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How the "Little Guys" did it  by JCI Mem. Angelo Daniel R. Parcon
2007 President, JCI Cebu-Mactan Channel
IT IS NOT A SECRET that our chapter is not financially endowed. We do projects with sheer resourcefulness, passion, determination and simple strokes of luck. This makes me so proud of our membership. We all come from a diverse network of professions. We have our own professional and personal lives to lead, and most of us have families too. And yet, when we all put our mind to it, when we find a common ground to be passionate about, we are capable of moving mountains.
Up against the giants of the JCI movement in the Philippines, we have always considered ourselves the little guys. We started out three years ago and we have been making waves since then. Rose hit it right smack dab on the head of the nail when she mentioned that ever since our charter year, it makes us so proud to see that we never went home from Area Conferences or National Conventions empty-handed. For a three-year old chapter, and one with limited financial clout at that, that is much to say. By the Creed We’re at the cusp of entering our fourth year as a JCI Local Organization. As a past president, it makes me proud to see the 2009 Administration defined as passionate to act, a team determined to be relevant in everything that needs to be done. At the helm of it all will be Emi, who’ll be leading a bunch of Board of Directors dominated by females, with Marlon, Rio and Eric as the exceptions and of course, Jolex, who sits as an ex-officio member as IPP.  A lot have been asking what’s the secret to our chapter’s successes.
Simple lang. Keep close the learning imbibed in the JCI ACHIEVE course (photo at left) and be passionate in living by the JCI Creed, not just memorizing it. And implement the JCI 3M practice to the hilt. When members, may they be prospects, aspiring, new or veteran, see you being passionate with what you do when it involves the movement, it generally rubs off on them. When such a synergy happens, that is where the fun comes in. That is where the fellowship comes in. That is how we learn. Measure of a Leader Unlike what is generally practiced, the past presidents in the chapter elect to remain in the background and refuse to influence the process of learning for the chapter. We are after all, a process-oriented organization. We allow mistakes to happen and that is how our members learn. We have had so many ups and downs that it has seemed to be a roller coaster of a ride. As a past president and a charter member, nakakataba sa puso seeing the new blood exert so much effort and passion to succeed in everything that they do for the chapter’s projects. We choose not to influence nor flaunt our positions. We give advice when it is asked or when it is inevitably needed. In this way, the members grow and develop into better leaders, which is essentially why they joined JCI in the first place. The power and influence of a leader is not measured by how people immediately do what he tells them to do but rather how people see the wisdom and sincerity in his advice and generally decide on what course of action to take while holding the leader’s advice in high regard. Source of Pride The 28th Visayas Area Conference and the 60th JCI Philippines National Convention again allowed our chapter to shine once more. For the third straight year, we got the nod as the Most Outstanding JCI Local Organization in the Visayas. The NatCon saw two of our flagship projects earn the nod from the distinguished E-Awards judges. The Worktrepreneurship Program – a project aimed to alleviate impoverished citizens – earned Merit as Best Business Development Program, while my beloved Read to Lead, conceptualized almost two years ago over a cup of coffee, earned the Temyong Award as the Best Education for Peace Program. Now, who wouldn’t be brimming with pride? The quality of our membership is one source of extreme pride too. Without exerting too much effort to the point of making the JCI idea a hard sell to them, the new members caught on and got bitten by the JCI bug hard!  Now, our chapter is running like a well-oiled machinery going into our Special Anniversary JCI Week Celebration in honor of our 1st National President Monching del Rosario, also the 1st Asian to be World President.
This will also be our celebration of 3 years as a Chapter and 60 years of JCI in the Philippines. A Family The projects to be conducted during this week are manned and headed by mostly new members who are able to match the fire and passion of the charter members. This is how we got to grow and take our baby steps from a new chapter in 2005 to an award-winning organization as we enter our 4th year in 2009. This is how we, the charter members, grew to love the movement even more and how the new members caught fire and embraced the thought of developing further as leaders following the JCI tenets. This is how we became more than just colleagues in JCI, and grew to be a family. That is how the little guys did it in the midst of the giants.
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