THE JESUS THE MESSIAH MINISTRY TRUSTEES REPORT FROM 1 AUGUST 2024 TO 31 JULY 2025
OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES:
To advance the Kingdom of the Living God through the teaching and preaching the Gospel of love and salvation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to all the peoples of the world regardless of race, colour, nationality and denomination.
In order to advance the Christian faith according to the scriptures, we do different activities to reach out to the Filipino community first and then to other nationalities. The following are the activities and services that we hold in our ministry:
We hold our prayer meetings via Zoom every Tuesday evenings and our Bible study sessions also via Zoom every Friday evenings from 9:30 pm -10:30 pm.
Every Sunday we gather for our Sunday Worship service from 5:30-9:30pm
We reach out to our home country in the Philippines by putting together Mission Projects like Feeding the Poor programs, giving away essential goods like canned food and clothing through sending care package boxes, funding Medical Missions and organizing Conferences.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE:
The following are the activities and achievement we were able to perform through the help of God and cooperation and continuous support of all voluntary leaders, workers and members of the JTM Ministry.
Theme:
“Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.[12 ] He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.”
(Revelation 3:11-12 (nkjv)
July-October 2024 – Ongoing Sunday service every week as well as weekly prayer meetings every Tuesday and weekly Bible studies every Friday via Zoom and one Saturday a month Music Ministry Practice.
JTMM Family Summer Camp, We’re not able to conduct this Annual event due to different reasons like, there are people had already planned to go to Philippines for a holiday to visit their own family.
November 2024 JTMM 19th Year Thanksgiving Anniversary Celebration, Westbourne Park Baptist Church, Porchester Road, W2 5DX, London
On Sunday 24th November we joyfully celebrated our 19th anniversary as a church—a testament to God’s unwavering goodness and faithfulness. Each of our ministries contributed a heartfelt presentation to mark this special milestone. The celebration opened with a beautiful pageantry number by our Music and Youth ministries, including the children ministry. Our Music team lead the congregation in praise and worship to God and we received a powerful message by our Pastor who delivered the Word of God. Our Kids ministry followed with a lively song and dance, while the Dance ministry offered a worshipful tambourine performance. The Women’s ministry shared a vibrant celebratory dance. We concluded the celebration with a joyful time of eating fellowship, grateful to God for His continued goodness and faithfulness in and through our church family.
December 2024 – JTMM Christmas Service Celebration
On Sunday 22nd December we held our Christmas celebration service. Our Kids ministry presented a special Christmas dance number and our Music and Youth team rendered a special Christmas worship banner dance to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. We also held our Candle light ceremony as part of our service which represents Jesus being the light of this dark world. We held our Christmas exchange gift and our Pastors also gave away small gifts as a token of appreciation to the members of the congregation. We ended the service with our eating fellowship where we all had Christmas dinner as a church family.
On Sunday 29[th] December Year End Service-Thanking God and Praising Him for all the things He has done for us for the whole year 2024.
January 2025– Ongoing Sunday service every week as well as weekly prayer meetings every Tuesday and weekly Bible studies every Friday via Zoom
February 2025 – JTMM True Hearts Day Celebration/Renewal of vows
On Sunday 14th February we held our True Hearts Day Celebration. Our Children ministry presented a song and a spoken word segment. Our Pastors held a renewal of vows segment where one of our couples renewed their wedding vows to God with the congregation as their witness. That same couple presented a beautiful song number to God to seal their renewal of vows to the Lord and for our last special number we had a special solo song presentation from one of our sisters in church.
March 2025 – JTMM Mother’s Day Celebration
On Sunday 30th March we celebrated Mother’s Day as a church where we honoured all the Mothers in church and thanked God for their lives. We listened to a powerful message from our Pastor who delivered the Word of God. Our Kid’s ministry sang a beautiful song for their mothers and all the Mother’s in our church
rendered a special song number. After all the children in the congregation offered flowers and gifts to their mother’s as our Pastors prayed over all the mothers.
April 2025 - Palm Sunday also called “Passion Sunday” Service
On Sunday 13th April our Pastor preached a special message commemorating Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
On Friday morning18[th] April “ Good Friday Walk to Witness “ Different Christian churches in the area of west London walked together at the Portobello Market shared the message of Good Friday to all the people in the streets through praise and worship, while we are marching together, giving tracts and inviting people to receive Christ as personal Lord and Saviour and invited them to attend church services.
In the evening of Friday Our Pastor preached a message about the 7[th] last word of Jesus on the cross through zoom.
April 2025 - Resurrection Sunday JTMM Celebrated the risen Christ
On Sunday 20[th] April we celebrated one of the pinnacle of our faith as a Christian - the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We sang songs of praise and worship celebrating his resurrection and received a powerful and moving message from our Pastors further declaring that Jesus is alive and what that means for Christians. Our Kid’s ministry sang a song declaring Jesus is alive and rendered a spoken word presentation and our Music and youth team performed a special number using tambourines declaring the Jesus is Alive.
June 2025– Pentecost Sunday
On Sunday 8[th] June our Pastors preached a special message commemorating the birth of the church which was the day of Pentecost. There was a special prayer for the church congregation to receive the anointing power of the Holy spirit to fulfil the assignment of God to go and tell the world that Jesus is alive and the only living hope.
June 2025 - JTMM Father’s Day Celebration
On Sunday 15[th] June We celebrated Father’s Day as a church where we had the opportunity to honour all the father’s in the congregation. The Kid’s honoured their father’s by presenting a special song and saying what they were grateful for about their dads. After this all the father’s in the congregation presented a song number and after our Pastors prayed over them, all the kids gave flowers and gifts to their dads.
July 2025 - Ongoing Sunday service every week as well as weekly prayer meetings every Tuesday and weekly Bible studies every Friday via Zoom and Music practice once a month Saturday.
Every Tuesday evening, we held Zoom prayer meetings from 9:30 pm -10.30 pm.
Every Friday evening, we held Zoom Bible studies from 9:30 pm -10:30 pm.
One Saturday a month the Music Ministry Team Rent a Music Studio to practice our praise and worship line-ups.
Our churches in the Philippines are growing even though we are not giving them any regular support.
Our small group of Filipinos in Istanbul Turkey are continuously gathering every week to worship the Lord, Pray and Study the word of God.
Submitted by:
EDELBERTO Z. MARQUEZ
PASTOR/TRUSTEE
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ALL JTMM TRUSTEES