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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.


  • Silu Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Readings and audio materials for Filipino-Chinese Catholics.

    1. Weaving a Dream. (Reflections for Filipino-Chinese Catholics for Today). - Ari Dy S.J
    2. Songs for Worship in Mandarin I and II