For more than 40 years, REACH carried out God’s calling to make disciples without a home of its own. In 2003, REACH embarked on a program to finally build its own home and meet the needs of a growing ministry.
Uncertainties abounded and hurdles laid in the pathway. However, the ministry trusted in God’s unlimited capacity and resources.
The building program started as a dream of the REACH-Metro Manila ministry. Members longed to provide better accommodations to visitors. In the beginning, local members started collecting P100 from each planning team member each month.
Later, the local ministry brought the need for a better facility to the REACH Board of Trustees. The Board agreed that the facility at that time was no longer adequate as a national office, local ministry center, training apartment, and guest house. They voted to elevate the local project into a national effort.
In response, the Oplan Bayanihan fund drive launched on May 3, 2003 in Silang, Cavite during the national conference, Growing to Multiply. REACH founder, Gene Tabor, presented paper-mache figures of a carabao to each ministry area as a symbolic piggy bank in the fund-raising effort.
Over the years, there was donated property and transfers of facilities. However, it would take years to title and sell properties to raise funds for construction.
By 2012, a new fellowship center opened at the Lanzones property through a generous donation of use by the Gozon Foundation. Monthly fellowships, conferences, youth programs, and community outreaches soon followed.
Building a Home at Bignay street
However, certain limitations remained when using donated property. So REACH continued dreaming of building its own home. Additional pressure to find a permanent home came in 2015. Owners of the Chico property, which REACH rented for almost 40 years, informed the ministry of their plan to sell the property.
But surprises to the ministry did not catch God off guard.
In 2018, former Executive Officer, Mario Garcia, now living in New Zealand, offered to sell their family property at 7 Bignay St., Proj. 2. The ministry agreed to the offer. Funds continued to be solicited and the Masili property in Laguna Province finally sold after several attempts. Parties signed the deed of sale for the Bignay lot on October 2018, followed by the transferring of the certificate of title at the Land Registration Authority on January 15, 2019.
The REACH office operations transferred temporarily to 23 Lanzones in late 2019 after the Chico property was sold.
In the second half of 2019, REACH hired a contractor for the first phase of construction at Bignay St. It included a one story-structure with a mezzanine. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and the government declared a lockdown on March 15, 2020.
God of Impossible Circumstances
Once again, man’s surprise was no challenge to God. Construction of the new national center continued as much as possible under the shifting quarantine regulations. By God’s grace, despite the economic impact of the pandemic, REACH continued to receive gifts for the construction locally and from abroad.
The contract price for construction amounted to P3,385,057.43, payable in five tranches. At the beginning of 2020, REACH had a little under P1,000,000.00, lacking over two-thirds of the needed funds.
But praise the LORD for His faithfulness. God guided REACH through the many challenges (financial, weather, and other pandemic-related issues) to complete the project.
Those touched by God continued to give to the effort. That included the initial contract price for a basic unpainted structure, and finally the needed finishings, security, and supplementary works to fulfill the multifunction-purpose of the facility.
By January 2021, the first phase concluded, and payments made. January 7, 2021 marked the turnover of the completed facility to REACH.
The building includes offices for REACH and Resources Development Cooperative on the ground floor, and a boardroom in the mezzanine. Other features include a kitchen, and three sets of comfort rooms on the various levels. A roof deck provides space for other activities. The fenced garage area accommodates three vehicles and three more fit behind the other vehicles if the gate is open. The ministry looks forward to adding other floors for a conference room and dormitories as funds become available.
REACH invites you to give thanks and praise to God for His generous provision. To God be the glory!
The office staff has more space to spread out and work. 
Books available for reading. 
The roof deck provides a place for prayer and ministry activities.