This study attempted to describe a 56-year old history of the Baptist Mission in Vietnam from a Vietnamese perspective from 1959 to 2015. It also sought to identify the Baptist missionaries and Vietnam Baptist Churches ...

This thesis studies the theological basis of a feminist re-orientation in the formation of the women ministers of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC). The present situation of the women ministers is analyzed ...

"This book hopes to contribute to the writing of the history of the Philippine Baptist pastors from a point of view that emphasizes the Philippine Baptist pastors. This study aims at reconstructing a history of the Philippine Baptist pastors from the year 1898 to 2002. This reconstruction will find out who they are and highlight their significant contributions to the church and society. Specifically, this study will describe and analyze their pastoral identity vis-à-vis: a) Their theology and understanding of the ministry; b) Their Political and ideological perspective; c) Their Socio-economic status; d) Their reasons why they committed themselves to become pastors; e) And their significant strength and weaknesses that led to their present situation. This study attempts to portrait an image of Philippine Baptist Pastors (1898-2002) from a kaupod perspective using published and unpublished documents as well as oral testimonies obtained from interviews and questionnaires." -from the Introduction...

The intent of this study is to utilize a phenomenological qualitative paradigm to explore the lived experience of the Baptist Ministers as full-time within the church. The conceptual framework was shaped by the following ...

In May 1950 the Philippine Baptist Mission celebrated its Golden Jubilee which marked the end of the first fifty years of Baptist mission work in the Philippines. During these first fifty years, and the nearly three years since 1950, the event which effected the mission work more than any other one thing, was World War II. The story of the war years and their destruction has been published at least briefly in such Baptist publications us Missions Magazine and Crusader. No complete study has been published which gives a picture of the Philippine Baptist Mission since World War II. It will bo the purpose of this survey to present as accurate a picture as possible of the Philippine Baptist Mission from the close of World War II until the present time which is the early part of the year 1953. My interest in this subject comes from the fact that as a Baptist missionary, sent to the Philippines shortly after the war, I have been an integral part of the rebuilding and the advance which has taken place there in the past few years. Often during our missionary service we have felt that history was being made, and because it was not being recorded, it might be lost permanently. Therefore, this survey has been undertaken in order that some record of this period in the Philippine Baptist Mission might be kept. In searching for materials which have been published relative to the subject of this survey, it was possible to find some excellent books on the history of the country. Such books as The Philippine Islands by William Cameron Forbes, and The Philippines, A Study in National Development, by Joseph Ralston Hayden, give a very good background and history of the country itself. Both of the above mentioned books have been revised and brought up to date to about the beginning of World War II. Such books as The People of the Philippines by Frank Charles Laubach, All Kindred and Tongues by Peter Hugh James Lerrigo, and A Short History of Baptist Missions by Henry C. Vedder, all give excellent accounts of the beginning and early work of the Philippine Baptist Mission. The book Darkness of the Sun by Richard Terrill Baker has a chapter which tells of the religious life of the people in the Philippines during the and tells of some interesting attempts on the part of the Japanese during the occupation period to unite all the denominations into one united church. In order to find published material about the specific subject of the Philippine Baptist Mission since World War II, however, it was necessary to turn to periodicals and other publications of the American Baptist people. While no article has been found in any magazine which deals directly with the subject, there are many articles from which it has been possible to glean facts which along with our personal knowledge has made this study possible. Articles have appeared in Missions Magazine freer time to time since the war which have furnished most of the background of the period during the war and since the war. The annual report of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, which is published in booklet form under the title Along Kingdom Highways has been a rich source of facts. Other publications and books listed in the bibliography have helped to reveal facts on the subject, which when gathered together, give something of the total picture. It must be stated however, that without the personal experience and knowledge of the author from having served as a missionary, it would have been most difficult to assimilate these facts into the survey here presented. Further it has been necessary from time to time to present facts which have not been published in any book or magazine, and yet they are facts which help complete the picture. In such cases footnotes have been added which support the statement only with the reference, "Personal knowledge of the author." It is felt that this is a justifiable inclusion in a research survey such as this, primarily because of the peculiar position which it has been my privilege to hold in the Philippine Baptist Mission, and which has given me an accurate and complete knowledge of the work of all phases of the mission. Upon arrival in the Philippines in November 1946 we were assigned to work as general evangelistic field missionary in the Province of Iloilo. In November of 1948, however, the missionaries in the Philippines elected me to the position of Mission Secretary. At that time the position was in addition to my field work, and was primarily that of carrying on the necessary correspondence with the Foreign Secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in New York. It did however, enlarge the scope of work to include a knowledge of the total program of the mission. In November 1950 a change of policy on all Baptist mission fields was inaugurated, which was an attempt to improve the administrative work of the mission fields. The Mission Secretary was then appointed directly by the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society with the approval of the missionaries on the field, and he became a liaison officer between the mission and the home office in America. This meant not only added responsibility, but it meant that the mission secretary became an ex-officio member of all boards and committees of every part of the mission work. Having held this position part time since November 1948 and full time from November 1950 until we returned to the United States on furlough in April 1952, I feel competent to deal with the subject of this thesis. Part of the research has been done from various publications which touch on the subject, but part of it has been done by an actual personal investigation on the field, and a taking part in the events as they happened over a period of several years....

This volume, Managing Faith Resources, offers a variety of published and unpublished works mostly coming from the CBMA membership. Most of these theological resources are not yet disseminated to the CBMA members. Moreover, ...

This volume serves as a guide for the CBMA 61st Annual Assembly. This is a new and big breakthrough in the life of our association. We hope that this will serve as a reference for pastors in their ministry; and as a challenge ...

In 1963 Dr. Agustin E. Masa, former General Secretary and President of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC), in his nine-page Outline History of the Baptists in the Philippines, had endeavored "to set in writing the history of the Baptists in the Philippines" as a response to a "popular request". He emphasized that "without such organized written account of the activities of various Baptist groups in the country, there will be no basis for objective investigation of such activities or no way to assess their advances or lapses." In a way, history serves as a basis to understand and transform the present and a guide to plan for the future. Meditating on religion, politics and social transformation, Philippine Baptist scholar Dr. Lester Edwin J. Ruiz pointed out that "memory, narrative, and vision are decisive for transformation inasmuch as they mediate the possibilities of the 'fundamentally new and better. Without dreams - indeed, without the capacity to dream - the future is closed; without memory we are cut adrift in the present without any guiding stars to show the way; and without narrative - or the capacity to tell and re-tell our past and future - there is no possibility for meaning. Taken as a triadix structure, past, present, and future provides the context for human: life." The American Baptist missionaries were not unaware of the need to write history. In 1966 Elizabeth Chambers, librarian of the Baptist-owned Central Philippine University, was one of the participants in an Asian-wide conference on theological education attended by Asian church leaders involved in education, together with some theological school leaders from the United States. In that conference, Missionary Russell Brown affirmed that Chambers acknowledged that there are no historical materials available to help the Philippine people to know about their religious origins. Chambers stressed the importance for Protestant denominations to have a sense of their own beginnings in the Philippines and Brown requested the missionaries „to give serious thought to the possibility of the preparation of a Baptist Church History for the Philippines.” Not before 1976, however, the delegates to the annual assembly of Philippine Baptist churches had resolved to write a Philippine Baptist history. In succeeding years a number of committees were commissioned to do research and to come out with a written history. In June 1981 another committee was created to facilitate a Baptist historiography. That committee wrote a project proposal, "Historical Education and Research (HEAR)", to come out with a book on the history of the Philippine Baptist Churches. With a budget of 219,000 pesos it was expected to launch the book in 1985.4 In 1984, Dr. Domingo J. Diel, Jr., then CPBC General Secretary, announced that the CPBC would "come out with a Baptist primer, compilation of selected sermons, and selected biographies of selected Baptist pastors." The need to write a history cropped up again in 1990. During the 55th CPBC annual assembly, the delegates made two important recommendations: first, that "the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches asks the Central Philippine University College of Theology to include in its curriculum a subject of theology in the Philippine context." Second, that "the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches should encourage Filipino Baptist theologians to write books or Baptist Primer taking into account the Philippine setting and culture." Those endeavors, although they were not realized, could be regarded as efforts of Baptists to recognize the need to write a history. This study is an attempt to partly fill in that need....

This historical-descriptive research was conducted to gain deeper understanding of the Bingawan Baptist Learning Center: Its History and contribution to the community, In order to achieve the overall objective, the following ...

This brief survey of the history of overseas missions undertaken by an association of local churches in the Philippines known as the Convention of Philippine Baptist churches (CPBC) covers the period from the inception of ...