Center Hosts First Teleteaching Session

Rob Martin in Seattle, Washington speaking to Cross Philippine Partners' Conference attendees
in Tagaytay.

The Tagaytay Retreat and Training Center hosted its first teleteaching session on September 6, 2011 during the Cross Philippine Partners' Conference held on September 3 to 7 .  The lecturer was Rob Martin of First Fruit Inc.(http://www.firstfruit.org/institute) who spoke on The Communion of Giving and Receiving and The 10 Principles of Biblical Fundraising from his home in Seattle, Washington.

In the audience were 46 delegates from organizations ministering to micro entrepreneurs, orphans, out-of-school youth,  lepers, and the poorest of the poor. The organizations represented were:

• Compassionate Franciscan Sisters of the Poor
• Gawad Kalinga
• Daughters of Wisdom 
• Friendship Home 
• Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
• Kamama Foundation
• International Care Ministries 
• Cross International
• Center for Community Transformation  

The conference was hosted by Center for Community Transformation and convened by Dave Larson, Cross International's international projects manager-Asia and Near East. .

Brother Luis Ortiz of Friendship Home...

...Brother Buboy who ministers to members of the Tala
Leprosarium...

...Mother Joan of  the Compassionate Franciscan
Sisters of the Poor...

....and Max Fabrecante of International Care Ministries
ask Rob Martin a question.  

Attentive audience.

The Tagaytay Retreat and Training Center is managed by the Center for Community Transformation. Some of the buildings here were built by former street dwellers being ministered to by CCT.   Read the heartwarming story of one changed life here:  http://cctsikhay.blogspot.com/2012/04/weve-been-blessed-say-former-street.html

For rates and booking information, please contact Eva Lope, CCT partners development officer / CCT servant at evaranlope@yahoo.com.ph, evamlope@gmail.com, 09192933157, 09232497605, 806-6912, and 654-0536. For information on CCT'  programs and target beneficiaries, please visit www.cct.org.ph.

Photos by Myra Gaculais del Rosario