1. Worldwide Familia Mission Year Review
2015

2. Maayong Buntag and a Merry Christmas
Maayong Buntag and a Merry Christmas! From the bottom of our hearts we say „Thank you“ to you for acompanying us anew on our path this year! Together we continued our projects with the help of your support, prayers and encouragement. In this review we show you pictures of this year's projects and activities, and we hope that you enjoy with us the success God brought.

3. STEPS Teachers Seminar
January & February
STEPS Teachers Seminar

4. STEPS Teachers Seminar
Besides STEPS Preschool, Organic Gardening and Livelihood Projects we held a four-day seminar with workshops for five teachers & volunteers from different provinces of the Philippines. The main focus was on how to use our tried and proven methods in other schools and educational projects.

8. March - May Waste Management STEPS Summerschool
Mom´s Handicrafts Crochet Teaching
Health & Nutrition Seminar

9. Waste Management
Since March this year, Manny has been busy again as consultant to the moayor in the Waste Management Department.

12. S E T P
STEPS Program
During the Summer months we opened our classrooms to give free tutorials for children aged 2 – 7. The children from the poor neighborhood were mainly taught reading, writing, simple math, music and arts.

15. In our crochet project we are teaching not only adults, but also children and teens. During the summer months they have been able to produce many different creations which they were able to sell either in the Bellevue Resor in, their school or to family and friends.

18. Health & Nutrition Seminar
While the Steps children are being taught in their respective classrooms, the parents attended our health seminar with topics such as healthy nutrition, disease prevention, hygiene etc.

20. June Steps Summer School Graduation
NEW: STEPS Phonics & Spelling for Elementary Students
New STEPS Preschool Group
STEPS Parents Seminar

21. Beginning of June we celebrated the Summer School Graduation with over 40 children.

24. NEW: STEPS Phonics & Spelling for Elementary Students
In order to expand the STEPS program and ensure the reading progress of the children, In June we started to teach Phonics to 216 local primary school students, grades 1 - 3, from Doljo Elementary School. Daily we teach around 4 groups of appr. 10 students in an interactive Phonics computer program in our mission center. Just like in our STEPS preschool program we involve the parents in order to generate a greater awareness, support and interest.

29. December 17 Update: As of now, over 60 of the 216 children successfully graduated from the course and started a Math computer course.

30. New STEPS Preschool Group & Parents Seminar
Mid June we started teaching 60 new preschoolers in our STEPS Preschool Program.
As usual, we include the parents in the schooling program to ensure its progress. In our workshops they learn the teaching methods which they are expected to use at home with their own children. "School starts at home“!
We keep the school groups small to provide individualized, quality teaching.

35. STEPS Activities STEPS Parents Seminar Dumpsite Lourdes Bio-Garden
July - September
STEPS Activities
STEPS Parents Seminar
Dumpsite Lourdes
Bio-Garden

36. STEPS Activities
At holidays, such as Fiesta, Sportsday, Childrens Day etc, we celebrate with the STEPS children and thier families.

46. STEPS Parents Seminar
To ensure the quality and good progress of the educational program for the preschoolers, we meet regularly with the parents to highlight weak areas and talk about problems.

48. Lourdes Dumpsite
Manny has been teaching the „Basureros“ how to turn the bio-degreadable waste into organic fertilizer with the process of fermentation.

52. The organically grown veggies in the 1800 m2 big Bio-Garden are delicious and healthy!

56. Mom´s Handicrafts-Stand in Bellevue Resort
October & November
Lourdes Dumpsite
STEPS Halloween
Mom´s Handicrafts-Stand in Bellevue Resort

57. Lourdes Dumpsite
Manny has been planning, drawing up and finally developing a shredder. It shreds 5 tons per hour. In one morning, the daily bio-degradable garbage from the municipality of Panglao can be shredded and made into organic fertilizer with the fermentation process.

60. STEPS Halloween
We celebrated Halloween with the STEPS children and their families in a meaningful way, and without the ugly and scary costumes.

63. Mom´s Handicrafts-Stand
The handicrafts made in our crochet classes that we hold three times a week are being sold in the Bellevue Resort, with the proceeds going back to the artists. Since Novemeber we opened up an unmanned „Honest Pay“ shelf where people put the money on the price tag into a box. It‘s been working very well!

65. December
STEPS Christmas Party

66. STEPS Christmasparty
This year's Christmas Party was celebrated already on the 5th of December since some of the parents are leaving for their home provinces during the holidays. The 44 children greatly enjoyed the planned meaningful activities, dances, songs and games. But the culmination came with Santa coming to bring gifts for each child! We ended the party with a bountiful meal!
       In our school activities we encourage the children to perform in front of others and overcome their shyness. Since most of them come from poor neighborhoods, they are taught early on that they are not worth much and they will never amount to anything, which we try to consciously counteract and change. God loves each of us and doesn't consider where we come from or who we are, and we try to help parents and children, with faith, to strive to live up to their God-given potential and calling. 
     During the party we started a competition to share our faith this Christmas season with as many we come across, and those that put most of their time and effort into it, will receive a shiner price. We consider it a privilege and joy to witness to people we meet about the love of Jesus, and we'd like everybody to "catch the fire"!

77. Manny, Joel, Eveline and Team
We thank you…
For your friendship
For your trust
For your support
We thank God for you and wish you a meaningful, joyful and merry Christmas and in the coming year good health, happiness, success, fulfillment and most of all God‘s richest blessings!
With warm regards,
Manny, Joel, Eveline and Team

78. Eveline & Emmanuel Gamonez Worldwide Familia Mission
Address: Bellevue Family Mission
Purok 2
Doljo 6340
Panglao, Bohol
Philippines
Tel:
For donations:
Name: Eveline Hotz Gamonez
Banco De Oro Unibank, Inc
BDO Corporate Center: 7899
1200 Manila
Metro Manila
Savings Account Number:
Bankcode: BNOR PHMM

79. ...for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Lukas 2: 11)