Nelida Lua has lived a colorful life. A product of a broken family and extreme poverty, she started her early years going to school without decent shoes on her feet. She was even forced to stop when she reached primary school and had to survive doing odd jobs wherever she can to be able to complete her education. But in the face of all these, she managed to gain the respect of her colleagues and was a consistent "A" student. During these years she witnessed the inhuman, ruthless, and unjust ways of the government. Given a strong will and a good sense of leadership, she became vigorously involved in radical activism. She not only believed but embodied the principles of communism. Nelida worked her way into becoming a successful businesswoman and when she got married, her husband tirelessly showed her not only the love of a partner in life but the true source of life, Jesus Christ.

At the height of the Lahar threat in Tarlac in the year 1996, she and her family were forced to flee to a higher ground. At a temporary shelter, she saw the possible challenge of a ministry when God opened her eyes to the plight of the Aetas. This realization grew to a burden until it blossomed to Nelida's life vision. In time God opened a great opportunity for her and her husband to fulfill this vision. They were able to purchase one hundred-six hectares of land in the mountains of Banban Tarlac that Nelida now uses to show God's love to our Aeta brethren. The strength of her character and persistence in advocating for her ideals molded during her early years are now put to good use for God's best ideals. At present, Nelida chairs the Banban Cooperative Development.

Her passion in giving does not end there. A fruit of persistent missionary work herself, she now would want to return the blessings of being a child of God by supporting missionaries. Regardless of giving regularly to mission organizations, she chose to give a little more by donating five-thousand square meters of the same property to Asian Center for Missions. She envisions this land to be a place where missionaries would someday come home to from their mission field. Many missionaries, after following God's call to reach the lost and the needy in the ends of the world to share the love of Christ, they return foreigners in their own land. This blessing would be an assurance for A.C.M. trained missionaries to have a place that will warmly welcome them when they return to their homeland.

Immeasurable blessings now flood Nelida and her family as she openly gives to the Lord. Her businesses continue to expand and her family continues to grow in the ways of the Lord only because she gave a little more.