For the first time ever, I am celebrating my birthday quarantined at home. I had plans, as I usually do, to get out of the city and have some fresh air. My friends and I were to go to the beach for some rest and recreation. Now, I find I am at home and not
I was at an emergency meeting earlier this week and Jiji, our COO, gave a great exhortation. (This was before the enhanced community quarantine.) Let’s be more lenient with one another, let’s leave room for mistakes and work together to make things better. Let’s stand together at this time. We need to be one at
We can all agree these may be challenging and uncertain times. With the COVID-19 now declared a worldwide pandemic, people are scrambling, streets are empty. News, local and international, abound with messages that do not always bring comfort. Fake news and hopeless woes litter social media posts. I, myself, have been in more emergency meetings
I recently had a brief conversation with one of our longtime small group leaders in church, Eva Austria. Tita Eva or Mommy Eva has been a small group leader for many years. She is in fact the mother of Monette, one of our cross-cultural missionaries, who also happens to be a friend. When she saw
A few days ago, we opened the Every Nation Building Chapel in Manila. It is an amazing spot on top of the building, and having a view of the Bonifacio Global City. A lot of work went into this project, a number of revisions, until the team that worked on it finally got to where