Pastor Alex Ong

Our congregation at Life in Christ Assembly of God in Valenzuela City, Philippines, has 150–200 members and regular attenders. I have been serving as the head pastor in this church since 2011.

We were producing live broadcasts of our Sunday worship celebration even before the pandemic. We have since strengthened our Facebook page and our promotion of our online gathering to our constituents. Also, we hold our midweek prayer night to further connect, not only to God, but to the members as well.

Although we were already using APMedia resources, we had to go solely to online services. We received so much help from your ministry. I attended the Media in Ministry training regularly because that is where we needed to focus our efforts.

The Lord moves in ways we don’t expect. Throughout this time the congregation has expanded through our online church ministry! We are able to reach more people from different places, near and far.

Families and friends who can’t join us for in=person “Christian” gatherings are now connecting with us online. New people have been reached and touched by our online ministry. And some of them even express that when face-to-face gatherings are back, they will visit our church and join us in worshipping the Lord.

They regularly send us testimonies like these:

• A widower said she found a family in our church. Now she regularly watches and connects with us and is engaged in our online Bible studies.

• A family from Pangasinan who was looking for a church here in Manila joined us regularly and even shared our online broadcasts with their families and friends. They are now also actively connecting with us. The youngest in the family (2 years old) almost lost her life due to COVID. She was miraculously healed through the prayers of the church.

• A young mother, a regular viewer of our online broadcasts, was separated from her husband, son, and daughter for a long time. She was living with a married man. After hearing the Word of God being preached in our online broadcasts, she repented and is now back with her family!

All praises to God!