Name: Morena
Birthday: 21 September
Hometown: Cavite, Philippines
Involvement before joining YMT: Antioch Community, Parish Youth Ministry, Diocesan Youth Ministry – As a youth volunteer, I facilitate youth formations in my parish and  in the diocese.
Reason for joining YMT: To hopefully learn about my faith, to meet some lovely people, to live in beautiful County Durham.
What are you looking forward this year? Maximise my existence… Trip to endless possibilities, grace and faith. I have long dreamt of living in different places, away from my comfort zone where I can share my journey of faith and at the same time listen to stories of other pilgrims, challenge my limitations and discover things to help me give into God’s plan for my life. Brew an amazing year with the Lord through stories of people and fuel my soul from the things I will learn from this journey and seek grace from God on whatever will pass me through.
Testimony: A friend told me that if you want something, long for it with all your heart. Do not dwell on your limitations. You need to challenge them and think that despite these limitations God continue to use you as an instrument of positive change to others. Just add a handful of faith and pour out grace to make a healthy spiritual life.
TV Shows: Friends, Prison Break, Sweet Life
Movies: Dying Young, John Q., Narnia 1, Mulan, An Affair to Remember, Dead Poet Society, Finding Nemo, Pay it Forward
Books: Surreality by Carissa Villafuerte, Alchemist, Cory: An Intimate Portrait, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albon, Hope for the flowers Places to visit: I soooo loooove beaches, going into adventurous and challenging trips – nothing in particular
Quotations: 1. When reason end, faith begins. 2. Nothing of me is original. I am the combine effort of everybody I’ve known. 3. To whom much is given, much is expected. 4. To whom much is taken, much is given back. 5. Strangers are friends we just haven’t met yet. 6. When we meet people and their stories become ours, we will also have been to the places where their hearts felt have been.
Describe yourself: Infectious laughs, snappy happy, people person, empathetic on social concerns esp. in my country, have a long love to walk with a friends while exchanging stories about anything that involves us, our lives and the society we live in, sip a hot chocolate, and watch an amazing scene on a beach.