On May 8, 2016, five Postulants (three Filipinos and two Vietnamese) officially started their 14-month Novitiate. The ceremony of acceptance took place in the community chapel in the Novitiate Fr. Dehon in Lucoban, Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur and was presided by Fr. Lukas Hadi Siswo Sasmito, SCJ, the councilor of the Philippine Region.
