COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP

It is an absolute human certainty
that no one can know his own
beauty or perceive a sense of
his own worth until it has been
reflected back to him in the
mirror of another loving, caring
human being.

-JOHN JOSEPH POWELL, THE

SECRET OF STAYING IN LOVE
What is a community?
 For most of us,
“community“ is
synonymous with
belongingness,
togetherness, camaraderie
and similar state of
peaceful social relations.
 Sociological standpoint
I came from Punta,
Nasipit and so I share the
 Community is a social interests of those who
group with common came from that town and
territorial base. Those proudly a Nasipitnon.
who are in that group
share interests and
have a sense of
belonging to the group.
 Community is a social organization that is
considered fundamental to society such
as, village or religious sect. They are often
regarded as natural grouping based on
ties of shared blood, language, history,
territory and especially culture.
-Pramila Aggarwal, 2006
 Clusters of individual lives make-up
communities, societies and cultures. To
understand some of the complexities,
complications and confusions within the life of
just one member of a community are to gain
insights into the collective.( Coles, and Knowles,
2001)
 For Bill Lee (1992), community is simply a group
of people who have something in common.
 For the Greeks, it means
“Fellowship” that is, a group of
people who come together for
mutual support and to fulfil their
basic needs.
 Boothroyd (1990), sees community as
a “Human system of more than two
people in which the members
interact personally over time, in
which behaviour and activity are
guided by colectively-evolved norms
or collective decisions, and from
which members may freely secede.
 It is a collection of people who
have become aware of some
problem or some broad goal,
who have gone through a
process of learning about
themselves and their
environment, and have
formulated a group objective”
(Roberts, 1979)
 Assignment:

 Write a research paper/write-up about 300 words on the

following “religious communities” in the Philippines.To be
submitted tomorrow.
1. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ- the Name above Every Name
(Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy)
2. Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Inc. (PBMA,
Divine Master Ruben E. Ecleo, Sr.
The Blind men and the
Elephant
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