like to go to the beach. So we showed her all the malls in Davao. It was fun!

One of the highlights of her visit was the 23rd birthday of Brian Christopher. She treated us to a wonderful dinner of which we chose the place. The following day we celebrated Brian's birthday together with his friends at the house.

Mom's visit really meant to us because we miss her so much. Again we look forward to her next visit or shall we say we will visit her next summer.

To Mommy Ivy, Your the best!