For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. Hebrews 8:7, NIV We only emphasize that Christian life we are in is not based on another form of religious ritual but on a covenant. The question is what type of covenant are you in? Is it a covenant of religion or a covenant of love? It should be a covenant of love. Love is a person and that is God (see 1 John 4:16). The covenant we are in is a covenant based on who He is and not on who we are. It's based on what He has done and not on what we have done. When you sign an agreement form, you understand what type of covenant or agreement you are signing in. And this is the reason why still many Christians missed the true essence of Christianity. It's because they don't understand the covenant they are in. In result, many are so called Christians are still living a life like they don't have Christ. There's no real transformation happened. They think Christian...
Some of the nation’s largest conglomerates and other big corporations are putting together over P1.5 billion to fund the distribution of grocery vouchers to urban poor residents in and around Metro Manila.
The collaboration of big business, in cooperation with the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) , is dubbed “Project Ugnayan.”
Guillermo Luz, the project’s spokesperson and PDRF chief resilience officer, said the group will distribute P1,000 gift certificates to over a million households in the Metro Manila area affected by the ongoing Enhanced Community Quarantine.
Gift certificates will be delivered door to door to comply with social distancing guidelines. They can be used to purchase food items from accessible groceries and supermarkets.
The group will work initially with Caritas Manila’s Project Damayan and ABS CBN’s Pantawid ng Pag-ibig program for the door to door distribution, already ongoing in four pilot areas.
Among the business groups supporting Project Ugnayan are, in alphabetical order, the Aboitiz Group, ABS-CBN/Lopez Group, Alliance Global/Megaworld, AY Foundation and RCBC, Ayala Corporation, Caritas Manila, Century Pacific, Concepcion Industrial Corp, DMCI, ICTSI, Jollibee, Leonio Group, Metrobank/GT Capital, Nutri-Asia, Oishi/Liwayway Marketing Group PDRF, PLDT/Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Robinsons/Gokongwei Group (parent company of Esquire Philippines), Puregold, San Miguel Corporation, SM/BDO, and Suyen Corp.
More companies are expected to come on board soon. .
Fr. Anton C. Pascual, Executive Director of Caritas Manila said, “We are grateful for the support of the business community and hope that this initiative will inspire more acts of kindness in this time of crisis. Now is the time for our communities to help as one.”
Source: Esquire