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From receiving missions, to sending them.

For over forty years, God has been writing an unlikely story through the Filipino church. This is how it happened.

Our Story

An ordinary people, an extraordinary God.

International Teams Philippines is a non-stock, non-profit religious organization that mobilizes, equips, and deploys missionaries within the Philippines and to the nations, sharing God’s love and His plan of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

In 1999, during a season when conflict brought an exodus of foreign missionaries, Ptr. Gani Sison became National Director. Rather than close the work, the Filipino church took ownership of it. What followed was a quiet miracle. A nation with little money and few resources became one of the most active missionary-sending nations on earth.

1980s
Foreign missionaries from the USA, Australia, and Canada pioneer urban ministry among Manila’s urban poor.
1999
Ptr. Gani Sison becomes National Director. The Filipino church steps into ownership of the mission.
2000
The vision widens from a few communities to mobilizing the whole nation for global missions.
2008
Founder Kevin Dyer writes that nearly half of all ITeams missionaries worldwide are now Filipino.
Today
More than 1,000 Filipino missionaries have set foot in over 80 nations.
A gathering of International Teams Philippines missionaries and members
The Global Filipino Dream

Ordinary men and women, even those with limited financial resources, accomplishing the impossible by faith.

What We Believe

The convictions that send us.

Faith over funding

Money, credentials, and status are not requirements for the mission field. A calling and a willing heart are.

Ordinary people

God still chooses the humble and the unlikely to carry His name. We send the everyday Filipino believer.

Every nation

The Great Commission is not finished until every people group has heard. We go where the gospel is least known.

Ptr. Gani Sison, Executive Director
Ptr. Gani Sison
Executive Director
Leadership

Led by practitioners, not theorists.

Ptr. Gani Sison has served as Executive Director since 1999. He was the first Filipino and Asian to chair the international leadership of International Teams worldwide, guiding the global movement through a season of profound growth.

He is joined by a board of directors and a network of mission advisors serving across the nations.

Board of Directors
Sammy Tan · ChairmanAtty. Freddie YoungAtty. Elna CruzPtr. Stephen FreedPtr. Gani Sison
Board of Mission Advisors · On the ground across the nations
PhilippinesEast TimorCambodiaIndonesiaMalaysiaJapanVietnamSouth KoreaChinaTaiwan
The Global Vision

See the mission in motion.

From these islands, the gospel is going to the nations. Watch the vision that sends thousands of Filipinos to the field.

Filipino believers worshipping in a global missions gathering International Teams Philippines · The Global Vision

This story is still being written.

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