• A Consultation was held in Kuala Lumpur where there was an evaluation of the courses and the name AsIPA emerged, meaning an Asian, Integral, Pastoral, Approach, in a joint meeting of FABC Office of Human Development, FABC Office of Laity, Bishop Oswald Hirmer and members of the Asian Lumko training team.
• Archbishop Angel Lagdameo (Philippines) was 2nd Chairman of FABC OLF
• Ms. Cora Mateo (Taiwan) was Exec. Secretary

• First AsIPA General Assembly made decision to organize national courses for basic training and international courses for the advanced training.
• An AsIPA Editorial Board was formed with Ms. Wendy Louis, Fr. Thomas Vijay, Ms. Estela Padilla and the Exec. Secretary to continue producing texts and to give courses. Guiding our process was Bishop Oswald Hirmer.
• We went to several countries in Asia to conduct training courses: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia, where we were invited, to run national courses and later to assist the local teams.
• Translation of the materials also started during this period. (At present in more than 30 Asian languages).

3rd AsIPA General Assembly – became more and more an exchange among national and diocesan teams, and the Editorial Board became ART = AsIPA Resource Team with 9 members from 6 countries: India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, and still expanding.

• 5th AsIPA GA in Davao City, Philippines, and there was a handover to the new Executive Secretary
  for the AsIPA Desk – Ms. Wendy Louis. After 27 years, the FABC OLF office in Taiwan was closed and the AsIPA Desk, moved to Singapore.
• GA5 was an experience to be with participants using different methods to build SCCs. We were almost 250 participants a growth from the 26 that gathered for GA1 in Bangkok in 1996.