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DAVAO MINISTERIAL INTERFAITH, INC

Journey, Milestone, Significant Achievements

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• Started when World Vision Development Foundation invited Religious Leaders for a Mindanao Interfaith Fellowship sometime in 2002.

• Local delegates gathered for updating and fellowship; then came up with a common aspiration to work for continual peace and expressed commitment to partner with the ADP for Spiritual Nurturing.



2002 • Hugpong sa Kalambuan-Dabaw, Inc

requested DMI to conduct an Effective Parenthood Seminar TOT to Volunteer Leaders and to members of DMI

• It was at that time that DMI formed an Executive Body to act as the Core Team

• Series of meetings of DMI and HKDI were conducted to discuss areas of complementarity



2002• LCP and COP Trainings were given to

DMI (with HKDI Leaders) with the aim of better program planning

• But DMI understood/learned it as individual transformation and paradigm shifting, from being exclusive to inclusive



2003-2004 DMI started to facilitate:• Spiritual Retreats to Leaders and Staff of

HKDI• Children’s Retreat• Monday Devotion• Parenting Seminar• Scriptural Reflection to every meetings,

seminars, gatherings of HKDI and their Partners



2003-2004• DMI, with technical and financial support

from HKDI, was on its way to institutionalization

• VMG was formulated• Constitution and By-Laws was formulated• First Election of Board of Directors


Vision

“Ang tanang pamilya sa katilingban magpuyo nga mahigugmaon sa Diyos, adunay panaghiusa, kalinaw, kaangayan ug kalambuan”

(All families in the community living in God’s love, with peace, unity, justice and development)


MissionDavao Ministerial Interfaith commits to the

spiritual nurture for community transformation of the families, children, youth and community as a whole through:

• Teaching the Word of God• Counseling • Facilitation• Community Organization• Leading, and • Capacity Building


Goals

1. Strengthening Relationships Among Church Leaders

-Local Interfaith Forum

-Regular Interfaith Fellowship

-Seminars for Religious Leaders: LCP and COP

-Mindanao Week of Peace Celebration


Goals

2. Spiritual Nurture for Sponsored Families

-Effective Parenthood Seminar/ERPAT

-Retreat for Leaders, Youth, Staff

-Men’s Fellowship for Peace

-Monday devotion for Staff and Leaders

-Purok Inter-Generational Care Group



2004• DMI was invited to Assessments and Planning of HKDI,

giving us opportunity to propose Spiritual Nurturing Activities

• Youth Retreat, Couple’s Retreat• The 1st South Central Mindanao Interfaith Fellowship was held

in Mergrande Ocean Resort, Davao City, January 19-23, 2004 with theme "Bridging the Gap towards Peace in Mindanao”It was participated by seven ADPs in South Central Mindanao Ministry Area, including Davao City



Late 2004-2005• P-IGCG was introduced to HKDI; to follow

up Formations given to Families, Parents, Youth, Children

• Purok-Intergenerational Care Group- to set up caring groups in the community

• To develop home grown leaders in the community



• P-IGCG: from 1 pilot area:kanipaan to 15 P-IGCG’s in 12 Covered Barangay of HKDI

“In the community, people have important roles to play in God-centeredness and in the bridging of the gap that will lead to a peaceful community.”



“Purok Intergenerational Care Group (P-IGCG) concept is a very useful mechanism wherein everybody is given the chance to participate in the community building and decision making processing.”



SUSTAINING P-IGCG• P-IGCG Manual• Weekly Gathering and Fellowship• Quarterly Assessment of

P-IGCG Movers• Refresher’s Course• Formation for the Movers• Monitoring and Visitation



Growth of P-IGCG• Weekly Schedules set: 1st week-

Gathering, 2nd week- Social Concern, 3rd week-Formation, 4th week-Livelihood



Challenges:• Faulty Understanding of P-IGCG of

Community, HKDI, and DMI• Lack of initiative, strategies, flexibility of

time, skills of P-IGCG Movers (HKDI and DMI)



Our Commitment:

“Ang tanang pamilya sa katilingban magpuyo nga mahigugmaon sa Diyos, adunay panaghiusa, kalinaw, kaangayan ug kalambuan”



2006• DMI SEC registration• BIR Registered• Business Bureau Registered2007-2009

– Ensure that all children and families are nurtured morally and spiritually (Children’s Retreat, Life Skills for OSY and In School Youth, EPES, Couple’s Retreat, P-IGCG, Children’s Rights Advocacy, etc)

– Promote Peace and Unity (CoP, LCP, Mindanao Week of Peace Celebration, Fellowship and Dialogue, Mindanao Interfaith Conferences, etc)

– Advocacy for Child Protection and Development (DMI members are all trained and knowledgeable on this advocacy that they always integrate that in their teaching as religious leaders)

– Institutional Building (Partnerships and Linkages)



2009 up to the present• Partnership with BJMP (Bureau of Jail

Management and Penology)-in partnership with WVDF, conducted lcp

orientation training to 2 BJMP personnel-in partnership with HKDI, conducted cop training

to personnel and inmates-in partnership with MWOP partners, facilitated the

first ever Mindanao Week of Peace Celebration in Davao City Jail

-on going peace forum inside the jail



2008-2010• “Transformed Together- a Journey with Local

Capacities for Peace”- in partnership with Ms Michelle Garred, a

research on the use of the Religious of LCP, now a booklet showing the results

- Respondents include: Ulama League of The Philippines: Davao Chapter, Caritas-Davao, Evangelical Churches, MWOP Partners, etc



Late 2009-2010• Revision of EPES (Enriched Parents’

Effectiveness Services) Manual



2009-2010• CEV (Community Economic Ventures)

Partnership- DMI partnership for economic upliftment of

members- DMI to handle spiritual formation of the

clusters

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