Hello everyone, I am Jonrine Digdigan.
I am so proud to say that I grew up at Subic Bay Children’s Home. I thank God because during my time there, He used the Fulfer family and the Valbuena family to bless my life.
I will always be grateful for everything they have done for me. Growing up in Subic Bay Children’s Home helped shape who I am today.
A little background about my life growing up at Subic Bay Children’s Home:
I came to SBCHome when I was 9 years old. Before that, I stayed in an orphanage in Batangas. Unfortunately, that orphanage was shut down by the DSWD, and all the children there were returned to their families. But I didn’t have a family to go back to, so I was transferred to Subic Bay Children’s Home.
While growing up in SBCHome, I already felt the love of people who were not my biological parents. They truly cared for children like me—those who had been abandoned by their families. Their love and care made me feel safe, accepted, and valued.
The SBCHome family also supported me by sending me to college at Bataan Peninsula State University, where I studied animal science and agriculture. While at SBCHome
While growing up in SBCHome, I already felt the love of people who were not my biological parents. They truly cared for children like me—those who had been abandoned by their families. Their love and care made me feel safe, accepted, and valued.
The SBCHome family also supported me by sending me to college at Bataan Peninsula State University, where I studied animal science and agriculture. While at SBCHome, I also learned many valuable skills, such as driving vehicles and operating heavy equipment.
Now, I have the privilege of teaching these skills to the kids at SBCHome, passing on what I have learned to help them as well.
At SBCHome, they didn’t just provide for my needs—they gave me the most important thing in this world: a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. I gave my life to Christ and was saved in 2015. I fully surrendered my life to Him, and I was baptized in September 2019.
And now, life keeps going on, and God continues to use me in our church, Subic Bay Baptist Church. I serve as a Sunday School teacher, and I am also a third-year Bible student.
I truly thank God for SBCHome. Behind SBCHome, there are people who have sacrificed their lives and fully surrendered themselves to give a future to children in need.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.