Done with the video and the one page summary of iHELP Tawid Pinoy. Below is the One Pager (minus photos) -------------------------------------------------------- At the 2011 biennial conference of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) the participants made a historic commitment known as the Clark Declaration. In this document, the leaders of PCEC responded to the Scriptural mandate for “churches to transform communities,” and specifically commit themselves to seek the alleviation of poverty. Thus they pledged to work to equip and empower our churches to be sensitive to the needs of our immediate communities. We believe Jesus calls the church to, “be My voice, be My hands, be My feet”. And so given this, and the framework of PCEC and DSWD partnership, the iHELP Tawid Pinoy program was born. Beginning April 2012, iHELP volunteers have been deployed into the communities to assist DSWD staff and walk alongside the poor family-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya program. As of June 2013, iHELP has conducted over 203 training sessions with 5991 participants coming from 2432 churches. Of these, we have deployed 2410 community facilitators from 1260 churches. We have covered over 70 cities and municipalities in 17 provinces from 10 regions. Through the community facilitators, iHELP Tawid Pinoy is currently engaged with 9892 parent groups or a total of 266,610 families. Just last June 26-29, 2013, over 80 iHELP Tawid Pinoy stakeholders gathered for its first National Conference with the theme,” Unang Salvo: iCELEBRATE, iREFLECT, iRENEW”. There we took time to share the best practices and celebrate the current gains; we listened to, dialogue with and reflected deeply the reasons that made us engaged; and as a result, we responded to the call to renew our commitment to follow Jesus’ model of Incarnation – to build significant relationships with the marginalized poor families. This we commit ourselves into, even as we renew our commitment to God’s Kingdom and to one another – to journey and work as a community of faith and grace where King Jesus is the center. Being and Doing everything as a community for His glory.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:17:14 +0000
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