Funeral Service for Felisa Bernarte Guinto "Imang Eling"

My dear friends,

As you already know, my mother Felisa Bernarte Guinto passed away, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 at 7:33 pm. Thank you all for all the love and support extended to our Dearest Mom and her family during this sad and difficult time.

The following are the schedule for her funeral service:

· Thursday & Friday, December 9 & 10, 2010

Viewing 1:00PM - 9:00PM, Rosary @6:30PM, Mass @ 7PM

Fir Lawn Memorial Center

1070 West Main Street

Hillsboro, OR 97123

· Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010

Funeral Mass @11:00 AM, Rosary @10:30 AM

Holy Trinity Catholic Church

13755 S.W. Walker Road

Beaverton, OR 97005

Interment following at Finley-Sunset Hills Memorial Park

6801 S.W. Sunset Highway, Portland, OR 97225

Reception after burial will be at China Bay Restaurant

13281 S.W. Canyon Road, Beaverton, OR 97005

Please include our mom Felisa in your prayers and her family. May the Good Lord give our family comfort and strength during this tough time. May the soul of our mother Felisa Bernarte Guinto rest in peace and let your perpetual light shine upon her...

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.

Mina Guinto Tahayeri

Simbang Gabi 2010 - Westside Schedule

Christmas Novena Masses - Simbang Gabi will be held at Holy Trinity Parish, from December 15^th through the 23^rd, 2010, at 7PM,except on Saturday, December 18^th,the celebration of mass will begin at 5:30 PM to include the parish community in our festivity.

Rosary will precede a half an hour before mass.

Bishop Kenneth Steiner will preside on Thursday, December 23^rd for the culmination of the Novena.

Simbang Gabi continues to be a significant moment where it strengthens the relationships among family members and a time to reinforce our faith in God. This is a special time when we feel the loving presence of our Lord and a spiritual preparation for Christmas. Our preparation for Christmas is a sign of our love for our God. And the sign of God’s love for us is the birth of His son. Our longing, our preparation for his birth is indeed an awesome gift from God! Stay Awake! Let's open our hearts to welcome his coming in our lives. O come, O come Emmanuel!

For more information, please call Franz & Monette Mallari at 503-848-6919

Simbang Gabi 2010 - Eastside Schedule

Please invite all family/friends and other parishioners to come and join us as we prepare for the the Lord's coming. Our main petition for this year's novena Masses is to build the St. Therese house for a poor Filipino family through Gawad Kalinga. The collections from the first and last Simbang Gabi Masses will go toward this goal. We hope that everyone will share what they can. Please remember that any donation will be tax deductible and acknowledgement will be sent by Gawad Kalinga.

We would like to invite you to the December 23rd potluck in the Parish Social Center, right after the Simbang Gabi Mass, where we can all celebrate Christ's coming with Filipino Christmas songs and lots of kakanin.

Thanks and God bless,

St. Therese Simbang Gabi committee

Simbang Gabi 2010 - Rainier, Oregon

MY DEAREST FRIENDS IN JESUS CHRIST

PEACE TO ALL OF YOU.

I cordially invite you and your extended friends to join with us in our Second Year Nine Days Christmas Novena Masses in Rainier Oregon. We are so grateful to all the Sponsors for this year 2010. Without you, the success of last year will be a great demand although it is a sacrifice to do all these nine days.

I will pray to God, our Lord Jesus Christ and with His angels that the weather will really be the best and all the wheels of your tires will be graced and will be guided by the angels of the Lord.

God bless you all and Have a Merry Merry Christmas to each and everyone.

In Jesus Christ and Mother Mary,

REV. FR. HENRY RUFO

Cinelayan Film Festival

Imagine this: every year in Portland, our community with our fellow Oregonians gather to celebrate much of what is beautiful, heartbreaking, intelligent, enduring, tragic,surprising, resilient and inspiring in the Filipino culture as seen and as imagined by outstanding Filipino filmmakers. There are few events and venues in the country that attempt to do this, let alone a smaller city – but how cool would it be to have one in Portland!

It can’t happen without you.

It can’t happen without the support and love of our community coming in droves with family and friends. If we are to build a high-quality community cultural event that shows Filipino films in Portland theaters, than we need to show that there’s a demand for it.

If you believe in this vision, we could use your help:

· Pledge to come to Cinelayan 2010 on Dec 17th with showtimes at 3pm, 6pm (5:30pm reception)

· Invite 3 family and friends to join you

· Email the poster announcement to your network of friends and colleagues; post the poster at work, church or your favorite hang-out

Like all of you who serve our community, our volunteer planners organize Cinelayan out of love. We are motivated by the strong desire to see a piece of ourselves, the best of our culture, celebrated in Portland and contributing to the vibrant multicultural scene. We are excited to share with you what gems we found this year.This year, we are strongly supported by many who have shown faith in this effort: Philippine Chamber of Commerce of Oregon (PACCO), ABS-CBN International and West Coast Bank. We humbly ask for your support as well.

See you at the movies,

Aimee, Katrina, Jessie & Welo

2011 FPACC Convention planning meeting

Greetings,

In case you have not heard I’m very proud to announce that the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon (PACCO) has successfully won the bid to host the 2011 Bi-National Federation of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce Convention (FPACC). As this process moves forward and we begin the planning process I wanted to extend an invitation to all the friends of the chamber, our members, board of directors and other local chamber of commerce’s to participate in the planning.

This meeting request is being set with very short notice and I understand if you aren’t able to attend but I believe that inviting all of you to participate in the planning process will help guarantee a great convention that is tailored to the needs of all Oregonian and encourages local participation from the members of our community.

We are actively recruiting folks that would like to get involved so please share this with anyone that you might think would be interested.

Please RSVP!

Thanks,

Jason Lim

PACCO Board of Director

Cell: 503-351-5016

December 7 (Tuesday) - Committee Meeting for Portland FPACC Convention

Venue: The Asian Reporter Newspaper Conference Room,

922 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97217
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Contact: Jason Lim (503) 351-5016
PACCO members/friends who are interested to help out for this national convention are welcome to attend this committee meeting. FPACC (Federation of Philippine American Chambers of Commerce) a national organization headquartered in California and boasting a national network with 42 chapters and over 5,000 companies is planning to have their convention here in Portland. The event is expected to draw a lot of visitors from out of state and from the Philippines, and help generate revenue for tourism here in Oregon. We are also working with the Travel Portland for this event.

Feast of Santo Nino 2010

Salem Fil-Am Monthly Mass - Holy Family

FilAm Clark Pasko 2010

It’s here again and it’s Pasko Na Naman! It’s going to be a blast. Come join us at the Sheraton at the Airport, December 11, Saturday, at 6 pm. Fil-AM Clark County continues long-running tradition, to help the community celebrate the season.

Please see attached flyer.

Also, forward this email to your friends.

Please call Vivian (360-574-6275) for tickets, or email, evcntadeo@msn.com.

Eric & Vivian