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Brotherhood way of life
Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that holy things
have taken;
let ears that now heard Your songs to clamor never waken
Lord, may the tongues which "Holy" sang keep
free from all deceiving;
the eyes which saw Your love be bright, the glorious hope perceiving
The feet that tread
Your holy courts from light be never banished;
the bodies by Your Body fed, be with new life replenished.
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HISTORY
THE BROTHERHOOD BEGINNINGS
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The Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals
can trace its beginnings to the Ang Ligaya ng Panginoon Covenant Community as well as to the community movement and Charismatic
Renewal from which it sprang.
The Ang Ligaya ng Panginoon was established in 1975 by members of a Charismatic prayer
group meeting at Assumption College in Makati. Ligaya has grown to be one of the most successful communities. |
In order to bring the Gospel message to other sectors of
society and out of a desire to share its community spirituality with more and more people, Ligaya established several renewal
ministries and evangelistic movements. One of these movements is the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals.
Thus, in July 1980, 24 men met at the Makati Sports Club
in what was to be the first Men's Breakfast of the soon-to-be Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen & Professionals. The
initial breakfast flourished with more and more businessmen and professionals attending. This signalled the start of the first
Life in the Spirit Seminar, the forerunner of the present Brotherhood Christian Life Program (BCLP).
In a span of two years, the first BCBP chapter was established
right from where it all started, Makati. By 1984 the fledging organization split into two chapters with the boundary being
the Pasig River. The North Chapter was based in Greenhills, San Juan, the South Chapter remained based in Makati. With this
milestone, the BCBP continued to spread its wings the following years with Alabang, south of Metro Manila bein established,
followed by Dagupan up in the northwestern Luzon region in 1986. There was no stopping in the expansion of BCBP from thereon.
Several business hubs in Metro Manila cities and municipalities later on found their birth in the BCBP movement.
At the beginning of 1988, BCBP found its way into the business
centers of central Philippines, this time conquering Cebu City, Bacolod City and Puerto Princesa City. Cebu Chapter later
on ventured into its neighboring provinces and further down south of the country to open new chapters in Mindanao, with Cagayan
de Oro City as its initial take off point.
To date, the BCBP can be found in 86 strategic business
centers nationwide covering 37 provinces and 38 dioceses. There are 41 full chapters and 45 outreaches awaiting to be installed
as full chapters. In addition, consistent with its calling to evangelize the marketplace, BCBP has opened several corporate
evangelization communities in different business establishments, Coca-Cola, Dutch Boy, Phils., Files Systems Inc., Phinma,
Mapecon Phils., MZB Mktg, Silay City Gov't., Victorias Milling Co., are among those which have benefited in the conduct of
BCLP's and other growth programs through the efforts of the various BCBP chapters' mission teams.
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REGISTRATION AND
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The BCBP is also an active member of the Federation of Transparochial
Charismatic Communities, a conglomeration of renewal communities organized and under the supervision of the Archdiocese of
Manila, and LAIKO; Laity of the Philippines.
As a foundation, the Brotherhood is a registered non-stock,
non-profit corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as being a registered Donee with the Bureau of
Internal Revenue.
THE BCBP LOGO
The logo of the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals
captures the very essence of the organization.
The Cross in the middle of the logo symbolizes Christ, who
is the heart of the Brotherhood. Christian tenets and values are central to all endeavours of the organization. The arm of
the Cross - indeed, Christ's outstretched arms, welcome all who come under His salvation and love.
It symbolizes, too,
the mission of the group to increase its members by evangelization.
The twin figures on the logo's foreground are the two active
groups of the Brotherhood - businessmen and professionals. They are bent in adoration, typifying the Brotherhood's acceptance
of Christ as Master and Redeemer.
Finally, enveloping all the elements of the logo is a circle.
It represents the unity of the Brotherhood - one in purpose, one in spirit, one in Christ.
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