Business Education for the Mission

     Pursuing a graduate degree of Masters of Business Administration is my new status. Writing this blog is my first attempt to give a thought on it. Not because business does not interest me but rather the transition shock still hangs in my viens. 

     I have not studies business before, nor did I ever imagined pursuing an MBA as a possibility. I prepared myself to be a missionary priest studying Philosophy and Theology. I continue to read books in Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality and about the Bible. Bible is very interesting, I like talking about it in my homilies during the last three years. Unfortunately, I stop writing it down. Maybe because, it is not scholarly, maybe I find them not in the level of biblical scholars that I read and whose works I admire and greatly appreciate.

     Now, I will be writing about my business education and maybe its influence on my faith?? For now, I will content myself in stating that, this is my second term at De La Salle University, and that I still have a lot of things to learn. Pduterte's economic team battle cry: BUILD BUILD BUILD. Mine is READ READ READ. Sadly, there are those whose battle cry is: kill kill kill... 

Business for the Mission II

Every time I celebrate mass I would introduce myself as a missionary from Africa, working in Congo since my Ordination in 2008. But I am for the meantime back in the country to pursue graduate studies in Business, and currently enrolled in the MBA program De La Salle University. Oftentimes, I would see surprised faces among the community, as if asking me, why are you doing that Father?

Whenever, I see it fit, I would say “By learning efficiency in business management, I hope to introduce the same (efficiency) on how we in the Church use and manage our material and financial resources.”

Businesses remain competitive and enjoy growth for so many reasons, but one of which is the efficient use of its limited resources to maximize or achieve optimal profits. Efficient companies are intolerant of waste, besides, if seen, they are opportunities for profits. In this regard, we in the Church must admit the need to learn. Efficient use of our many resources and capacity to transform them into opportunities for further use are needed.