Summer Conference 2022

August 19-28 , 2022

“A time to heal”

Disease and sickness are constant in the world. No matter where we look, it seems like there is too much pain and suffering, and it is not just COVID 19. Wounds we carry that no one can see with their eyes gets deeper with time or with present harsh realities. And it seems that everywhere the feeling of frustration, pain, and disconnection are intensified, growing inside and around us.
In this precise time, the Divine Spirit reaches out to nurture, support and push towards a health-giving community in spirit, mind and body.
It is time to plant (seeds of peace), time to build (bridges not walls), time to dance (hope), time to laugh, time to embrace, time to seek (Act), time to speak (raise our voice), time to hope, time to love, time to build peace with justice, a time to heal.
Taking as a guide the Children and Youth program from 2020, we will use its central line of study: Personal care, Community care and Earth care.

Main Speaker for our International Virtual Summer Conference of 2022 Henna Baclagon (Philippines)

Henna Baclagon was born in a Baptist family in a small village in the Southern part of Negros Occidental (Phillipines).

Henna studied BA Psychology at Central Philippine University. In the early 90’s she worked with the Australian Baptist World Aid-Support an Orphan. In 1996, when Henna volunteered with the CPBC (Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches) Development Ministries, she was challenged in this work where she was exposed to the areas within the scope of the DM in organizing cooperatives, livelihood associations, adult literacy and empowerment for the indigenous people in the mountains of Central Panay, advocacy works on social, environmental and health issues, provided trainings on sustainable agriculture, peace and conflict transformation, disaster risk and reduction management, disaster response-- considering that her country is visited by a minimum of 20 typhoons a year, 3-4 of which are disastrous, affecting always the marginalized sectors.

She moved on to become Project Assistant of CPBC-DM (Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches Development Ministries) in 2000 & Director in 2011. The CPBC-DM work covers the areas where the more than 900 CPBC churches are located, and it stretched from Luzon to Mindanao. “The Development Ministries plays a major role in translating our message of love and concern into concrete expressions, thereby strengthening the faith of our people in the One who has come so that all may have life in its fullness.”

“The DM (Development Ministries) work is where my passion began in serving the least of my sisters and brothers until my early retirement last April 30, 2022. I was blessed to have a daughter, Marianne Kaye, a nurse and working with The Department of Labor & Employment as Inspector and a student at the College of Law. She brought to our home another blessing, a son-in-law Kyle Patrick and grandkids Kylevin Marion, 8 and Malaya Kamille 5.”