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Chapter Starts(continued from page 1)

Promises of God are like stars in the sky, the darker the night the brighter they are shining. Justkeep trusting Him, live your greatness with faith, hope, and love.

For according to Rick War-ren, In order to become

Christ like, we must becomeliving translations of Gods

Word.

The wisdom of the gov-ernance to have the pro-gram after the breakfastsomehow boosted the atten-dance of members to thebreakfast as well as savethe chapter expenses for thevenue.

The programs effective-

ness however, still dependson the faithfulness of themembers to spend time withthe Lord on a regular basis.

The author knows that thisis a struggle. Thus in session

four, Rick Warren outlineswhat to do to counter thecommon problems in a dailyquiet time.

With two more sessions tolook forward, the program isa sure hit for those who de-

Cebu Region(continued from page 1)

This is an echo ofthe SLT given to se-lected leaders fromdifferent chapters andoutreaches nationwideheld in Tagaytay andCebu last year.

Headed by RCDBoy Villanueva, as SLTTeam Head, the follow-ing served as the facili-tators: Jourdan Polotan,Eli Trinidad, Jeff Villa,Jess Cagara, HectorTina, Bing Sarigumbaand Rene Recamara.

The SLT is a courseintended to touch ones

heart leading to apersonal change ortransformation. It offersan alternative way ofliving where values are

identified and livedout.

Our chapter, wasrepresented by thefollowing: Eton Apao,Tex Bulambot, WilliamCejas and Jun Pardico.

One of the speakers, Eli Trinidad of

BCBP Cebu-South

The participants of Session 2 pose for a group picture

sire to deepen their prayerlife and have a beautifulencounter with our lovingGod.


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Choose to see the good side of every event, thing, and person in your life and youllnever runout of blessings to count. Let Gods love motivate your life.

How to get Involved in the HarvestTeaching

RCD Boy Villanueva

20 ways that we, as BCBP members, may get involved in the harvest, de-pending on our talents, our time, our willingness to step out of our comfortzones, the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and our desire and determina-tion to work in the Lords vineyard that for the BCBP is the marketplace.

1. Pray. Ask God to show you one person you can impact for Christ. Make acommitment before the Lord to spend time with that person and to prayevery day for him or her.

2. Participate. Get involved in activities where you meet people on a regularbasis, especially in your workplace.

3. Volunteer. Get involved in your local school. Help with community projectsand reach-outs. Look for opportunities to develop friendships with bothnon-Christians and Christians-in-name-only.

4. Socialize. Have a neighbor over for dinner or to watch an inspiring TVprogram. Look for common interests. Invite your officemate for lunch.

5. Celebrate. Take advantage of holidays to include those you are or intendto evangelize in your activities and traditions, especially those liturgicalcelebrations in your parish.

6. Invite. Watch for special concerts, seminars, or speakers who might inter-est your friends. Invite them to a BCBP breakfast.

7. Serve. Talk to your chapter head about your gifts and talents and find outhow you can best use them in the ministries of the BCBP community. Findout how you can serve in your parish, too.

8. Support. Find a missionary (or charity) to support financially, in prayer,and with letters of encouragement.

9. Praise. Give the Lord the credit for the blessings in your life in the pres-ence of others. Acknowledge His help in difficult times.

10. Empathize. Look for opportunities to draw alongside people who are

hurting.11. Evaluate. Check your motives. Are you seeking your own glory, or areyou motivated by love for God and for the lost, the suffering, those whohave less in life?

12. Intercede. Pray regularly for the unbelievers you know and for ministriesthat are actively seeking to reach out to others in need.

13. Encourage. Uplift your fellow laborers with words of encouragement. Begentle and understanding with others faults or failures.

Continued on page 4...

Boy Villanueva

RCD-Cebu


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Faith allows impossible things to happen, it is the force that comes only from a fearless heart, andwhen a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.

14. Be available. Dont get so overextended that you are unable to respond to the Spiritsprompting to minister to a friend when needs arise. Remember that our Lord treasures moreour availability than our ability. If we are available, He will provide the ability.

15. Be holy. Live a life above reproach. Others should see the fruit of the Spirit in your life. As Fr.Herb puts is: Walk your talk!

16. Be transparent. Dont try to be something you are not. Throw away your masks. Admit yourown struggles and share how the Lord is working in your life to help you grow.

17. Be accountable. Seek out a friend, perhaps a member in your action group, you can praywith each week. Pray together for the people you are trying to reach. Share your experi-

ences.18. Persevere. Dont get discouraged when people dont respond right away. Leave the results to

the Lord. And keep on inviting them to the BCBP breakfasts

19. LOVE. Ask the Lord to give you the same love for your friends that He has. Do everything inlove, with love, and for the love of God.

20. Begin now. Dont wait until tomorrow. Now, right this moment, is the best time to start.

Danny Hamoy

BCBP Gen San CH

General Santos city is

the safest place to go. This

is the very words of CHDanny Hamoy as he ap-pealed to the chapter mem-bers to attend NAC34 to beheld at General Santos Cityon April 25 & 26, 2014.

Danny and NenetteHamoy came all the wayfrom Gen San to share atMactan chapter on Febru-ary 22. Mactan is blessedto have heard their beauti-ful sharing and be tasked todrumbeat the same appeal

Gen San CH Exhorts Mactan Members to Attend NAC34

to the other members withinBCBP Cebu region.

On that same day manywere added to the list ofMactan members who areregistering for NAC34 asthere is no increase in regis-tration fee until March 15,

2014.All are set to see

Magandang Gen San

and be one in the NAC34celebration.


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God doesnt always tell us how Hes working out His plan, but in His time and ways He clearly let us

know Hes working out the best for you because He loves us .

On Being a Christian (Part2)

A Practical Process of Transformation Through the Sacraments andthe Good News Preached by Jesus Christ

Christian life is composed of two principles, praxis and fides (faith). While faith is a gift fromGod which has to be learned, this in turn helps one to practice the faith learned. And so it isimperative that every Christian will be ready and willing to learn that which one believes as itstrengthened the understanding of who we are and how to live. The seven Sacraments becomethe agent of initiation and motor that help us to learn and know about our Lord Jesus Christ andwhat he did for us. Jesus gives us the life of grace that energize us to live out what we believeas Christian. We will explore further all the sacraments in the church to be able to see how they

can help us in the practice of our faith becoming true witnesses of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is thelife of grace that comes from the sacraments that sanctify us and make us worthy Children ofGod which our Lord Jesus bought for us by pouring out his blood on the cross.

The word Christian, meaning a follower of Christ both in words and in deeds become a sym-bol and identity that all the baptized embedded in his or her person. Identifying our self withChrist here on earth is the best way to be a witness to the world, doing all that he asked us todo in his memory. In this way, being a witness to the world would help us to re-echo the words ofChrist to us. To live in the world but not of the world, the spirit of the world has to be dead in usthrough the witnessing we profess in following our Lord Jesus Christ.

When a rich young man asked Jesus in the Gospel, what I must I do to inherit eternal life, he

told him to keep the commandments, in the same manner, he asked us to follow him by keepingthe commandment of love by which others will know that we belong to him. This was evident inthe life of the early Church and those who had gone before us in faith, this made the followersof Christ to be referred to as Christians in Antioch. Today we ask ourselves if the world still thinkof us as faithful followers of Christ or have we become so attached to the world that no onenotices the difference.

Being a Christian lies more in practice than in studying or learning the Scriptures, staying longhours in the blessed Sacrament chapels, or even belonging to a faith community in the church,sometimes these devotional practices change nothing in ones attitude. St. James told us that

faith without work is dead. Hence for a Christian to be, one will go out of the ordinary to showin words and in action what the scripture has asked of us in return for being saved by Our LordJesus Christ.

In the Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis recognized this outward nature of a true Christianmodel when he noted that, The Christian ideal will always be a summons to overcome suspicion,

habitual mistrust, fear of losing our privacy, all the defensive attitudes which todays world im-

poses on us. Many try to escape from others and take refuge in the comfort of their privacy orin small circle of close friends, renouncing the realism of the social aspect of the Gospel pg 52

When Christ ate with the Pharisees and tax collectors, mixed up with the sinners and the right-eous, he meant to teach us too to be a social being with the aim to bring people to God and

Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19

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Chapter Heads

Message

CH Guy and Eden Ceniza

Most of the things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying whenthere seemed to be no hope at all.

February 14, 2014 was my mostmemorable Valentines Day. I figuredinto an accident that broke my tail-light and caused a dent on our car.Due to heavy traffic, I accidentallyhit a palm tree upon maneuveringrear turn to give way to an insistentcar driver.

On that Love day traffic was

enormous. Restaurants were full.Even the distant restaurant up abovethe hill was full. Luckily we had areservation and no need for us to bepart of the long queue. This goes toshow how people want to celebrateand show love.

Envisioning 114 for 2014 as our

chapters goal initially gave me

some fears. Can we really make it?

Looking at the our first quarter

statistics, we are not far from itsrealization. The increase in the num-ber of our tithe givers, attendance inalmost all our regular activities andbreakfast 1st timers prove that wecan do it.

Surpassing our set goals is possibleas long as we will it. God has prom-ised ask and you shall receive, seek

and you shall find, knock and thedoor will be opened for you. Such

promise will never happen if we donothing. Ask, seek and knock areaction words which means we needto do something, else our vision willforever be a dream.

I believe love moves mountains.Our first quarter statistics show thatlove is already in action. Passion-ately pursuing our vision will defi-nitely make our Almighty Fatherhappy as we reciprocate His ever-lasting love by evangelizing otherpeople.

As we enter the season of Lent, Ihope it will remind us of our Lords

great LOVE allowing his beloved sonto go through such suffering. Can wenot reciprocate by fulfilling the cove-nant we entered into in our commit-ment card? That surely is Love InAction.

make them disciples of Christ through our interactions. Shying away from this form of fellowshiphas caused Christians the opportunities of living the life of the gospel among all people and indoing so we became anti witnessing, retreating from the world, being ashamed of who we areand making ourselves laughing stock of non-believers..

The early Christians did their part in transmitting the message of the Gospel through their ac-tions, no wonder they produced most saints in our calendar, today also like them we are called tobe authentic Christians in words and in deeds, in this way we will become an effective instrumentof love advocating far and wide with our actions the message of our Lord Jesus Christ in the foot-steps of Mary, mother of God, the first Christian.

On Being(continued from page 5)

Love in Action


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We cannot change yesterday, its gone, that is clear. Nor begin tomorrow until its here. So all that isleft is to make today as fruitful and good as it can be.

We know Saint Joseph was a man of faith, obedient to whatever Godasked of him without knowing the outcome. When the angel came to Jo-seph in a dream and told him the truth about the child Mary was carrying,Joseph immediately and without question or concern for gossip, took Maryas his wife. When the angel came again to tell him that his family was indanger, he immediately left everything he owned, all his family andfriends, and fled to a strange country with his young wife and the baby.He waited in Egypt without question until the angel told him it was safe togo back.

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel confident that your prayersin our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God

Amen.

Intercessor Saint for the Month of March: Saint Joseph


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BRINGING CHRIST INTO THE MARKETPLACE AND WINNING THE MARKETPLACE FOR CHRISTMactan Chapter

The BCBP is a community of like-minded Christian businessmen and professionals who have

consciously decided to band together to bring about the transformation of the marketplace

BREAKFAST

Venue: Crown Regency SuitesWeekly Schedule: Saturday, 7:30 - 10:00 AM

1st Wk: Mens 2nd Wk: Joint (Mens & Ladies)3rd Wk: Mens 4th Wk: Simultaneous (Mens & Ladies)

Contact Person: Willy Lozano, Mobile: 09173114367

Brothe rhood o f Chr i s t i an Bus inessmen and P rofess iona l s

www.facebook.com/BCBPMactan

Danny and Nenette Hamoy (February 22)

BCBP General Santos

God cannot be outdone in compensation and fringe benefits

February 2014 Breakfast Sharers

Charles & Loy Tan (February 15)

BCBP Cebu-North

in my years of drought the parched land was watered

Failure does not necessary mean the end of the road. Many times it is the beginning of a new andmore exciting trip.

Butch & Inday Pilapil (February 8)

BCBP Mandaue

When we pre-qualify (franchise) applicants, we look beyond mere finan-cial capability or managerial knowhow; for us, the more important qualities

are, they must be God-fearing and share the same Christian values that we

have instilled in the culture of the company
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