Welcome to Our Blog!

At last, we now have a blog for the YPs. Thanks a lot to Francis for setting up the account and starting the whole thing.

We hope this is a great way to communicate better and more regularly with our friends, whether in Cebu or elswhere in the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, U.S., or Europe, as well as with online visitors who are just surfing around.

Who exactly is a Cebu Navs YP? Well, it’s any person who was or is involved in the Young Professionals affairs/ministry/activities of the Navigators in Cebu. Many are alumni from the college campus ministries in Visayas, Mindanao, and Luzon. Some are friends of these, or friends of friends.

Although there have always been young professionals among the Cebu Navigators ministry, about eight or nine years ago, the national leadership made it a point to focus on the graduates as they moved into the working life (something which we are thankful for). The first gatherings were hosted and nurtured by Ate Elvie, a bit later by Kuya Dan, and still later by Kuya Jack and Ate Miriam. Many of the early YPs are now working in places outside of the country, and we plan for this site to be a way to connect with them and with other Navs sites.

Today, those of us who are in Cebu strive to meet every week for Bible study, fellowship, board (“bored,” hehe) games, outings, hopefully outreach in the future, and other “one-anothering” activities. (See next post for the schedule for the next three months.) Recently we were also involved in helping to train students in two campuses to study scripture, lead or facilitate Bible studies, and in general learn to live a life where the Kingdom and the Gospel are day-to-day realities that we partake in—which is also the same vision we have for ourselves.

So to all YPs who are happy to have stumbled upon this site, welcome. We dedicate this to you, wherever you are. Feel free to participate, comment, post write-ups or photos. See you soon—online, if not personally. =)

Blessings!

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. . . . Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. . . . Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Monique Garcia Says:

November 8, 2008 at 3:48 am

hi, guys! I’m glad the YPs finally have a blog. Thank you, thank you, Kiko. It’s been, what, three or four months since we planned this? And it’s good to see all the planning come to fruition =)

I pray this will be one avenue for all the YPs to stay connected, especially since most of us spend our days in front of the computer.

Hope to get to know all the other YPs who I’ve not had a chance to meet as well.

Amigong Joseph! Musta na? We miss you here. Advance happy birthday =)

November 8, 2008 at 4:07 am

The world in which we find ourselves is full of fog and fallacies, but so it is full of the unfailing love of God. In a world where countless ideologies vie for our allegiances, the biblical narrative invites us into an understanding of human history where we encounter the one whose authority is ultimate and presence is real. Our mission is thus to tell the old, old story, to live within this story and the kingdom it proclaims, and to invite others into the narrative that is continually moving us from the particular to the universal, from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. As Christians aware of God’s reign among us, we must not fear the historical accident that shaped the moods both in and around us, but we can live as visionaries of God’s grace, harbingers of hope, and catalysts for transformation. For we testify to the radical work of the Cross in Jerusalem and in our hearts, and to the uniqueness of Jesus Christ who, unlike any other, exchanges guilt for grace, ashes for beauty, and sorrow for joy, yesterday, today, and forever.

– Jill Carattini