Graduation

Itel Batch 5 Graduation

The fruit of sweet victory comes after a hard-fought battle.—
This is what the seven hundred and six Graduates of Intensive Training for Emerging Leaders Batch 5 profoundly experienced.
Their journey, up until their graduation, was marred by seemingly insurmountable challenges brought specifically by the pandemic — total lockdown of Churches, group gathering restrictions, employer’s demands, struggles to attend classes held online due to lack of privacy and time because of their employers and cares having work and classes at home, add peer pressures, too, and others needing to take make-up classes because they weren’t allowed by their employers to go out or even go to the church.
But they persevered.
It took them two years to finally reached to the finish line.
But they never gave up.

This year’s Commencement Exercises of the Jesus Is Lord Church Hong Kong’s Intensive Training for Emerging Leaders Course (hereafter referred to as ITEL) were conducted on July 17, 2022 at JIL Hong Kong International Centre.
The biblical theme of this milestone is found in 2 Timothy 2:15 – “Do your best in to present yourself to God as one approved. A worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”

 The President and Spiritual Director of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide, Bishop Bro. Eddie C. Villanueva’s admonition is for everyone to become a part of the generation of history-makers whose ultimate joy is to please the very heart of God of which ITEL is made for this purpose.

These golden words were echoed by Rev. Pastor Bart Itong as he served as the keynote speaker of the event which were attended by JILHK Church Pastors and Outreach Coordinators, Church Education Ministry Heads, and 706 graduates from different district churches and outreaches of JIL Hong Kong, whilst following the protocols set by the government as a precautionary measure.