Five Days Before Balay Mindanaw’s 18th Today’s space of this reflection series gives way to a piece written by Lina Sagaral-Reyes for our 5th Anniversary.… Read More »Kaloy on BM@18: Balay Mindanaw’s founding Chair, Ibing Sylvia Okinlay-Paraguya, and Vice Chair, the late Rey Magno Teves during our first strategic planning session in 1996.

In a way, a life-changing desert experience became the starting point of this journey. I consider that painful episode as serendipitous since it actually helped… Read More »Kaloy: Six days before Balay Mindanaw’s 18th

May 1, Labor Day, is also the feast day for St. Joseph, the worker, the patron saint of our village. It has been a long… Read More »Kaloy: Seven days before Balay Mindanaw’s 18th

Yesterday, nine days before our 18th Anniversary, I began this reflection series. Yesterday, I retraced and revisited some of the most significant events, places, people… Read More »Kaloy: Eight days before Balay Mindanaw ‘s 18th:

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. From A Future Not Our Own by… Read More »Kaloy: Nine days before Balay Mindanaw’s 18th…