faith fellowship lucena celebrates its 3rd anniversary

In May 2006 the team of church planters settled in Lucena City to plant a church. They gathered their first contacts to start a worship celebration on September 21 of the same year. This month they celebrated their 3rd anniversary and SC Minda, the team leader praised God for His faithfulness and goodness to the people who obeyed and followed Him.

SC Minda had three teammates since then. Abby Galzote was her first teammate who also did not fail to visit the church since she left to study. The second was Alejo Cuyno who only stayed there for several months and finally Chat Relucio who is still there serving with SC Minda in Lucena City.


The anniversary celebration was highlighted by the different presentations of each house church in different barangays. Pastor Mar gave an inspirational and challenging message to the people and many came forward during the altar call.



Today, they are ministering to five different barangays with the help of two lay leaders who assist the church planters with the house churches. Through the years the workers of Lucena give glory to the Lord for the changed lives they have witnessed and the families who came to the Lord.

For more pictures of the anniversary celebration please see the slide show.

FBC students field visitation

On September 4, 2009, ten students of Church Planting Principles in Faith Bible College went to two church planting locations in Region 4 to experience what it is like to be in a church planting field. Two other FBC staffs joined them—Debbie and Loren. The students were divided into two teams. The first team joined the Tagaytay team with Pastor Teddy and Enric Lepardo while the other half joined the Cavite team with Pastors Bong and Gerry Bulilan.

Both teams gathered to spend time in prayer and devotion and for the church planters to give brief orientation of what they do in the field, their vision and mission and some of their experiences. They also showed the students and taught them some of the things they do in small groups and also in evangelism. Then they were ready to go.

The students, equipped with their skills and knowledge in evangelism and theirs heart full passion and excitement an d courage, went out to evangelize together with the church planters. The church planters demonstrated first what they do then let the students did the same. The students reported in class all their first time in evangelism, especially, going from house to house because some of them did that for the first time. But there were also those who were already doing that in their respective ministry assignments.

That was indeed a day full of adventures, learning and fun. The students were not only blessed but were also a blessing to the people they shared the gospel, the people they visited and to the church planters who accommodated them.

Tuy House Church joined Tagaytay Faith Fellowship

It was a day of worship, fellowship, learning and celebration for the churches in Tuy, Batangas and Tagaytay City. The rain did not stop them to gather in Colossian Gardens in Tagaytay City. From morning until evening, they were together to celebrate God's faithfulness in their life.

Pastor Mar shared with them the core values and mission and vision statements of FECPI.
Pastor Teddy with Bro. Pol distributed the baptismal certificate in the afternoon.
Pastor Vadeth, Pastor Teddy and the leaders of Tagaytay facilitated the worship in the morning while the praise and worship team of Tuy led the worship.

These are the young people of Tagaytay and Tuy, Batangas... the future leaders of the church.



The Rodriguez family leads the house church in Tuy, Batangas.

FBC 20th Anniversary Celebration

FECPI Church Planting Teams joined Faith Bible College to celebrate 20 years of God's faithfulness. 18 of our 20 church planters are proud graduates of the Bible College.

It was a week of celebration. On Tuesday, the 25th of August, was the kick off where pastor Brent gave the message during the chapel service. Wednesday was a day of prayer, before each class began, the students and the faculty members spent time to pray. In the evening was a night of prayer and worship opened for everyone. By the way, the classes during the whole week were opened for those who would like to sit in the class.

The peak of the celebration was on Friday night, the 28th of August, where Miss Ermalee Hidalgo was installed as the first woman and Filipino president of the Bible College. It was indeed a night of celebration attended by pastors from the Wesleyan church where Miss Ermalee came from and was molded to be the woman she is right now. FECPI pastors and friends also came, especially those who have been part of the Bible college. PRASIA rendered beautiful music that night but, of course, the highlight would be Miss Ermalee's speech.

It was not just a celebration but a fellowship, a reunion to be exact, of old friends who met in Faith Bible College...

new house church in Bacoor, Cavite

Ariel and Jovie Manahan became Christians in Batangas where we used to have a church planting team. The closing of the ministry there did not stop the growth of this couple. They also experienced a lot of testing of faith and almost gave up but the grace of God sustained them and they continued to serve the Lord.

In May, the couple decided to transfer to Cavite province where Pastor Bong and Pastor Gerry are ministering. They were visited and followed up and soon a house church in their place was opened. Their relatives and neighbors joined them and the group continued to grow. Another couple from the neighborhood who were already Christians but had no church to attend to joined their house church. The couple now leads the house through praise and worship.