Friday, August 20, 2010

Like mother, Like daughter!! :)

Hi! Here are some pictures of my daughter. She just finished her school at that time, and that was a Monday. Every Monday we have our bonding time. Sometimes we cook some snacks for the two of us, and we sing together. I play the guitar and she is the singer! It was so good to have a bonding with my daughter. Sometimes she wants me to tell her a story about daycare because she wants to know what I teach to my students in daycare. She was teaching me a song about our lesson, and sometimes she asks me what our topic is for the month and she'll do a song about our topic. I'm so thankful to God that He gave a daughter like her to me. I am so blessed to have her, and she is so gifted in music and she has matured in her thinking. She loves to take pictures and she loves dogs. One of our pastors has a dog, and when the dog was sick my pastor asked me to bring the dog to CJ to help the dog get better since CJ knows how to take care of a dog, and she's a dog lover!:) Now the dog feels much better and my pastor has the dog back in their house, but Cj always wants to visit the dog and play with him. I also posted some pictures from my school. I just finished my midterm in Old Testament survey. It was good - it's like testing your relationship with God. The questions were few but the answers were very long! I thank God for letting me go to school and know Him more.

Thank you so much for reading my blog! Please join me in prayer regarding my daughter CJ, my ministries, and my school. Take care and God bless!











Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Daycare Field Trip!!

Hi there!

I'd love to share about our daycare field trip on August 7th, 2010. It was so great to see the kids having fun with their teachers. As a teacher, when you see the smiles on the faces of your students, you feel that they love what you'rer doing for them. I am so glad to have students like them because they love to learn so much in daycare, and I saw that in our trip! On the field trip, we went first to Museum Pambata (a museum for kids) where they learned the history of the Philippines. They loved to see everything in the museum, and we saw the many kinds of jobs that they could have in their life someday. Actually, many of them they want to be like teacher Tintin, teacher Toph and Teacher John. In short, they want to be teachers like us, :). It's good to hear that your students, when they look upon you, they're really influenced by you, and they learn from us! They know about how different countries wanted to conquer the Philippines, and they love to see and to know the history of their own country. We also took the children to Manila Ocean Park. It's like a big aquarium! In daycare, sometimes we play a shark game where the teacher is a shark and all the students are small fish that need to swim away from the shark. The kids love the game, especially when we do some sounds effect on the guitar if the shark is coming. In our trip they saw the real fish and real shark in Manila Ocean Park. They didn't know what to say when they saw that! They couldn't believe they saw the real shark!!! It was so good to have a field trip with the daycare kids! After the aquarium, we went to Jollibee's Restaurant for our lunch. They looked so tired, but they enjoyed the food!!! Thank you for all of your prayers for our students and for our ministry. We believe that someday these students will grow up from street kids to become leaders of the whole world! Continue to pray for this ministry, for our students and for their families. Thank you for all of your prayers!











Sunday, August 1, 2010

A Day in My Life...

Hi! I'm Tin Tin Ramos and I'm 19 years old. I live in Makati, Philippines and I am a full-time worker in our church. I've been serving for two years now. I'm happy to serve God, even though there are many trials. As a single mom with my 5-year old daughter, at many times I feel tired or that I would want to give up, but God is so amazing and true to his promises. He will never leave you nor forsake you. That's why I'm really, really amazed by God. God always comforts me. Sometimes I experience not being able to eat because I have no money to buy food. When I experience that, I just pray to God that even though I'm not eating I will continue to serve him. When I accepted Christ, I said to myself that I would surrender all my life to him.

One of my roles in the church is being the secretary. I'm also on the worship team, playing guitar and keyboard. On weekdays, I'm a teacher in our daycare ministry for street children. Being a teacher, at first I didn't know what I'm going to teach them and I don't know how to teach. But God put me here in this ministry. It's exciting for me because even though I don't have any training as a teacher, I saw the needs of our students. They need love from God and from us. We teach basics such as drawing lines and learning the alphabet, and I love teaching them!










I have a student named Bernadeth Delima. She has a physical disability, as her back bone broke when she was just 5-months old. Her dad is a pedicab driver (he drives people around on his bicycle with a side-cab attached). Her mom has no work and is just at home. Bernadeth is very funny and she always wants to dance to the song "Baby" by Justin Beiber. She's also an attention-seeker. I recently decided to make a feeding program for her to maintain her health, because she is a malnourished child.


I'm now also studying part-time in bible college in my first year. I'm taking Old and New Testament survey courses. I've learned so much. It's helping for me to share the word of God, and I'm learning about the life of Jesus. I can always say that God is amazing for what he did for us. He saved us from our sin. Christ's life is our ransom, and so it's our joy to just worship and serve him. And I will serve and worship God for the rest of my life.

This is my daughter CJ (pics below). She's 5 yrs old and she's going to school in kindergarten. She likes to read and write and to do her homework on her own. She's really matured, and she loves Spongebob :). Many times she's asking me about her dad, and I don't know what I'm going to tell her. I can't explain everything to her, as it's hard to explain my life before I became a christian. I told her that I love her so much and God loves her so much. It's hard to be a single mom because I don't have any work to give her a good life. But I know the Lord will provide, and he will be the father of my daughter. I always cry to the Lord, because I think about where I'm going to get money for CJ's tuition and her food for her school everyday. We stay with my parents and sometimes they help me to provide CJ's food. I know God will be with my daughter and I, and I know God will provide for us.




Please pray for me, my daughter, and for my ministries. That God will use me more for my students and for their family. Please also pray for my school - for my tuition and for my books that I need to buy, and for my financial situation. Thank you!