Dennis’ story continues to inspire me– his dedication to work, his family and most especially to his creator. He has no shame in sharing his story, a wonderful story of love and redemption.

So proud of my brother in Christ — Big Daddy Jake. Watch his video:

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Paulo Tibig is widely known as the ‘Entrep Champ’. He started V Cargo, one of the country’s leading logistics and cargo company today in his early 20s. He became a millionaire before and a multi-millionaire before 40. One of Paulo’s advocacies is to teach the young Entrepreneurship.

Jaret Garcia is a college & semi-professional basketball player, one time DJ of RX 93.1 and now the President of his own large printing business. Jaret started a business during his student days and started earning substantial income before reaching 20. He has accomplished much despite being in his 20s today because he has passion.

Jayson Lo was a very young businessman who engaged in many endeavors – restaurant, catering, gift items, marketing, direct-selling and many more. He was no stranger to high income at a young age. Through the many years of experience, Jayson Lo found the true purpose of wealth and is now passionate in teaching people real value beyond profit. Jayson is a veteran in the speaking arena specializing in communication, leadership and finance.

Randell Tiongson is an advocate of Life and Personal Finance. He is one of the country’s leading trainers in the arena of personal finance and also a columnist of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Moneysense. An active blogger, Randell has used many mediums to teach the Philippine society on the many factors of personal finance – money management, insurance, investments and the like.

Catch all of them at BLUE CHIP: Finance & Entrepreneurship Program for the Youth. If you are between 13 to 20 years old or you have a child who is of that age, enrolling them to Blue Chip is one of the best investments you can ever make. Your P2,500.00 investment has exponential unlimited return for the future.

The program will teach them the rudiments of personal finance and entrepreneurship through interactive lectures and real testimonies from the experiences of the speakers.

Hurry, limited slots left. Blue Chip runs only once a year. To register, email Jen Magalong atjcignacio.magalong@gmail.com or call her at 0939 117 7856

Learn from:

CARLO OPLE – The country’s leading expert on New Media, Social Media Marketing, On-Line Reputation Management. Carlo is currently the New Media Head of TV5 and has extensive Marketing experience from Level-Up & Friendster and has successfully undertaken successful marketing campaigns for many top brands and companies.

PAULO TIBIG – The Entrep Champ! He is the CEO of V Cargo, one of the largest cargo companies in the country. Paulo started to earn money as a student, moved into employment, established their business and became a certified millionaire before hitting 30. Paulo is an entrepreneurship advocate, speaker for Go Negosyo and many programs and the one of the most in-demand business speakers of the country today.

JARET GARCIA – Basket Ball Player turned Radio DJ turned Businessman. Jaret is the President of his own printing & marketing services company, Polygraphics. He started to be in business in his teens and has achieved many successful endeavors – and he is not even 30 yet! His company’s roster of clients include the leading brands today.

JAYSON LO – A young businessman that God called to serve His people. Jayson has extensive experiences in Multi-Level Marketing, Direct Selling & Food Business aside from being a popular trainer on business, money, leadership and communication. A veteran in the speaking arena & business, he is now a Pastor and continues to teach values & success to the work place today.

RANDELL TIONGSON – An advocate of Life & Personal Finance. He is one of the country’s preferred speaker & trainer in the area of personal finance & business. A director for the Registered Financial Planner Institute, columnists of the Philippine Daily Inquirer & Moneysense Magazine and a regular resource person for TV Programs in the leading Network. He has giving lectures in trainings in the leading corporations, public arenas and even in the international scene.

Catch them on May 4 & 5, 2011. Details in the e-poster attached.

**All the proceeds of this learning event will be blessed to the building fund of Victory Green Hills.

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I just came from a prayer meeting from my church at Victory Green Hills. We are on our 2^nd day of our annual prayer & fasting week. Fasting has always been one of those activities that I get anxious about because it really challenges my discipline and yet at the same time it is a time I experience a lot of breakthroughs.

Our prayer meetings have themes and tonight, the theme was about the youth. I was having second thoughts of attending tonight’s meeting since I am still ‘woozy’ from fasting, a bit dizzy and tired. My teen-aged daughters prevailed upon me since one of their close friends was to give a testimony. It was encouraging to see that our church is really reaching out and preparing the next generation by engaging them and discipling them. As a father, I am always concerned about the future of my children and I will do anything that I can to provide a good future for them. However, I must always realize the limitations of what I can do. No matter what we do, what lies for the future of our children is really beyond our control – regardless of how we think it can be so. The best thing we can really do is to teach them, train them, guide them and show them and provide an environment for them to experience what their true purpose is in life is.

During the prayer meeting, I listened to the testimony of a senior year high school student from Ateneo, Avram Francisco. He recalled how he had many of the usual issues of a typical teenager which revolves around self-centeredness, as many of us are. Through engagement by his relatives, Avram eventually got to know Christ and surrendered his life to Him. Story didn’t really turned out too great when he gave his life to Christ since he still had to deal with some more issues which he has not surrendered, as he narrated in his testimony. It took another encounter for him to realize what it really meant to be a disciple of Jesus and his life has never been the same twice. Avram now leads other students to Christ and has been passionate about the calling God impressed upon him – to live for others and to bring them to Christ. It is not only the teen aged youth he is leading, he also patiently leads a group of young boys – teaching them about Jesus and being a good Kuya to the kids. Avram’s story is merely the beginning and if he continues to put Christ in the center of his life, I am confident that many things are in store for this guy and I may just write about him again. Avram was also inspired into discipleship by a preaching of our Pastor Dennis Sy during their youth camp last summer. Our Pastor used the scripture from Jude 1:23 (NIV): “save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.”

This experience made me look back on my youth, on how lost and misguided I was. It took decades for me to finally knock some sense into my hard head and realize my true purpose in life: that of worship of the Lord. I wonder how my life would have turned out if I had a friend like the many youth I see at our church – engaging their friends and getting them to have a personal relationship with Christ.  I am pretty sure my life would have less of the many wrong decisions I made. But God has his ways and his will is always perfect; I have stopped questioning his ways and his timing so I am just assuming that it was God’s plan for me to get to know Him when I was 40 instead of 14 or so.

My wife and I are always thankful to the Lord that our children has also become disciples of Christ, otherwise I would probably already have a heart problem from worrying what they are up to all the time, haha!

We really need to get them young, help them get to know Christ at the earliest time possible. That’s the best thing we can do for the next generation.

Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. – Psalm 34:11, NIV

*photo by Larry Uy

This is the best value finance seminar you will ever find.

You’re invited to attend this finance seminar entitled, “Usapang Pera.” Two Thursdays (Nov.25 & Dec. 2, 2010) packed with great insights and learnings (on Cashflow Management, Budgeting, Savings, Investments, etc). Hurry! We only have limited slots available. You may register through Rica Monzon at 0917-5117796.