25/05/2026
Happy Birthday, Pastor Mario Bugtong! ✨🥰🫶
Today, as a congregation, we pause to thank the Lord for the precious gift that you are to the Body of Christ. We honor not only your leadership, but the heart behind it — a heart that reflects the gentleness, compassion, patience, and grace of Jesus.
Thank you for being a shepherd who leads with humility and love. In a world where authority is often expressed through fear, pressure, and harshness, you have shown us what godly leadership truly looks like. You have fathered this church with gentleness. You correct without condemning, guide without humiliating, and lead without overpowering. Never through shouting, never through condescending words, but through wisdom, patience, understanding, and sincere care for every soul entrusted to you.
To many of us, you are more than a pastor or overseer. You have become a spiritual father — one who carries the church not with pride, but with prayer; not with control, but with compassion. Through every season, your perseverance, consistency, and quiet strength have become a testimony of Christ’s love working through a surrendered servant.
📌Thank you for staying faithful even when ministry is heavy.
📌Thank you for loving people even when it is difficult.
📌Thank you for choosing gentleness in a world that often rewards hardness.
📌And most of all, thank you for continuously pointing us back to Jesus.
As your church family, this is our declaration over your life:
“May the Lord continue to strengthen your hands for the work of the ministry. May He refresh your spirit, preserve your health, increase your wisdom, and surround you with peace. May your latter years be even more fruitful than the former. May your home overflow with joy, your prayers be answered in due season, and may the grace of God continually rest upon you and your family. Like Moses, may your strength not fail. Like Paul, may you continue with and finish your race with faith. And like Jesus, may your life continue to reveal the heart of the Father to His people.”
“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.”
— Psalm 92:12-14
🫶We love you, Pastor.
🫶We appreciate you deeply.
🫶And we thank God for your life.
Happy Birthday from your church family!
Photo credit to sis Tuesday 🥰🥰🥰