Category Archives: Upcoming

Lists things coming up (at the time of publication at least)

July Updates

July is a busy month again. Here are a few things going on:

Training:
-July 5-6. NOVA training with Dr. Clark’s Crisis Counseling Class at PBTS
-July 9. Parenting and 5 Love Language Training at IHMS, La Trinidad
-Late July. Training in Ecumenism and Crisis Response with BBEG (date TBD)

Clinical Pastoral Education:
-CPE Batch 2 is still on-going
-August 6. CPE Batch 3 starts

Helps Ministry:
-July 5-8. Shekinah Home Orphanage, Dingras, Ilocos Norte
-July 10. Children’s Program at Irisan Dumpsite
-July 12-13. Special Needs Project with DSWD, Dagupan, Pangasinan

Fund-Raising Dinner and Concert, Baguio City, September 4 at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary More info to follow.

Upcoming CPE trainings

The following is the tentative schedule for Clinical Pastoral Education over the next 12 months:

A. CPE 2011 Batch 2 June 18 – Sep 10. Baguio City

B. CPE 2011 Batch 3 (A/B) Aug 6 – Oct 29. Baguio (A) and Manila (B)

C. CPE 2011 Batch 4 (A/B) Nov 12 – Feb 11 (break from Dec 18 – Jan 6) Baguio (A) and Manila (B).

D. CPE 2012 Batch 1 Mar 19 – Jun 2. Baguio City

Application in the Forms section of website (www.bukallife.org) must be filled out and subsequent interview and testing required before admittance to the program. Contact us at info@bukallife.org if you have any questions.

June Updates

1. On May 28th, we held the graduation ceremony for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). 23 graduates of CPE as well as several more completing a unit of Supervisor-in-Training as well. The ceremony was held at UCCP-Baguio with approximately 85 people joining us on this rainy day. Dr. Sim Dang-Awan, the newly elected President of the Board of Trustees of Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center, gave the graduation address. Afterwards, we enjoyed a nice lunch together.

2. Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center will hold its first CPE Unit One training in Manila. It will start in August, and be led locally by Dr. Sim Dang-Awan and Sr. Sofia Natama. Contact us at info@bukallife.org for more information. We are also in the early stages in arranging for CPE program in Ifugao/Kalinga region. More info to follow soon (we hope).

3. Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center will hold its next CPE training in Baguio the end of June. This will be spread out over a longer period of time than our CPE Intensive program. This is to accommodate those with busy schedules. Contact us at info@bukallife.org.

4. Parenting Seminar will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, KM4 La Trinidad on July 14. Training will be led by Ms. Tessa Leones.

5. The next meeting of CPSP-Philippines will be on August 27, starting at 9am at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. If you have questions about CPSP-Philippines or becoming involved in one of the newly formed chapters, you may contact Ms. Chit Panizales (you can use our email info@bukallife.org, and we will forward it to her).

February Updates

Several things are coming up. Here are just a few:

Feb 1st. Cooperative Meeting.

Feb 3rd. Student Retreat at St. Pauls, for High School Students at CCDC.

Feb 12th. Parents Meeting at IHMS, La Trinidad

Preparing for CPE that starts at the end of March. Also for Special Needs VBS during 2nd week of May, and (prayerfully) a major Pastoral Care Symposium also in mid-May.

That’s enough info for now.

CPE Schedule (upcoming)

We are presently in the middle of our CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) 2nd Quarter schedule. Regarding the upcoming schedule:

CPE 3rd quarter. October 18 – December 10 (2010)

CPE Intensive. March 21 – May 28 (2011)

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@bukallife.org

August Updates

21 August. Educator training in learning styles and psychometric testing will be held at West Baguio Baptist Church this Saturday. 9am – 12noon.

28 August and 4 September. Tentatively plan to lead workshop on Stress Mitigation (NOVA-model) at CCDC (Cordillera Career Development College), La Trinidad)

We now have materials to carry out Slosson Intelligence Test (Rev.) as well as Personality Research Form (PRF).

August Update

As of today (August 2), the CPE Pastoral Care team has safely arrived in Sagada (Mountain Province). They will be doing pastoral care ministry as well as training.

It looks like we may be moving our teacher training to September. we got ourselves buried in work and have also been asked to do some more training at another school. Will update as soon as we know details.

The ARTICLES section of http://www.bukallife.org is fixed. Thanks Mike!!

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.

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”.