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A. Community Vision

A FILIPINO-CHINESE COMMUNITY OF CHRIST’S DISCIPLES ONE IN THEIR CHRISTIAN FAITH
AND LIVING THE GOSPEL VALUES THAT IS CENTERED ON THE FAMILY AS A TRULY DOMESTIC
CHURCH ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE CHURCH MISSION.

B. Community Mission

TO MAKE EVERY CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN FILIPINO-CHINESE FAMILY IN CAGAYAN DE ORO
AND ITS NEIGHBORING TOWNS AND CITIES A TRULY DOMESTIC CHURCH RESPONSIVE TO THE
CALL TO SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND CHRISTIAN PRESENCE THROUGH STRENGTHENED CHRISTIAN
VALUES AND FAMILY TIES.

C. Specific Objectives: (For the first five years, 1994-1998)

• Help make every Catholic Christian Filipino-Chinese family in Cagayan de
  Oro and neighboring towns & cities a truly Domestic Church.
• Work to achieve closeness among Community members.
• Make the Community grow in faith and in number.
• To answer the call to "Social Transformation".
• To answer the call to "Christian Presence" through the strengthening
  of Christian values and ties in the family.
• Send missionaries to neighboring towns, cities and when possible, to foreign
  lands, especially China.
• Help Community members develop a prayerful life.

D. Strategies to achieve the above:

• Evangelize oneself and our family first.
• Conduct basic catechism to members’ kids.
• Existing members to invite at least one Filipino-Chinese family each month
  to hear mass with the Community.
• Provide a Chapel & a Formation Center for the Community.
• Organize a Community Choir.
• Organize various religious groups within the Community.
• Provide opportunity for members to know each other well through fellowship
  and other group activities.
• Provide religious magazines & newsletters to all members.
• Encourage family to pray together.
• Reach out and help charitable institutions.
• Organize prayer groups.
• Conduct Christian Life Programs, Marriage Retreats, Pre-Cana Seminars &
  other related teaching programs.
• Study and understand the PCP2 on the laity’s role in the Church.
• Organize Bible Study and Bible Sharing groups.
• Finance the study of a seminarian from China.

E. Specific Objectives: (For the second five years, 1999-2003)

• Do all the continuing objectives of the first five years.
• To educate/train and strengthen the Mission Team to widen the scope and
  area of evangelization.
• To grow in faith through the strengthening of Christian values and ties
  in every Filipino-Chinese family.
• To work toward a self-reliant community.
• To inject Christian values into some Chinese practices and traditions and
  vice versa as a way of enculturation.

F. Specific Objectives: (For the third five years, 2003-2008)

• Do all the continuing objectives of the prior years.
• To assist the FCCS in their continuing Scholarship Program.
• To streamline various activities and operations to make it more efficient
  and responsive to the needs of the members.
• Give leadership training in response to the growing number of members.
• To finish the construction of the second floor as Retreat House and the
  Chapel.
• To organize a Life Ministry to look into the problem of membership retention.
• Assist Iligan Community in organizing Ozamis City now that they can stand
  on their own.
• Assist Butuan Community in organizing Surigao once they can stand on their
  own.
• Assist Mambajao, Camiguin Community in organizing other Fil-Chinese Community
  in Camiguin.