Bagong UNIDA@Baclaran Unida Church: A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN AT SEVENTY-SEVEN

Friday, January 09, 2009

A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN AT SEVENTY-SEVEN

BACLARAN UNIDA CHURCH celebrates its 77th Year on Saturday and Sunday, January 10-11 2009.

The celebration begins with a parade of the 300-strong church on Saturday spearheaded by the 80-member BESC Drum & Lyre Band around Barangay Baclaran, followed by a free medical check-up for its members. Sunday begins with a worship and ends with a Congregational Fellowship.

Baclaran Unida has a signal achievement this term as its newly organized Baclaran Unida Multi-Media Arts for Christ introduces its own Telenovela titled “Ang Apat” that can be viewed at www.youtube.com/PastorGalying and this blogsite.

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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"