ECPM seeks to train people in church planting and then sends them out to areas in the Philippines where there are no churches. This partnership seeks to provide financial support for one church planting team.

The IN Tertiary Scholarship programme aims not only to place squatter children into university but also to provide a mentoring programme through the context of the local church. For the same price as a cup of coffee a day a Filipino student can attend university.

For more than 2 years Vicente Enriques was a part-time team member at ECPM and he has now taken over Wilson Tayaban''s role, particularly attending most of the training modules and encouraging various church planting teams throughout the Philippines.

After being a volunteer for a year and another year as a part-time staff member at ECPM, Ella is currently the coordinator of the Youth in Missions for Christ (YMC). YMC is the youth arm and a mission strategy of ECPM. She is also handling the Campus Ministry of YMC now going into its second year.

ECPM has started a new training programme designed to reach high school and college students in partnership with the local churches that are situated near school campuses. The thrust is to help churches establish campus ministry and at the same time assist them in training their youth leaders. This is a one-year and two-year training programme for teams of youth campus leaders composed of 2 to 3 members. The prospective team members are Christian students studying in the target school.

ECPM is looking to start a business refilling printer ink cartridges as an income generation activity to start the process of self-sustainability.

Rudy and Flor pastor two churches and are involved in a number of outreach Bible studies that have the potential to become new churches. They have being working in Ranao-Ranao, in Ligao City, for 13 years and there is a group of 70 people meeting in the church.

Elvin Buenviaje is the Executive Director of Empowered Christians in Partnership & Ministries (ECPM). He is on the full time staff of ECPM directly overseeing the operation of church planting activities and at the same time is involved in teaching church planting teams. He also visits church planting teams on the mission site to provide pastoral care and to coach the team in implementing the church planting programme.

This fund was set up as an emergency fund for training/coaching or medical expenses for the ECPM workers.

Vicente Enrique has been supported by BHW for a number of years. He is a key person in the ECPM training programme. Victor wants to be self-supporting and this is an attempt to help his family achieve that.