By Silay LSVP Community, Kalinga
One life. 4 young individuals responded to the call of a long-term (8-10 months) volunteer engagement in Silay Lasallian Volunteer Program (LSVP) community in the mountains of Kalinga, Philippines. They are the 25th batch of Lasallian volunteers who will commit their lives to a mutually-transformative experience. Before their deployment, the volunteers underwent a 2-week orientation-seminar which aimed to purify their intentions, build a sense of community, understand their part as Lasallian volunteers, and equip them with basic life support skills.
Live it. To culminate the orientation seminar, a commissioning ceremony was held together with the Brothers of the Lasallian Formation Center (LFC), Members of the Lasallian Partners Council, Lasallian Mission Services, and volunteers of LSVP Batch 24. By the end of the ceremony, the volunteers, in good faith, read their memoirs, “God who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is not to force the inclination of persons, willed to commit me entirely to (their personal commitment), God did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning. One Life. Live it. Volunteer! "
Volunteer! These young individuals, though coming from different backgrounds, chose to spend their time for the service of others. Truly, their hearts are in the peripheries.
Looking forward: The Lasallian Volunteer Program (LSVP) will be sharing volunteer stories every end of the month. May you find inspiration in these seemingly ordinary stories but done with extraordinary love.
