First Love International in the Philippines

First Love is focused on several ministries in the Philippines including children’s homes, education, feeding programs, medical care, prison ministry, church planting, sport evangelism, and livelihood projects.

First Love Children’s Homes  

Arthur Center is a home for abandoned babies. Infants are often abandoned by single mothers or drug addicts. The Philippines version of DCFS brings the babies to First Love where we are working with approved organizations to have them adopted into safe, loving homes.  

Butterfly Project

The Butterfly Project is a safe house for girls who have been rescued from sexual abuse and sex trafficking. 

Visit: TheButterflyProject.org 

Give to the Butterfly Project 

Church Planting  

First Love has started churches in several places including the Aquinan village, Tanza resettlement area, and Tacloban. 

Education 

Currently we are operating 4 schools in the Philippines: Aquinan Christian Training School, ATS Pastors Training School, MASA Ati, and Jubilee Christian Academy.  

Bible Translation   

First Love has a team which is completing a new formal translation of the Bible into the Waray language.  There are 3 million speakers of the Waray language and only around 3% attend an Evangelical church.  The first translation of the Bible into Waray was done 90 years ago, in 1930. Then a paraphrase translation of the Bible into Waray was done 40 years ago, in 1980.  However, with many changes to the vocabulary of the young people these earlier translations of the Bible sound very old fashion to young Warays.  In 2014, this team of translators began working on a new translation of the Bible into the Waray language under the supervision of Kermit Titrud, a senior consultant with Wycliff Bible Translators.

Learn More about the Waray Bible Translation Project

Livelihood Projects

Threads of Hope is a livelihood project on the island of Mindoro empowers individuals to create home based enterprises. In addition to creating a source of income for the impoverished people of the area, Threads of Hope has built a church, high school, and a Birthing Center or the community.

Learn more about Threads of Hope

Prison Ministry

A Metro-Manila prison outreach organization called Ina-Inakay focuses on female inmates and their families, helping the children through financial allowances for schooling and assisting the women through livelihood micro-financing, craft production, and spiritual direction.

Sports Evangelism

MASA Ati School organizes sports camps to evangelize children using soccer, volleyball, and basketball. They also coordinate with teams from organizations like Athletes in Action for Sports Evangelism tours.

Shores of Hope

Shores of Hope is a project on Panay and Boracay, dedicated to quality Christian education. The ATS Pastors’ Training provides seminary level courses to local leaders. The MASA Ati Tribal School is K-10, and exclusively for indigenous tribal children. Finally, Jubilee Academy serves an impoverished K-7 population on Boracay Island.

Learn more about Shores of Hope

Tanza Resettlement Ministry

Tanza is community near Manila where the government moved people from squatter settlements that had developed in the city. First Love purchased land in Tanza that is now home to First Love Community Church and a Ministry Center that provides a feeding program for school children, food distribution for Senior Citizens, a Pre-natal Clinic, and a Pediatric Clinic.