Kaibigans Share Stories at TEE Opening Night

Frankie Libre, former street dweller, tells of the changes in his
life resulting from having come to know the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Former street dweller Nida Charcos  (left) shares her testimony, with  Angelito Gabriel, executive officer of CCT Inc.,
serving as translator. 

Frankie Libre and Nida Charcos, former street dwellers, shared the stories of their changed lives during opening night of the third Transformative Economic Empowerment (TEE), an international training session for micro finance workers.  The TEE attendees are from Peru, India, Moldova, Zambia, Kenya, Sri Lanka Thailand, Uganda, and the US.

Frankie told of life on the street, his having to steal to survive,  his being involved with drugs, and of coming to know the Lord Jesus Christ through the Kaibigan Ministry (KM) of the Center for Community Transformation (CCT).  Frankie is now a worker with the KM himself. 

Nida, who was homeless and lived on the streets with her daughters for three months, spoke of God’s goodness to her by providing her with a steady job as one of the service staff at the CCT support office.  She said she will soon be a homeowner because her application for housing assistance was approved by Pag-Ibig, the government’s home development fund. (Read her full story here:  http://cctkaibigan.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-nida-charcos-story.html).   

The Kaibigan Ministry has ministered to street dwellers since 2005.  The work, which began with street side Bible studies and feeding sessions, has grown into several programs and services that  include evangelism, discipleship, and counselling,  skills training and job placement, family reunification, children’s education, resettlement, access to social services, and membership in a cooperative composed mainly of former street dwellers.   

TEE is a joint activity of CCT and the Ka-Partner network, a consortium of US-based organizations ministering to the poor.  The founding members of the network are endPoverty, Five Talents, Hope International, and Peer Servants.  The training session allows the sharing of CCT’s best practices and stories, benefitting the poor of other nations.   The theme of this gathering, held during the third week of October 2013, was leadership and vision, and spiritual integration in micro finance.