A CYCLICAL, GLOCAL DIASPORA CONGREGATION:A CASE STUDY OF THE FIRST FILIPINO ALLIANCE CHURCH FROM 1984-2007
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Abstract
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 There are two terms used in this brief story to describe the history and development of First Filipino Alliance Church (FFAC) in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) – “cyclical” and “glocal.” A “cyclical” congregation [1] starts small but over the years becomes larger (not necessarily in numbers but in ministries). It is like the making of a “snowman.” A snowman starts out as a fist-size snowball. The small snowball is rolled to gain more snow and becomes larger in size. As the ball rolls, it picks up more snow and eventually takes on the shape of a snowman. Christ started his Church with a few disciples in Jerusalem. It later became a regional (Asia Minor) and ultimately became a global movement. The Church that Christ founded is cyclical. A “glocal” congregation [2] is a local church that is thinking and acting locally and globally. The word “glocal” was originally coined to express a new interweaving of the global and local. [3] In the article, “The Glocal Church: Locality and Catholicity in a Globalizing World,” Charles Van Engen of Fuller Seminary proposed that the church of Jesus Christ needs to become self-conscious of what is in fact already is: “a glocal church”. [4] The Church must be “active simultaneously in global and local mission.” [5]
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".