Bagong UNIDA@Baclaran Unida Church: A GIFT FOR THE KING of kings AND LORD of lords!

Saturday, December 24, 2005

A GIFT FOR THE KING of kings AND LORD of lords!

Every Christmas we search from our gift bags a perfect gift for God. This year my gift to Him is a BLOG. It is not perfect, but for me it is a place to publish all my writings for God and for the Unida Church. This is the latest interactive and proactive site in the Web. Please do not hesitate to comment constructively for the good of the BODY OF CHRIST – THE CHURCH. Start blogging!
WELCOME UNIDA WEB TRAVELLERS!

Rev. Gamaliel B. Filio

1 comment:

Bagong UNIDA said...: Nollie, welcome back Unida Traveler after 30 long years. Although, we never considered you and your family as having gone away. You do us a great honor by teaching in our Unda Biblical Seminary.; 9:58 AM

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IGLESIA EVANGELICA UNIDA DE CRISTO

VISION STATEMENT
A serving and caring church faithfully proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and commissioning every believer to make disciples of all nations.

MISSION STATEMENT
Glorify God by equipping the church in reaching and serving people with the Love of Jesus Christ by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

UNIDA CHURCH has a distinctive name and a place in the history of the Philippines. It followed the prophetic observation in 1903 by Rev. John Bancropt Devins “that Filipino Protestants will be self-supporting”: (Wikipedia Encyclopedia) “In 1932, six of the smaller indigenous denominations formed the Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Cristo.”

UNIDA dared to declare economic independence by turning down American dollars to become self-supporting. It was hard going for them because their pastors did not receive anything from the church and the members built churches on their own without aid from the Americans. But with so much faith in God’s provisions they did. Unida is now 77 years old and going strong.

Jose Rizal dreamed of an economically independent Philippines but that remained a dream. For the country, that is. But for 77 years Unida was free from foreign intervention because they were economically independent.

The IGLESIA EVANGELICA UNIDA DE CRISTO or UNIDA CHURCH, the truly Filipino Protestant Church, was born on January 3, 1932 but the seeds that gave birth to it were sown at the turn of the century. It was preceded by the birth pangs of an independent Filipino Nation and emboldened by the coming to the Philippines of Protestantism and consequently the right to read and own a BIBLE. (For more please click for older post "UNIDA: A TRULY FILIPINO PROTESTANT CHURCH"