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New Office at PCU, Updates and More

June 9th, 2009 Mighty Leave a comment Go to comments

I’ve been through a lot in the past three weeks. Went to Baguio City for a consultation on May 19, 2009; spearheaded the Student Methodists Active in Campus Kirk Forum on May 20-23, 2009. I had a day’s respite in Manila on June 23. After that, I had to fly to Davao for a consultation with my boss from Nashville. We had a great time in chatting with youth and young adult leaders in the Mindanao area. Fun and laughter mingled with all the serious (supposedly) talks on leadership and issues being faced by youth and young adults in the Mindanao area.

Working wasn’t exactly tedious. We did our consultations in the morning and then we toured around Davao in the afternoon. Thanks to the kindness of Kuya Larry (of Davao City Cathedral UMC), Ronald Soriano (the son of a bish… Bishop that is), and Oliver Inis of the National United Methodist Youth Fellowship in the Philippines. Special thanks, too, to Ms. Janet MaCarthy of the Southern Philippines Methodist College for the delicious catfish lunch and the great chat about Methodism and ministry in Kidapawan City.

I am now preparing the reports related to the SMACK Forum. Whew. Gotta activate my left brain so I could complete the reports. Ugh! Numerical figures make my head swim!! But I gotta finish it.

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I am now sharing an office with Rev. Homer Wesley Refuerzo at the Philippine Christian University Doctor of Missiology Program. Good thing is I don’t have to pay rent. heheh. At least, I am still in the midst of lots of students, who are of course, young people.

Been going through lots of transition lately. Sister went to Hong Kong to work; we moved to another house at Tala, Caloocan City, which is quite far from the world of Quezon City, which I love so much. It’s about 15 minutes away from SM Fairview. And SM Fairview is like 45 minutes away from the Pantranco area. I’m still contemplating the right arrangements I will make. I might move back to the former apartment I stayed at (with friends) in Quezon Avenue. We’ll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, I’m going to continue working for young people’s ministries in the United Methodist Church.

By the way, I’m checking out the book Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris. I’m liking it. As soon as I’m done reading it, I’ll share my thoughts with you.

Do check The Rebelution Blog. It talks about teens going beyond the low expectations of people from teenagers.