Trip Report PFC Philippines 2024

From April 9-19, 2024 , Prisoners For Christ Outreach Ministries returned for the 5th time to the great country of The Philippines. We began active ministry in The Philippines in 2005, returned in 2013, 2017, 2019, and now the first time since the pandemic we are again on this beautiful island, focused mainly on the Province of Laguna located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Its capital is Santa Cruz while its largest city is the City of Calamba and the province is situated southeast of Metro Manila, south of the province of Rizal, west of Quezon, north of Batangas and east of Cavite. Laguna hugs the southern shores of Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country. Laguna is part of the Greater Manila area. The region has much natural beauty, and the Filipino people are welcoming and warm.

Our National Director is Pastor Noel Alberto along with his wife, Gina Alberto. Together they work tirelessly attending to the multiple responsibilities of a PFC National Director, pastoring a local church and adjoining Christian academy for children called Arise & Shine Community Church, raising their family of four children, now in young adulthood, who are all serving the Lord. Pastor

Noel has gathered around him a large team of servant leaders who have a passion for prison ministry; a percentage of the volunteers are former prisoners. Their team

regularly and consistently is involved in training of volunteers, evangelism, discipleship, positive relationship ties with the Bureau of Corrections and Government leaders all while being a pillar in the community. Pastor Noel has an amazing testimony as a former inmate who

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