October 14 and 15, we held a webinar with Kalma— a volunteer group that provides Welcoming ministry for One Sending Body missionaries. One Sending Body is a denominational missionary agency that sends out Filipino missionaries into Asia. We had a great time speaking of drawing out missionary’s personal stories, and help them withe stress defusing. Interest was expressed for at least one more training with focus on practice.
Our two Summer Intensive CPE groups will be finishing soon— one near the end of this month and the other early in August.
Here are a lot of things happening. Here are a few…
July 31. Certification Board for two of our trainees.
August 3. Training seminar in family systems . Central Philippines Nazarene College, Cebu City.
August 15. Counseling Project with The Salvation Army, NCR.
August 16. Start of Fall Extended CPE.
September 5 -6. Basic Pastoral Counseling Seminar. Quirino Province.
September 10. Start of Fall Intensive CPE.
November. Possible time of CPSP Plenary.
January 2025. Start of CPE groups in Baguio and Palawan.
We are happy to see the growth of ministry of our ministry partner– Australian-Filipino Community Services. Looking forward to expanded work with them… especially in training.
We were invited to speak at a gathering of young adults and youth leaders of Philippine Bethel Churches on November 23, 2019. Approximately 36 joined. We addressed active listening, basic therapeutic counseling, and some specific topics— anxiety, suicide, depression, and abuse. Despite the heaviness of these topics, we had a great time and appreciate the interest and hospitality of our hosts.
We are in a bit of a lull right now. There may be a CPE group starting August 17, but that is uncertain (depending on whether some can really join who have expressed interest).
Of more certainty are the following:
May 17. CPE Commissioning (for Summer CPE 2019). Dr. Simplicio Dang-Awan Jr. will be our guest speaker.
June 10. This is the week of the start of the next batch of CPE as well as CPO
Below are a couple of pictures from Drug Awareness seminar led by Chaplain Celia for youth at South Sanitary Camp Barangay on May 12.
We held Church Confict Resolution Training
Celia, Bob, Amm, and Chara of Bukal Life Care with Fhey and Ysrael who lead ABCM
at ABCM, a church ministry here in Baguio with several daughter ministries throughout Northern Luzon.
Bob and Celia Munson led the training, assisted by two trainees of Bukal Life Care (Amm and Chara). It was held on Good Friday (April 19, 2019) with approximately 50 to 60 attending. We do different activities depending on the size, needs, and duration available. We had three hours available, so we did the following:
We are thankful to our friends at ABCM for inviting us. We had a great time.
Training was held by our team (Bob and Celia, Lyn, Fhey, and Daniel) with LUBCA at First Baptist Church, San Fernando, La Union.
The training involved a conflict-related team-building exercise, followed by a simple test regarding conflict management styles. The following is the presentation we used.
Bukal Life Care 