Brief History of CARE

Brief History of CARE

De La Salle-Lipa started to render catechetical instruction to its nearby public schools by the year 1962 with the help of the Church group called CCD or the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine which took care of the training volunteer students as catechists and the brother moderators which guided the students in doing their tasks of sharing the gospel to pupils in the assigned public schools.

By the year 1979, Br. Armin Luistro, FSC, the campus minister of De La Salle-Lipa at that time changed the name of the catechism group from CCD to CARE or Catechetical And Religious Emissaries.  He also formed an organization called ALSA or Alyansang Lasalista ng Sambayanan which aimed to develop students and teachers to become active members of the Church.  This group was composed of the Chorale that takes care of the singing in the mass, the Acolytes that assist the priest in the celebration of the Mass and the CARE group that catechizes the pupils in the public schools.  The Religion Department of the De La Salle-Lipa was then assigned to implement all the program and activities of the CARE.

CARE was the offered to Level 10 students by the year 2000 as part of their outreach activity under the supervision of the Religion Department and Ms. Cornelia Santos, the appointed liaison officer.

It was in school year 2009-2010 that CARE was offered to Level 9 cream classes as a part of their Christian Living 9 curriculum.  The said program was initiated by Mr. Raul Paras who handled both of the class.

After a year of a successful implementation, Mr. Raul Paras recommended to Br. Bong Servando, FSC, the integration of CARE apostolate to the Christian Living curriculum of Grade 9 community.