We published Fit2Train: A resource handbook for training and facilitators for you members of this learning and serving community. You are its heart and soul, something we learned all over again last month when you took part in the learning review or evaluation of ACDA. For those of you who work with communities as organizers, [...]

The Alliance of Christian Development Agencies (ACDA) is now on its 11th year of operation. Through the years, we have implemented our Alliance and Partnership Building, Community Transformation and Community Advocacy Programs. This year, we added Resource Mobilization as a program to ensure our sustainability after our funding from Baptist World Aid Australia (BWAA) ends [...]

Keeping the Focus By Edwin Estioko for Compassion International In an overly crowded squatter colony known to harbor pimps, prostitutes and drug pushers, a young lady stands out to prove that in her life, the difference is Jesus. She is Charmaine Buenaventura, 18 years old, a registered child at Capitol City Alliance Church (CCAC) student [...]

ACDA Member Organizations Collaborate  for a Meaningful Commemoration of Anti-Poverty Day The Millennium Development Goals is what UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon refer to as the “blueprint to help the most vulnerable and most poorest people, to lift them out of poverty.” In most parts of the world, governments and civil society groups will celebrate [...]

ACDA General Assembly August 18, 2010 Compassion International E & L Bldg., 99 Don A. Roces Ave. Quezon City 1103, Philippines “Learning and Serving Together” is ACDA’s one-liner. It captures what we are about and want to do together as an alliance. It implies sharing, exchanging, giving, receiving and being present for others. This report [...]

ACDA 10th Anniversary Celebration October 22, 2009 Tahanan ng Alumni UP Diliman, Quezon City By God’s grace, ACDA has survived the first ten years of its life as an alliance of development organizations.  It is now in the threshold of more exciting discoveries.  Thus, our thanksgiving is two-fold:  thanking the Lord for the decade that [...]

ACDA has launched their latest book entitled ‘Altered Tapestry’. This book project was no ordinary task.  Putting together the stories in itself was a transforming experience of weaving true-to-life tales of miracles big and small.  As stories came in one by one, threads of lessons entwined by strands of joy and pain came together on [...]

ACDA General Assembly August 28, 2009 Asian Theological Seminary 54 Scout Madriñan Street South Triangle, Quezon City “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their work “ Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. This is one of the key passages in the Bible that describe God’s design  for us as inter-dependent beings  and  His [...]

Jumpstarting the dream of building a cultural village? “We just had to start believing that the tribal people can,” these were the words of Beng Bicaldo, Executive Director of Tribal Missions Foundation International (TMFI) about the capacity of the Matigsalug Manobo tribe to develop their own functional literacy curriculum for their children. “Oo mahirap! (Yes, [...]

The Case of Share An Opportunity “Learning and serving together” is ACDA’s vision for a community that reflects and acts together as we participate in the work of transformation. As a learning community, we hope to become a community of practice that drives innovation, promotes the spread of best practices, and stirs up knowledge sharing, [...]