Category: PEACE WITH ONE’S BEING

Psycho-social transformation

JOJI IS ENROLLED IN A MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  Joji is enrolled at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business at the Rockwell Campus in Makati City, Philippines. She actually started at the beginning of Fall 2015 but made an arrangement with the university to miss her initial classes due to our Canadian commitments and speaking engagements.   I enjoy listening to her. Here …

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HAVING FUN USING CANADIAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM

  I’m having fun using the Canadian public transport system while doing our 2015 North American Ministry.   Every three years, Joji & I report back to our sending agency, Mennonite Church Canada, in our capacity as lead peace and reconciliation missionaries at PeaceBuilders Community. During a NAM tour, we are assigned to speak at …

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A NEW LIBERAL CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IN OTTAWA IS ELECTED

  We have a new government in Canada. A young Prime Minister. A new cabinet: 15 women; 15 men; 3 Sikhs; 2 belonging to the First Nations/Indigenous Peoples; 2 with disabilities.   I applaud those cabinet members who affirmed their faith; who took an oath in the name of God.   Half of the new …

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DANN & JOJI ARE ON NORTH AMERICAN MINISTRY 2015

  Every three years, Dann & Joji Pantoja, the lead peace and reconciliation missionaries at PeaceBuilders Community, are assigned to speak at various church organizations, inter-faith gatherings, peace advocacy groups, and academic institutions. The Pantojas arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia in the evening of 10 September. Joji will be back in Davao on the second …

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ON BEING AN ‘OPA’ TO KIANA, ELIA, KAYA, AND EVE

  Being. Applied to my own journey in life, ‘being’ is an exaggeration. I have not attained ‘being’ yet. I’m ‘still becoming.’ Becoming a servant of God. Becoming a servant to the people. Becoming a husband. Becoming a father. Becoming a grandfather.   This last becoming — becoming a grandfather — excites me the most. The …

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JOJI TEACHES INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AT EBCS

17-21 August 2015. Joji is in Zamboanga City this week to teach the students of the Master of Ministry program at Ebenezer Bible College and Seminary (EBCS) for a week. Her modular course is entitled: Inclusive Development as a Christian Ministry of Transformation.   The objectives of the course are:   1. To identify our role …

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BANISILAN LEADERS INVITED US TO CONDUCT PAR TRAINING

  05-07 August 2015. The Municipality of Banisilan in the Province of North Cotabato invited PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) to conduct a seminar on Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) among the religious leaders in their town.   For the past three decades, Banisilan and the surrounding areas have been going through chronic armed conflicts due to …

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OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.