• RICHARD T. CABALLERO JR.
While many communities around the city embraced the recent long weekend with traditional festivities, spooky stories, and elaborate costumes, the apostolics under the New Life Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ Inc. took a different approach as they gathered together families for a three-day Family Camp 2025.
For years, holiday weekends have often been marked by Halloween parties, haunted house visits, and costume parades. However, Pentecostal believers took the opportunity to construct a deeper connection and reflection on faith and Christ-centred family values, celebrating not the dead, but the forever alive, Jesus Christ.
The three-day camp themed “Transition: Darkness to Light, Law to Grace, Old to New Testament” focused on providing lectures and church services to its members which centred on spiritual enrichment and strengthening familial ties anchored on the Bible.
The camp, which was led by the Camp Director, Rev. Bernardo Rasimo Jr, was held at a scenic retreat centre nestled in the countryside, offering a peaceful environment away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
The goal was to create an atmosphere where families could reconnect not only with each other but also with their faith and community.
The apostolic church is being led by its head pastor, Rev. Jerry Delicano, whose life is also a testament of godly transition; after being a journalist and broadcaster for almost 8 years, he now dedicated his life as a teller of good tidings.
Delicano worked at a local newspaper in Bacolod City as a reporter and cartoonist. He also dedicated several years of his life as a broadcaster in a local radio station in the city. However, upon God’s calling, his passion transitioned from a deliverer of ordinary news to a preacher of God’s good news.
The NLACJCI now has 4 church branches, including in Bago City, Murcia, Negros Occidental, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, and Cuartero, Capiz.
The apostolic people, who were called Pentecostal by religion, are steadfast in their belief-centered on the Oneness of God doctrine.*
