Friday, May 18, 2012

Report Consolidation Training for ASLs Held

(Facing camera, left to right) Jane Grio, Laguna ASL; Ruthie Monterde, NCR North District 1 ASL;
 Philip Agot, Rizal District 3 ASL; Joan Tenzo, Rizal District 1 ASL (partially hidden);
 Ronnie Furio, CAMANAVA ASL (with back to camera).

Luzon area servant leaders (ASLs) working in the microfinance program of the Center for Community Transformation recently received training on how to consolidate reports from the branches they oversee. 

The trainers were Mark Hammill Rulona, CCT Credit Cooperative general accountant, and Crispin Manabat, MIS senior officer. 

Mark walked the ASLs through the use of the revised trial balance consolidation template while Crispin did the same for MIS reporting.  

In the CCT organizational structure, an area servant leader is the equivalent of an area manager in other microfinance institutions.  Each ASL oversees four or five branches  with a total of 120 to 160 fellowships or groups . Most  fellowships have an average of 20 active members or loan recipients, also referred to as community partners in CCT lingo.  

Reports from the areas on loan collections, savings build up,  insurance,  service fees, and other daily collections are consolidated and reported to the support office at the end of each month.  Malou Hipolito, MIS officer, said this training will improve the speed and efficiency of financial reporting in the program. "This is also in preparation for a web-based reporting system currently being tested and that will soon be put in place," Malou added. 


Crispin Manabat, MIS senior officer

Hermie Salvador, ASL for NCR South District 2
Left to right: Joseph Karunungan, Cavite District 2
ASL; Analyn Cantabaco, Cavite District 1 ASL;
Ginna Prejoles, NCR South District 1 ASL.
Photos by  Ciara  Tan

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

CCT Trains International Microfinance Workers



Eleven microfinance practitioners and volunteers from Sri Lanka, Uganda, South Africa, and the United States were in the Philippines in  April to attend  a training program jointly sponsored and organized by CCT and  Peer Servants, a US-based Christian organization. The trainees attended lectures on Growing and Multiplying Healthy Branches and learned effective microfinance practices firsthand  when they went into the communities to observe how community relationship builders work and to interview recipients of microfinance services. 

 “By God’s grace we have been entrusted with the stewardship of sharing our learning and microfinance experience with younger microfinance institutions,” says Beth Venegas, Peer Servant - General Management of the CCT Training and Development Institute which facilitated the week-long program.

CCT established partnership with Peer Servants in 2008. Ruth Callanta, CCT president and founder, says, "Praise the Lord for this opportunity to be of service to brothers and sisters in the Lord who share our vision for economic and spiritual transformation of the poor."


For information on the CCT Group of Ministries, its programs and target beneficiaries,  please visit  www.cct.org.ph/new/.



Thursday, May 10, 2012

CCT Visayas Staff Attend Wholeness Seminar


Dr. Violeta Bautista, life coach 
and leading Filipino psychotherapist,  
wholeness workshop main facilitator.
Part of the work of CCT staff in the communities involves carrying on Jesus original mission of "healing the brokenhearted and binding up their wounds." About 30 staff members from CCT Credit Cooperative branches in the Visayas recently attended a workshop meant to enhance their comfort and competency in leading people they serve toward wholeness.  Journey toward Wholeness: A Training Program on Wholeness Facilitation for CCT Staff was led by Dr. Violeta 'Bolet' Bautista of the Care and Counsel Wholeness Center (CCWC) (http://www.careandcounsel.com/).  Attendees were from different levels of the organization such as pastors,  regional peer servants, area servant leaders, team servants, and covenant community builders. 

Dr. Bolet was assisted by Dr. Annabel Manalo, current head of the counseling department of the Asian Theological Seminary;  Cristabel Fagela-Tiangco, instructor at the University of the Philippines Extension Program in Pampanga (UPEPP), Prof. Rosanne Echivarre, assistant professor at UPEPP; Johnrev Guilaran, psychology instructor at UP-Visayas; and Jeimae Hernandez, psychometrician at CCWC.

Biblical reflections were led by Lorenzo Bautista, professor at Asian Theological Seminary. 

 The five-day workshop will eventually be attended by CCT Credit Co-op staff across the country. The initial activity was held on April 25-29, 2012 at Cecille’s Pension House in Oton, Iloilo.




Prof. Rosanne Echivarre