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MCGI Q & A is a video service featuring people's questions answered by Bro. Eli Soriano, the Presiding Minister to the Members Church of God International (MCGI). This video resource is a compendium of the Q & A segments gathered from the award-winning The Old Path (Ang Dating Daan in Tagalog) and Ask Bro. Soriano, The Bible Will Answer (Itanong Mo Kay Soriano, Biblia Ang Sasagot in Tagalog) television programs, to Bible Expositions, and to Truthcaster webcast at Livestream.com.

Since the early 1990s when the Bible Exposition was conceptualized and introduced by Bro. Daniel Razon in the Philippines, the Q & A segment helped draw followings in the Philippines first, then in Southeast Asia, Middle East, Europe, and North America.

In similar fashion, the Q & A format has been attracting audience from Uruguay, Bolivia, and Argentina among others through O Caminho Antigo (Portuguese) and El Camino Antiguo (Spanish) in Latin America. MCGI also has The Old Path in India.

Bro. Eli extended these evangelization efforts through the online medium with the launch of a web channel on Livestream.com. He conducts up to three regular live webcast schedules weekly where viewers can ask their questions live via phone or chat.

Dubbed by Mashable.com as the "Most Educational Blogger to Follow in 2009," Bro. Eli earned this recognition for his blog, esoriano.wordpress.com. In the Philippines, this blog was voted the
country's Most Popular Website in 2010 in the Philippine Web Awards. The preacher's 30-year-old The Old Path television program was also acclaimed in North America as "Most Informative Religious Program" in 2006 by Gawad America.

This video service currently features Q & A video collections in English. The Q & A video archives selected from Bro. Eli's Portuguese and Spanish broadcasts will be launched soon.

Amidst Disasters and Political Strife: World-wide Congregation Celebrates

This is a perfect timing for a world-wide Congregation to give thanks after a wave of disasters and political strife struck different parts of the world.

As early as the second week of March, tens of thousands of worshippers marched to the ADD Convention Center in Pampanga, Philippines. Delegates throughout and outside the country arrived in throngs, while coordinating centers in five other continents have also readied their places to accommodate the attendees.

The Members Church of God International is celebrating its International Thanksgiving to God for the first quarter of this year from March 25 to 27, singing praises, offering thanksgiving, and studying of God’s word.

This first quarter thanksgiving is significant for the Congregation for many reasons. MCGI had vigorously widened its broadcast mileage in the past three months, specifically to include Bolivia, Argentina, Portugal, Uruguay, and India in its evangelization efforts. The latter two already have established coordinating centers in response to the growing number of brethren an interested people. More centers are expected to be set up soon.

The increase in membership in the West was hastened by the 24/7 broadcasts over Latin-American televisions and Bible Expositions held in various places. Inquiries about the doctrines of the Church multiplied in a few months. Bro. Eli Soriano, presiding minister to MCGI, said of this in his sermon as “quenching spiritual thirst in the West.”

Bro. Eli also thinks of these evangelization developments as the “realization of the Church’s responsibility to show and share the light and knowledge that God gave [us].” Even with persistent censures and criticisms, MCGI continues to broadcast the Gospel, and in doing so, Bro. Eli said, “We feel humbled that we have become instruments in making the truth we have learned known to every place we go.”

The continuous preaching added 4,107 new members for the first quarter. This number includes a majority of Filipinos, Papua New Guineans, Indians, Africans, and Latinos.

Another celebrated achievement of the Church is the institution of the synchronized worldwide prayer on March 6. Members pray together in MCGI chapters worldwide at an agreed time, 10 p.m. in the Philippines via satellite and Internet facilities.

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3-Day Thanksgiving 1st Quarter 2011

Start:	Mar 25, '11 06:00a
End:	Mar 27, '11
Location:	Worldwide

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Shaking open our self-centered eyes

As the Earth shakes and the seas surge, we desperately need distance from the tendency to see things through our inevitably self-centered eyes.

Shall the Philippines now become the first to prohibit converting sinners to repentance?

Now the ADD (Ang Dating Daan), for the first time in history, is being prohibited to conduct Bible studies in some prisons in the Philippines! It was even prohibited to baptize some converts in Talisay City and La Carlota, Negros Island and in Guimaras, Panay Island! I am appealing to the President of the Philippines. We have been preaching continuously for the last 2 decades in Philippine prisons, converting sinners to repentance and in belief in God. We have been helping neglected prisoners of their humane necessities, spiritual and otherwise!

I cannot see any valid and logical reasons for the following persons to prohibit us from continuing the spiritual effort to bring light to lost souls in prison: (Rev. Fr. Nestor Caber, the Regional Chaplain BJMP6, J/Insp. Norberto Miciano Jr., who is warden of Talisay City Jail, Negros Occidental, and S/Insp. Mario Solis of La Carlota Jail, including Insp. Felix Sariana of Guimaras Jail).

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What is the True Meaning of Life?

....................................The question being asked to me is: “What is the meaning of life?” The biblical answer is: Life is the cause of existence of everything there is; and the purpose by which it was made to exist..............................
.....................................We can not understand the true meaning of life without understanding its purpose. A life lived not with its purpose is lived in vain and is wasted..................................

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