At The Master’s Community Fellowship Church and Ministries, we believe that the New Testament model for church leadership is the plurality of godly men hence we have several pastors at the helm of the ministry that God entrusted to us. Following this model ensures accountability, shared responsibility among pastor-elders, ensuring that each pastor is in a ministry where he is called by God and where he can maximize his natural God given ability and gifts and lastly prevents pastors from becoming burnt out.
COUNCIL OF PASTOR-ELDERS
PASTOR ZIGFRED DIAZ serves as pastor-administrator and pastor-teacher. He also serves as the school and apologetics director for The Master’s Bible Institute.
He is an ordained minister and has a Bachelor’s degree in theology from The Master’s Theological Seminary. He is the pastor teacher of the TMCF group and mainly handles the doctrinal and administrative side of church affairs. Because of his being trained in multiple disciplines aside from TMFC, Zigfred also handles several responsibilities in different sectors of society ranging from business, education, adcademics, research work, advocacy among others. He personally blogs at www.zdiaz.com and actively blogs at www.backpackpolymath.com He is currently taking up his Master’s degree in Divinity majoring in Christian Apologetics from Veritas International University, School of Apologetics.
PASTOR BERYTHYL JUDE REYES serves as head of pastoral care, AXIS Youth Ministry, ICM ministry and the internet radio broadcast, THE VOICE OF THE MASTER together with Pastor Levi and also handles the Sunday morning pre-service discipleship class. He is also a regular speaker in TMCF main’s prayer meeting.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of the Visayas and a Masters degree in Pastoral Theology and a Master’s Degree in Christian leadership from the Cebu Graduate School of Theology. An active athlete and a former basketball team captain, Berthyl uses his basketball experience to minister to young people. He has 15 years of experience as youth pastor, coach and as chaplain of the basketball teams in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
He has extensive biblical counseling experience while ministering to and men, women in jail and juvenile delinquents He formerly worked as Provision Director and Community development worker at the International Gospel Center SEAsia based in Inayawan Cebu City.
He is currently head youth pastor for AXIS Youth ministry, a joint youth ministry of The Master’s Community Fellowship Church and Ministries and his own ministry to the youth.
PASTOR SEM VILLAR serves in the pastoral care, discipleship, and evangelism ministries at TMCF and teaches English – Visayan Grammar at The Master’s Bible Institute (TMBI). He is also in charge of the newly started plenary discipleship (Sunday School) every Sunday morning at TMCF Main and will be working on the translation of TMCF’s Bible teaching materials.
He graduated with two bachelor’s degrees, a bachelor degree in Political science and in Public Administration from the Mindanao State University and three master’s degree namely, a Master in Theology, major in Christian Leadership, Master in Divinity, major in pastoral studies and Master of Arts in Religious Education from the Cebu Graduate School of Theology. He will soon be finishing his Doctor of Education degree at the University of the Visayas. nHe is a certified T.E.S.O.L. (Teaching English to a Speaker of Other Language) teacher.
He has extensive ministry experience having previously worked as a church planter at Advent Christian Church, Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur from 1985 to 1986, as a Missionary-Teacher with Oriental Missionary Crusade, Inc at Boracay Island, Malay, Akla from 1987-1991, as an Associate Pastor at Christian Frontier Ministries in Cebu City from 1992-1996, as an Education Officer for Associated Multi-purpose Cooperative, Inc. at Cagayan de Oro City, from 1997-1999, as an Associate Pastor for Blessed Hope Christian Fellowship, Cebu City from 2010-2016 and as a Free-lance Cebuano-Visayan language teacher/translator from the year 2000 to the present.
PASTOR RENAN NANO serves as pastor for church programming and handles formalities and solemnities. He also serves as extension pastor-teacher of The Master’s Community Fellowship Cabancalan, Bulacao Cebu City. He also handles the ministry’s radio broadcast, “Ang Tingog sa Agalon.” (The Voice of the Master – Visayan Edition) and the Sunday morning (together with pastor Reyes) and evening discipleship class. He is also a regular speaker in TMCF main’s prayer meeting.
He pastored several churches in the Negros area before came to TMCF. He received theological training at the Baptist Theological College where he graduated with a Bachelor’s in ministry degree majoring in church administration
ADJUNCT PASTOR-ELDERS
PASTOR LEVI NEVA serves as pastor-teacher and also serves as director for Biblical languages and extension campus at The Master’s Bible Institute. He also handles the internet radio broadcast, THE VOICE OF THE MASTER together with Pastor Reyes.
He recieved his Pastoral and theological training and graduated as valedictorian at Faith School of the Bible, Calbayog City. He graduated at the top 5 of his class at Living Word Training Center Catbalogan Samar. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in theology from El Theological Seminary Cebu City and a Master’s Degree in Theology from Theology University.
Aside from The Master’s Bible Institute, He has been teaching Hebrew and Greek in other Bible schools since 2005. He preaches at the Master’s Community Fellowship – Main (Dumlog Talisay City) every last Sunday of the month.
DR.PHILIP BARTOLABA Th.D serves as pastor evangelist and is in charge of external linkages (establishing linkages with other churches, para-church organisation, non-government organisation and the government)