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Official Newsletter of Teachers in Sandals Fellowship
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Official Newsletter of Teachers in Sandals Fellowship Last Quarter 2011
INSIDE: p2 God’s Plan by Bro Mel B Libre/p3 Teachers in Sandals Timeline/p4 Vatican Notes
BRO DENIS AND BRO ANDREW
CERTIFIED STUDENT TEACHERS
During the culminating activity of Teachers in Sandals Fellowship, Bros
Denis Tutaka and Andrew Quirke will be given formal recognition as the
first Certified Student Teachers (CST) of the ministry that aims to develop
the public speaking skills of Christian volunteers.
To be a CST, one has to deliver the five basic speech projects consisting of: Speech Project No 1 “I
Am”; Speech Project No 2 “I Believe”; Speech Project No 3 “I am Catholic”; Speech Project No 4
“My Favourite Bible Quote” and Speech Project No 5 “My Favourite Saint”. During the Teaching
Night: Recognition Affair, the two gentlemen will deliver one of their speech projects.
The activity will be held on Friday 11 November 2011 starting at 6pm in MacLaurin Chapel,
University of Auckland, Auckland City.
Other speakers during the Teaching Night are: Bro Jason Sharma (SP2); and Bro Darrow Benito
(SP3). Bro Jeff Asher will deliver funny anecdotes in Smilines, while Sis Melissa Kleyburg will
challenge the audience in BQQ (Bible Quotient Quiz). Bro Mel B Libre, founder of Teachers in
Sandals Fellowship, will evaluate the speakers.
Fr Sam Pulanco, Auckland Catholic Tertiary Chaplain, will give an overview of Teachers in Sandals
Fellowship, which has become one of the regular programmes of the chaplaincy.
Family, friends and supporters of the speakers are expected to attend the formal event that not only
recognises the new CSTs, but also hopes to interest non-members to join in the activities in 2012.
Teachers in Sandals Fellowship: God’s Plan
By Bro Mel B Libre
God plans out everything. All we need is to align
ourselves with Him, and He will direct us to what is
best of us, what is best for humanity, what is best
for His glory. „Teachers in Sandals Fellowship‟ is God‟s plan. He paved the
way for its formation; and led people to meet so His plan to
hammer out the mechanism towards its operation. When we
conducted Teaching Night among members of TawagAwit, the
only religious person who became its resource person was
Deacon Sam Pulanco.
I could not believe when three years after his sharing, I would meet him along Waterloo
Quadrant where he held office at Newman Hall, a block away from my work place in the
Auckland High Court. He was now the Auckland Catholic Tertiary Chaplain, and at that time
was conceptualising programmes to make his office more relevant and interesting to students.
I told him about Teaching Night and from thereon we easily came to agreement that it could
very well fall into his plans – thus was born Teachers in Sandals Fellowship.
Like any endeavour, the initial activities had difficulty in attendance, but God sends out His
Holy Angels to tell people of His plans. A core group simply gelled upon the guidance and
support of Fr Sam – and nine months from that fateful meeting, we are conducting our
Recognition Affair.
There are still many things to be done to achieve
the ministry‟s mission “to carry on the command
of Jesus Christ to spread the Gospel to all peoples
of the world.” There are still many people required
to help in fulfilling the goal; but what is important
is that we have planted the seed on good ground.
Surely, it shall bear fruits in God‟s own time.
This early we have seen the ministry‟s first fruits –
Bros Denis and Andrew. Let us shower them with
our love and our faith, for they have opened the
door for others to enter and follow. God bless
them, God bless us all.
Teachers in Sandals
Fellowship Timeline
2006-2007 Teaching Nights conducted periodically by TawagAwit led by Bro Mel B
Libre in St Mary‟s Northcote and St Thomas More Glenfield. One of the
resource persons was Deacon Sam Pulanco assigned in St Mary‟s
Northcote.
04 March 2011 Fr Sam Pulanco, newly appointed Auckland Catholic Tertiary Chaplain,
meet Bro Mel B Libre in Newman Hall. Both agree on the latter‟s offer to
conduct a programme to develop the public speaking skills of students
under in a ministry known as Teachers in Sandals Fellowship
18 March 2011 Orientation Meeting at the
Newman Hall, Waterloo
Quadrant, Auckland, New
Zealand.
08 April 2011 First Teaching Night
attended by 5 participants,
with two speakers, namely
Bro Darrow Benito and
Bro Andrew Quirke. Bro
Shawn Yap acted as
Programme Minister and
Bro Denis Tutaka was
quiz master. Bro Mel B
Libre was the evaluator.
30 May 2011 In the fourth Teaching Night attended by 9 participants, Sis Mel Kleyburg
became the first female member to deliver a speech in the ministry.
11 October 2011 Bro Denis Tutaka delivered Speech Project 5 “My Favourite Saint”,
becoming the first member to complete the five basic speech
projects and to qualify as Certified Student Teacher.
11 November 2011 Recognition Affair is held to recognise Bro Denis Tutaka as the first
CST and Bro Andrew Quirke who delivered Speech Project 5.
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TEACHERS IN SANDALS FELLOWSHIP Vision:
Dedicated volunteers spreading God’s
Word through teachings and through
example
Mission:
To carry on the command of Jesus
Christ to spread the Gospel to all
peoples of the world
Scriptural Guides:
“And thou shalt speak
unto him, and put
words in his mouth:
and I will be with
thy mouth, and
with his mouth,
and will teach
you what ye
shall do.”
(Exodus 4:15)
“Whom we preach,
warning every man,
and teaching every
man in all wisdom;
that we may present
every man perfect in
Christ Jesus”
(Colossians 1:28) NOW OPEN TO STUDENTS
November 2011 General Intention: That the Eastern Catholic Churches and their venerable
traditions may be known and esteemed as a spiritual treasure for the whole Church. Missionary
Intention: That the African continent may find strength in Christ to pursue justice and reconciliation
as set forth by the second Synod of African Bishops... Pope Benedict XVI prayed that a summit of the
leaders of countries with the world's largest
economies would find ways to overcome the
current economic crisis and promote real
development. At the end of his weekly general
audience Nov. 2, the pope issued a special appeal to the
leaders of the G-20 nations scheduled to meet Nov. 3-4 in
Cannes, France. "I hope the meeting will help overcome
the difficulties, which -- on a global level -- block the
promotion of an authentically human and integral
development," the pope said. The agenda for the Cannes
meeting aimed at finding ways to coordinate economic
policies to reduce global imbalances between rich and
poor; strengthening the regulation of financial markets; and promoting development in the world's
poorer countries despite the global crisis. The president of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi,
said he hoped leaders attending the G-20 would engage in an "intense spiritual" reflection and
"meditate" on the pope's appeal to promote the authentic development of the human person in today's
economies. "In my opinion, the pope is afraid these big meetings like the G-20 can lead to the
approval of exclusively economic exit strategies" without taking into account the spiritual and human
needs of the nations they lead, he said in an interview with the Italian news agency ANSA Nov. 2…
A holistic education of children and young people must include religious education in
accordance with the wishes of the children's parents, Pope Benedict XVI told Brazil's
new ambassador to the Vatican. The teaching of religion in public schools, "far from signifying
that the state assumes or imposes a specific religious creed, indicates a recognition of religion as a
necessary value for the holistic formation of the person," the pope said Oct. 31. Welcoming Almir
Franco de Sa Barbuda as Brazil's new ambassador, the pope said that when the Holy See and Brazil
signed an agreement in 2008 on allowing religious education in public schools, the motivation was
not to give Catholicism a special privilege, but to respond to the rights of parents to choose how their
children should be educated and to give Brazil a new generation of citizens formed with a sense of
morality and ethics.... Christians need to
offer migrants special care, ranging from
prayer and concrete aid to promoting
policies that uphold immigrants' rights
and dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Modern migration represents "an unprecedented
mingling of individuals and peoples, with new
problems not only from the human standpoint
but also from ethical, religious and spiritual
ones," he said. The influx of people from all
corners of the world offers new opportunities to
evangelize and to provide material and spiritual
care to those in need, he said. The pope made the
comments in a message on the theme of
"Migrations and New Evangelization" for the
World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2012.... Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed three saints
and said their lives demonstrated that true faith is charity in action. "These three new
saints allowed themselves to be transformed by divine charity," the pope said at a canonization Mass
in St. Peter's Square Oct. 23. "In different situations and with different gifts, they loved the Lord with
all their heart and they loved their neighbor as themselves, in such a way as to become models for all
believers," he said. All three founded religious orders in the 19th century, working in missionary areas
and on behalf of society's disadvantaged in Europe. The canonizations took place on World Mission
Sunday, and the pope said their witness showed that love is at the center of the missionary task. The
new saints were: St. Guido Maria Conforti, an Italian
who founded the Xaverian Foreign Missionary
Society, dedicated to the sole purpose of evangelizing
non-Christians. He sent missionaries to China in 1899
and personally traveled to China in 1928 to visit the
order's communities; St. Louis Guanella, the Italian
founder the Servants of Charity, the Daughters of St.
Mary of Providence, and the Confraternity of St.
Joseph, whose members pledge to pray for the sick
and dying, and St. Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro (photo
at left), a Spanish cordmaker in Salamanca who
gathered working women for spiritual encounters in
her house-shop. The group became the Servants of St.
Joseph, a congregation dedicated to providing a
religious and technical education to poor women and
protecting them in the workplace. (All items taken
from Catholic News Service)
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