March 2026
Dear IGSL Family,
At IGSL, we are called to build leaders for transformation. Each one of us, faculty, staff, and students, stewards this calling in the roles and responsibilities entrusted to us.
From February to May 2026, four graduating IT college students are serving with us at IGSL as interns. Through the initiative and effort of four staff members, the interns are going through the intern formation program called Workship. This program aims to develop not only capable IT professionals but principled individuals who understand the larger purpose of their work. Every week, the interns work on collaborative IT projects that will benefit the school while intentionally shaping their understanding of work, leadership, and calling.
Like everything we do here at IGSL, this training equips the head (knowledge), heart (character), and hands (skills).
Staff members spearheading this integral training program are two IGSL MDiv graduates in 2023, Christian Aballe and Gilbert Copada, and current FCL students, Jed Pamintuan and Raffy Repiso. From designing the training to equipping future leaders in the workplace, they are applying leadership principles and holistic development that they learned through their IGSL education and experience as staff members. As someone passionate about the theology of work, Christian designed Workship as an intentional way to influence future leaders in their view of work: that it is a holy, honorable, and concrete way of loving God. Together, these staff members are mentoring, discipling, and building relationships with the interns through work, devotions, sports, and shared meals.
The four IT interns are grateful to experience intentional mentorship alongside skills development. Aside from their daily tasks in the department they are helping, the interns are working on IT projects that allow them to explore, innovate, and collaborate. Each one commended the internship program as well-balanced, as they learn and develop technical skills like programming, documentation, video editing, and flowcharting, together with teamwork, resilience, and integrity, in an environment that is both challenging and supportive. Ace Abadenis, one of the interns from Bestlink College of the Philippines, emphasized that after graduating, he will enter the workforce not just as a trainee but as an intentional contributor.
Thanks to you, dear IGSL ministry partner, we can help shape the next generation of leaders in the workplace. Let’s pray for these four interns that they will find their ultimate purpose in God’s will and be used by Him as catalysts in helping transform workplaces into spaces where work is done as worship.
Serving with you in building leaders for transformation,
Great B. Mabuti, PhD
IGSL President