August 31, 2024

 

Dear Friends in the Lord,

 

Peace! 

 

With hope and joy, we wish to announce that the Christian Life Community National Assembly 2025 will take place one year from now on August 22-25, 2025 (Friday to Monday). 

 

This gathering will be a wonderful opportunity for us all to come together again, share reflections and insights, and strengthen our community.

 

We are writing this early so that all participants will have enough time to save the dates, schedule their travel, and prepare for this important gathering at a place just outside Metro Manila. The exact venue will be announced later 

For this initial communication, we would like to inform our communities of the following:

 

1. Membership Status - We would like to invite all the following communities to please start your discernment for a change in membership status:

2. Emerging communities who desire to apply to become an Observer community.

3. Observer communities who desire to apply to become a Full Member community.

Details can be found in our membership guidelines.Membership Guidelines (bklet).pdf

Please communicate with the CLCP Secretariat ([email protected]) to indicate your community’s desire to apply to become an Observer or Full member community even at this early stage. The Community Development and Formation Teams can support you in your discernment process.

2. Amendment of Statutes – The World Community is currently undergoing a revision of our General Principles and General Norms as approved by the 2023 General Assembly in Amiens. As such, the preference of the nLC is to amend the National Statutes only after the revision of the GP/GN. However, if your community has a proposal for the amendment of our National Statutes, you may send them to the CLCP Secretariat for consideration.  CLCP Statutes (as of NA '19).pdf

3. LC Election – The official call for nominations for the nLC will be communicated in a subsequent communication. However, we would like to already encourage all FULL MEMBER communities with MEMBERS with PERMANENT COMMITMENT to begin the DSSE (Discerning, Sending, Supporting, Evaluating) process to consider whom they will mission to be available to serve in the nLC for the next three (3) years;

4. Nominations for the Core of Responsibles (CORE): The nLC would like to request nominees from our communities for the CORE. From section F of the Statutes, “The CORE shall serve as a consultative body whose principal functions shall be to provide historical perspective, counsel, and guidance to the Leadership Community and the general membership of the CLCP; help in the preservation of the life giving traditions of the CLCP and the maintenance of fidelity to the vision, mission and charism of the CLC; and in general, serve as an invaluable resource for the CLCP in its formation, membership, funding, apostolate and other activities.”

• The criteria to become a member of the Core is as follows:

• a permanent commitment in writing to the CLC Way of Life;

• at least ten (10) years of active membership in the CLCP;

• consistent service to the CLCP; and,

• experience in or exposure to international CLC activities (i.e. awareness of membership in the global community)

Please submit nominees for the CORE to the nLC through the Secretariat before 1 April 2025;

5. Delegates/Representatives - You may start discussing and praying with your community as to who is to be selected as thedelegate/s and/or the representative/s to the NA.  It is important to remember that delegate/s should go through the discernment process together with their respective communities and take part in all the preparatory modules and activities leading up to the assembly. 

As a reminder:

• The following are REQUIRED to attend the NA:

• FULL MEMBER communities, represented by two (2) delegates for the entire Assembly;

• OBSERVER communities applying for FULL MEMBER status, represented by two (2) delegates for the entire Assembly;

• EMERGING communities applying for OBSERVER community status by at least one (1) delegate for the entire Assembly

• National LC Members and National EA (Ecclesiastical Assistant);

• The following are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to attend the NA:

• Regional EAs

• Group Guides

• CORE Members

• Nominees for National Leadership Community;

• The following are ENCOURAGED to attend the NA:

• OBSERVER and EMERGING communities, represented by at least one (1) delegate (NOTE: delegates participate in deliberations but may not vote)

• Regional LC members;

6. Finally, we are attaching the Grace from the 2022 National Assembly 2022 NA Final Grace.pdf and the Amiens document  Final Document Amiens 2023.pdf as reference, as we discern the Christ’s call for the next term and the Grace that we will need to answer that call. 

Thank you very much. May God bless our  CLCP community and all our members. 

In behalf of theNational Leadership Community

 

Rose Linda O. Bautista

 

 National President