Stories of Hope, Unity and Transformation
Knowing Marinelle
Marinelle Pamplona Formentera is one young lady worth emulating. While still a college student, she spends a lot of her time impacting her city with projects and sponsoring ordinances. Marinelle is Parañaque’s Sangguniang Kabataan’s (SK) President. Under her are youth...
The Biting Cobra: How God Saved My Wedding Business Through a Dream
This article was previously published on Sept 9, 2019, under One Voice Magazine's thematic series on DREAMS. We re-publish it today because it aligns with our TRUST series this trimester. Enjoy reading! MY WEDDING BUSINESS I love weddings. As a young girl, I imagined...
Beauty from Ashes: A Story from the Refiner’s Fire Experiencing Amazing Grace PART 2
I didn’t really know Roce outside of our group conference calls. She worked as a specialist in arts and culture, and she was a fellow-leader with the International Orality Network. Her background certainly gave us common ground for our work and a friendship, but I was...
Beauty from Ashes: A Story from the Refiner’s Fire; Experiencing Amazing Grace PART 1
Losing My Wife I was in the house as it burned. Sometime around 3:00 A.M., I escaped the thick smoke and flames through a second floor window. Because the fire started below the room where my wife for 41 years, Barcy, slept, she passed away. This mental tape of events...
GOD’s Glory in our Frailty (Life Testimony of Maria Loreza Jimenez)
I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at the age of 12. Lupus is an auto-immune disease where my Immune System fails to function properly. Instead of protecting my body, it attacks my other internal organs. The cause and cure are not known. I am dying...
Our God is an Awesome God
Our LIFT-B.A.B.I.E.S. Foundation Inc. ministry is our way of thanking and giving back to our Lord, who has answered all our prayers and continues to do so. Our first grandchild, Jeremaia Tabitha Eunice Matubis, was born in March 2, 1999 with a rare liver disease...
God’s Big Backyard
Usually a backyard is where tattered, discarded, and forgotten possessions are placed. We keep these things behind the house to remove the eyesore in our homes. Similarly, some of our youth today have been deemed unimportant just like the things that have been thrown...
The Soldiers’ Tale
I will never complain about a bad day at work ever in my life again. At least not until I join the army. To compare your worst day at work with their worst day at work is just unbelievable. Everyone has bad days, but if you happen to be part of the Armed Forces of the...
Mentored in the Anthurium Garden
I was five. I was painting with a man in the middle of an anthurium garden. Birds were chirping while the sun drew circles of light on our skin as it peered through the leaves of the tree we were under. We sat on pots and started sketching. That moment was imprinted...
Breathe, Praise, and Live
I must have played Cops and Robbers a dozen times as a kid, but one particular game stands out in my mind as the most memorable. It is still quite vivid. I was in the robbers’ team, and I was waiting for the opening I needed to leave the base and rescue my fellow...
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