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Local Coalition and Church Partners Learning and Growing Together |
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On June 17, representatives from FOCUS, YWAM Olongapo, RENEW Foundation, Philippine Children’s Ministry Network, World Vision Development Foundation, and Samaritana met to brainstorm further strengthening the national coalition, and how to engage, train, and mobilize the Church for involvement in the issues of trafficking and prostitution and care for survivors (one of the six main concerns identified by ministries around Asia involved in caring for victims of prostitution). As a concrete first step, the coalition hosted a workshop on Transformational Development at Samaritana on July 15. World Vision staff facilitated the training workshop for 44 excited ministry leaders, pastors, and women survivors representing 5 ministry organizations, 4 national networks, and 8 local churches. The workshop was an important opportunity for clarifying a Biblical framework for compassionate and empowering ministry among the poor, and for identifying and building relationships with existing and potential church partners. |
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| Samaritana began as an informal group of women friends sharing an apartment together along with their other friends…praying, visiting and befriending women in the bars of Manila in the late 1980’s, offering occasional hospitality in their home, and assisting several to go home to the province. In 1991, five of them began to meet more intentionally to pray, study what the Bible says about reaching out to women outcasts, and share the vision to churches in Quezon City.
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Read more... [How Samaritana Started]
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 VISION
Women in transformed communities becoming whole and free in Christ towards prostitution-free societies
MISSION
To build, model and empower communities that embrace vulnerable women and survivors of prostitution, enabling their transformation |
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