Vicente Garcia: Life and Spiritual Awareness
Vicente “Vic” Garcia is known in the Filipino community as an entrepreneur with a gregarious personality. He owned Kabayan Services Inc. that carried various business categories: Money remittance, Video Rentals, Travel Agency, Caregiving Agency, Lending Investment and Balibayan Box (Forex).
He was born in Tanawan Batangas and graduated in Samson Technical School in the Philippines. Vic was a businessman in his early twenties. He owned a restaurant, a photo shop and videography studio in his province. It was his nature to dabble in many interesting ventures and his resourcefulness led him to many doors.
He migrated to Montreal in 1990 after he met and married his French Canadian wife Francine Dolbec. They raised a family and had three children. Life was focused on nurturing the needs of his family as well as the growing interest in his businesses. It was not an easy ride but the challenges were motivations for him and he expanded and made more opportunities for himself and for those people he met along his business and social circle.
Life made a three hundred and sixty degrees turn for Vic when he found himself in Mackensie Park alone, broke and homeless. He lost his business his family life and most of his friends. It was a long story that was played along the themes of trust, betrayal, envy, gossip and depression. The very people he trusted turned against him and he had nowhere to go but down. It was a time in his life where nothing mattered anymore, yet everything mattered if he desired to look for a better direction in life.
In those dark days, he found the answer. It was the voice within him that called him to turn to a greater power than himself. It was a time for deep reflection and repentance. He surrendered to that higher power. He became aware of his spiritual nature and the need to listen to that voice of wisdom inside him.
He was led to a new door of opportunity. His dark days became an epiphany for an invention. It was a technology, his line of profession and creativity.
He developed the idea of expanding the use of chargers. It is a diverse and multifunctional carrier that would solve the charging needs of cell phones, Bluetooth, Ipod, Blackberry, Iphone, MP3 and MP 4 , GPS and PSP.
Vic is back in orbit in his life as a businessman and inventor. He is committed to his awareness in God’s presence in his life. It is this presence that makes life more purposeful and meaningful for him. The way was opened to him when he was led to the ministry of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy. There was more clarity and direction in his life. He had a deeper sense of faith.
He claims with joy that his invention is funded by people who are angels sent to him by God. They are made of individuals who hardly know him and were networked through the energy of faith and trust. He believes life is all about our spiritual alliance with God.
