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Values and Leadership Training

We are working with Patriotic School in Baguio in doing values and leadership training with students leaders. We have  worked on spiritual emphasis training at Union International School earlier this year, but this will be different. It will be July 27-30. Should be a wonderful opportunity to reach out and help the next generation.

Pastoral Care Ministry Trip Planned

Our CPE Ministry Team is planning to be in Sagada, Mountain Province, (God willing and weather permitting), August 2-6. This is a time of ministry in the local hospital there, as well as a time of intense training, and (yes) refreshment.

Open for Business

Starting about three weeks ago, we started accepting clients for Christian counseling in Baguio City. We have been doing training and CPE for several months now, but counseling services and psychometric services are intentionally the last to bring up to speed. We will continue to work towards 100% operation in preparation for our “grand opening” this Fall.

If you wish to talk to us in Baguio, call us at (074) 305-5605.

Upcoming Events

August 16 – October 8.  Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). We will be doing our next 8 week intensive CPE training (accredited by CPSP). We will probably be doing both normal CPE and CPE-extended. Please check our webpage for details on CPE. If you are interested or have questions, please contact our CPE supervisor, Rev. Aguirre at jo_aguirre007@yahoo.com, or our regular email at info@bukallife.org.

August 21 (tentative date). Half-day workshop “Know Thy Students: Understanding Learning Styles”.

Where:      West Baguio Baptist Church (Naguilian Road, Baguio)

Time:         9am-1pm

Topics:  Psychological Testing, Human Development, and Learning Styles.

Targeted learners:   Educators, and school administrators

Contact our office at (074) 305-5606 for details, or email us at info@bukallife.org

October 18 – December 10.  Our last CPE and CPE-Ext training of 2010. Contact us if you are interested.

Mid-June Updates

Just completed the graduation for CPE on Tuesday (June 15). On the 14th had the orientation of the CPE-Extended. This is 240 hour training (versus the normal 400 hour) training in pastoral care practicum. There are 5 students. These include people from 5 different denominations (Catholic, Episcopalian, CAMA, Assemblies of God, and Fundamental Baptist). We believe this diversity should add to the educational value of the training.

June Updates

We have had a number of people asking about medical missions. We appreciate the interest, but we have not been able to be too helpful. The reason is that we are taking a bit of a break from medical missions. Part of this is because we have had a horribly hectic April and May… so we are trying to get a bit of rest. So what has happened up to this point? Here are a few things (January – May):

1. Had several medical missions. These include

Saplad-David, Macabebe. 200 treated
Pulo, Macabebe. 160 treated
Street Children, Baguio 50 treated (provided supplies)
Gaswiling, Kapangan 250 treated

2. Had a lot of training.

Basic 1st Aid/CPR (with Phil Red Cross) 20 trained
2 from our team atteneded Haggai Institute NTS
Crisis Chaplaincy 2 week program 5 trained
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) 9 week 11 trained
Crisis Symposium at University of Cordilleras 34 trained
CPE Symposium 40 trained
COMDEV 3 day training 19 trained
First Aid for STMers 40 trained

3. Additional activities

Film showing at National Police Academy, Baguio 200 attended
Helped with VVM film showing in Gaswiling 150 attended
Co-sponsored blood-drive 30 gave blood

So what is going on in June?

a. Bob is in the United States for a few weeks visiting friends, relatives, and churches.
b. Ptr. Joel, Celia and others are pushing through with paperwork with SEC and PRC for the counseling center which should be formally opening in just a few weeks.
c. Dave is finishing a summer program with youth in Guisad, Baguio City.
d. The Co-op is preparing for its membership orientation.

As we enter July, we hope to be up and running with the counseling center… and we hope to be back to scheduling medical missions and training seminars. Hope this information is of help. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at info@bukallife.org.

May Updates

April is over. Praise God for surviving it. It has been a tremendously busy month… so happy to take a wee bit of a break. Still a few things going on.

1. Clinical Pastoral Education program is continuing through the end of May. Will let you know when graduation will be exactly.

2. Working on the paperwork to formally open the counseling center. It will have West Baguio Baptist Church as its primary office. The facilities are almost done.

3. We have put the Kids Club in a state of haiatus for awhile. This was because of the typhoons last October and November (leading schools to having Saturday classes making our Saturday groups impossible). However, Dave Baltazar (with a couple of helpers) has started a Summer Kids Club for neighborhood boys in the Ferguson Road area (it meets at the headquarters of Bukal Life). Dave and his friends have been doing a great job and this small, growing group has been quite successful. We will have to see where we are going from here. Prayerfully considering expanding the ministry beyond Summer.

4. Looking at a couple of sites for medical missions. We are seeking to do less medical missions, but want to continue doing this sort of ministry occasionally as a method to open doors for long-term ministry forms. 5. By the way. We don’t always put our information all in the same place. We also put some different news and pictures on our blogsite “bukallife.wordpress.com” and two facebook pages “bukal life ministries” and “shepherd’s oikos”.