Selected Photos and captions: (From Bottom to Top)
1. The entire summit participants official photo.
2. Group photo with HI founder/chairman Dr. John Edmund Haggai, officers of the Institute, and batchmates in class M0810@Maui, Hawaii (Ramesh and Garvic), among others.
3. Indian participants in a special presentation.
4. Pakistanis in a special number.
5. A photo-op with another batchmate (Jose Marero) and wife Rose and fellow participant Ners Padua.
6. Special photo-op with former Isabela governor Grace Padaca.
7. With Rose Falla.
8. With a long time friend and colleague, Mrs. Eppie. C. Acosta.
9. Alex Lacson (former senatoriable) with his testimony during the Summit.
10 and 11. This Blogger.
“Haggai Institute is not a theological seminary nor an academy for theologians. It is neither an advocate nor another Church-planting organization. Haggai Institute is a worldwide community of leaders with passion for evangelism.” This, if I may paraphrase, is the statement of HI founder Dr. John Edmund Haggai during his official message at the first ever Asia-Pacific Summit of HI 81K alumni worldwide. This summit was participated by 250 alumni from 21 countries, 137 of whom are from the host country Philippines.
Emphasized in this summit is the vision-mission of HI which state: VISION – Help ensure that the Gospel is presented in the power of the Holy Spirit with cultural relevance and sensitivity to all peoples, especially in non-evangelized parts of the world. MISSION – To advance the skills of qualified Christian leaders to more effectively evangelize their own people and train others to do the same.
I am one of those highly privileged and blessed to be involved in the HI’s great activities like advanced leadership training. My participation in this summit rekindled my commitment to take the Great Commission, thereby making the people as disciples of Christ, no matter how meager my role be in the circle of evangelization.
In this summit, I was able to meet in person, HI brethren I only meet in cyber like our very own Susan Chomi, Leny Petines, Reinier Puno, Liliybeth Garcia, Freddie Mero, Philip Pattaguan, Jun Sermonia, current HI-Phils. Executive Director Leonito Jacinto and many many more. It was also an opportune time to say hi and hello to our former facilitators in Maui training like Nono Badoy, Don Espina, Pat Melicor, Arthur Dhanaraj, and many more. An occasion to make “beso-beso” with old-time colleague Eppie Acosta, and my nominators to Haggai course, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jimenez, who incidentally is the current president of HI-Philippines alumni association, while Glo Jimenez, the first lady is a former fellow officer of the Dept. of Agriculture’s postharvest bureau.
The summit also enables me to be aware of what and how evangelism is going on in other places/countries where Hi alumni are, from Armenia to Zamboanga (A to Z), so to speak. I was amazed how Romania gave birth to HI center in their once communist country, even without the formal “approval” of Dr. John Haggai. Afterall, as what Dr. Iona Ceuta philosophized, birth certificate is issued after the birth and not before the birth. And that India has constructed-built their own building to house HI evangelistic activities. Truly, every God’s work is a success true and through.
If you my network members will remember, I likened my attendance to HI training (in Maui) as a “foretaste of heaven” in solitude with God. In this summit, I felt the same, as what Alex Lacson puts it, “if I died right after my HI Singapore training, I am sure I would go straight to heaven”. Truly, holy activities like this summit of disciples make one more Christlike. God bless Haggai, God bless the organizers, God bless us all. All praises be to the Father. (JSF Blogs)
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