National and regional leaders gather at the Regional Councils Summit, envisioning together how growth in every region builds toward one shared calling. August 30-31, 2025, Quezon City
In 2028, IVCF Philippines turns 75. Look back over just the last thirty years, and you’ll see a single field has become something closer to a whole farm — God extending our reach by raising up distinct regional fellowships, each one planted and named by the very soil it grew from. We never built IVCF like a franchise, stamping the same nameplate on every chapter. Instead, you’ll find Warriors Christian Fellowship in one region and Silab Christian Fellowship in another — names as varied as the languages and cultures they grew out of. That has always been a deliberate choice: contextualized, indigenous growth, rooted in each region’s own ground rather than imported wholesale from one office in Manila.
But anyone who has farmed knows that many fields can drift into many farms if no one tends the boundaries between them. That risk feels more real this year than most, as we watch our own Filipino people pulled apart along political, regional, and economic lines. A movement this diverse is not immune to that same pull.
So it mattered, this year, that our Regional Councils Summit finally happened in person again rather than over a screen. Regional council officers from nine regional units sat at the same table as our national board and staff — not as separate fields reporting in, but as farmers comparing notes on the same farm. Sitting across from someone, rather than seeing their face in a small video window, has a way of reminding you that you’re tending the same soil.
We were also reminded this year that our farm sits inside a much larger neighborhood. IVCF continued its partnerships with the PCEC Youth Movement, IVCF-USA, and IFES East Asia — relationships built on the same conviction that no single fellowship, however healthy, was ever meant to grow alone. We had the privilege of hosting the IFES East Asia Graduates Conference last August, and three of our own staff continued serving as resource persons for IFES across the region. Last January, Di served as one of the facilitators at the IFES East Asia Student Ministry Consultation. Staff who attended went back to their movements and catalyzed the same thoughtful inquiry into what student ministry in East Asia now means.
