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Builders Summit

The flagship annual gathering of the Builders Community — a movement committed to raising wise tentmakers who influence families, workplaces, and nations.

AnnualOne gathering, once a year
3-yearMinistry · Leadership · Legacy
2Nations, one community
AllSpheres of society
More than a conference

Where faith, purpose, leadership and vocation converge.

Builder's Summit is the flagship annual gathering of the Builders Community—a movement committed to raising wise tentmakers who influence families, workplaces, and nations. More than a conference, it is a transformative experience where faith, purpose, leadership, and vocation converge, equipping participants to build lives and communities that honor God and create lasting impact.

It is the one time each year the whole community is in the same room — the people who read FLIP on a commute, who host a Tuesday small group, who carry the mission into an office in Bangkok, Manila or Cebu. What happens the rest of the year online happens here face to face.

The three-year rotation

Built to form you over years, not a weekend.

The summit follows a unique three-year rotational theme designed to foster holistic growth. Each year stands on its own — and together they build something a single conference never could.

A small circle praying together at the Summit
Year one

Build Ministry

Deepen the calling

Deepens one's calling and spiritual foundation — the year that asks what you are built on before it asks what you are building.

  • Hearing and testing a calling
  • Spiritual foundations that hold under pressure
  • Serving where you already are
A woman leading a Summit breakout workshop

Build Leadership

Lead with character

Equips individuals to lead with character, competence, and conviction — because influence without formation is a liability.

  • Character before competence
  • Leading teams, groups and families
  • Conviction that survives disagreement
An older mentor talking with two young professionals over coffee

Build Legacy

Steward what outlasts you

Inspires participants to create lasting impact through faithful stewardship and generational influence — the long view, deliberately taken.

  • Stewardship of money, time and gifts
  • Mentoring the next ones through
  • Decisions measured in decades

Together, these themes reflect the Builders Community's commitment to developing servant leaders who faithfully live out God's purpose in every sphere of society.

What actually happens

A day at the Summit.

Main sessions to gather everyone, breakouts to go deeper, and enough unhurried space for the conversations people actually remember.

  • 08:30
    Doors & coffeeArrive early, find your people, meet someone new.
  • 09:15
    Opening worshipThe whole community in one room to begin.
  • 10:00
    Main sessionThe year's theme, opened from Scripture.
  • 11:30
    Breakout tracksWork & calling · leading a group · money & stewardship · rest.
  • 13:00
    Lunch & table talkSeated in mixed groups on purpose — no one eats alone.
  • 14:30
    Practical workshopsHands-on and small: teaching, hospitality, mentoring, media.
  • 16:00
    Panel & honest questionsTentmakers answering what people actually asked.
  • 17:30
    CommissioningPrayer over each city, and being sent back out.
The Summit hall filling before a session
Who you'll hear from

Practitioners, not just presenters.

The people teaching at Summit are the people writing on FLIP and hosting groups the rest of the year — accountants, nurses, engineers, teachers and pastors.

Pastor David Tan Pastor David TanLead pastor · BangkokMain session
Grace Mendoza Grace MendozaTeaching team · ManilaTentmaking track
Rina Cruz Rina CruzCounsellor · ManilaRest & sustainability
Kevin Lim Kevin LimSmall groups · CebuLeading a group

Hear them before you come — on the Media Library and FLIP.

Come and be built — then go and build others.

Registration for the next Summit opens closer to the date. Tell us you're interested and we'll make sure you hear first — or partner with us to send someone who couldn't otherwise come.

Dates, venue and registration are announced each year through the newsletter and the community. Event sponsorship underwrites a city gathering in Thailand or the Philippines — see partnership & sponsorship.