Tommy’s story didn’t start in a church. It started on the streets of Los Angeles — gang life, wrong crowd, searching for something real. What he found was Jesus, and a calling that would take him to the other side of the world.
Claudia felt called to missions at 8 years old growing up in Colombia. She never let go of that. She started youth ministry in 2009 and stepped into full-time missions in 2012. When God brought Tommy and Claudia together, He wasn’t just building a marriage. He was building a movement.
Tommy started in campus ministry in 2006, moved into inner city work by 2011, and by 2015 the two of them were on a plane to the Philippines with a small team of five and nothing but a calling. No campus. No systems. No backup plan. Just obedience.
Who We Are
Tommy and Claudia are Elders and Executive Directors of YWAM Impact Philippines, overseeing a 29-acre missions campus in Cavite. Tommy is also the Founder and Executive Director of Ten Talents Philippines — one infrastructure platform powering five ministry movements across the nation. He is a co-founding member of the PCEC Youth Movement Leadership Team — a nationwide coalition of over 90 denominations and one of the most significant youth networks in the Philippines.
What started as five people in 2015 is now a team of over 80. What began on one island is now a national platform
What God Has Done
We didn’t build this. We showed up faithful and watched Him move.
As of 2025, we have seen over 1.2 million people reached face-to-face across the Philippines. Tens of thousands of students are being shaped by a generosity and character curriculum running in public schools nationwide. Thousands of patients from underserved communities have received free dental care. On our campus, we are training and deploying the next generation of Filipino missionaries through Discipleship Training Schools and sending them into the nations.
In the digital space, God opened doors we couldn’t have engineered. We were part of a team that brought The Chosen — the most watched Jesus film in history — to the Philippines. It reached millions through theaters, national television, and online platforms. A daily devotional movement grew out of that, now with thousands of subscribers and hundreds of churches activated nationwide. We are grateful and still amazed.
As active leadership of the largest evangelical youth movement in the Philippines — a coalition of over 90 denominations — we carry both the privilege and the weight of shaping what the next generation of Filipinos believes is possible.
Our Family
We are first and foremost a family on mission — and that mission has cost us something real.
Tommy and Claudia have walked through two miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy. They survived over 900 days of COVID-19 lockdown in the Philippines — one of the strictest in the world — where only one family member was allowed to leave the house at a time, schools shut down entirely, and the world felt like it was holding its breath. They did all of it together, in a foreign country, far from extended family, with four children at home.
And in the middle of all of it, they watched God move. They saw communities transformed. They saw a nation begin to stir. They saw their children grow up not sheltered from the hard things, but shaped by them — witnessing revival firsthand, learning to trust God in seasons that made no human sense.
Their four kids haven’t just watched the mission. They’ve lived it.
Tommy is also a rapper — using music as a way to worship, evangelize, and connect with the youth in a language they actually speak. He is the author of Missional Church Shift, a sought-after speaker, and someone who believes the best stories are told through both a microphone and a life well lived.
We are just two people who said yes. Everything else has been God’s faithfulness. We are grateful for every step of the journey — and for every person who has walked it with us.