To empower young Filipinos and Asians through an integral, human, spiritual and missionary formation process that allows them to be protagonists of their future and builders of a more just, supportive and fraternal society.
Project
Construction of the Asian Mission Center (AMC) in the Philippines.
Our main objective is to
So we intend to...
- To offer a safe and formative space for vulnerable youth.
- Welcoming and accompanying Asian and European volunteers in missionary experiences.
- Promote prevention and child protection programs.
- To initiate children in the Catholic faith based on the Gospel of tenderness.
- To form living communities of committed adults.
- Discerning and accompanying consecrated vocations in Asia.
Today you can change the future of a young person in the Philippines. Your donation builds the Asian Mission Center, a home of faith, formation and hope.
We believe it is a very necessary project because of...
- Structural need
We have no space of our own to accommodate the young people we work with on a regular basis. We often meet in precarious conditions.
- Growing demand
More than 100 young Filipinos participate weekly in our training programs. The need is growing every year.
- Missionary Interculturality
Every year we welcome young people from Japan, South Korea and Europe who come to mission in the Philippines. We need a suitable place to welcome them and facilitate the encounter between cultures.
- Vocational and social continuity
The AMC will be a key space for forming new vocations, promoting social justice from the Gospel, preventing child abuse and dignifying lives broken by poverty.
They will directly benefit...
More than 100 young Filipinos each year. Between 13 and 25 years old. Many come from large families, live in rural areas and lack the resources to continue their studies. Some are children of migrants (OFWs), marked by the absence of their parents. Others have suffered abandonment, violence, extreme poverty or abuse.
Filipino children
More than 150 children. Between 6 and 12 years old who receive catechesis in public schools and rural chapels. Many have never heard of the Gospel or do not know its dignity.
Adults and local families
Bible sharing groups, training for catechists, pastoral counseling, charity work, visits to the sick, creation of choirs and support for families in situations of exclusion. They are the silent pillars of the project.
Youth from Japan and South Korea
Every year, about 10-15 Japanese and Korean young people in their 20s and 30s travel to the Philippines for a missionary experience. They arrive with backpacks full of pressure, loneliness and searching, and return with hearts enlarged by the encounter with a living, poor and joyful Church. We have been doing this annual experience for more than 7 years.
Korean and Japanese adults on mission
Some 10 adults from South Korea are also participating in the annual Asian Adult Mission – “Bridges of Hope”, the fruit of years of missionary formation. They have come to know the reality of Philippine poverty and have returned moved, committed and transformed. We are carrying out the mission this year 2025 for the third time.
And indirectly...
- More than 1,000 students in schools where we provide training and vocational campaigns.
- Families of participating youth and children.
- Local businesses and economy benefiting from the impact of the project.
- The Diocese of Lingayen-Dagupan and its parishes, which are strengthened pastorally by this mission.
- Missionaries from Japan, South Korea and Europe who find in the AMC a platform for evangelistic exchange.
Location
Barangay San Pedro-Taloy, San Carlos, Pangasinan. Philippines.
San Carlos is a city about 200 km north of Manila, on the island of Luzon. It belongs to the province of Pangasinan. It is a rural area with many development challenges. The population is engaged in agriculture, rice farming and bamboo house construction. Others are tricycle drivers. Women work at home taking care of their children or in the market selling vegetables. Due to lack of economic resources to support their families, many go abroad to work with the consequences this has on the children. This generates abandonment, orphanhood and an environment that favors child abuse. The youth and child population is 60%.
Duration
2024 - 2030 (project in 4 phases)
Milagros Hall (2024-2025) Completed: An open pavilion and recreational area for community activities, meetings and youth gatherings.
Formation House (2025-2027): Residential and academic space for Filipino youth. Vocational orientation workshops and novitiate.
Chapel (2027-2028): Spiritual heart of the project. Place of adoration, silence, reconciliation and missionary sending.
Youth Pastoral Center (2028-2030): Multifunctional room for workshops, accompaniment, mission, youth leadership and international volunteer work. It also has rooms, bathrooms and kitchen.
And this is his story...
A dream with its own name: AMC (Asian Mission Center) a missionary center to form and transform lives to improve the world.
In 2015, we arrived in the Philippines with a single certainty: that the Gospel can change lives from within. After a decade of mission, we have accompanied hundreds of young people marked by poverty, abandonment, family fragmentation and hopelessness. They have almost nothing, but they thirst for something more.
Every week we meet with them under the trees, in borrowed houses or in small improvised spaces. We listen to them, pray together, give them formation and watch them grow. But today this mission requires a further step: a stable and welcoming place of our own where we can sow deeply.
Thus was born (the) Asian Mission Center, a space open to the encounter between cultures, generations and hearts. It will be a beacon of light in the midst of a society in need of references, a school of life, faith and hope. A point of missionary connection between Asia and the world.
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Today you can change the future of a young person in the Philippines. Your donation builds the Asian Mission Center, a home of faith, formation and hope.