REFLECTIONS FROM AN IGNATIAN STUDENT LEADER (ON THE ISLF FORUM)

This reflection is from SEAN ETHAN CHENG, a student leader from Xavier School. Philippines, who participated in the recent Ignatian Student Leadership Forum (August 15-21, 2016), hosted by the Jesuits of the Indonesian Province and held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The monsoon rains did stop the student leaders from so many different countries in the Asia-Pacific region to converge in unfamiliar Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Our delegation left Manila on a very stormy Sunday. After two flights and more than eight hours of travel, we were welcomed warmly by our hosts at the airport. The other delegations encountered floods on the way to Jogjakarta, but everything fell in place at the end of the day.

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SHAPING IGNATIAN LEADERS IN EDUCATION

The education secretaries within the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) met from May 30 to June 2 in Siem Reap, Cambodia to discuss, among many things, possible projects for collaboration. Guiding the discussion around how members of the Asia Pacific network of Jesuit schools can assist and support each other’s projects was the new JCAP Coordinator for Basic and Secondary Education, Fr Johnny Go SJ, who took over the role from Fr Christopher Gleeson SJ recently.

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