IPD celebrates Christmas with a bang! A successful fund raising project, happy donors, happy winners, funding for the mission. To God be the glory!
Did you ever imagine the IPD office at Angelus Plaza building in Makati be converted into a war room? That was precisely the description of some of the trainors who attended the Trainors Conference of IPD on November 16, 2011 entitled: “One God, One Word, One Mission”. There, the trainors spent time to worship our One True God, listen to a mission update of the Pastoral Partnership Program given by President and Executive Director Randy Feria, learn a new technology (Dropbox) which would be utilized for File sharing (and boy was everyone amazed by its capability), and equip themselves with the skill of preparing training plans through a workshop conducted by Mission Director Celsa Uy.
All left the conference with new or renewed knowledge, but more importantly, with a stronger fire in their hearts to go on mission. Excitement to go out and apply what they learned filled the room. Timely, as this happened just 3 days before celebrating Christ the King through a Catchfire Conference (incidentally themed “One King, One People, One Mission”) together with 8,000 others who will ignite each others’ fires to be witnesses, disciples, and loyal servants of our One True God and King.
On November 9, 2011, four Trustees and Staff of the Institute for Pastoral Development (IPD) flew to the Visayas Region to begin the Pastoral Partnership Program with the Diocese of Cebu. Key people from the Diocese of Cebu who attended were Msgr Rommel Kintanar (head of the formation for the priests/clergy), Msgr JD Tajanlangit (head of formation for the laity), Fr. Alvin H. Codilla (B.E.C. Lead), Atty Pat Acabolillo (President of the Council of the Laity) among many other key people from the diocese. Archbishop Palma (incoming CBCP President) would have been in attendance too except that he had been called to an emergency meeting in Rome.
The meeting held was the initial engagement between IPD and the Diocese of Cebu to discuss, understand, and plan out the implementation of the Pastoral Partnership Program for the diocese. This program aims to deliver training programs to the Diocese in the areas of Evangelization, Formation, and Parish Management and help enable the Church’s dream of building a Community of Communities. IPD President and Executive Director Randy Feria made the initial presentation of the program. This was followed by a testimony delivered by Fr. Noel Montes, IPD Trustee and currently the Formation Head of the Diocese of Iba where the Pastoral Partnership Program is already in place. Finally, IPD Mission Director Celsa Uy conducted a mini-Training Needs Analysis with all the participants. She was assisted by Sheila Arias, also an IPD Trustee.
There was a lot of excitement and interest in the room after the 2 hour meeting. Immediately, the next engagement was identified as one that, in their words, would help the diocese a) Revisit its Vision and Mission as well as their goals and strategic plans, b) Own it, and c) Measure and Monitor it.
Fr. Codilla lead the final prayer thanking the Lord for this meeting, something that was needed and something that came at the right time. He then prayed for the Lord’s blessing for everyone in the room and for the Pastoral Partnership Program to flourish and meet its goals, and prayed that everything we did would bring glory to our God.
Draw Date: December 12, 2011
Venue: St. James Parish Hall, Ayala Alabang Village
Ticket Price: P500.00
IPD’s thrust is to “TRAIN and EMPOWER” Church leaders/workers in the areas of Evangelization, Formation, and Parish Management to help the Church realize its vision of a Communion of Communities.
We in IPD are currently engaged in the Dioceses of Cebu and Iba, Zambales. Very recently, we have made inroads with the Diocese of Cubao. Our goal is to reach all dioceses in our country. However, achieving this goal will require significant resources – hence, we are approaching friends and relations to help us with our fund-raising Christmas Raffle.
There are 3 things we wish to highlight about this raffle:
- Funds generated from this raffle will go to IPD’s Pastoral Partnership Program which is meant to empower and train the Dioceses of the Catholic Church in our country nationwide.
- Wonderful prizes await the winners. Grand prizes include iPad2, iPhone, iTouch, iPod, LCD TV . . . plus a lot of consolation prizes.
- Chance of winning is greater than in most raffles, because there are only 2,000 tickets printed (as compared to typical raffles where the tickets are in the tens or hundreds of thousands).
We pray that the good Lord bless you (and your loved ones) for your generous heart.
