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What is El Shaddai DWXI PPFI?

El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fellowship International (El Shaddai DWXI-PPFI) is a Catholic Charismatic Movement that started in the Philippines in 1984. It is widely known simply as El Shaddai and has grown into one of the largest Catholic charismatic communities in the country and around the world with local chapters among Filipino communities abroad. 

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Key points about El Shaddai DWXI-PPFI:

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  • Name & Meaning: El Shaddai comes from two Hebrew words: “El” meaning God and “Shaddai” often translated as Almighty, so the name is understood as “God Almighty.”

  • Origins: Founded in 1984 by Bro. Mike Velarde as a movement within the Catholic Church emphasizing faith in God’s word, prayer, healing, transformation, and community life. 

  • Affiliation: El Shaddai is a non-stock, non-profit organization and part of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, working in cooperation with the Catholic Church. 

  • Activities: The ministry conducts prayer meetings (often called gawain), healing services, fellowship gatherings, and media outreach (including its radio station DWXI 1314 AM) to bring its message of faith, hope, and spiritual renewal. 

Bro. Mike Z. Velarde is the Founder and Servant Leader of El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fellowship International (PPFI).

 

He founded El Shaddai in 1984 as a Catholic Charismatic Movement, dedicated to proclaiming the Word of God, strengthening faith, and bringing spiritual renewal to people, especially the poor and marginalized. Through his Spirit-filled preaching and evangelization, El Shaddai has grown into a global Catholic community with chapters in the Philippines and abroad.

 

Bro. Mike Velarde is also known for pioneering faith-based media evangelization through DWXI radio, helping spread God’s Word to millions worldwide.

 

In El Shaddai, he is lovingly called “Brother Mike”, a servant leader who continues to inspire believers to trust in Yahweh El Shaddai—God Almighty.

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Our vision is to bring about a revival of the true Christian spirit inside our Catholic faith, particularly among DWXI (El Shaddai ) PPFI members, and serve as an institution in raising up a community of true Christian believers, as described in Acts 2:42-47, “They devoted them selves to the Apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the Apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave everyone as he had need, Everyday they continued to meet together in the temple courts, They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their numbers daily those who were being saved." In-short, raising up a community of faith-filled, generous, loving, and united people of God, thus attracting the separated brethren of the Church back to its fold.

VISION
 

MISSION
 

Our mission is to witness and to share the healing, saving and transforming power of the Living Word of God in our Catholic Christian faith, as it did happen and continues to happen in our lives, from the day we heard, believed, and responded, to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, giving life to what is written that: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4)
We are called not for any personal gain or glorification, but to share the light of Christ Jesus and the joy of our Salvation and the power of our faith-to bring about moral and spiritual revival in our Church and communities: to give glory to God our Savior: to bring healing to the sick and weary, strength to the weak, deliverence to the captives of wrong beliefs, hope to the hopeless, life to the lifeless, eyes to the blind; and to set on fire the love of God and neighbor that will bring the redeemed into a family that cares and
shares one's burdens and blessings for the glory of God, our Heavenly Father-El Shaddai!
However, we cannot share what we do not know and what we do not have. And so, to be able to accomplish this calling, we must first answer the call of Christ to a new life that is in complete surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit.

OBJECTIVE AND PURPOSE

Our objective is that through our testimonies, living examples, and vibrant or inspired proclamation or sharing of the Living Word of God, we may give hope, the kind of hope from where faith-love spring to everyone and lead sinners back to repentance through a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, just like Barnabas as it is written in the Book of Acts, “..he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great number of people were brought to the Lord” (Acts 11:24) during the times of the Apostles.

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