Socio-Political Transformation
I salute the local church pastors who have significantly filled the gaps in the distribution of international and national aids. These pastors, though mostly survivors themselves, organized themselves into municipal and provincial disaster response networks. They pooled their scarce resources and maximized their respective capacities to serve the people in their communities irrespective of religious …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/12/30/im-so-inspired-by-the-spiritual-leadership-of-pastors-who-are-disaster-survivors-themselves/
We celebrate the birth of Jesus with much excitement, perhaps even more enthusiastic, as we think of the current journey of our people in the Philippines. The first major message of the Christmas story was “Peace on Earth!” Why? Because the socio-historical context of the Christmas story was unpeace: :: Roman Imperialism dictates that people …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/12/22/with-much-enthusiasm-we-celebrate-christmas-with-you/
A Tsunami was about to kill thousands of people when this family Christmas photo was taken. It was the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake that caused tsunamis in the coastal areas of Southeast Asia. A few hours later after this shot, I flew out of Vancouver, Canada to live in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao. While flying …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/12/18/our-familys-journey-through-disasters/
“They are quick to use our photos to raise funds. They are slow to release the fund to the subjects in their photos.” This is a statement by Pastor Virgilio Dargantes who accompanied us to survey the needs in Eastern Samar. He was referring to the many foreign aid representatives with their photographers and video …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/12/09/haiyan-disaster-response-fund-raising-fund-releasing/
The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) sent us as their rapid response team to help the survivors of SuperTyphoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Because of the overwhelming numbers of those who were affected, we had to focus on a strategic response. Our mission was: 1. To search and rescue the pastors and their families. 2. To provide …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/11/15/i-had-the-privilege-of-leading-an-excellent-rapid-disaster-response-team/
The God of the Bible is the God of History. God is working in our history. God is doing a radical transformation in our land. The people are seeking God-centered, people-oriented, moral-ethical leadership towards the transformation of our land. That could be the Body of Christ—the community composed of people who have submitted their being …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/11/07/patronage-politics-and-radical-transformation-a-call-to-christian-leaders/
Some evangelical leaders and pastors think that we, Christians, need to be the majority, through conversion and domain expansion, in order to change the world. That’s Christendom thinking–the mother of imperialism and colonialism done by Christianized empires like Constantine’s Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Great Britain, and now United States of America. This was never the …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/10/26/the-heart-of-nonviolent-radical-transformation/
Honours and distinctions we received for excellence and impact
