Helping Traditions is a Christian ministry that was started in the year 2000 by Brian and Marianita Shilhavy in partnership with local Christians from various churches and denominations in Quezon Province of the Philippines. The original purpose of the ministry was to reach out to the unreached people groups in remote places of Quezon Province and other places in the Philippines with health, sanitation, and livelihood programs. These tribal areas were often overlooked by most churches that did not have resources to minister to them. This ministry continues on today throughout the Philippines.

By 2002 Helping Traditions began partnering with other Philippine Christian organizations to expand their ministry outside the Philippines to other places in Asia. Today Filipino Christians are ministering to the lost and needy throughout Asia.

Another key aspect of Helping Traditions is helping poorer rural agricultural communities to provide quality traditional products through traditional skills that often are only one generation away from being lost. A key example is the creation of the Virgin Coconut Oil market with the traditional methods of making pure organic coconut oil, which today is marketed under the label of "Tropical Traditions" in the U.S. and around the world, and is providing livelihood and income to hundreds of families in communities throughout the Philippines.