Filipino Southern Baptist leaders met June 14 in Phoenix to ramp up church-planting efforts among the 3.2 million Filipinos living in the United States and Canada.
“We want to see the number of Filipino churches double,” said Roger Manao, president of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America and pastor of Philadelphia Bible Church International. “We have 200 churches, and we are not doing enough. We have to do more.”
The Filipino fellowship, during its June 14 session at North Phoenix Baptist Church, reported on its own church-planting project, the Asian Multiplication Evangelical Network (AMEN).
“The aim of this year’s meeting is to educate and mobilize our Filipino pastors and church members regarding AMEN,” said Manao, chairman of the initiative which operates under the fellowship’s umbrella. “I’m praying everyone will be challenged to get on board our Filipino church-planting movement.”
Created in 2010 by Filipino Southern Baptist pastors and the North American Mission Board, AMEN is focused on nine of the most populated regions in the United States, with “the objective to create church-planting and multiplication awareness, and with a goal of planting 30 churches by 2021,” Manao said. (BP)
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