Filipino American Ministry Initiative of Fuller Theological Seminary

A decade in the making. 🎉 We're celebrating 10 YEARS and we want YOU there. Save the date—October 17, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Details coming soon!

Seafood City in Chicago was packed for Late Night Madness! 🍚🐖🍗

Shout out to our own Dr. Eleanor Baylon for representing us at the Urbana conference recently. Here she is teaching a seminar alongside Dr. Daniel Lee. 👏🏽

If you didn’t catch this episode last week, here’s a moment worth revisiting. In this clip, Gabriel Jay Catanus reflects on Pentecost, plurality, and why spiritual authority in Scripture is communal - not concentrated in one person. 🎧 Authoritarianism…For God’s Glory? Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

What questions are you carrying into 2026?
What transitions, invitations, or uncertainties are stirring in you?

Our Discernment Groups offer Asian American ministry leaders or those ministering in Asian American contexts a sacred, supportive space to process what you’re holding and to intentionally listen for the Spirit’s leading - together.

🌿 6 weeks • 90-minute sessions
🌿 Thursday or Friday groups
🌿 Begins Jan 22–23
🌿 Facilitated by Mary Ellen Azada, Wayne Chen, & Kevin Doi

Register by emailing [email protected] or visit aac.fuller.edu/training

SAVE THE DATE: Next Wednesday (11/26, 430-6p PT) on Zoom!

Our own Dr. Eleanor Baylon will lead us in a time of connection and learning— right before the holiday weekend and season: “Peace on Earth and at the Dinner Table: Faithful Boundaries for the Holidays.” Don’t miss it!

We welcome donations and registration is required at tinyurl.com/1126webinar

We are blessed to know this group of leaders, our fifth FAMI formation group cohort (aka “Batch 5”)! Please keep them in your prayers and be on the lookout for the great work they’re doing. God is good! 🇵🇭🇺🇸🙏🏽

We thank God for this group, our first cohort of mid-career (10+ years full-time) Filipino American pastors and ministers [pictured here with FAMI team and guest speaker Dr. Jordan Ryan]. Please pray for us as we learn and journey together. Special thanks to the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship for supporting this effort!

More pictures from our Filipino American History Month symposium. The videos will be available soon for those who registered!

What an amazing day of connection, learning, and celebration! Thank you to all of our presenters and participants for what you’ve given us. Special thanks to Dr. Robert Chao Romero. Let’s keep praying and working and learning from our immigrant communities. 🇵🇭🇺🇸✊🏽

Don’t forget to register if you’re joining us in person or online! bit.ly/fahm2025