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OF A CALLReference: Grigg, V. Companion to the. Poor. GA, USA. Authentic Media in partnership with World Vision. I STEPPED OVER A MUD PUDDLE, ducked beneath a. Tatalon on three sides. I had searched, confused, for fifteen minutes among. I saw the line of.
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I stepped through a. Two girls in patched dresses, their black hair.
Washing clothes in large. One looked up to see my fair skin and beard. I put my bucket hesitantly at the end of the line. With Filipino. hospitality, they motioned me - a stranger and a white person - to the front of. One of the men worked the long handle up and down for me with great. Since, it was my first time at the pump, I accepted the offer of help. I. wanted to preach the gospel to the poor, also.
We talked and joked until my bucket was full. Sloshing water over my. I searched again for the paths back to my rented quarter of a squatter. Children looked at me shyly as I walked by. At. Aling Nena's home, I climbed the three steps up the eight- foot vertical ladder. More water sloshed down the ladder.
I put my bucket down with a. It was a good place to sit and. I thought back to the night before. A typhoon. had come with the fury of the gods. The rain of sleet and the sound of. I had been battling about of fever.
I had returned the jeep and retraced the way to. My first night as a. Tatalon was the culmination of years of dreaming and. I was dizzy, weary, and sick. It was as if all the forces of.
Manila. But I knew God wanted me there. Even this room was a sign of his.
Three weeks ago, I had written this prayer in my. They need, to be upstairs so that I might. September the third. Embarrassed at the poverty of her empty upstairs room, she. Her niece could move. I knew this was the answer to my prayer: a quieter, upstairs. An answer to prayer in a long series of answered.
Twenty years earlier, with the intensity of a vision, I had seen my. It was a call directly from my Maker: to live. As I. looked back on the journey that had brought me to Tatalon, even with the storm. I knew I was home. I had replaced. the boards that covered the entrance to my room. Finding a match and candle, I. Three windows would give me a breeze.
Lights flickered in windows throughout. I gave thanks for the guava tree that grew outside my. In the midst of a treeless expanse of plywood, rusted iron, cardboard. God in the months to come. Out of the. darkness: As I prayed into the dark hours of that first. Tatalon, I wondered what the next steps would be.
How do. you bring a whole city to the light? How can you rescue three million. Suddenly, a beautiful gold and white creature scurried along some. It was a well- fed rat, sleek and. I watched silently, intrigued and curious, as he made his way. The cross of Christ was made of the same rough. Within the inner recesses of my.
God seemed to be speaking- directly, personally: Carry My Cross. It is an instrument of death. You must die to yourself in order to be a. For unless a grain of wheat falls into the. If it dies, it bears much fruit. This cross commands absolute authority over. Preach the cross!
In it is the Salvation of this. In it alone is their hope. Remember, it is a rugged cross.
Do not return to. Take up my cross and follow in my footsteps, for. I too chose poverty. The next evening, a seven- year- old girl came. He died a year ago now. I wasn’t sure of the correct response. About fifteen relatives were kneeling in front of the makeshift.
An old lady chanted to the saints and icons that were laid out - which. Virgin Mary. She was a professional chanter. The. others joined in at appropriate times. Candles and other symbolic mementos. I sat quietly and listened, trying to. At the end, they asked if I would say something. In halting. Tagalog, I read the story of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 1.
It was the. first . They listened politely in. A poor, gambling. Priest to attend. As they listened reverently to the words of the. Bible, I rejoiced.
The Rugged Cross had come to Tatalon! Afterwards, I stayed for a snack of pancit. Chinese noodles), sandwiches and a cup of coffee, enjoying their. Aling Nena had been one of the original.
Tatalon. Twenty- five years ago, she had lived right on the banks. As time went on, the first squatters rented out rooms in their. This provided a reasonable source of income. Those. in the upper quarters of a house usually rented rooms from the owners who.
Aling Nena was one of a clan, an extended family of about. She was also the chief gambler.
Aling Nena was deeply honored to. Through Aling Nena, many gamblers heard of the Cross of Jesus Christ. Metro- Manila: Aling Nena's house in Tatalon was not my first. Manila. Years earlier, I had stepped off the plane for the first time. Friends had welcomed me as. It took two hours to travel through the twenty miles of towns and. Manila. Metro- Manila consists of four cities and thirteen.
The heat and the smell hit me as we crossed the. Fuming buses crazily raced against each. We passed by the rich mansions of Makati - the. Behind high brick walls, palm trees. Half- built concrete structures, towering office blocks. The houses decreased in size as we drove through. Caloocan and moved down a side road into the town of.
Valenzuela. Finally, we were out into one of the middle- class subdivisions. A. driveway led to a beautiful Spanish- American style mansion behind a concrete. Manila is a mosaic of different cultures. Four. hundred years before, Spanish had conquered this archipelago of 7. South China Sea and named it after their reigning monarch. King Philip. The Malay peoples dwelling there were scattered around the.
Arab traders had. Islam. Behind the Spanish sword, marched the Spanish cross of Catholicism.
Others were. leaders in exploiting the people. In 1. 89. 8, The Filipinos threw off the Spanish. Americans in 1. 90. Along with educational. Americans opened the door for a new wave. The first Filipino believers were stoned to. At times, Bibles were burned.
Nevertheless, thousands responded to the. Christ from the old bondage of animism.
Catholicism. Today, however, 8. Population remained. Catholic- animist. The culture and even the modes of speech are deeply.
Virgin Mary, and God himself. Like other urban centers in Asia, Manila has. The barangay that was an Arab and Chinese.
Spanish Fort Santiago in Manila and later the center. American- Japanese warfare. Today the original center is surrounded by the.
Metro- Manilans, some enjoying their. One of the cities, Quezon City, is the center of. Filipinos. Manila City itself is. Chinese businesses, import- export businesses, street- hawkers, and. The density of Metro Manila. Thousands of gaily- deco. Rice, corn, cassava, sugar, bananas, and pineapple grow readily.
The. country exports coconut oil, clothing, electrical equipment, metal ores, fruit. The forests are rapidly destroyed, leading. Minerals are also rapidly being exploited. Muslim rebels in the south and a growing New. People's Army of Marxist guerillas in a number of provinces pose a constant.
President Corazon Aquino. The country, essentially ruled by 4.
US$5. 90 per person (compare. Australia US$1. 0,9. New Zealand US$8,2. USA US$1. 6,6. 90.
The poor are very. Yet life expectancy is relatively high (6. American emphasis on.
Of the total. population, about half are below 1. The population of this. Manila is a highly educated society with over one million students. The country has an overall literacy rate of 8. Manila's rivers. are filled with gaseous effluents emanating from thousands of uncontrolled. And against the backdrop of a modern city skyline, hundreds of.
Yet even man cannot destroy all of God's beauty. Outlying. suburbs on rolling hills twenty miles from the center of the city enjoy.
Above all, the Filipino soul, with its capacity. Even the poorest of the poor dreamt of moving into. God, friends. fate, Virgin, saints and spirits will be favorable. Among the specters of poverty, few can match the endless spreading. Two. Earlier this. European cities were growing, nations were able to cope with. Two- Thirds World resources.
Migrants swell. the ranks of the under- employed and unemployed. New urbanites adjust to their.
SOME. CITIES IN ASIA 3(Population in millions). Seoul.......................... Calcutta........................ Bombay......................... Manila..........................
Jakarta.......................... Delhi........................... Shanghai........................ Karachi..........................
Beijing.......................... Taipei...........................
Hong Kong........................ Bangkok......................... Madras..........................
The number of Asian cities with a population of. In most of these mega- cities the slum population will grow. For example, when the slum population of Manila. Industry, dominated by transnational companies. The government bureaucracies administrating the expanding social services are. So instead of a hierarchy of urban centres. Tatalon: a slum of hope.
The physical characteristics and culture of each. Yet the process that generates them and the resulting.
Two- Thirds World countries. We may consider two kinds of slums: (a).
Inner city slums: Inner cities have decaying tenements and houses. Lloyd describes. these areas as . Here, too, are recent immigrants who have. In such an atmosphere of despair and.
It appeared more Strategic to work in the second kind of. Peripheral shanty towns: Spontaneous communities built around massive. Yet here, too, are. The shanty town of Tatalon in Manila. World War II. At one point the Spanish propagated a law regarding the need. Since the peasants knew little Spanish, they were.
Those families. close to the Spaniards utilized the law for their own ends. Eventually, just a. Manila in vast tracts. One of these families was that of J. Despite a total absence of facilities and services, provincial. Metro- Manila areas found the unoccupied land of Tatalon an ideal site for establishing a foothold in the big city. Social unrest began gripping the area, almost.