After Thailand...Next is Vietnam...

After a very successful round of seminars in Thailand through the support and help of generous hosts and benefactors; Maria VonRufli, Chel Jane and Most especially Fr. John of Mary Help of Christians Parish in Krungthep Krittha, Bangkok, we will be in Vietnam next week to spread financial literacy among our Intel Vietnam friends and Light of Jesus members out there.

The mission to spread financial literacy continues and this time it is in Vietnam. We are fired up to share our story and help many OFWs in Vietnam especially those Filipino expatriates at Intel to straighten out their finances and come up with their own financial blue print for a secured future. This time, our hosts will be two couples whom we love and we were one of their major sponsor in their wedding. Jo and Angelo Masicat Depante, and Celine and James Yap Mendoza.

I specially love doing this mission for married couples as this is directly in line with our call to mission on our marriage encounter community. We believe that one of the major issues be-facing couples are money matters. In fact more and more marriages in the Philippines and in the USA break up due to money issues. Some couples need to separate for one has to go abroad to earn more income. In the process, both or one of the partners succumbs to temptation. Sometime, the scenario is more severe and heartbreaking. The OFW, whether the male or female works hard for the money, and send back home to the family, including the extended family all the income. But the spouse who handles the finances does not know how to properly allocate and manage the funds to secure a stable and secured financial future, so when the OFW returns home, still no money to support the retirement and thus pressures the OFW to go back and work hard and far from their family again.

This is what we want to break. This is the call to mission that we have. And we in our own small way will do all we can to spend our time, treasures and talents to help corret this OFW maladies in their financial life. And we hope and pray that someday soon, instead of Filipinos going abroad to find a good job, it will be the other way around, and more Filipinos will be affluent, and achieve their financial dreams!

After Vietnam, it will be Singapore in June!

God bless us all! God be with our mission!