“Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ”

Message for the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals November

Mactan Chapter
Month:
"Trust in Me BCBP Mactan Through the 17 Years
with all your
heart. I have It was on October 8,
always been 1993 when BCBP Cebu
there for you opened Mactan Outreach
and will always with its first breakfast
be." fellowship. It progressed
very slowly that it took
almost a year before
BCLP1 was conducted.
Special point of
What started in 1994
interest:
as a 15-couple and 5 sin-
gles BCBP Mactan out-
 Feeding – Nov 7
reach is now a vibrant
 Chapter Recol- chapter of almost 200
lection - Nov 13 active members. From
BCLP1 God blessed us
with abundant harvests.
There was even a time
Inside this issue:
when there were over a
hundred participants to
Messages 2
Teaching 3
BCBP Cebu 2nd Regional Breakfast
17th Anniversary 4
The 2nd Regional
Photos
breakfast was held last
October 30 at the Grand
BCBP Mactan 6 Convention Center in
Milestones
Cebu. BCBP Mandaue
A Page From 8 was the host chapter this
the Past time.
A big number of
BCBP Through 9 members representing
the Years
the 7 chapters and some
National News 12 from California came,
filling the venue.
Eight first timers were
2010
the BCLP.
We did not rest on
our laurels though. As
the Spirit led us so we
went. We crossed the
seas and braved the
storm when we Simple 1st Anniversary
opened Ormoc out- Celebration in 1994
reach in October
1995. BCBP Zamboanga
In 1999 we flew to became a chapter.
Mindanao and opened As we grew in
Zamboanga Outreach. numbers, so was the
A very daring move
need to split the
for a young chapter. chapter to shepherd
But God is good. He
well God’s flock. And
sustained us until
Continued in page 2
treated to a beautiful
breakfast of food for the
body and food for the
soul.
Lito and Ludy Pardo,
currently the Area Man-
aging Director for North Lito and Ludy Pardo
AMD North Luzon
Luzon were the shares
on that beautiful Saturday
beautiful morning of
morning.
God’s love and fellow-
To the Mactan mem-
ship with brothers and
bers who attended the
sisters of Metro Cebu.
breakfast, it was another

God is waiting somewhere above to give you His grace and send you His love. Whatever your cross,
whatever your pain, God always sends rainbows after the rain.
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Messages
TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF BCBP MACTAN CHAPTER :
Congratulations on your 17th Anniversary. An anniversary is always a good time
to thank the Lord for the blessings received during the past year- for the gift of
Community, for the opportunity to serve the Lord through the BCBP, for the lead-
ers that cared for you in your walk with the Lord during the past year and for the
many other blessings that you have received during the past year. Indeed, you have
so much to thank the Lord for. However, this is also a good time to look back and
ask the Lord to help you see where you have failed Him and seek the Lord’s help
Larry Veloso
National President and guidance so you can be more faithful and true to His call for our community.
Let us never forget that we are an evangelistic community and we are here because
of God’s call for us to evangelize the businessmen and professionals in our area into
living our Christian values and being change agents in our marketplace. Have you
been faithful to our Lord’s call?
My prayer is that your chapter will continue to grow stronger and be more
passionate and zealous in pursuing the Vision and Mission that the Lord has given
our community.
May our Blessed Mother help you to grow in your love for Jesus and for one
another.
Again, Congratulations and God bless the BCBP Mactan Chapter!

Larry Veloso

To our ―tatays and nanays‖ Joining Mactan BCLP1 in 1994

of Mactan. Our congratulations
for 17 years of brotherhood
with our prayers for His con-
tinued guidance as you go on
winning the marketplace in
Mactan for Him. God bless.
Mayong Rodriguez
AMD - Visayas
Mayong Rodriguez
was a milestone in our life. We
are richly blessed with the gift of
service, friendship, support and
care, and so many others. Mac-
tan is a haven and home for us.
Happy anniversary.
Hector Tiña
RCD - Cebu
Hector Tiña

BCBP Mactan … (continued from page 1)

so in 2000 BCBP Man- many BCLPs had been stayed.
daue chapter was born. done. We just graduated To those who be-
Then we reached out 17 associate members lieve that life is a jour-
to the northern part of from BCLP19. ney with others, BCBP
Cebu as we brought Through the seventeen Mactan is here to
God to Bogo in Sep- years many members stay… by and through
tember 2001. have come and go. Many God’s grace.
From then and now, too have come and

God uses friends to make us see the beauty of each new day and teach us to be thankful for every
blessing and trial He has designed to strengthen us.
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Teaching

Fruits of the Holy Spirit: Joy and Peace

The Fruit of the Spirit is ... Joy.
Our joy, comes from God dwelling in us. As such it remains with us for as long as we re-
main in God. Joy, as we understand it, is the fruit or the result of the work of the Holy
Spirit in us. The cause for rejoicing is Emmanuel, God with us.
The Fruit of the Spirit is ... Peace.
Does it mean absence of war or trouble? It means that and much more. We
aspire to be peacemakers who, as Jesus says, will be called children of God.(Mt. 5:9)
Complete Joy
 Joy: Fruit of God’s Indwelling in Us and Among Us
Joy is the result of an intimate and fruitful life with and in God. It is experienced as
an inward rest and peace even in the midst of trouble of difficulties. God’s abiding pres-
ence with us gives us confidence to face anything. (Ex. 33:14)
 Joy: Sign of a New Life
Nimfa Aballe
Jesus promises joy as a sign of new life. (John 16-20b-22) Jesus connects joy with
the promise of seeing Him again. It is similar to the joy we experience when a dear friend
returns after a long absence.
 Joy: Celebration of Life
For a disciple, following the Lord involves celebration. When we speak of celebra-
tion, we do not refer to parties on special occasions. Rather, we speak of .an ongoing
awareness that every moment is special and asks to be lifted up and recognized as a
blessing from on high.. (p.99. Lifesigns, Henri Nouwen)
 Joy: Gift to the Community of Believers
Joy is not just a quality radiating from individual persons. It is as much, if not more
so, a gift to the community of believers...Community is the place where God completes
our lives with His joy. Every word Jesus spoke was spoken to share His own joy with us
and thus make our joy complete. This complete joy is always ours, that is, it belongs to a
life together (p. 103, 105. Lifesigns, Henri Nouwen)
Peace
 Purity of Heart: Pre-requisite to peace
 Interior peace
 Eager for peace, even in the midst of conflict
 Able to deal with objective evil and to resolve any broken relationship
 Keeps no record of wrongs. (1 Cor. 13:5)
 Peace with God
 Peace as Reconciliation with God by the cross of Christ
 Peace as Fruit of the Spirit
 Peace with One Another
When Jesus died on the cross, He did not only make it possible for us to be reconciled
with God, He also made it possible for us to reconciled with one another. (Eph. 2:13-16)

Don’t burn the bridges behind you, for some other time you might want to go back. Don’t close the
door to anyone, for one day God may want to visit you through that someone.
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The 17th Anniversary Celebration in Photos

The Anniversary Breakfast with the tandem The Sharers; Lino and Daisy Gonzales, RCD
Jun Yap - Alvin Olalo as emcees Southwest Leyte.

The beautifully decorated stage of IAU gym for the The Holy Mass officiated by Fr. Martin Ilozue, a
Anniversary Fellowship Night BCLP19 graduate.

Gracing our celebration: Our RCD Hector Tiña with

wife Edna (Mactan BCLP1), and our Former Formation
Director Rey De Guzman With Wife Atit (Mactan
BCLP1, vacationing from Canada)

Honoring the four past chapter heads with their wives. Casi
and Emma Nadela were represented by Hector and Edna

All things in life are not meant to last, things change and so do people, you can never hold on to
something forever so learn to live and let go.
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The 17th Anniversary Celebration in Photos

Freddie Louie Bolquiren Aguilar

singing ANAK. Manny Eton Apao Pacquiao
singing ―Para Sa Yo Ang Laban
Na To‖.

The ladies dancing the Waka-Waka

BCLP19 graduates dancing to Justin Bieber’s ―Baby‖

with Fr. Martin doing the rap.
The BCLP19 servants doing the ―Pasayawa Ko Day‖

The men interpreting the Lady Gaga’s song ―Bad Romance‖

The Anniversary Kings and Queens

The APO Biking Society of BCBP Mactan

The Wonder Boys and Girls dancing to the song
―Nobody‖

Behind every circumstance is God’s purpose. At times what we consider a trial is simply the hand of
God rearranging and pruning our lives to be more fruitful.
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A Page From the Past (from the maiden issue of Taytayan)

The spaces between our fingers were created so that other person’s fingers could fill them in.
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BCBP Mactan Through the Years

The First Music Ministry - 1995

8th Anniversary Celebration (United Nations ) - 2001

10th Anniversary Celebration (Circus ) - 2003

Father and Son Retreat—May 2003

11th Anniversary Celebration (Magellan Landing ) - 2004

12th Anniversary Celebration (Disney ) - 2005

13th Anniversary Celebration (Dance Musicale) - 2008

―Alay Kay Nanay‖ Launching - 2008

God teaches us to be brave when we’re frightened, to be strong when we’re weak, but most of all,
He teaches us to hold on to Him when things kept on falling.
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“I learned the truth at brothers and sisters of
17 that life was meant the community.
for beauty queen.” so After being spiritually
goes the lyrics of the filled with the beautiful
song Seventeen. homily of Fr. Martin dur-
Very funny but that ing the mass, we soared
happened to us during high with joy and laugh-
our 17th anniversary. ter as brothers and sis-
Nery Gula ters danced and sang
We were Anniversary
King and Queen. Very as most seventeen
funny too when the years old do.
“may our „pakos‟ crown went falling and And God’s love was
be wings that rolling during the coro- just awesome. The rain make us busy for selfish
stir us to do nation rite. But who poured some minutes ends but be wings that
simple tasks with cares, when all were after the activity ended. stir us to do simple tasks
love for God.” happy supporting the At 17 may we grow
with love for God.
cause the anniversary strong in Spirit and in Thank you PSD team
advocated. That is, to faith. As Fr. Martin said, for the successful 17th
raise fund for the sick may our “pakos” not anniversary celebration!!!

The 2000 Hail Mary Devotion

October 23, 2010 their prayer group in While prayers and
was a special day dedi- Aramco and brought it graces were in abun-
cated to Mama Mary. home to Mactan. S i n c e dance, food likewise
To culminate the then, BCBP Mactan inter- was a feast. The sha-
month of the Holy cessory group has prayed koy was heavenly.
Rosary, the interces- the devotion every Oc- Thanks to those who
sory group held the tober to honor the brought and made
2000 Hail Mary devo- Blessed Virgin Mary. available the variety of
tion. It started at This year’s devotion food that was there
10am after the break- was well attended. What for one’s choosing.
fast and ended at 9pm was beautiful in this Thanks also to
of the same day. year’s prayer vigil was Kuya Vito and Ate
The 2000 Hail that many kuyas and ates Nimfa who hosted the
Mary devotion is a who believe in the effi- prayer Vigil.
prayer vigil that usually cacy of the devotion
last for 12 hours. It came and stayed for To Jesus, through
was introduced to hours of vigil. Most awe- Mary!
BCBP Mactan in 2005 some is Ate Remy’s con-
by Kuya Arlin and Ate sistent attendance to the
See you next year!
Lita Tan. They learned vigil from start to finish
of the devotion from for the past 5 years.

There is no time of night or day when God can’t hear us as we pray. There is no time, there is no place
when we can’t draw upon His grace.
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God is great architect of life and He has a great plan for us. But we are still the carpenters and we
should construct our life according to his plan.

Mactan Chapter
Chapter Head:
Martin B. Pusta
visit:
www.bcbp-phil.com
National News
www.bcbp-phil.com
Picture from left to right:
Andy Parducho-LAC Gen-
eral Manager, Jun Saret-LAC
President, Proceso Alcala-
Secretary Dept of Agricul-
ture, Gilberto Layese-
Director BAFPS-DA
There would never be another now, so make the most of today. There will never be another you,
so make the most of yourself. Be happy all the time.
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.
BREAKFAST
Venue: Crown Regency Suites
Weekly Schedule: Saturday 7:30 - 10:00 AM
1st Wk: Men’s
2nd Wk: Joint (Men’s & Ladies)
3rd Wk: Men’s
4th Wk: Simultaneous (Men’s & Ladies)
Contact Person: Jun Pardico CP# 0917 3213486
Congratulations to Bro. Jun Saret
On behalf of the Since 2007, LAC is only implementing environ-
BCBP community, we the 2nd recipient of ment friendly methods,
congratulate Bro. Jun GAP National Award maintaining a high de-
Saret, PSD of Bulacan and the only organic gree of safety in opera-
Chapter, and President certified farm. tions and most specially
of Leonie Agri Corp. We are all proud of looking out for the
(LAC), a subsidiary of Bro. Jun for his leader- welfare of farm work-
Pascual Laboratories, ship of LAC, a certified ers.
Inc. for having received integrated organic farm In the year 2008,
the GAP National which complies with LAC was also recipient
Award for 2010. De- the Good Agricultural of the National Organic
partment of Agriculture Practices (GAP) regula- Award – SECRETARY’S
Secretary Proceso Al- tions of Department of AWARD FOR OUT-
cala handed the award Agriculture and Philip- STANDING OR-
to LAC Thursday, Oc- pines National Standard GANIC FARMING
tober 7, 2010, at the (PNS). These govern- INITIATIVE Farmer
World Trade Center, ment agencies audited Category- awarded by
Pasay City during the LAC and found the Gilberto F. Layese,
opening of the Agrilink company producing Director of Bureau of
2010 Conference with agricultural products Agriculture and Fisher-
the theme ‖GOOD according to established ies Products Standards,
AGRICULTURAL safety and quality pa- Department of Agricul-
PRACTICES: KEY TO rameters. Their inspec- ture).
COMPETITIVENESS.‖ tion found LAC’s farms