Memoriam

As we were attending the church service today, it was a sad day to note the passing of a very promising young Pastor, Kevin Alamag and his wife Abella last thursday, February 14 due to a vehicular accident along Commonwealth avenue.

Pastor Kevin Alamag has shown exemplenary leadership not only at GCF but as well as in his previous pastoring at Church of the Risen Lord in UP Diliman. Oftentimes he would lead the pastoral prayer at the 6pm Sunday service where I am attending, and it shows by the way he leads the congregational prayer that he indeed has the passion and the whole-hearted devotion in service towards God and for the church. I got the first glimpse of him last year when he seems being groomed by our senior Pastor Luis Pantoja for greater responsibilities up ahead in the church ministry.

But that's life and God knows what is best. Pastor Kevin Alamag and his wife Abella's mission in this life may have been over and called have called them home to a place where no tears, no fear and no worries will have to reign anymore and where God has prepared a place far beyond our imagination to fathom.

God has always been a God of surprises and mysteries... The day Pastor Kevin and Abella had that accident, it was a Valentine's day and God called them to share the date and banquet with Him in his domain... trully indeed a valentines date fit for the loving children of God, prepared by the Majestic King Himself.

Life is a journey and one day we shall be called home as well, so let us strive to live our every day life pleasing before God and Savior Jesus Christ. So that when the time comes for us to present our accountabilty before our righteous master, we can say, we have been a good steward of what He has given us in this earthly dwelling.

To Pastor Kevin and sister Belle, thank you for all the prayer and service you've given us, for the love you've shared, for the people you've touched and for those you've inspired and knowing that you'd both continue to smile upon us from heaven.

We will miss the voice that led our congregational prayer but we will always linger in our hearts the memory of your leading.