Angelina B. Buensuceso: Harbinger of Baptist ordination of women in the Philippines

Abstract

In 1934, a seventeen-year-old student named Angelina Belluga enrolled in the Baptist Missionary Training School (BMTS) in Iloilo City on Panay Island in the Philippines. Her enrollment was the culmination of the first leg of a spiritual journey that had begun three years before. It was the beginning of the second leg of a journey that still continues more than seventy years later. Who could have known at that time that this unassuming but tenaciously committed teenager was embarking on a vocational odyssey that would change the course of Baptist history in the Philippines?