TAYTAYAN

Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter

March 2014

Chapter Starts the 40 Days in the Word

After the breakfast on February 8, 2014, the chapter began the first of the six sessions of the 40 Days in the Word. It is a video lesson where Rick Warren, author of the famous book The Purpose Driven Life, teaches six devotional methods of Bible study. The ultimate goal of this video lesson is for each individual taking the course to: - Love the Word - Learn the Word - Live the Word Now on its fourth session, the chapter membership found this devotional Bible study a very enriching way of praying with the

Message for the Month I have called you by name, I Yahweh your God

The Participants in Group Discussion

Inside this issue:

How to get Involved in the Harvest Gen San CH Exhorts On Being a Christian
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Bible. Thus those who were there at the start would not want to miss the next sessions. Each lesson always points to the application of Gods Word into the personal life of the member
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Cebu Region Conducts Steward Leadership Training

Thirty-five leaders (Chapter Heads, Directors and Unit Heads) from different BCBP Cebu chapters, participated in the Stewards Leadership Training (SLT) at DepEd Eco-tech Center, last January 30-31 and February 1-2, 2014.
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Special points of interest:

Sectoral Breakfast -

March 29

Our life ought to be like the ocean, its surface constantly battered by storms, but miles and miles below it are deep peace in unmoved tranquility.

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Chapter Starts (continued from page 1)

For according to Rick Warren, In order to become Christ like, we must become living translations of Gods Word. The wisdom of the governance to have the program after the breakfast somehow boosted the attendance of members to the breakfast as well as save the chapter expenses for the venue. The programs effectiveness however, still depends on the faithfulness of the members to spend time with the Lord on a regular basis. The author knows that this is a struggle. Thus in session

The participants of Session 2 pose for a group picture

four, Rick Warren outlines what to do to counter the common problems in a daily quiet time. With two more sessions to look forward, the program is a sure hit for those who de-

sire to deepen their prayer life and have a beautiful encounter with our loving God.

Cebu Region (continued from page 1)

This is an echo of the SLT given to selected leaders from different chapters and outreaches nationwide held in Tagaytay and Cebu last year. Headed by RCD Boy Villanueva, as SLT Team Head, the following served as the facilitators: Jourdan Polotan, Eli Trinidad, Jeff Villa, Jess Cagara, Hector Tina, Bing Sarigumba and Rene Recamara. The SLT is a course intended to touch ones heart leading to a personal change or transformation. It offers an alternative way of living where values are identified and lived out. Our chapter, was represented by the following: Eton Apao, Tex Bulambot, William Cejas and Jun Pardico.

One of the speakers, Eli Trinidad of BCBP Cebu-South

Promises of God are like stars in the sky, the darker the night the brighter they are shining. Just keep trusting Him, live your greatness with faith, hope, and love.

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Teaching

How to get Involved in the Harvest

RCD Boy Villanueva

20 ways that we, as BCBP members, may get involved in the harvest, depending on our talents, our time, our willingness to step out of our comfort zones, the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and our desire and determination to work in the Lords vineyard that for the BCBP is the marketplace. 1. Pray. Ask God to show you one person you can impact for Christ. Make a commitment before the Lord to spend time with that person and to pray every day for him or her. 2. Participate. Get involved in activities where you meet people on a regular basis, especially in your workplace. 3. Volunteer. Get involved in your local school. Help with community projects and reach-outs. Look for opportunities to develop friendships with both non-Christians and Christians-in-name-only. 4. Socialize. Have a neighbor over for dinner or to watch an inspiring TV program. Look for common interests. Invite your officemate for lunch. 5. Celebrate. Take advantage of holidays to include those you are or intend to evangelize in your activities and traditions, especially those liturgical celebrations in your parish. 6. Invite. Watch for special concerts, seminars, or speakers who might interest your friends. Invite them to a BCBP breakfast. 7. Serve. Talk to your chapter head about your gifts and talents and find out how you can best use them in the ministries of the BCBP community. Find out how you can serve in your parish, too. 8. Support. Find a missionary (or charity) to support financially, in prayer, and with letters of encouragement. 9. Praise. Give the Lord the credit for the blessings in your life in the presence of others. Acknowledge His help in difficult times. 10. Empathize. Look for opportunities to draw alongside people who are hurting. 11. Evaluate. Check your motives. Are you seeking your own glory, or are you motivated by love for God and for the lost, the suffering, those who have less in life? 12. Intercede. Pray regularly for the unbelievers you know and for ministries that are actively seeking to reach out to others in need. 13. Encourage. Uplift your fellow laborers with words of encouragement. Be gentle and understanding with others faults or failures.
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Boy Villanueva RCD-Cebu

Choose to see the good side of every event, thing, and person in your life and youll never run out of blessings to count. Let Gods love motivate your life.

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How to get Involved (continued from page 3)

14. Be available. Dont get so overextended that you are unable to respond to the Spirits prompting to minister to a friend when needs arise. Remember that our Lord treasures more our availability than our ability. If we are available, He will provide the ability. 15. Be holy. Live a life above reproach. Others should see the fruit of the Spirit in your life. As Fr. Herb puts is: Walk your talk! 16. Be transparent. Dont try to be something you are not. Throw away your masks. Admit your own struggles and share how the Lord is working in your life to help you grow. 17. Be accountable. Seek out a friend, perhaps a member in your action group, you can pray with each week. Pray together for the people you are trying to reach. Share your experiences. 18. Persevere. Dont get discouraged when people dont respond right away. Leave the results to the Lord. And keep on inviting them to the BCBP breakfasts 19. LOVE. Ask the Lord to give you the same love for your friends that He has. Do everything in love, with love, and for the love of God. 20. Begin now. Dont wait until tomorrow. Now, right this moment, is the best time to start.

Gen San CH Exhorts Mactan Members to Attend NAC34

General Santos city is the safest place to go. This is the very words of CH Danny Hamoy as he appealed to the chapter members to attend NAC34 to be held at General Santos City on April 25 & 26, 2014. Danny and Nenette Hamoy came all the way from Gen San to share at Mactan chapter on February 22. Mactan is blessed to have heard their beautiful sharing and be tasked to drumbeat the same appeal to the other members within BCBP Cebu region. On that same day many were added to the list of Mactan members who are registering for NAC34 as there is no increase in registration fee until March 15, 2014. All are set to see Magandang Gen San and be one in the NAC34 celebration.
Danny Hamoy BCBP Gen San CH

Faith allows impossible things to happen, it is the force that comes only from a fearless heart, and when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.

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On Being a Christian (Part2)

A Practical Process of Transformation Through the Sacraments and the Good News Preached by Jesus Christ
Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19

Christian life is composed of two principles, praxis and fides (faith). While faith is a gift from God which has to be learned, this in turn helps one to practice the faith learned. And so it is imperative that every Christian will be ready and willing to learn that which one believes as it strengthened the understanding of who we are and how to live. The seven Sacraments become the agent of initiation and motor that help us to learn and know about our Lord Jesus Christ and what he did for us. Jesus gives us the life of grace that energize us to live out what we believe as Christian. We will explore further all the sacraments in the church to be able to see how they can help us in the practice of our faith becoming true witnesses of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the life of grace that comes from the sacraments that sanctify us and make us worthy Children of God which our Lord Jesus bought for us by pouring out his blood on the cross. The word Christian, meaning a follower of Christ both in words and in deeds become a symbol and identity that all the baptized embedded in his or her person. Identifying our self with Christ here on earth is the best way to be a witness to the world, doing all that he asked us to do in his memory. In this way, being a witness to the world would help us to re-echo the words of Christ to us. To live in the world but not of the world, the spirit of the world has to be dead in us through the witnessing we profess in following our Lord Jesus Christ. When a rich young man asked Jesus in the Gospel, what I must I do to inherit eternal life, he told him to keep the commandments, in the same manner, he asked us to follow him by keeping the commandment of love by which others will know that we belong to him. This was evident in the life of the early Church and those who had gone before us in faith, this made the followers of Christ to be referred to as Christians in Antioch. Today we ask ourselves if the world still think of us as faithful followers of Christ or have we become so attached to the world that no one notices the difference. Being a Christian lies more in practice than in studying or learning the Scriptures, staying long hours in the blessed Sacrament chapels, or even belonging to a faith community in the church, sometimes these devotional practices change nothing in ones attitude. St. James told us that faith without work is dead. Hence for a Christian to be, one will go out of the ordinary to show in words and in action what the scripture has asked of us in return for being saved by Our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis recognized this outward nature of a true Christian model when he noted that, The Christian ideal will always be a summons to overcome suspicion, habitual mistrust, fear of losing our privacy, all the defensive attitudes which todays world imposes on us. Many try to escape from others and take refuge in the comfort of their privacy or in small circle of close friends, renouncing the realism of the social aspect of the Gospel pg 52 When Christ ate with the Pharisees and tax collectors, mixed up with the sinners and the righteous, he meant to teach us too to be a social being with the aim to bring people to God and
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God doesnt always tell us how Hes working out His plan, but in His time and ways He clearly let us know Hes working out the best for you because He loves us .

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Taytayan Love in Action

Surpassing our set goals is possible as long as we will it. God has promised ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened for you. Such promise will never happen if we do nothing. Ask, seek and knock are action words which means we need to do something, else our vision will forever be a dream. I believe love moves mountains. Our first quarter statistics show that love is already in action. Passionately pursuing our vision will definitely make our Almighty Father happy as we reciprocate His everlasting love by evangelizing other people. As we enter the season of Lent, I hope it will remind us of our Lords great LOVE allowing his beloved son to go through such suffering. Can we not reciprocate by fulfilling the covenant we entered into in our commitment card? That surely is Love In Action.

Chapter Heads Message

February 14, 2014 was my most memorable Valentines Day. I figured into an accident that broke my taillight and caused a dent on our car. Due to heavy traffic, I accidentally hit a palm tree upon maneuvering rear turn to give way to an insistent CH Guy and Eden Ceniza car driver. On that Love day traffic was enormous. Restaurants were full. Even the distant restaurant up above the hill was full. Luckily we had a reservation and no need for us to be part of the long queue. This goes to show how people want to celebrate and show love. Envisioning 114 for 2014 as our chapters goal initially gave me some fears. Can we really make it? Looking at the our first quarter statistics, we are not far from its realization. The increase in the number of our tithe givers, attendance in almost all our regular activities and breakfast 1st timers prove that we can do it.

On Being (continued from page 5)

make them disciples of Christ through our interactions. Shying away from this form of fellowship has caused Christians the opportunities of living the life of the gospel among all people and in doing so we became anti witnessing, retreating from the world, being ashamed of who we are and making ourselves laughing stock of non-believers.. The early Christians did their part in transmitting the message of the Gospel through their actions, no wonder they produced most saints in our calendar, today also like them we are called to be authentic Christians in words and in deeds, in this way we will become an effective instrument of love advocating far and wide with our actions the message of our Lord Jesus Christ in the footsteps of Mary, mother of God, the first Christian.
Most of the things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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Intercessor Saint for the Month of March: Saint Joseph

We know Saint Joseph was a man of faith, obedient to whatever God asked of him without knowing the outcome. When the angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him the truth about the child Mary was carrying, Joseph immediately and without question or concern for gossip, took Mary as his wife. When the angel came again to tell him that his family was in danger, he immediately left everything he owned, all his family and friends, and fled to a strange country with his young wife and the baby. He waited in Egypt without question until the angel told him it was safe to go back.

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel confident that your prayers in our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God Amen.
We cannot change yesterday, its gone, that is clear. Nor begin tomorrow until its here. So all that is left is to make today as fruitful and good as it can be.

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter

BRINGING CHRIST INTO THE MARKETPLACE AND WINNING THE MARKETPLACE FOR CHRIST
The BCBP is a community of like-minded Christian businessmen and professionals who have consciously decided to band together to bring about the transformation of the marketplace
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February 2014 Breakfast Sharers

Butch & Inday Pilapil (February 8) BCBP Mandaue When we pre-qualify (franchise) applicants, we look beyond mere financial capability or managerial knowhow; for us, the more important qualities are, they must be God-fearing and share the same Christian values that we have instilled in the culture of the company

Charles & Loy Tan (February 15) BCBP Cebu-North in my years of drought the parched land was watered

Danny and Nenette Hamoy (February 22) BCBP General Santos God cannot be outdone in compensation and fringe benefits

Failure does not necessary mean the end of the road. Many times it is the beginning of a new and more exciting trip.