A graduation treat and a `chopsticks only’ experience.

With the 10 moths of being together almost over, the students took several hours taking souvenir photos as they posed in almost every part of the BSM school facilities: dorm rooms, classroom, kitchen, dining areas, welcome lounge, rooftop, foyer and even in bath and wash areas.

Physically qualified students join FARM members in donating blood during a blood letting campaign

`The more you participate, the more you learn’ is a learning principle emphasized  in Creative Teaching class. Mrs Calusay gave the students a tasty object lesson to illustrate the point.

FARM through its church based ministerial training school, the Berean School of Ministry (BSM) hosts and conducts the Church Planting and Missions Module. This is the first time that the module is done to include Filipino foreign missionaries and/or candidates for world missions. As in the previous years, the module is for the training of church planters along with Missions directors and church planting facilitators in preparation for the summer church planting. Seventy people were in attendance, 25 of which are the church planting students of BSM this schoolyear. Five courses were offered: Church Planting, Effective Evangelism and the SOS System, Discipleship, Urban Ministry and Missions & Culture and Strategy. Instructors are Reg. Rey Calusay, Rev, Zeny Calusay, Rev. Jireh Calusay, Rev. Warren Aragona, Joses Calusay, Ben Judah Calusay and Chris Patricio.

In preparation for nationwide church planting program of PGCAG Home Missions, BSM offers a Church Planting module not only for the students of the current schoolyear but also for the church planters form other districts.

Our students participated in the Royal Rangers Training held here at Farm after our church Senior Pastor Rev. Rey Calusay  adopted the  program of the missions endeavor of the Assemblies of God. Royal Rangers International (RRI) is a doorway to action and adventure for young people in nearly 100 nations of the world. RRI is a mentoring program and tool that men and boys, serving together, can use to evangelize their world, equip their next generation of Christlike men and empower them to become lifelong servant leaders.  The purpose of the training is  to nationally qualify instructors to teach Ranger Basics (RB), and Ranger Essentials (RE), and RMA continuous learning electives in order to ensure that highly competent instructors who reflect favorably on Royal Rangers conduct training. Certification will be provided through the region  in cooperation with the local districts.

One of the first verses learned by students in BSM is  2Ti 2:15  – ‘Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth’. These photos [prove BSM Batch 24 do study !