Bishop Ef Tendero- Diplomat, Public Servant, Huge Church Leader

Bishop Efraim M. Tendero serves as national director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC)—the largest group of born-again Christians in the Philippines composed of 20,000 evangelical churches, denominations, parachurch organizations, and mission groups. He is also the pulpit minister of Kamuning Bible Christian Fellowship (KBCF) which he helped establish together with a pioneering team when he was still a seminary student.
Besides providing leadership to PCEC, Bishop Tendero is the chair of the board of the following organizations: Asian Theological Seminary, Back to the Bible Broadcast, Evangelism Explosion (EE) 3 Philippines, Philippine Association of Christian Education and Philippine Missions Association, Philippine Bible Society, and the Youth Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of Asia. He is also a member of the Youth Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance. He was chair of the General Committee of the Metro Manila Franklin Graham Festival that spearheaded the festival of Franklin Graham in the Philippines in February 2006.
As national coordinator for the DAWN (Discipling A Whole Nation) 2000, he provided leadership for the mobilization of churches in the Philippines that made possible the accomplishment of the movement’s vision of seeing 50,000 local churches planted nationwide by 2000. At present, he directs the various strategies to achieve the goal of DAWN 2010 to see the Philippine churches become healthy, holistic, and harvesting.
Owing to his dynamic preaching, excellent leadership and rich ministry experience, he has become among the country’s favorite speakers on leadership, church growth and missions, and has been invited numerous times to speak not only locally but in 18 other countries. Furthermore, he functions as executive editor of Evangelicals Today—the longest-running Christian magazine in the Philippines.
He also served as one of the spiritual advisers of former President Fidel V. Ramos in his capacity as chair of the National Ecumenical Consultative Committee (NECCOM). He continues to be a part of NECCOM and is a member of the newly created Presidential Council for Values Formation. Bishop Tendero was also appointed by President GMA as one of the members of the 50-man Citizen’s Consultative Commission or Concom that went around the country to consult and gather input from various sectors and stakeholders of the nation so as to review and craft possible amendments to the present Constitution, for which he was awarded a Presidential Medal of Merit.Bishop Tendero earned his B. A. Theology degree from FEBIAS College of Bible in 1978, cum laude and was the recipient of that year’s Most Outstanding Student Award. He also went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois for his M. Div. (Pastoral Counseling) degree, graduating cum laude. He is listed in the 1989 “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.” Just recently, the Febias College of Bible and the International School of Theology-Asia separately conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him.
In recognition of his exemplary leadership in the body of Christ as he fosters unity and advocacy for national transformation, he was given the Distinguished Evangelical Leadership Award, making him the fifth person to receive this prestigious award in the 35 years of PCEC then.
Born in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro Bishop Ef is married to the former Sierry Soriano. The couple are blessed with four children, namely: Elizabeth Esther, Efraim Elijah, Ezra Emmanuel, and Elah Eunice.