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SePUM Equips Health Ministries Directors for Mental Health Program Rollout
SePUM Health Ministries’ three-day Mental Health Training for Mission Health Ministries Directors is on its final day at the LMS Conference Hall, Davao Mission Headquarters, Davao City. Led by Pr. Victor Navarro, the training brings together directors from SePUM’s five missions to prepare for mental health program implementation in their respective fields.
26 Friendly Ambassadors: Batch 67 1000MM Missionaries Bring Health and Faith for SePUM
Like candles carried into distant corners, twenty-six missionaries of 1000MM Batch 67 illuminated communities with acts of service, health education, and spiritual care. Their week-long outreach in Tupi, South Cotabato, brought together volunteers, church members, and residents in a collective experience of healing and hope. With their commissioning complete, the missionaries now journey to various mission fields across Mindanao, ready to continue a ministry that reaches both heart and home.
Ready to Proclaim: SMM ASI and AdPro Equip Believers for Gospel Witness
Amidst the abundance of tuna, pineapple, and the agricultural richness of Southern Mindanao, leaders and professionals from the Southern Mindanao Mission, along with ASI members and young Adventist professionals, gathered with a clear purpose: to be equipped and prepared to proclaim the gospel in a world facing the great and final crisis. Their aim is to learn how to prepare to proclaim and by "sharing Christ in the workplace", amidst the great and final crisis.
Reflections from SePUM Bible Conference: Seeking the Character of Christ in the Last Days
More than a reunion of God's servants working in His vineyard, the 466 delegates of the Bible Conference, dug deeper into the mines of God's treasures and widen perspective and wisdom being grounded in the Bible and focused on the mission. Every listener from the lessons imparted by leaders from the world church and far-eastern region went home powered by clarity of truth and God's love.
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366 SePUM Pastors Gather in Gensan for Union-wide Bible Conference
Rooting om Adventist identity above any other agendum, the SePUM-wide Bible Conference gathered around 400 ministers of the gospel in the tight spaces of Wong's Center SMM. Proving that even electric power flickers, God's flame keeps blazing in their hearts "Committed to our Identity" as God's remnant church.
Hope Channel Leaders Visit Southeastern Philippines, Affirm Local Media Ministry
Hope Channel leaders Michael Palar and Johnster Joe Calibod visited studios across Southeastern Philippines to affirm media missionaries and strengthen the church’s media ministry. Palar emphasized mission urgency and personally prayed for workers by name, while Calibod highlighted the importance of “mingling” beyond technology. Communication and Media Director Rhoen Catolico also urged members to make digital gospel sharing a lifestyle.
OneVoice27 Strengthens Alignment for Integrated Mission
Regional Adventist leaders gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for the OneVoice27 Strategic Alignment and Collaboration Summit, strengthening a unified approach to mission across the Southern Asia-Pacific Division. The summit aligned ministries around three major streams: media outreach, local church-based disciple-making and harvest evangelism, and big cities outreach—mobilizing churches, media, content creators, influencers, and digital missionaries for integrated mission.
SePUM’s 27 Sign Language Interpreters: 54 Hands That Speak for Christ
Hands that speak, hearts that listen. In every gesture, the gospel finds a new voice. The sign language ministry bridges silence with meaning, turning daily encounters — whether face‑to‑face or social media, into sacred conversations. What words cannot reach, hands proclaim: with peace, hope, and testimonies of faith. Isaiah 35:5 says, “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped” . Through the ministry of signs, no soul is unheard in the kingdom of God.
4,731 Discover Jesus through "Discover Your Way with God" series
Featuring nine Spirit-filled speakers sharing powerful messages proclaiming the Three Angels' Messages, brought 4,731 precious souls with use of digital evangelism and blending it with caring hands and generous hearts expressing the love of Jesus who will soon make #AllThingsNew. DISCOVER YOUR WAY WITH GOD Season 2 resurfaced to show the way, to offer extraordinary discoveries for us dwelling amidst this troubled world.
"Discover Your Way WGs2" Reaches Samal City Prison Facility, 40 New Believers Found Freedom in Jesus
Technology met faith as Island Garden City of Samal City Jail brought inside the prison walls Discover Your Way with God – Season 2 being streamed nationwide. It turned confinement into connection to real freedom in Jesus, the broadcast of hope into baptism. One BJMP officer and thirty-nine persons deprived of liberty, embraced Christ, proving that in this digital age, transformation can ripple from online platforms to prison walls, carrying the mission forward , urgency and human love.
SePUM Churches Launches OneVoice27 Believing Jesus will Make #AllThingsNew
Here comes OneVoice27, a worldwide call for God’s people to unite in proclaiming that Jesus is our Savior and our hope, whose baptism 2000 years ago will be commemorated. It weaves together prayer, study, and mission so that every believer, congregation, and ministry can share Christ’s message in harmony, though expressed in diverse ways. At its heart, it is a movement of faith and unity, lifting the world’s eyes to the Messiah and His soon return.
Sabbath Launching of DYWG Season 2 at Tandag: “From Identity Crisis to Christ’s Calling”
Discover Your Way with God (DYWG) Season 2 offered the initial offering through a message to solve the identity crisis we face in this world. Southeastern Caraga Mission offered its beautiful episodes.