Category: PEACE WITH ONE’S BEING

Psycho-social transformation

BAGOBO-TAGABAWA TRIBAL COUNCILS WELCOME PBCI & CFP

Your Native Title, I sincerely acknowledge. This land is your land! (Lakan Sumulong)   Jobee Basas, our current intern, and I are excited to receive a very important document from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Region 11. The NCIP has released its Certificate of Compliance to the Free, Prior and Informed Consent …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/07/30/bagobo-tagabawa-tribal-councils-welcome-pbci-and-cfp/

PAQUIBATO FARMERS LEARN COFFEE PRODUCTION AT CFP-PBCI CENTER

Your hands’ work feed us, Tiller of the sacred land. May we serve with you? (Lakan Sumulong)   20-22 July 2016.  It’s always a privilege to be visited by our farming partners. To pray together. To eat together. To learn together. To share our struggles for justice and peace. To share our lives with each …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/07/22/paquibato-farmers-learn-coffee-production-at-cfp-pbci-center/

COFFEE FOR PEACE INVITES CANADIAN PARTNERS FOR IMPACT INVESTING

Imagine. Coffee For Peace Canada. A group of Canadian investors who see life and reality from the lenses of Peace Theology and are committed to help build justice and peace among coffee farming communities around the world. These are women and men who are convinced to invest in companies like Coffee For Peace that aims …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/06/17/coffee-for-peace-invites-canadian-partners-for-impact-investing/

I’M AN ANABAPTIST. I MUST NOT BE MILITANT AGAINST MILITANT PEOPLE

Militant. Combative. Aggressive. Violent. Confrontational. Usually for the purpose of advancing a worldview, a value system, a set of behaviors. Mostly visible in religious, social, or political advocacies or programs. We live in a militant 21st century reality. Those who want to make good business in a world at war would like us all to …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/06/11/im-an-anabaptist-i-must-not-be-militant-against-militant-people/

MENTORSHIP IS A HIGH-VALUE ACTIVITY AT COFFEE FOR PEACE

Now happening at the backyard of the office of CoffeeForPeace.Com: Our farming partners from Mount Apo, the Ancestral Domain of the Bagobo Tribe, deliver their Arabica coffee cherries; Nowie Blag and Jose Calaba, PAR (Peace and Reconciliation) Monitors from the Dulangan Manobo Tribe, who also have planted 10,000 Arabica coffee trees in their Ancestral Domain, …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/05/09/mentorship-is-a-high-value-activity-at-coffee-for-peace/

TO BE AN EFFECTIVE INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT FIELD WORKER

While hiking the mountains of Upper Kalinga, my heart and mind brought my consciousness on how to be an effective Inclusive Development field worker: My main task is primarily to listen to the peoples’ imagination of their realities. In their various languages and expressions, they articulate their present realities (what is) and their future aspirations …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/04/20/to-be-an-effective-inclusive-development-field-worker/

WE HELPED BRIDGE TOP PCEC AND MILF LEADERS

02 April 2016. Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao — The PeaceBuilders Community initiated the top leaders’ meeting between the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC), led by Bishop Noel Alba Pantoja, and the Central Committee Office of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), led by Chairman Murad Ebrahim. The two bodies discussed how leaders of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/04/03/we-helped-bridge-top-pcec-and-milf-leaders/

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Honours and distinctions we received for excellence and impact