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Bukal Life Annual Board Meeting Summary (Sep 2011)

On September 3rd, at Villa Cordillera, Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center held its Annual Board of Director’s Meeting. Dr. Sim Dang-Awan, presided.

A. Rev. Joel Aguirre, provided the Directors Report for March-August 2011. A few of the highlights:

  • Summer Intensive Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE 2011 Batch 1) 23 trainees, 5 supervisors
  • Regular Intensive CPE (CPE 2011 Batches 2 and 3). 23 trainees, 5 groups (2 in Baguio and 3 in Manila)
  • Supervisor’s continuous professional education (training through CPSP diplomates): 7 supervisors being trained by 7 diplomates.
  • Training seminars, consultation, advocacy:

-March: BANG-AR Naguilian. Basics of Lay Pastoral Care & Counseling
-April: University of Cordilleras, Conflict Management
-June: Mountain Light AG Church), Crisis Intervention Seminar
-July: School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Parenting Seminar

<Additionally, held joint pastoral care symposium with CPSP in May>

 

  • Nationwide Expansion of BLCCC. Looking into new branches in Dagupan, Visayas (Western Negros), and Mindanao (CDO). Still in exploratory stage.
  • Financial Report. Cost of CPE and lack of a set policy for charges and scholarships, necessitate standardization.

B. Manual. Bob Munson, Administrator, provided preliminary copies of the Operation and Policies Manual. Board and staff are encouraged to review the policy more fully and provide comments and updates to the Administrator by the end of September. Primary review in the meeting was the proposed organizational restructuring. The board agreed, in principle, to the organizational structure. The office of the director provides day-to-day oversight of the Bukal Life. Bukal Life Centers provide ministry services in their geographic area. Between these are Ministry support made up of four departments: Administration, Budget & Finance, Education & Training, and Professional Services.

C. Additional Matters

  • The board expressed thanks to Delrio Jamandre, CPE 2011 Batch 1 graduate for designing and donating a mechanical seal for Bukal Life.
  • Business card design was shown and approved (with modification) for staff of Bukal Life, as well as a general corporate card.
  • Discussion of some upcoming events including October Symposium (delayed to November or December), October fund-raising dinner, Bukal Life-Manila Launching in November, PABATS Conference, and KCPE trip.
  • Financial viability of Bukal Life was discussed. While Bukal Life is considered by the board and staff to be a ministry, it needs to be financially self-sustaining. Therefore, the board needs to investigate ways of self-funding, and receiving adequate donations.

Prayer Bulletin

Our latest (maybe our first???) Prayer Bulletin has been put on our main webpage. Hope you will read it, and pray about the various items and activities. Thank you. Read Prayer Bulletin

Photos from One Sending Body Missions Conference

Photos from our team at the OSB Conference in Cebu, . Photos include Pastor Arnold and Rose Arquillano, Celia Munson, Ptr. Joel Aguirre, and others in discussion about setting up Bukal Life-Dagupan.

Some events coming up

‎–August 19. CARTS Honorary Service (Bukal Life is one recipient)
–August 26-28. Several members attending OSB conference in Cebu City.
–September 3 (am). CPSP-Baguio/Benguet meeting in Baguio
–September 3 (pm). Bukal BOD meeting
–September 7-10. PABATS annual conference
–September 17. AVRC-1 Special Needs Family Counseling Project
–Sept 29- Oct 1. KCPE conference in Seoul, Korea.
–October 1. Dinner for a Cause: A Serenade, Baguio.
–Oct 2-. Visit of Dr. Espineda

Hope to be having a counseling symposium in the first week of October.

More August Updates

A. Had an important staff meeting today. We are investigating our future role and priority in ministry. Should we be a training institution that provides care and guidance, or are we a care and guidance institution that provides training. Even though these sound the same, structurally there is a great difference. So we are presently investigating this.

B. Annual meeting on September 3rd, after the CPSP chapter meeting.

C. Have planned or have potential gatherings with several other groups in the next few weeks. These include One Sending Body (late August) in Cebu, KCPE (Late September) in Korea, PABATS (early September) in Davao, and CARTS (mid-August).

CPE New Batch 2011

CPE 2011 Batch 3A (Baguio) and Batch 3B (Manila) began this last weekend. The Baguio group has 3 trainees presently, while the Manila group has 4. Both groups may have 1 or 2 added soon. Combining these with Batch 2 CPE Accelerated that is on-going, we are presently having the largest number of CPE trainees at any time outside of our Normal CPE Intensive season (March-May).

Please support the trainees in prayer as they learn through ministering to those in need.

August Updates

We will be joining “One Sending Body” at the National Missions Conference in Cebu City, Philippines August 26-28. We have a partnering relationship with them, so we are looking forward to this event.

To accommodate this event, we asked CPSP-Baguio and Benguet chapters to move their Quarterly meeting to September 3. Hopefully, it will still be at Cafe Cordillera 8:30am – 11:30am. P200 for breakfast.