This is a short story about my conversion from being a Catholic to being a member of MCGI and it started about in the year 1992 during my second year at high school where out of the blue and I can't remember anymore why our Filipino subject class teacher told us to listen and jot down what we learned about listening to this preacher Bro. Eli Soriano in the radio.
That is what I did and after going back to class my Filipino teacher didn't even mentioned it again. But what I noticed about the preaching of brother Eli is that he makes sense, he points about this wisdom about something and backing it with the verses in the bible, it is not a boring thing to listen to him and you can enjoy the program all throughout until its completion.
A few years later I saw my eldest brother listening to his program in the TV so I got the interest to watch and listen, it was the 80's and early 90's re-run of the program and it was indeed a very good program to watch since there is no advertisement, just an hour long broadcast.
I was already sick at that time until I got the bad news from my doctor that I can't be treated because of my liver condition. So I got depressed, that was a few years after I stopped going to college.
There is nothing to do at home except watching television so I ended-up watching #MCGI.ORG's programs from UHF frequency channels because the rival sects keeps on bidding a higher price for the airtime until the MCGI was able to buy #UNTV for its own programs.
Anyway I was able to join MCGI on late 90's and my aim really is to get some chance getting in heaven before I die. I thought that after having a failed kidney that I will die sooner which is why I did a four months vacation with my grandmother in their province so that I can at least be with my cousins there in the father's side of our family before I die and cherish the moment.
In the other hand going to my mother's side of the family for vacation is hard because I am not familiar going there, there is no better communication yet at that time, no Internet access service yet by the telecom services, it was only in the late 90's at that time plus I have no money to spend for my journey too.
I also missed being with my cousins in my mother's side of the family because basically we have no money to spend for doing the journey which is why I do not know the names of many of my cousins.
Anyway, what lead me to join MCGI is the teaching, purely based on the bible and of course the love for people. But the thing is that the former Minister bro Eli Soriano's style of teaching made many people join MCGI because they had felt the love that our religion is trying to serve just like what the Lord Jesus Christ wants to happen.
So my week is not complete without listening to him even through re-runs when the church representative goes into my house so I can watch it to fulfill my duty as a member since I can't go physically to church anymore.
But he passed-away without us knowing the he is sick. Actually he has asthma but is managing it through Asthma medications but one day he dropped dead just like that with the assumption that he died from a heart attack. He got buried immediately because the new Minister just doesn't liked to see him in a coffin and neither do I because we always see him as an instrument of life flowing thorough him which makes us expect that he might live for many years still.
But he didn't lived that long and gave me an intense sense of longing because I know that nobody can replace him, the way he teaches the words of God with the bible, the entertaining ways that he says during broadcasts, and question and answer portion which now does not happen anymore because nobody really can do an impromptu question and answer like how Bro Eliseo Soriano does it.
But as a religious organization we already had been prepared for that eventuality so the transition went smoothly. The recordings of mass indoctrinations are still run and still make souls to join our church. Now the only difference is that Bro Eli is not around anymore and that we cannot here him deliver the teaching in real time but only with recording which are more than enough to save souls especially in these troubled times of our lives.
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