About Australian Philippine Missions

Since 1989, both Roy and Gae Barrett have made over 30 trips and visited dozens of cities in the Philippines on various short term mission teams. In this time, they have trained and equipped over 300 Australians for short term mission work as well as conducting healing seminars for hundreds more local pastors and church workers.To date, over 25,000 people have come to the Lord and been birthed into churches through the ministry of APM. Countless others have been healed and released by the power of Jesus Christ.

APM uses a successful evangelism strategy that has been developed to include more church involvement in assimilating new believers into the church. It also changed the focus of mission away from large-crowd crusade type evangelism to smaller meetings with multiple 1:1 and house visitation follow up.  Lastly, it recognises the need for greater impartation and equipping of Filipino pastors and leaders. Over the past twelve years, the methods introduced by APM have been highly successful in increasing discipleship of new converts and overall church growth. These methods are now being used by other missionary teams from Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Ireland.

What's Involved if I come on team?

Australian Philippine Mission operates as a team ministry. This means that every team member has the opportunity to preach, testify and pray for the sick. You will be working long hours in hot and humid conditions which will test you spiritually, emotionally and physically. We therefore require the highest degree of Christian commitment and dedication to training from all selected team members. You will also have a lot of fun and build great friendships with the combined Filipino and Australian team.

Prospective team members must meet all the application criteria and be endorsed by APM leadership before their acceptance on mission. Training will involve in-depth training sessions which are mandatory for all members.

Recent APM crusades include:

1995 - Valencia - 30 team members
1996 - Butuan - 44 team members
1997 - Butuan - 56 team members
1998 - Dumaguete City - 58 team members
1999 - Cagayan de Oro - 50 team members
2001 - Camiguin Island - 28 team members
2002 - Cagayan de Oro - 39 team members
2004 - Healing and Wholeness Equipping Conference - Cagayan de Oro
2005 - Cagayan de Oro - 30 team members
2006 - Malaybalay - 16 Australians, 50+ Filipinos and 14 churches were involved.
2008 - Will you be involved?

Leadership

Pastors Roy and Gae Barrett are the pastors of Peninsula Vineyard Community Church, Dee Why. They both made personal decisions for Jesus in their teenage years. They were married in 1974 and have two children Tim and Mark. Roy and Gae both come from a traditional Anglican background where they served in Children's and Youth ministries. They were both Baptised in the Spirit while in the Anglican Church. They have previously helped birth and pastor an independent church on the lower North Shore. Peninsula Vineyard Community Church currently has over 14 nationalities represented in its congregation. For more...

Pastor David Croker of Eagles Nest Fellowship, Yass is our APM Southern Region Co-ordinator. David has been involved with APM since its inception and brings a lot of fun and laughter to mission. David's prophetic gifting and leadership skills have been an invaluable asset to the APM team. He is used as a Team Leader and puts at work his teaching skills when imparting to the team at morning devotions while on mission.

Pastor Alex Eduave of Metro PCG Church in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines is APM's Filipino Co-ordinator.  Ps. Alex pastors one of the largest churches in his city while regularly teaching on evangelism and running cell church growth seminars throughout the Philippines and South East Asia. Ps Alex was recently awarded a national commendation by the President of the Philippines, recognising his churches outreach to the Muslim community. He is highly regarded throughout the Philippines and South East Asia in the areas of evangelism, church growth training and cell churches.

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