It is a privilege and joy for our spiritual family to commission 20 new campus missionaries, 15 new cross-cultural missionaries, and 14 new church leaders to the harvest field as they graduated from the Every Nation Leadership Institute School of Ministry.

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During the commencement exercises on May 8, 2025, Pastor Michael Paderes encouraged the graduates with a message from Luke 4.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” — Luke 4:14-22

The greatest turnaround our lives could ever have is when Jesus finally called us to Himself, and now, it is still such grace that we experience the joy of His presence as our good Shepherd.

Now, it is grace all the more that He invites us to be part of His mission.

He may have done it all on His own, but He wants us to take part as sons and daughters.

We are going to the crowds in His name and in His authority.

Amidst trials and sufferings, may we continually move in compassion.

May we go in the clarity of the message of the gospel.

May we go and tell of the Way, the Truth, and the Life to the world out there.

May we go and heal and deliver in the name of Jesus Christ.

May we not only pray for the harvest, let us go where the harvest is.

May we be the answers to our own prayers, being sent to the world.

Jesus promised that He is with us to the very end of the age.

Go to the harvest fields in the name, authority, and the power of Jesus.

To all the graduates, we praise God as you give your lives and answer His call for full-time vocational ministry.