A couple of Sundays ago, we cancelled all of the services at Victory Fort due to typhoon Frank.

One of the major reasons why we made that decision was because we got calls mainly from our volunteers that many of them couldn't make it to serve either because their area was flooded or they couldn't leave their children at home while they go volunteer at church.  The more spiritual move was to actually stay home with their family than go to church and serve.  Yes, you heard me right - we'd rather have our volunteers stay home with their families than go to church and serve at that particular context.

Fifty-two weekends in the year, they usually sacrifice time, effort, resources and literally themselves to make our worship services as excellent as they are.  From ushering to technical team, kids ministry to music ministry, admin support to communications, they would serve week in and week out.

Thus, without the volunteers, the weekend services couldn't run.  What is a hospital without the nurses and the doctors?  They are the vital and crucial members of the team that make a church what it is.

Just wanted to say a note of thanks to the hundreds of volunteers that make church run.  It truly is a body and everyone is a critical part of it.

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.  1Corinthians 12:12