Attempts to replicate some business models in other areas

 

At the beginning...

The struggle is real.  To remember.  To go back and understand reasons.  Why this?  Why choose this path?  Why keep choosing this path?

I thought "going back"  to the beginning was to go back to where this service started.  I find the service is not the beginning but midway into the process of journeying.

The year is 1998.  20 years ago.  That renewed encounter.

I find then that the Beginning is Him.  It has always been Him.  It has always been Love.

The Beginning

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

A Life called to Stewardship in SEED Assembly

Last week -

pinaalala sa atin kung sino tayo
bilang GK - bagong pag-asa - being Hope
Pagpapalalim kung sino talaga tayo

Stewardship - Katiwala

Roles
1 - Anak - Nagiisang babae
2 - Kapatid - Panganay
3 - Kaibigan - Group of friends
kaklase sa ateneo, performer friends, kaklase ng highschool, roomates
4 - Mission worker - GK
5 - Leader

Most Challenging - Being a Leader

Denial of leadership - May takot

Bakit nga ba may takot?

Poverty of the Mind - inability to overcome challenges
Poverty of the Heart - inability to create connection

Poverty of the Mind -- hindi maka-usad sa solusyon dahil

1 - Lies we tell ourselves
I can't do it - hindi ko kaya yan
I am not good enough - hindi ako magaling dyan
I will fail - ako ay talunan at magiging talunan

2 - Analysis Paralysis
Overthinking

3 - The Linear Mind
there is only 1 formula

Poverty of the Heart -- hindi makapag-connect sa bawat isa dahil

1 - Walls we created around ourselves - binakuran natin ang sarili natin
Past hurts
No under-standing
Social Media (gumawa tayo ng bagong tao - yung perpekto sa social media)

2 - Relationships sa bahay

3 - "Trabaho lang - walang personalan"

Lahat ng ito ang nagbubuo ng TAKOT
Fear of leading, of being a steward

Solution - Values are not lip-service but a solution
Courage
Commitment
Competence
Compassion
Heroism
Hardwork
Humility
Honesty
Honor

When we Lead - We are forced to Good - We become Good

Courage - may panggagalingan - may hugot
Center of Courage is the heart

Taking Courage is Loving
not feeling - but giving despite the sacrifice

Having Courage is having a Strong Heart

My Courage - hinuhugot ko sa pamilya ko na tinuruan ako paano magmahal nang walang kapalit - ipinakita sa akin ang mukha ng Diyos na nagmamahal nang walang kapalit

A Life called to Stewardship is a Life called to Lead each other

Leader bilang pinuno - Taga-puno

a Life called to Unconditional Love with a Strong Heart

Anchor and Center

this is God's Work

GK is God's Kingdom
God's Kingdom is not a place
it is a state of peace
state of solidarity

Heart of our work is the community
but what it really is - the heart of our mission is the community spirit
the community spirit of bayanihan
being hero for each other

this is our anchor and our center

SEED Grad Camp

Pag-asa

Hope in my heart that everything done in good intentions will give birth to the right directions

What is it do we hope for?

Ano ang mga pinakamahalaga sa buhay natin

Madaling umasa kung nakikita - pero paano kung hindi mo nga nakikita?

Hope is about change - transformation - it is about travelling from one point to the other - it is a process - it is a journey. Hope requires commitment

Tita Celia

Hope like commitment is about the Other - never selfish - never about the self - unconditional - isang pagtataya na hindi mo alam kung may mangyayari o wala

SEED Batch 1

Regardless of the risk - we hope, we commit - commitment to hope is a life that is lived life filled - life lived in fulfillment, buhay na itinaya para sa iba ay buhay na puno, buhay na siksik, liglig at umaapaw

Personal story - GK as destination

25 y/o - Before Heaven. Started writing at 25yo but when I joined GK, I stopped writing and started experiencing

GK is not the destination - it is the process of hoping - the journey we choose - GK is not the answer to our hopes - it is the vehicle for us to unlock our capacity to hope - to have a dream. The fulfillment of our hopes is still reliant on us - on you. This is now about leadership - choosing to lead yourself - making a choice and a decision - but make the right choices and decision.

Hope is grace. It comes from a special place - our connection to our faith. It is by God's grace that we witness hope, that we feel hope. Hope crosses the line, leading yourself to where you want to go.

Farm provision 

Hope builds, hope creates.

Hope is encouraged in community. It is not built alone. Danger is the community that discourages hope, dwells on misgivings, on disappoints and failures, where the anchor of hope is not the other - it is about the other - but not anchored on the other - hope comes from our center - our core.

My brothers in GK

Tita Fe

So - What do I hope for - ano ba ang mahalaga sa akin?

My hopes have changed from the self to the community

I hope for land for the landless

I hope for home for the homeless

I hope for food for the hungry

I hope for light for those in darkness

Hope is a transformation

Hope is about commitment

Hope is a process

All hope is grace. So it creates, so it builds.

Hope is real in community

For me - Hope has a name and it is each one of you. As we are community of hope - this is where I draw my hope from - from each one of you.

Ang buhay na walang pag-asa ay buhay na walang dahilan, walang direction, buhay na nagwawala.

Challenge

Hope is made real because it is heard