Emcee Guide, Baccalaureate 2012

(5 minutes before Baccalaureate will start)

J: Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen! We shall be starting the program in 5 minutes. We would like to request all our Pastor’s Men, Sentinel, and Sunday school teachers both in Tatalon and from the Missions to proceed to the balcony. (Awardees, diretso upo na sa designated place nila)

Youth choir should line up already.

*PRELUDE: Youth Choir Special Number

Youth choir go down and ushers/usherettes will proceed to their places.

I. PROCESSIONAL

J: Good afternoon everyone! Welcome to our 2012 Baccalaureate Services: Growing in Grace, Shining in every Place

We will now have the processional.

D: 1) Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome our beloved Pastor, Bishop Reuben Abante, followed by our Mission Pastors.

2) Please welcome the pastor’s men and sentinels.3) This time, let us welcome our Sunday School Teachers.

J: 4) And now, let us call on the graduates of 2012 with their parentsa) Leading them are our Post-Graduatesb) Let us welcome the College Graduatesc) Let us call on the High school Graduatesd) Finally, let us welcome the Elementary graduates

D: We will now have the colours followed by the singing of the Philippine National Anthem. Let us all rise please as the colours march in led by Bro.__________________ Bring in the COLORS!

(AVP of Pambansang Awit to be played. Need to assign a YP who knows program flow to be with the LAVNET Team)

J: Let us remain standing as we call on our YP Adviser, ___________________, for the Opening Prayer.

IV. WELCOME REMARKS

D: Thank you ______________. You may now be seated as we call on our YP Adviser, ______________, to give the Welcome Remarks.

V. PRESENTATION OF GRADUATES

D: Thank you, _________________.

We will now recognize the graduates of 2012:

(ELEMENTARY)May we request all the Elementary graduates to please rise.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present to you the elementary graduates of 2012. Let us give them a hand.

D: (HIGH SCHOOL)This time, may we request all the high school graduates to please rise.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the high school graduates of 2012. Please give them a hand.

J:(COLLEGE) May we request all the College graduates to please rise.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a big round of applause to the 2012 batch of College graduates.

D: (POST GRADUATES)And now, may we request the post-graduates to please rise.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a big round of applause to our Post graduates.

VI. DISTRIBUTION OF CERTIFICATES AND DEDICATORY PRAYERJ: (Elementary) We will now move on to the Distribution of Certificates to be given by our Pastor Reuben Abante followed by Dedicatory Prayers.

To assist our Pastor in awarding the certificates to our Elementary Graduates, may we call on the Mission Pastors and YP Advisers to come up the stage. May we also request each graduate to come to the stage as your name is called.

(Ate Menchie Hernandez to read all the names of the Elementary Graduates)

The elementary graduates will now have their prayer of dedication to be led by Reuben Octaviano after which _______________ will pray for them. (give mic to Reuben)

Thank you Pastors YP Advisers and graduates.

D:(High School)

This time, we will distribute the Certificates to our High School Graduates.

To assist our Pastor in awarding the certificates to our High School Graduates, may we call back the Mission Pastors and YP Advisers to the stage. We request each graduate to come to the stage as your name is called.

(Kuya Tony to read all the names of the High School Graduates)

The high school graduates will now have their prayer of dedication to be led by Journey Gervacio, after which __________________ will pray for them. (give mic to ____________)

Thank you Pastors, YP Advisers and graduates.

D:(College)This time, we will distribute the Certificates to our College Graduates.

To assist our Pastor in awarding the certificates to our College Graduates, may we call again our Mission Pastors and YP Advisers to the stage. We request each graduate to come to the stage as your name is called.

(Ate Bootes to read all the names of the College Graduates)

The college graduates will now have their prayer of dedication to be led by Kevin Ramos, after which ______________________ will pray for them. (give mic to _________)

Thank you Pastors, YP Advisers and graduates.

D:(Post-Graduate)This time, we will distribute the Certificates to our Post-Graduates.

May we request the Mission Pastors to assist our Pastor in awarding the certificates. May we request each graduate to come to the stage as your name is called.

(Kuya Rene Lopos to read out names of the Post-Graduates)

The post-graduates will now have their prayer of dedication to be led by Ms. Arniela Urbano, after which _____________________ will pray for them. (give mic to ____________)

Thank you Pastors, YP Advisers and graduates.

VII. RESPONSES FROM THE GRADUATES’ REPRESENTATIVES

J: At this point, we will hear the responses from the different representatives from each level.

Our elementary representative for this year graduated as the Valedictorian of our very own Lighthouse Academy, he is a faithful orchestra member, glorifying the Lord through his talent in playing the violin. He was also part of our church’s kid’s choir – the Psalters.

Brethren, let us all welcome Darwin Peralta of the Lighthouse Academy to give a response on behalf of all the elementary graduates.

D: Thank you Darwin.

D: Our high school representative grew up as a Pastor’s kid and is very faithful in the ministry of ___.

To represent the graduates, may we call on Danielle Frances Dait of Rizal High School to give a response on behalf of all the high school graduates.

J: Thank you Danielle.

J: Our college representative is a Leap Beneficiary who is very faithful to the work of the Lord. Graduating as the top 2 overall in their batch of Nursing students, he has been known to stand up for his faith by asking his duty to be rescheduled to days other than Sunday. He also serves as the President of the Young People’s Fellowship in our Pulilan Mission.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Emman Jasmin of the Bulacan State University, to give a response on behalf of all the college graduates.

D: Thank you, Emman.

D: Our post-graduate representative is known to be the President of one of the fastest growing companies involved in Clinical Diagnostics and Applied Sciences. However, despite this prestigious position he handles, he still managed to graduate as a Silver Medalist from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. By God’s grace, he also serves in the ministry as a Sunday School Teacher, Choir member, and one of the Pastor’s men. He is a family man – father of two boys and a loving husband to Prof. Jeena Marquez Manaois.

Dear brethren, let us all welcome Mr. Roberto Manaois of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business to give a response on behalf of the post-graduates.

VIII.. SONG OF THE GRADUATES J: Thank you, Kuya Robert. We shall now listen to a special number from the graduates, backed up by the youth choir.

IX. PLEDGE OF LOYALTYD:May I request ______________________________ to lead the graduates in the Pledge of Loyalty.

X. SPECIAL COMMENDATION - CERTIFICATES

D: Thank you Pastors.At this point, we would like to recognize our brethren who passed the board exams and those who garnered special awards in their respective schools.

May we call on __________________ to assist the Pastor in giving the certificates of recognition.

XI. TORCHBEARER AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

J:Thank you graduates. At this point, we will have the TORCHBEARER AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. A Gold Medal will be given in recognition of our outstanding students for school year 2011-2012 who have shown over-all academic excellence in their schools. These are those who got to the level of first honors or second honors or TOP 2 overall of their batches or the Dean’s listers and up in the college level.

To assist our Pastor in awarding the medals to the deserving awardees, may we call on the Mission Pastors.

May we call on Kuya Rene to come onstage to announce the names of the awardees.

J:(After the awarding) Thank you Kuya Rene and Pastors. Congratulations to the awardees!

XII. SPECIAL NUMBER OF THE GRADUATES

D:

Let us now be blessed by the presentations prepared by some of our brethren. May we now call on ____________ to render a special number.

XIII. MESSAGE

J:We will now hear the message of our beloved Pastor, Bishop Reuben Abante. Let us prepare our ears, hearts and mind to listen to the message from the Word of God. Shall we all stand please.

XIV. OFFERTORY

D:Thank you for the inspiring message, Pastor Reuben.

This time, we will call our Young People Ushers as we prepare our hearts in giving of our substance to the Lord. Ushers, please come. We will request ________________ to lead us in prayer for the offering.

XV. CLOSING PRAYER

J:May we call on ____________________ to lead us in Closing Prayer. May we request everyone to stand and to remain standing after the closing prayer until we retire the colors.

D: Retire the colors!

J: (after colors are retired). Congratulations once again to all the graduates and awardees, and their parents!

We would like to request all the graduates to assemble in front for picture taking with our pastors and advisers, followed by the awardees.

To everyone, brethren and friends, that concludes our Baccalaureate Services. Thank you for joining and rejoicing with us. God bless and good night!

Picture-Taking: 1) LAHAT-lahat ng graduates agad! :)2) Elem grads3) Highschool grads4) College grads5) Postgrads6) All awardees