Joji is the “cover girl” of the January February 2013 issue of The Marketplace magazine, the official publication of the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA). It was Gordon Janzen, our facilitator at the Mennonite Church Canada Witness, who introduced us to Wally Kroeker of MEDA. Wally interviewed us and we freely shared our stories as …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/02/21/the-marketplace-magazine-of-meda-featured-joji-and-coffee-for-peace/
We hang out with them. We laugh with them. We journey in life with them. We pray with them. We eat with them. We learn with them. We do ministry together with them. We worship with them. This is a small group in the Christian congregation where we belong in Davao City. This is our …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/02/14/our-davao-group-of-friends-is-also-our-fun-group-and-spiritual-community/
Part of my job here at PeaceBuilders Community is to deal with the economic and ecological issues we’re facing as a Mennonite peace and reconciliation consulting group. A big issue happening right now in Mindanao is that of mining our land’s precious minerals. The under-developed Philippine economy needs the revenues that can potentially be generated …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/02/07/an-economic-ecological-concern-should-pbci-be-anti-mining-or-pro-mining/
Twenty-eight Christian leaders in Occidental Mindoro have finished the 6-hour orientation seminar on Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Community Organizing. They are pastors, educators, business people, and civil society leaders. It started two years ago when Dr. John Tayoto, President of the Asian Center for Leadership Education and Development (ACLEAD) invited PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) to …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/01/27/pbci-welcomes-par-initiative-by-christian-leaders-in-occidental-mindoro/
Gerd Bartel visited us in Davao City and helped us during the Fifth Wave of our Relief Operations in Compostela Valley. He was accompanied by his son-in-law, Darnell Barkman. Darnell and Christina, along with their two sons, Cody and Makai, serve with Mennonite Church Canada Witness in planting Peace Church Philippines which is located in …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/01/19/gerd-bartel-visits-peacebuilders-community/
In coordination with national, provincial, and local governments, as well as with various non-government organizations, PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) shifted its energies and resources from emergency relief operations to rehabilitation. Super Typhoon Pablo (international name, Bopha) left Southeastern Mindanao with more than one million families affected and more than a thousand deaths. The PBCI Rehabilitation …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/01/10/pbci-shifts-operation-mode-from-relief-to-rehabilitation/
…Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 17:20b NIV) Was Jesus exaggerating? The context of this statement was a story of a boy with …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/01/05/im-praying-for-faith-even-as-small-as-a-mustard-seed/
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