Article by entrepreneur and Creative Point International managing director Vanessa Velasco. An active youth leader since her years at the University of the Philippines, Vanessa supports various Christian church organizations and missions. Here I am at one of the properties of Center for Community Transformation (CCT) in Kalikid, Cabanatuan City, one of the ministries I have been helping as part of my social advocacy. It is home to former street dwellers from Manila’s urban poor, and yet their lives were transformed when they have encountered God through CCT’s Kaibigan (“Friend”) ministry. Now they are living as farmers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and skilled workers in a 32-hectare property which started off as donations from individuals who were touched by CCT’s ministry. They named the place “Lupang Pangako” (or Promised Land in English) and very aptly so. A worship hall stands at the center of the land where the God who provided for all these is praised an...
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