Tag: bukidnon

TALAANDIG DAY: ACTIVISM THROUGH CELEBRATION

Mingled with the joyfulness, feasting, fellowship, dancing and revelry of the Talaandig Day celebrations held in the heart of the Talaandig Ancestral Domain in Lantapan, Bukidnon this week there was also a measure of mourning. A doleful shadow overhung the gathering of Talaandig tribespeople and their supporters, and the dances of the tribe’s children and grandmothers …

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CELEBRATING TALAANDIG DAY

Never has getting up at 2:30 in the morning felt so worth it. Walking the rarely quiet streets to the Peace Builders’ office and hopping in the truck, our team set off on a quick pace courtesy of our transporter, Kuya Toto, to the Talaandig grounds in the Lantapan district of Bukidnon. Watching the unfolding …

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PBCI TEAM TRAINS LANTAPAN FARMERS

If you had visited the conference room of the Lantapan municipal legislative office in Purok-2, Barangay Poblacion, Lantapan Municipality in Bukidnon Province this last Thursday, you would have found the swivel chairs filled not with municipal lawmakers but with farmers from the five Lantapan coffee industry clusters.  Each of these five grower collectives, organized with …

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PBSL STUDENTS APPRECIATE JACK AND IRENE SUDERMAN’S TEACHING MINISTRY

Jack and Irene Suderman, travelling teachers sent by Mennonite World Conference (MWC), taught a special course entitled “Peace Theology and the Great Commission in the Context of the Philippines” at the Peace Builders School of Leadership (PBSL) in the Province of Bukidnon, 14-16 February 2014. There were eighteen (18) Christian leaders — pastors, educators, business people, …

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BUKIDNON CHRISTIAN LEADERS WELCOME PEACE BUILDERS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP

Twenty-one people finished the first quarter of the PeaceBuilders School of Leadership (PBSL) in Valencia City, Bukidnon from 24-26 April 2013. They are a group composed of peacebuilders, pastors, church leaders, missionaries and educators. It was designed as highly academic activity with the book “Mediation in Pastoral Care” as the main focus and the books …

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PBCI INTENSIFIES COFFEE FARMERS’ TRAINING IN BUKIDNON

In the interior of the mountains of Bukidnon where banditry is supposed to be rampant, around 180 farmers gathered for coffee training on 10 March 2013. A Higaonon tribal member went to the PBCI office in Davao City, six hours away, to invite us to their place. When we went there, we proved once again …

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32 BUKIDNON LEADERS COMPLETE PAR TRAINING

  07.JULY.2012. Valencia City.  Thirty-two leaders representing the Council of Evangelical Churches in Bukidnon (CECB), the Valencia City Evangelical Ministers Association, Inc. (VCEMAI), and the Lantapan Inter-Faith Ministerial Association (LIFMA) completed the 3-month Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Training. The PAR Training was facilitated by PBCI Consulting Team, in partnership with the Peace and Reconciliation Commission …

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PBCI DEPLOYS BUKIDNON PAR TEAM ORGANIZERS

19.November.2011 — Peacebuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) deployed two teams of Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Team Organizers in the province of Bukidnon. For one year, each team will organize and train volunteer pastors and church leaders who will be willing to undergo the series of PAR training in their respective areas. The organized teams will be …

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PBCI AND UNIFRUTTI AGREE TO ADVANCE PAR TOGETHER

In joyful response to God’s initiative and provision, PeaceBuilders Community Inc. (PBCI) and Coffee For Peace (CFP) have agreed to work together in a joint ministry with the Unifrutti Group of Companies (UGC), along with their foundations — Unifrutti Foundation Inc. and Hineleban Foundation Inc. (HFI)– to advance Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) initiatives in the Province of Bukidnon. …

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NORTHERN MINDANAO LEADERS INITIATE PAR MINISTRY

Twenty-seven Christian leaders — bishops, pastors, church workers, local government executives, academics — participated in the Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Ministry Orientation in Cagayan de Oro City. They represented various evangelical communities in Region 10. This event is the beginning of a series of PAR Seminars to be held throughout this region in the next …

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