Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter
Message for the
Month
Fear not, trust,
and rejoice; this is
the day of you
liberation!
Special points of
interest:
Feb 1-3 - NSPD
Workshop
Feb 5 - Catholicism
Study Program

Members Recommit
January 4, 2013, first
Friday of the year, is a
day of thanksgiving and
recommitment for all
BCBP members nationwide.
In Mactan, 118 members pledged their commitment once more as
they read their white
card during the Holy
Mass celebrated by Fr.
Raffy de Gracia.
On the same evening,
twenty-four participants
of BCLP20 committed to

Feb 9 - FFLW

Inside this issue:

Typhoon Pablo
Relief

Role of Leaders
Wife

Spiritans Meal
for a Cause

Catholicism

Study Program

February
2013

BCLP20 Graduates Committing to the Formation Program

be members in Formation.
This
month
(February) they will begin a new phase of for-

mation toward becoming

bonafide members of the
Brotherhood with their
first of four retreats, that
Continued on page 2

AGLs Train for Leadership

Aimed to equip its
Action Group Leaders
and Assistant Action
Group Leaders for their
service, the chapter conducted the AGL Training
Program on January 5 and
6 at the San Carlos Retreat House, Talamban,
Cebu City.
Formation Director
William Cejas welcomed
the participants to the
weekend
trainingworkshop giving them the

general direction and

rationale of the training
program.
Two talks: Essential
Qualities of a Servant
Leader by Orly Manuel
and The Role of an Action
Group Leader by Jun
The Mactan Leaders
Pardico were given in
the morning of Saturday. raised by the particiAn open forum followed pants.
each talk allowing the
Saturday afternoon
speaker to address the
session opened with a
questions and concerns
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A persons most useful asset is not a head full of knowledge but a heart full of love, with an
ear open to listen and a hand willing to help.

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Members (continued from page 1)

The whole community

gathers to recommit to
the Lord in BCBP

is the Free to Follow the Lord

weekend. The retreat is also
open to community members
who have not taken it yet.
After two weeks of vacation from community activities,
the brothers and sisters had a
great time bonding again during the snack fellowship. Of
course with a variety of
potluck food ready for the
taking, who would want to go
home early?

Signing the Associate

Members Commitment

AGLs (continued from page 1)

Attentive participants

CH Guy Ceniza answering questions

short worship. It was followed

by Nery Gula giving the talk on
The Role of the Action Group
Leaders Wife and The Action
Group by Jun Gula. An action
group simulation followed before the group took an afternoon break.
For the rest of the afternoon, the participants listened
and asked questions to a series
of talks on BCBP Caring System. These are: Effective Communication by Rene Macasero,
How to Conduct One on One by
Gel Sanchez followed by One
on One simulation and Handling
Conflicts in the BCBP by Mar
Tamidles.

After a sumptuous dinner, a

film showing on Five People You
Meet in Heaven gave the participants a time to evaluate and
process the movie as it impact
on their role as leaders.
The following morning, AMD
Nelson Dauz gave the last talk
Building Relationship with Your
Members. This was followed by
an open forum facilitated by CH
Guy Ceniza.
Culminating the weekend
activity was a Holy Mass at
11am. After lunch and before
send-off, the participants had
their class pictorial to the document the happy faces of servant
leaders now ready to serve.

The heart that loves is always young; the heart that serves is always happy; and the heart
that cares is always strong. So stay young, happy and strong.

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BCBP Maraming Salamat Po! :To BCBP Donors and

Donations for Typhoon Pablo Relief
Webmaster - www.bcbpkapatiran.com
Typhoon Pablo was reported to be the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines in
2012. Strong winds and rushing floodwaters struck the Compostela Valley and eastern Davao in Mindanao on December 4-8. BCBP Davao East and West Chapters moved swiftly, mobilizing and soliciting
local and national resources for relief social action. For its part, BCBP National Office early on released
P450,000 to BCBP Davao Chapters. BCBP Davao volunteers readied truckloads of blankets and mosquito
nets, rice and noodles, medicines and vitamins, and other essential goods for distribution. Below is a
master list of donors and donations from BCBP Chapters and members deposited to the BCBP Calamity
Fund (National Office) primarily intended for Typhoon Pablo relief social action.
Collections / Donations
Donors / Chapters

Amount

ALABANG
ALABANG (Private Individual)
BAGUIO
BUTUAN
CEBU-SOUTH
DIPOLOG
DUMAGUETE NORTH
DUMAGUETE SOUTH
MACTAN
MANDAUE
ORMOC
ORMOC (Private Individual)
PARAAQUE
PASAY
ROXAS CITY
SAN PABLO
SANTIAGO
SANTIAGO (Private Individual)
TACLOBAN
TAGBILARAN (Private Individual)
TAGBILARAN-SOUTH

100,000.00
10,000.00
19,200.00
10,850.00
30,000.00
46,800.00
10,650.00
3,070.00
12,100.00
9,000.00
100,000.00
30,000.00
10,000.00
9,150.00
40,000.00
35,166.50
156,000.00
5,300.00
10,000.00
5,000.00
41,500.00

TOTAL

693,786.50

Always expand your heart and stretch your love so that it touches not only those who you
give it to, but also those who need it so much.

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Teaching

The Role of Leaders Wife

Nery Gula - BCBP Mactan

Proverbs 31 : 10-31

Support your husbands headship in the family (Eph. 5:22)

Final decision is his; let him make it he is the one accountable

Work toward one mind

Give input and learn to disagree in a helpful way. Passivity is not support.
Speak positively to and about your husband.

Nery Gula

Role of Leaders Wife

Responsible for developing and enriching sisterly relationships among

the wives.

Provides good order in discussions/ sharings of the wives during meetings.

Sees to it that all wives are fully integrated into the action group and in
the BCBP.

Does not exercise headship over the wives whose heads are their husbands.

Provides support and healthy feedback to her husband (in private) on

his leadership and important issues regarding their members.

Does not dominate meetings or upstage her husband.

Should expect to be consulted by her husband on decisions regarding

their group members, schedules, and accepting service.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart. Not our ability to think, but our ability to
love. May your kind heart touch everyone with love everyday.

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Spiritans Meal-For-A-Cause
Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19

Fr. Martin

On the 20th of December, 2012, the Spiritan Catholic Center Foundation for the
first time organized a meal for a cause in Lapulapu City and with the venue at Kaishu
Seafood Japanese Restaurant. Since it was the first time no one really knew how the
event would be or how many people that would turn up for the dinner. Kaishu Restaurant is a cozy place located in Punta Engano, some 100 metres right after Moven
Pick Hotel.
The evening started quietly and thank God there was a light rain that cooled the
day, the Children of the Center were first to arrive, they would serenade the night
with Christmas carol and opening dance (doxology). They were so excited coming
from a poor neighbourhood and being in a 5 star restaurant, but well behaved, unlike
most children of their age. This shows the principle of living and good manners they
were being taught at the Center.
Little by little the visitors started to trickle in, by the time the house was full, it
was clear who the visitors were, mostly the members of the BCBP, doctors and family from Mactan Doctors Hospital, friends and staff of the owner of the establishment
and some other friends of the Director of the Center. In all there were about 52
paying guests for the night and all ate the delicious Japanese cuisine.
The aim of the meal was to raise money for the running of the Spiritan Catholic
Center foundation, a charity organization founded by the Congregation of the Holy
Spirit in Barangay T. Padilla Cebu City. The center among other things, help less privileged children to stay in school until they finish basic education. We provide them
with, school supplies, shoes, bags, school uniforms and fees. They all study in public
school, as members of the Center, they go to the center to use the computers for
their school works, study and attend tutorials being offered in the center and on Sundays attend catechism classes and other spiritual activities.
It costs about 3,000 pesos to help the parents of these children to make sure that
their kids go to school and it will be a noble thing to help and support these children,
so far the center have been able to send 161 students to school in 3 academic years
(2009). The more sponsors we get the more children we would be able to help. Do
support us in making their dream a reality and help them to be ready to face the reality of life in our world.
I want to use this opportunity to thank the members of BCBP who took this event
as one the activities of the brotherhood, if not because of them the more than 35,000
pesos raised would not have materialised. May God bless you all and your family.

Some of the children beneficiaries performed before the benefactors

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart. Not our ability to think, but our
ability to love. May your kind heart touch everyone with love today.

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Chapter to Conduct Catholicism Study Program

Fr. Robert Barron

Come February 5, 2013 the

chapter will begin a series of
teaching on Catholicism using
The Catholicism Study Program
by Fr. Robert Barron. Two episodes on DVD will be shown
each session after which a discussion per action group will
follow.
The CATHOLICISM Study
Program presents the strong,

Catholicism Study Program Kit

ecclesial dimension of the

Catholic Faith. It is a comprehensive and faithful formational
program that uses the art, architecture, literature, music and all
the treasures of the Catholic
tradition to illuminate the timeless teachings of the Church. It
includes 10 episodes from the
DVD series filmed in 50 locations throughout 15 countries.

This enriching teaching is a

must-attend activity that all
members should look forward
to. It will run for 5 sessions and
will be held at IAU Chapel,
Basak, Cagudoy Road, Lapulapu
City.
Be there when it happens!

Gods Sustaining Grace

Nery Gula

Welcoming 2013 with a simple and

joyful celebration, we were filled with
hope for an exciting year ahead of us.
However on January 2, Marie, our
third girl was down with fever. The
next day JM, our boy, had it too. Two
days later Maries fever was gone but
was recurring for three days. JM, however, got more sick. Whatever he
takes in, goes out. Fearing dehydration,
we had him admitted on the evening of
January 4, the first Friday of the year. I
missed the Holy mass and the recommitment.
Tests taken the following day confirmed JM had the dreaded dengue
fever. As if it were not enough, two of
my other girls had rashes all over their
body. There were only three of us
who were not sick. That left me and

Jun to take care of JM. I was on day

shift while Jun took the night shift.
Alyssa took care of those left at home.
As JMs platelet count went down
and down further my prayers intensified. I was so scared. It was only when
I surrendered to God and said, Lord,
your will be done, did I find peace.
Indeed it was Gods sustaining grace
wrought by the prayers offered by
brothers and sisters in the community,
relatives and friends that kept JM well.
Even at 13K platelet count with nose
already bleeding, his vital signs were
okay and did not need blood transfusion. JM was out of the hospital after
seven days of confinement.
Only an awesome and loving
God can do such wonders.

A beautiful world can only be seen thru the eyes of a happy heart. Always have a happy
heart to see the beauty God made especially for you.

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God does not judge your prayers by its length nor by its volume, but He does look at the
heart behind the words.

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Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Our Vision: Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and

Winning the Marketplace for Christ
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.

Mactan Chapter
Chapter Head:

Guy Ceniza
visit:

www.bcbp-phil.com

www.facebook.com/BCBPMactan

BREAKFAST
Venue: Crown Regency Suites
Weekly 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: Leo Legara, Mobile: 09068876336

January Breakfast Sharers

Wilbert Ang (Jan 5)
BCBP Consolacion

Ding and Liclac Seismundo (Jan 12)

BCBP Mandaue
Instead of letting me escape that environment which irritated me
so much, he used me to rebuild it

Roger Toacao (Jan 19)

BCBP Bogo
Like gold, GOD continues to
refine me.

Beverly Presas (Jan 19)

BCBP Cebu Central
I supported my husband as a leader

Jonny Ong (Jan 26)

BCBP Cebu South
In school the teacher gives the lesson first and then the test; in life God
gives us the test first and then we learn the lesson.
A heart that appreciates every blessing is always better than eyes that see what is missing. Let our blessings be the reason to celebrate life.