We are pastors of New Life Christian Center – The Fort in the Philippines. We hold our services in a mall in the rising business district of Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Manila.

Last year, my husband, Pastor Jocel attended a Hillsong Conference in Australia. At that time, Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church was one of their key speakers. When he came back, he gave me the book Destined to Reign by Pastor Prince as a gift. I read it a week later and my life will never be the same again.

It was like our eyes were unveiled and we saw Jesus like we had never seen Him before!

God used that book to open our eyes to the wonderful gospel of grace! It was like our eyes were unveiled and we saw Jesus like we had never seen Him before! We saw that it was all about Him and His finished work on the cross. It took away the burden of “performing” to please God! We now know that we are already pleasing to God and that everything we do for Him is a delightful response to what He has already done. We are falling more and more in love with Jesus everyday!

During this time, a Norwegian couple taught more about grace in the classes that we were taking in ministry school. When they preached on grace it was like my spirit was going to overflow with excitement. God was confirming the word of His grace to us. We immediately told them what God was showing us about grace and the finished work of Jesus. God connected us to them and we had wonderful times of fellowship in the Word with them. Talking about Jesus is exciting!

It was like a breath of fresh air. It was like a burden lifted off our congregation.

We immediately started teaching and preaching grace and the finished work of Jesus on the cross in our church. It was like a breath of fresh air. It was like a burden lifted off our congregation. Now we are continually encouraging people to look to Jesus and not to themselves. We have heard wonderful testimonies of how the love of God and the gospel of grace have transformed lives and produced breakthroughs in the lives of people! You can actually read their testimonies on our website.

As pastors, this has changed the way we look at ministry and our personal life has changed so much. Even the way we raise our kids is not the same anymore! We are more restful now and trust more and more in Jesus. Ministry is now a delight and not a duty! It is in our hearts to teach as many people as we can about Jesus because He truly can transform us inside and out. We can never do that by our performance and many Christians are trapped in that cycle of “doing, doing, doing.” We pray that God will continue to open doors for His message to be preached and His Son to be glorified.

To God be all the glory!