For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

Click to go Bing Maps or Google Maps or Mapquest or Yahoo Maps for a map and specific directions from your address to the hotel. Guests who would like to stay at the hotel may reserve rooms at reduced rates (mention the Columbia Filipino-American Association) by calling (803) 771-7000.

• The FAAGC will have its Autumn General Membership Meeting and Halloween Costume Contest Party on Saturday, October 26, 2019, at the Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse starting at 1:00 p.m.

This is a pot-luck get-together with FAAGC providing soda, water, ice, plates, utensils, etc. Please bring a covered dish to share and show off your and your family's spooktacular costumes.

Visit Bing Maps or Google Maps or Mapquest or Yahoo Maps for maps and specific directions from your address to the Halloween get-together venue.

A Columbia Fil-Am Community Service activity will be held on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at the Harvest Hope Food Bank, starting at 10:00 a.m.

Fil-Am volunteers will be packing different items/types of groceries for distribution to Harvest Hope food recipients. Let’s get together with fun and fellowship while helping the community !

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda at (803-834-8266) or the other FAAGC officers. Check also the FAAGC community Facebook page or the FAAGC Members Only Facebook page for updates.

The Columbia Fil-Am Annual Christmas Party will be held on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at the St. John Neumann School Gymnasium, starting at 5:00 p.m.

Come celebrate Christmas with your Fil-Am Family and Friends! There will be dinner, raffle ticket drawings, games, contests, live DJ dancing and a visit from Santa!!!

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda at (803-834-8266) or the other FAAGC officers. Check also the FAAGC community Facebook page or the FAAGC Members Only Facebook page for updates.

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A Columbia Fil-Am Community Service activity will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia, starting at 4:00 p.m.

As part of RMHC Make-a-Meal program, Fil-Am volunteers will prepare, cook and serve a dinner buffet of Filipino delicacies at the McDonald House, which serves families and children who travel to a Columbia medical facility. FAAGC similarly conducted the service in November 2017.

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda at (803-834-8266) or the other FAAGC officers. Check also the FAAGC community Facebook page or the FAAGC Members Only Facebook page for updates.

      As a Columbia Fil-Am Community Service activity, FAAGC volunteers will present a fashion show of Philippine costumes during the International Fair at Center for Knowledge North, starting at 1:00 p.m.

Join us for a FAAGC fundraising get-together at Comfort Suites Lexington on February 8, 2020 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the FAAGC Scholarship Fund.

The venue has a limited number of tables available. This event will be first come first serve to the first 60 guests who confirm their attendance. Tickets are $30 per guest.

For more details and directions to the venue, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

We will also have a membership meeting to discuss and vote on the proposed revised FAAGC By-laws, which is being amended to enable FAAGC to apply for an IRS 501(c)(3) status so contributions may be tax-deductible.

This is a POTLUCK affair so please bring a 2-liter soda and a covered dish enough for your family and others. Planned activities include an Easter egg-hunt for children as well as games for children and adults. Parents with young children are requested to bring at least a dozen goodies-filled plastic Easter eggs for the egg-hunt -- (please NO chocolates in the eggs -- they easily melt).

FAAGC members, supporters and other interested parties in the area Fil-Am community are all invited to come and share the fun and food with family and friends. Those who wish to spend more time at the park can come earlier and all are encouraged to bring portable or folding chairs.

[Note: The park charges an entrance fee of $5 per adult, $3.25 per SC senior (age 65 & older), and $3 per child (aged 6 to 15); children aged 5 and under are free].

For more details and directions to the venue, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

Click here or here for a map and specific directions from your address to the Sesqui park.

Time to cool off during the annual summertime Fil-Am get-together. We will be at a Saluda Shoals Park shelter near the splash pad.

[Note: The entrance/parking fees are waived if you tell them you are with the Fil-Am Association; wristbands for the Saluda Splash pad are $3 each.]

This is a POTLUCK event so please bring a 2-liter bottle of soda or water and a covered dish to share. We will also have a brief program to acknowledge and appreciate the FAAGC volunteers.

For questions or additional info, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

• FAAGC Volunteers In Action • As part of its continuing charitable activities, FAAGC recently treated the families staying at the local Ronald McDonald House to a dinner buffet of Filipino delicacies including adobo, pansit, menudo, lumpia, and turon, among others. As part of RMHC Make-a-Meal program, Fil-Am volunteers prepared, cooked and served the meal at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia, SC, which serves families and children who travel to a Columbia medical facility. More photos of the FAAGC volunteers in action at the McDonald House on November 11, 2017 can be found at the FAAGC community Facebook page. Columbia Fil-Am community members, young and old, served at the Harvest Hope Food Bank in March and May 2018. The volunteers helped sort and prepare food packages for distribution to struggling families in the Midlands.