The Pastoral Training Course (PTC) 11th Annual Ministers’ Conference with a theme ‘Recognizing & Overcoming the Challenges in the Life of a Minister’ was held PTC Center in Paenaan, San Jose, Antipolo City, Rizal from March 22-25, 2011.
Topics
Coping up with lack of income, lingering illness, and death of love ones; Overcoming poverty, educational deficiency, and disability; Keeping family relations and responsibilities. Two messages were preached, Jesus: the Adversity-tested Savior, and Jesus: the Master Enabler.
Speakers and Leaders
Mariano Apilado, the former President of Union Theological Seminary. All the rest are members of the PTC Training Team. Among them are Arman Aspa, Jeff Taclas, Miguel Pabilonia, Andres Navarra, Rudy Rabe, Joseph Arellano, Noel de la Cruz, and Paul Caampued.
Delegates
There were 38 delegates coming from different parts of the Philippines. Thirty three of them were men and 5 women.
The conference started in the afternoon with a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the first time that PTC Center is used as a venue of the Annual Ministers Conference. Arcy Caampued and Arlene Aspa did the honors of cutting the ribbon. The conference ended with an approved proposition from the delegates that PTC be declared a ‘family’. The move was one of the results of the long term relationship building through 11 years between the PTC Team members and the delegates as we learn and study God’s Word.
Feedback from the Delegates
“The topics are very relevant and timely’; ‘everybody can relate with the topics’; the topics are about daily life experiences of the delegates.”
“The teaching materials were thoroughly biblical…the written materials were well research with accompanying statistics.”
“They are perfectly related to the topics…they point to the centrality of Jesus Christ.”
“They show competence and mastery of their topics except for 1 or 2 of them…they handled their topics with seriousness and confidence.”
Some Personal Comments
“The topics, messages and lectures are so motivating and educating; the food is great as well as the accommodation” (Julius Cacalda).
“To be very frank, I’m really blessed with the PTC conference. The topics were very relevant to the present situation. The speakers are confident and well prepared” (Marcelito Cagud).
“I was so blessed, it was beyond my expectations; you met the needs of the delegates” (Larry Castro).
