athrio's posts with tag: chipmunchkinz
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Bangkok, Thailand
October 2007
©Larry Monserate Piojo |
| | Thanks to Sir Miguel Vecin of Digiprint, Digital Photographer Phils., and Bella Luce Studio!
Miss Belize, Miss Brazil, Miss Canada, Miss Czech Republic, Miss Latvia, Miss Mexico, Miss Switzerland, and Miss Turks & Caicos. |
| | Portraits of children we came across during a trek to Mt. Gulugod in Mabini, Batangas on the 14th of July 2007. Somehow while I was there, made me wonder how these kids are going to keep up with other kids who live in the city, playing video games, hanging out in the malls, wearing good stuff, eating good stuff... etc. so I wondered, how are they going to keep up... |
| | August 18, 2007. My cousin Sheila's wedding...
Jun and Sheila Constantino Wedding Day. My first try ever on wedding photography... not a pre-wedding, but rather a post-wedding photography =D
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| | The Children of Sampaloc
Sampaloc Bible Church
Sampaloc, Manila
August 11, 2007
A SHORT BACKGROUNDER on SBC's Street Children Ministry by Pastor Dave.
You may walk around that Lerma street and look for a church building and have difficulty finding the "church."
Sampaloc Bible Church (SBC) is not a cathedral if you're looking for one.
It's more of an urban-based ministry center that looks like more of an old run-down pasilyo. Actually, we are renting the place and we used to run a canteen and a ladies' dormitory. Now we converted all those spaces to minister to children and even the poor mothers. So don't be surprised... this is not your regular Sunday church.
In the late 80's we started the street children ministry. Before it was just a feeding program and a drop-in center. Later on as funds were available, the church decided to minister to these kids wholistically- housing them, feeding them, sending them to school and providing spiritual guidance to them. We established a foundation (Saganang Buhay kay Cristo Foundation) which was accredited by DSWD.
We have kids in the shelter who have actually reached college levels and we have had a couple of graduates and some actually became full-time Christian workers! What a privilege to be involved in the lives of these kids!
These past couple of years have been tough. The support coming from international sources have ended and the church had to assume support for the ministry almost 100%. Unfortunately we had to gradually reduce the number of our children from over 30 to now 15.
We have organized these EBs for a number of reasons:
* introduce you to our ministry
* have fellowship with the kids
* discover people who are willing to support the kids
* fuel our passion both in photography and in our social concerns
Thank you Pastor Dave for that blessed opportunity. Thank you fellow DPPers (Digital Photographer Philippines)! Aren't we glad that we were able to make these kids happy? Most of these kids didn't get anything 'special' from us. But by just being there, taking their photos, having them look at their smiling faces in our cameras LCDs, meant 'something' for them. They were happy. We made them happy. So...true enough, great joys are brought about by simple things...
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| | I don't just take photographs of people, I make sure I capture their story, their emotions, and even their lives. Each person has a story to tell but have no means or not even have a simple chance to share them to the world, and its my job to help them deliver their messages. Heartfelt photographs deliver messages ten times faster than FedEx... these are some of the most unforgetable people I met, knew, and touched my heart, people who somehow shared their life stories, their emotions... people I met in this photographic journey.
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