Bagong UNIDA@Baclaran Unida Church: GREAT@78 BUC@HEAVEN'S GATE

Monday, January 18, 2010

GREAT@78 BUC@HEAVEN'S GATE

BACLARAN UNIDA CHURCH celebrated it’s 78th Year last Sunday, January 10th with a Thanksgiving Morning Worship and capping it with a Choir Concert at night. And there was a parade around the community on the morning of January 9th to boot.
BUC is at the center of Barangay Baclaran and had its roots when it was still a fishing village with a beach called “aplaya” in the vernacular. Fishing boats were aplenty then and every child then could swim like a fish. At night the sweet smell of dama de noche permeates as the fishermen go out to sea with their fishing nets and lamps in tow.
They were simple folks but their faith in God is big enough for their “kapilya” to be still be alive and kicking after almost eight decades.
BUC can be seen in video at its YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/PastorGalying and at its blogsite at http://www.bagongunida.blogspot.com. Its Sunday Sermons and the like are posted at www.churchcloud.com/ieudc/Sermons.

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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"