It has been years... 3 or 4 years... since I was home early on a Saturday night.

Yup. I have a night life! haha! AT CHURCH! hehehe!

I am part of the Music and Creative Arts Ministry since... I can't remember. 4 to 5 years ago? And one of my major duties here is the final layouting of our church's newsletter--the MZCF Sunday Bulletin. For the first 3 volumes (3 years) I shouldered most of the work. Article writing (news, updates, feature), photo gathering, and layouting. Since back then, I have school during weekdays, and recently, I have work on weekdays. I only have Saturday night to patch the articles and pics, and wrap it all up. I can't do it on a Saturday afternoon because we have a youth gathering every 3PM. In the morning, well, I still don't know what would be included in the news yet.

Anyways, for some time now, I have been doing this job until late night. I usually get home by 11PM. Getting home by 10PM was already early for me. There are number of nights that I even get home past 12MN... my dad had to pick me up.

Recently, the composition of the newsletter team was reshuffled. I still had the job as the layout artist. But thank God, He included other people in the team that would really be of great great help! There's Tita Cora, who acts as our head. She gathers all the news, and mostly writes the articles, and determines the content of the newsletter for Sunday. There are our faithful writers as well, Abby and EJ. Abby is the official "decoder" of the digitally recorded prophecies declared during Sunday services. She is also one of our official photographers. Always armed with a camera--anywhere, anytime! She gets to write other articles as well, usually youth related events. EJ also contributes articles, usually the Friday Night of Prayer and Worship events. We also got Ate Di, one of our official photographers as well. I hope she could contribute some inspiring articles someday. She's a pretty good writer, you know. Praise God! Then we have Kuya Mike! Before he heads the newsletter team. But God is calling Him to the next level. He did not have to totally leave us though. He's still part of the newsletter team. But more on support now. He take photos as well during events.

And thank God too for the other youth who contributes articles from time to time

With the reshuffled and more task-defined newsletter team, a lot of load has been lifted from me...

It has been two Saturdays now that I get to finish the newsletter before 6PM. The significant news are emailed to me usually on a Friday night. I still had to stay up late on Friday to work on the layout. But at least, I'm already home. And no pressure to wake up really early on Saturday morning. On the afternoon of the following day, all I need is a little patch up, proofreading, editing, and finally printing!

Thank God... I pray that it will continue on like this from now on... and for the rest of the days that I'd be fuflilling this lovely duty for the Lord and for His people.

"May my love and dedication for this duty increase even more, Father. May I find more delight in doing it for You. Amen."