kaigsuonan - feb 2013

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VOL. 8 NO. 2 FEBRUARY 2013Brotherhood of christian Businessmen and professionals (BcBp)

2013: a Growth Yer for centrl

Proverbs 16:3 & 9, it says You may makeyour plans but God directs your actions. Ask theLord to bless your plans, and you will be success-ful in carrying them out.

Duing the Chapte As-sembl last Jan 28, 2013, we hadthe oppotunit to pesent toou membes ou peomancein 2012 and ou plans o the2013. Although the ea 2012has pesented man challeng-es, ou Chapte has nevethe-

less had succeeded in achiev-ing some o its goals below.This became possible becauseo ou steadast commitment toseve the Lod and His continu-ous blessings to ou sevice. Wesinceel thank all ou membeso thei dedication and hadwok in the past ea.

MISSION & EVANGELIZATION:

Conducted one CLP and bought inthit-six (36) new omation membes.

Invited to ou beakast ellowshipabout 200 poessionals and businessmen.

Encouaged ou ot-membes (40)to bea witness to Chist though pesonal sha-ing.

Successull opened ou mission inMasbate.

FORMATION & LIFE:

Developed a numbe o new speak-

es and povided the needs o the vaious teach-ings, eteats, tainings, and omation pogamso BCLP 5.

Enhanced the intecesso sevic-

es o the membes b oming thee intecessogoups.

Impoved the leadeship skills o some

membes though tainings (Speakes Taining, Lead-es Foum, AGL taining).

Povided oppotunit to paents to im-pove elations with childen though Paentingteaching and Lods Da.

Leveled-up the aith and sevice com-

Caring for our people.... 3Christmas giving 2012... 4

A call to serve... 7Celebrating Valentines... 6

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KAIGSUONAN sa CENTRAL FEBRUARY 201322

Christians in Business RetreatTHE CHAPTEr welcomed

2013 with a bang as it held theBothehood Chistian Business

reteat (BCBr) last Jan. 11-12,

2013 in USP and in Betania reteat

House. Moe than ot (40) oma-

tion membes om Pesas Unit and

egula membes who have not et

attended this eteat tooped to

the venue eage to listen and lean

a new teaching. BCBr is one o the

seies o eteats that

a omation mem-be should complete

to become a ull-

pledged membe o

the communit.

BCBr is aimed

to give guidance to

the paticipants in ex-

amining thei motiva-

tion o woking and

in leaning to discenwhat is Gods plan o

them at wok. It also

challenges thei no-

tions about wealth

and thei attitude to-

wads it. The patici-

pants ae also taught

how to become

Chistian manages

who should be stong

to cope with the challenges in the maket; be able toput balance in thei pioities between wok, amil,

and communit; esist evil; and put Jesus as the Lod

o the wokplace. The talks wee deliveed b powe-

packed speakes who walk the talk and ae also ceti-

ed successul businessmen and poessionals. The

wee Bothes Jojo Veloso and Maio Siao om Cebu

Noth; Bobb Suaez, Mike Fenan, Je Villa, and Steve

Benitez om Cebu Cental.

In one o m chats with the paticipants, a

bothe was amazed b the insights he leaned omthe eteat. This is a ve good eteat which must be

leaned and shaed among businessmen to make the

maketplace a ai plaing eld

with God in the cente. I must

appl this in m business, he

said. Some paticipants wee

also thankul o the new lean-

ing and the expessed agee-

ment to embace them in theiwok and business.

The BCBr was ou st

successul activit this ea and

it set the standads that we

should ollow in conducting ou

upcoming activities. The sevice

team was led b Bo Steve and

Siste Dindin Benitez.

> bro. ani serrato


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ArTICLES

Caring for our people in the BCBPON TUESDAy, Janua 29, 2013, leades o the

dieent BCBP Cebu Chaptes gatheed at the SacedHeat Cente and wee blessed to have Bo. Fancis Itu-

alde as speake o a teaching entitled, CArING FOr

OUr PEOPLE IN THE BCBP. Bo. Fancis was one o the

pionees o the BCBP being pesent in that st beak-

ast in 1981. He was a ome National Diecto o Ang

Lingkod ng Panginoon and is cuentl the Administa-

to o Sevants o the Wod and a membe o the Swod

o the Spiit Communit Building Team.

He began his teaching b showing us the scip-

tual amewok o leading an action goup (Exodus 18-26) and dening what an Action Goup is in the BCBP.

This to me was ve enlightening as it showed us spe-

cicall the sciptual basis o ou stuctue in commu-

nit and how this should be govened. I ealized that

ou stuctue was not just taken om an book but was

bone out o inspiation om Sciptue.

As leades in the communit, specicall action

goup leades, we should all have a common goal to

make ou action goup be a bod whee ou membes

expeience suppot, love and cae, sevice to one an-othe, slowl gowing to be matue Chistians and be-

come leades themselves in the utue. Ultimatel, the

action goup is whee the BCBP membe is omed and

weaned into the BCBP wa o lie (cultue).

Apat om discussing Levels o Pastoal Cae,

Elements and Content o Basic Pastoal Cae, the BCBP

Commitment Cad and Was to Build Up Membes, Bo.

Fancis let us some impotant pastoal pinciples we

could ponde on.

Chaacte, moe than git, is impotant in exe-

cising leadeship authoit. The most impotant posi-

tion in the BCBP is that o a bothe/siste. And the most

impotant unction in the BCBP is to LOVE the bothes

and sistes. As leades, we ae not to lod it ove ou

membes, but athe be caing acilitatos. We must be

models o examples moe b deeds and actions than b

wods. Pesonal cae and attention must be extended to

them. It is said that values ae caught not taught. The

HEArT o a leade moe than the skill o technical knowl-

edge o a leade would be moe impotant in buildingelationships in the goup. Go ahead and waste time

with one anothe so as to get to know each othe moe

and deepen ou elationships.

you can onl be esponsible o something

that ou ae given authoit o. As Action Goup Lead-

es in BCBP, we have authoit as a as ou commitment

cad is concened. It is ou esponsibilit to emind ou

membes and call thei attention egading these as

thee was a commitment made. We ma onl emind

and not tell ou membes what to do because ultimate-

l, the ae to make thei own decisions. We ae not in

that level o pastoal cae whee we have ull authoit

ove ou membes. Howeve, it is ou esponsibilit to

un ate them especiall when we know that the aeoutwadl committing sin. We ma do coection but

we must st know the natue o the issue being co-

ected.is it a matte o being ight o wong; good o

bad; pope o impope? The standads o each die

so undestanding and clait o the standads should

be clea to all paties concened. Futhemoe, good

pesonal elationships between leades and membes,

and among membes within the action goup become

ve impotant.

you can onl give the level o pastoal caethat ou ousel have eceived, ae unde, and ae will-

ing to be unde.

It is not an eas task to be an Action Goup

leade. Man times we would want to give up. We de-

nitel cannot do this on ou own. We will need a lot o

help om the Hol Spiit and suppot om othe lead-

es and membes o communit too. A egula Pae

and Sciptue time would be ve essential to be able to

do this task well. A pesonal elationship with Jesus is

ke to the elationship we will have with ou membes.We will neve be able to give what we do not have o

have expeienced ouselves. Ou membes will not

catch anthing i we ouselves have not caught the

e, so to speak.

Ma it be that when we ace ou ceato and he

asks us, whee ae ou membes?..we shall answe,

Hee, Fathe, the ae ight beside me.

> sis. tina Mateo


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ArTICLES

Cointhians 9:7 Each one must

give as he has decided in his heat, not

eluctantl o unde compulsion, o

God loves a cheeul give.

Duing the st BCBP-Cen-

tal beakast meeting ate

the Pablo disaste in Davao

Oiental, the Social Action

committee put up a simple

sign o contibutions to the

victims o the kille tphoon.

The esponse was quick and

ovewhelming. It enabled

the chapte to aise and send

ot-thee thousand pesos

(P43, 000) beoe Chistmas

da o the elie und and

sacks o used clothing o the

devastated communities.

In Hebews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to

shae what we have, o such sacices ae pleasing to God.

While in Acts 20:35 It is moe blessed to give that to eceive.

Coe membes o the social action goup took theemeetings to plan and pepae o the logistics o the annual

Chistmas Beakast o the Homeless. Communit membes

wee so geneous in thei donations in cash and kind, even

ome membes living aboad sent two hunded dollas o

the beakast. The goup aised enough unds to include a

Chistmas teat o the Bonita Home o Gils.

Thit-ve Cebu Cental membes along with vol-

untees tooped to the Fuente Osmena plaza at ve oclock

in moning o Decembe, 30, 2012 to man the Chistmas

Beakast activit. As soon as the ood aived, evebod

took thei places in the assembl line stung goodies in thebeakast packets, at the distibution table and the cowd

contol line. Distibution stated at 6:00 am and was ove

in an hou. Goodies consisted o puso, boiled eggs, lumpia

shanghai, sliced meat loaves, apples, oanges, sliced bead,

chion cakes and unchum. Thee hunded and t (350)

beakast packets wee given awa.

When nished, the goup cleaned up the venue in

Fuente Osmena and went to r and S restauant o a quick

beakast. One membe dopped at the neab CAMAMA

Foundation and deliveed two boxes o bead loaves . The

Foundation sends 29 ophans o vaious ages to school.The Foundation opeates solel on chait and aith. Ate

beakast, the next destination was Bonita Home o Gils.

Ate a sca ide to the top o the hill whee the

Bonita Home is located, the bothes and sistes tuned ove

ou (4) sacks o ice, 220 kilos o pocessed meat, 3 boxes

o bead loaves, boxes o apples and oanges, Jollibee spa-

ghetti, and hambuges.

Most o the gils wee awa at thei homes in the

povinces o the Chistmas vacation. The sistes told us that

this is the season when the could est om thei gagan-

tuan task o taking cae o close to a hunded gils. Thee

wee thit gils who emained in the cente because thei

homes wee not sae o them.

The gils sang and danced o us. Not to be out-done, we also danced o them. The climax o the aai was

the peomance o the Jollibee mascot who came with the

Jollibee meals o the gils. He delighted eveone but he

had evebod shieking and laughing when he dagged

Bo. Bill Ganet to dance gangnam stle with him.

Evebod elt good on thei wa home. This is the

magic o giving. Deepak Chopa in his blog The Jo o Giv-

ing, wites that the act o giving is enteing into a space

whee holiness esides. It opens a conduit o the kind o

happiness that no one can eve steal om ou. To God be

the glo.> sister aida M. granert

Christmas giving 2012


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ArTICLES

mitment o the membes though sevice oum,music omation taining, intecesso omation,

eteats, and special teachings.

PROGRAMS & SERVICES:reached out to less otunate beth-

en though ou successul social action pogamssuch as Medical/Dental Mission, Tphoon eliecampaigns, Steet eeding, and Bonita Home oGils Chistmas git giving.

Inceased the awae-ness o membes to chapte ac-tivities and celebations thoughthe egula monthl publicationo Kaigsuonan.

Stengthened theelationships and hamonamong the amilies and mem-bes though successul celeba-tions o Famil Da, Spotsest, Chapte LodsDa, and Chistmas Pat.

Inceased the awaeness o somepeople to the value o integit though ou Be

Honest Advocac Annual Launching (Joined inIntegit run, Be Honest Calendas & Stickes).

OTHERS:Tithing pecentage was 74% com-

paed to 60% tagetAveage membes attendance in ac-

tivities is 50% - an aea o impovement

The ea 2013 will be a gowth ea o theChapte and o the membes. Ou plans give a lot

o oppotunities o us to lean, to love, and to liveou aith. The also include seveal pogams and ac-tivities that will gow ou membeship, incease thepaticipation o ou amil in ou communit activi-ties, develop and om new leades, and each outmoe to ou less-otunate bethen. The ollowingae ou ke plans and objectives in 2013:

MISSION & EVANGELIZATION:Conduct BCLP 6 in Cental o at least

50 paticipantsDevelop Masbate into a sel-unction-ing outeach.

Conduct BCLP 1 in MasbateInvite at least 100 qualit beakast

st times in Cebu

Pepae plan o the ceation o a

new Cebu outeach in collaboation with othechaptes.

FORMATION & LIFE:retaining o Action Goup Leades

Q1Leaning, loving, and living up o

aith Catholicism Seies and othe qualit lie-giving teachings

Fomation pogamso BCLP 6 in Cental and BCLP 1 in

MasbatePut in place Succes-

sion Plan and Individual Develop-ment Plan

Develop and patiallimplement Childen and youth Fo-

mation Pogam

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES:Dive the Be Honest Advocac du-

ing 2013 electionContinue the social actions and cel-ebation activities amil involvement

Establish the Inomation Minist Kaigsuonan and bcbpcebucental.com

OTHERS:Achieved 85% tithingAchieve 70%-80% attendance ate

in activitiesreoganization in Apil 2013

The ealization o above plans depends onseveal actos like the level o ou suppot andcommitment, the geneosit o ou 3-Ts (time, tal-ents, and teasues), and ou expectant aith thatGod will guide us to succeed o His glo. In Pov-ebs 16:3 & 9, it sas you ma make ou plans butGod diects ou actions. Ask the Lod to bless ouplans, and ou will be successul in caing themout. To ou dea bothes and sistes, we humblask o ou ull suppot to these plans. Lets wok

hade and gow togethe o anothe ullling eain ou Chapte. To God Be the Glo!

> bro. ani serrato

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ArTICLES

Its Febua and lovebids look owad to

celebate Love on Valentines Da- to expess andcelebate the spiit o love.

Valentines Da, o as it is moe omall

known, Saint Valentines Da, is celebated each

ea on Febua 14th. Along with it is the tadition

o sending pesonal messages who gained popu-

lait among love bids and such handwitten notes

o love came to be known as Valentine, a name

dawn om the signatue o Valentines last lette to

Asteius daughte.

Anothe belie was that it was also the date

that bids began to choose thei mates, and onl

late did the omance extend to the human popula-

tion and became a time o bestowing loved ones

with gits, cads and fowes as a wa o showing

aection.

In moden times, Valentines Da has explod-

ed in populait to become one o the most luca-tive das o the ea o etailes. Paks, estauants

ae ull with couples. Flowes, chocolates ae com-

mon gits, too. Well, thee dont have to necessail

be mateial gits, as it is a da to love, which can be

celebated with a date, a fowe, a toast o a meal to

simpl enew mutual love.

Although not alwas celebated in the same

wa as toda, Valentines Da has been celebated

b couples o man eas and undeneath all o the

hpe, gits ae still acknowledged as impotant o

celebating iendships and elationships.

Eve couple has dieent was o cele-

bating this special da making sue that love is

expessed in thei unique was. Some bu lowes

o the special woman in his lie o give a special

git ove a candle-lit dinne. Natue loves take a

ide to a secluded beach at sunset and pak the

ca neab. Holding hands, the take a stoll along

the beach, watching the sunset togethe. Themoe adventuous one sneak into his/he sweet-

heats ca while he/she is bus at wok and ill it

with oses and balloons up to the oo leaving a

love note inside. But i time o situation does not

pemit o ou to go out on a date, celebating

it at home with the kids could be a good idea,

too. Pla ou avoite love songs while having

that speciall pepaed dinne. Beoe bedtime,

ou ma also watch omantic movies in the

comot o ou oom. Some o m avoites ae

P.S. I Love you (Cast: Hila Swank, Gead But-le), A Walk to remembe (Cast: Shane West and

Mand Mooe), I Onl (Cast: Jennie Love He-

witt and Paul Nicholls), Sweet Novembe (Cast:

Keanu reeves and Chalize Theon), etc.

Fo those couples who ae miles awa

om each othe, celebating Valentines da is

no poblem. With simple ceativit, the, too,

can expess thei unding love o each othe

b sending an e-cad with a pesonalized mes-

sage o a omantic e-geeting with a omantic

message in his/he inbox. Wieless technolog

is anothe wa o communicating ove the in-

tenet. Thee ae man hand-held devices avail-

able that can connect to the intenet and these

can be used to inteact in the same wa as when

the intenet is wied. The can also talk to each

othe with the aid o webcams, enabling them

to not onl hea each othe, but also to see each

othe while the ae talking.

>sis. Connie ralota

Celebrating Valentines day this love month


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what I will be going though. Accident? Still Not.

I eall didnt have a clea view as to whee

the Lod is leading me and amil this Sinulog 2013.

Fo one, I eall want to obseve the east and egu-

lal attend the chuch activities. On the othe hand,

I ealized that I alwas have that deep desie o sev-

ing Gods people no matte what the cost is and it

dawned on me that the oppotunit didnt come

as an accident but an appointed time om God o

me to seved those people who came to visit the

east o Seno Sto Nio b giving the sevices dueo them, b giving them the ightul cost o the

mechandise thei buing, and an oppotunit o

me also to shae how the Lod God had been ve

aithul o me and m amil.

The challenge is big and steep since setting

the tend in maket pices o the egula vendo is

dicult. But actuall, it was a bette wa o pac-

ticing m aith b being with them and educating

them that whethe the etuns is big o small, i I

cannot walked with God in m business I cannot e-

all see the uits o m labo. Fo the eal pot is

alwas ested on Gods mec and aithulness who

sustained all o us though these eas. Wheeve

the Sto Nio would take us, it has alwas been a

pivileged o us.

Viva Pit Seno!

> sis. gwen oCaMpo

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ArTICLES

GrOWING UP with a childhood spent sell-

ing all kinds o mechandise duing Sinulog, I nev-

e eall had a chance to pactice m aith b at-

tending novena masses and going to the Basilica

del Sto Nino, until I was in college and attending

the pocession o the east o Seno Sto Nio was

a equiement.

I emembe how amazed I was seeing

huge cowd om all walks o lie gatheed as one

to pa tibute to the Sto Nio. I neve eall had a

clea view as to how the Sto Nio had been vegeneous because the east had alwas been an

oppotunit o ou amil to ean, thats how I al-

was see it. As a teenage, I couldnt eall see the

point wh duing Sinulog evebod wee pat-

ing, while I was thee, helping m amil.

When I stated aising m own amil, I

vowed to the Sto Nio that I would let m am-

il pactice thei aith b attending the

chuch activities duing the east. But thisidea was hadl ealized as the oppotuni-

t o eaning duing Sinulog alwas come

to me. Fo eas, peddles would come

knocking at ou house and asking us to

povide mineal wates o them to sell.

This had been ou business o some time

and it stopped onl when we got into sell-

ing eal estate.

Last ea, a lad came to ou place

inquiing i we could povide mineal wate o

the Masbate contingent. As we seved the Mas-

batenos, othe Sinulog contingent staing in

Cit Cental School also became ou client. Was

it a chance? No.

This ea, I inadvetentl mentioned to m

eal estate client that I wanted to ent a place in

Fuente o business puposes. Fo a miacle, he in-

omed me that he is oeing me a booth in the

Fuente otunda o the Sinulog aai. I was tonguetied since m desie was dieent but I managed

to commit to him on the booth, without an idea

A call to serve during Sinulog


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FESTIVITy

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DATE NAME02/02

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DATE NAME02/06 jAY / GOLDA AVILES

02/12 TERRY / jOAN YAP

02/15 jOHN / jONAH DENOY

02/16 NENE SEVILLA

RALOTA, CONNIE

ORBITA, EUGENE

RODA, EMILY

SEVILLA, NENE

PASCUA, SAM CRIS

FONTANOZA, ROGER

MONTECALVO, CORA

CARPIO, GIRLEY

REQUILMAN, LEEV

MATEO, BONG

MATEO, TINA

NEMENZO, ERIC

YEE, BONNIE

MATEO, jIGS

february activities

01 1st friday Mass and teachingusp

02 central Mens breakfastc e

04 - 09 agM Week

09 central siMultaneous breakfastc e

Masbate Joint breakfast

J15 chapter prayer asseMbly

usp


18 - 23 agM Week

23 central Joint breakfastc e

Masbate Joint breakfastJ

March activities

01 1st friday Mass and teachingusp

02 cebu region anniversary celebrationtba [t b a]

04 - 09 agM Week


Masbate Joint breakfast

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launching of be honest advocacy

15 chapter prayer asseMbly usp


16 - 17 bcbp Way of lifeb r h


Masbate Joint breakfastJ

lenten retreath fm r h

Joy of discovery ( mm)tba [t b a]

29 chapter Way of the cross

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