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FEBRUARY
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The
Selbys
- Charles Richard
Robert Lloyd Roberta
S E L B Y FAMILY
P L A N S
TO
RETURN T O P H I L I P P I N E S
IN
JUNE
13 500 NEEDED TO COMPLETE
A P A R R I B I B L E S E M I N A R Y
B U I L D I N G
F U N D
THE SELBY FAMILY pictured o-
bove have
been
in
t he S ta te s
a
little
over 10 months. T h e children are in
school
in Fairfield Nebraska
an d
will
finish some time in May. We plan to
return to
the Philipp in es
shortly
after
school out.
In speaking throughout the
States
we have
emphasized th e
importance of
the Aparri Bible Seminary to the work
in Northern Luzon. A
Boys
Dormitory
building and a
Classroom
building are
badly
needed if
this school is
to con>
tinue and grow 15 000 will buy the
land and put up these two buildings.
1 500 has already been received and
the other 13 500 is yet needed. 450
gifts of 30 each will complete this
much-needed fund. Any gift in any a-
mount will be
greatly appreciated
and
acknowledged. Will you be one of the
450 who will make
these buildings
a
reality? Please send your gifts to the
Selbys at Fairfield Nebraska; yes that
is all the
address
you need just
FAIRFIELD NEBRASKA
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Present and Proposed Prof
Th i s i s wh a t w e h a v e
. .
Garage
Campbell
Dormitory
2
Feet
IT Y S
THE above sketch pretty well
speaks
for itself. The whole property both
present and proposed fronts on a city
street
and
faces
the
east
The Aparri
Municipal building is just one block
east of
this
property giving us very
good police protection which we value
quite highly. To the west between us
and the great Cagayan River
are
mar
get the Philippine government to give
us a portion of
these
tidelands enough
just back of us to about double what
we already have.
e
can fill
that
mar
shy land with sand
from
the seashore
and make good usable land out of it.
However even though we may never
obtain this addi tional land what we
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h is i s w h a t w e wan t .
Seminary
Building
m
I J
200 eet
will
be
sufficient fo r
the basic needs
of the Aparri Bible Seminary.
The property which we wish to pur
chose
consists
of obout four lots holf
of which orevocant ot the present time.
The other two lots ore occupied by two
families who ore living in temporary
Nipo ond Bamboo houses which hove
quite certoin that we can purchose oil
of these lots if we hove the cosh in
hond. Thot is why it is importont thot
we hove
this
fund complete by
June
first our proposed soiling dote.
ll
you help us hove this money by then?
We ore
enclosing
o self oddressed
envelope for your convenience. Theod
dress is simply Charles Selby
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^ JULY 1957 ^ -
ApWuu CnJuMui
Charles and Roberta Selby
P. 0. Box 49, Aparri, Cagayan
Philippines
Volume 1 Number 2
SELBY FAMILY SAILSJUNE 16th
- . and
their
families. They
have
been
it Is Soturdoy, June 15th. The big most helpful in last-minute details of
day
IS
here
at last,
and
the boys
are
packing,
crating,
getting
baggage
to
counting the hours until-we
can
board the pier, etc.
Our Jeep and
baggage
our
shipj,-
the--Fern Sea, at10
tonight,
are now at the pier waiting to be
We
are scheduled to sail
for
the
open
loaded
tonight
on
the
Fern-Sea. We
sea tomorrow morning, and will finally ask for
your
prayers that the
customs
be
on^
our
way^
work
and
charges on these will
not be
exces-
home in the Philippines. We are
really
sively high and
that
the Lord
will
looking
forward to
those
two and
one-
provide for this particular item of
half
weeks
of rest
and
relaxation on expense,
board ship, and are looking ahead
eagerly to getting back to our work
CAMPBELLS
TOTHE STATES
in Aparri.
The last few weeks
have been Campbells, after
having been
unusually
busy as we
have made
final J
Philippines
fora ItolemorethM
prepaiations
L sailing. Just amonth f
leaving Manila
fot
Ae
Xt an^tvTniitl^rr -y day we V
Z
with
our
livinglink hur h the InS Ij P PP
Ola Church of
Christ. We
have
had a
their oldest son, Ja^s
who
has
wonderful
relationship
with
the
Indian-
Ola Church ever sin they took our P= will
come as
entire family
as their
livinglink u Ti
missionaries ten
years
ago, and we .
C^pbells will not be returmng
to
are very grateful
to
them for
their
PPht . P
continued support.
Brother Harold
W. P summ, but
wUl
be going
Scott
is
minister
of this congregation, f P =?t of
Every day of our three weeki
4 home
P P
f Seminary
was filled with activity _
packing,
Pf .
correspondence,
visiting
relatives
aid P
ooessitated
by
a peat
moun-
friends,
and
taking
care
of
a
few
last
>,
go
hf
speaking appointments.
We
left home <
o
a week ago Wednesday
and
had a very
always
been a peat barrier be-
pleasant
trip west
in out
Jeep station ^ ost
wagon.
coast, and has presented
almost
in-
*. surmountable travel problems for
During
the
last
week we
have had
young people who would like
to study
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these
two
Seminar ies s
have be-,
enrolled in the one up to
this
time
Another advantage
that
will come
of
this
new arrangement will be
that
we will be ab le to concentra te our
time and efforts solely on the provin
ces
of
theCagayan
Valley
and
portions
of Mountain
Province,
while at
the
same time the Campbells will be able
to give personal atten tion to the
problems of that field on
the
west
co s t
th t
h s
been much
in
need of
the presence of a
missionary
for a
long
time.
would
request that gifts
for
the work in Aparri be sent to us either
at our Aparri
address
or to us at
Fair-
field, Nebraska. All gifts for the
Campbells and their proposed work
should be
sen t to them or to the i r
forwarding
address.
SEMINARY PROPERTY
On the
back
page of this issue is
a reproduction of the sketch which
appeared in
the
last AparriChristian ,
of our plans for buying property and
building buildings for the
expansion
of the work of
the
Aparri Bible Semi
nary. We have
asked
for 15,000 to
buy this property and build two large
buildings.
A little over 3,000
has
b ee n r ec eiv ed for t h i s
fund or
bout
one-fifth of
it.
We
are
extremely
grateful to each church and individual
who has
given
for
this very
important
project.
We
still
need 400
gifts
of
30 each to reach our goal. Won't you
be one who
will
give for
this particu
lar cause
in order
that
we might be
able to take care of those young
people who desire to attend
the
Aparri
Bible
Seminary?
Since
the Campbells
are
leaving
Aparri,
we
will
probably
move into the i r house and then
add
quite a
large addit ion to
our house,
making it into a U-shaped building to
be used for a
Seminary building.
The
cost
will
be
somewhat less
perhaps,
but not a
great deal,
it will
house
our
Adelina Ser9/o Banggo
Shown above is one of our very
fine
Christian
couples who are
devot
ing their lives to the preaching of the
Gospel of our Saviour. Before coming
to the Seminary, Brother Sergio had
completed his two years of Junior
College training which prepared him
to teach in the public schools of the
Philippines.
He has now graduated
from the
Seminary
and
has taken
some
graduate work. His
wife,
Adelina, is
a High School graduate and an advan
ced
student
iri
the
Aparri
Bible
Seminary.
This
young couple is
typical of several who
have
graduated
from
the Seminary and
are now
out
among
their
own people preaching
Christ.
These young preachers and
their wives and families are worthy
of your support, particularly as they
work in new fields, attempting to
establish
new
churches.
They are
engaged
in a very difficult
task, and
certainly
should
have our encourage
ment and help in every way we
can
possibly give
it. Fifty dollars
a
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lioveiTiber 19
Qiarles
.and Hoberta Selby
3dx
491 i^arri , Cagayan
States
Aidress:
Philippines FairfieM,
Nebraska
Volume 1
HOMS iiQAm
We. were
in
San Francisco
ready to
sail
for the Philip-
pines when we
prepared
the l a s t
issue
of
the
^Iparri
Christian
fo r p rin tin g . e sa i led on Sun
day
morning, June I6, on an un
usually'-
slow
ship
which
was go
ing
d i r e c t
to- I ^ i l a .
Vfe
had
a
veiy pleasant t r ip ;al l the way
to I ^ i l ay except, of course,
fo r th e
f i r s t
24 hours . Hoberta
and Rob^ were
able
j
to make ev-
eitSrbut
the:res t of us
miesed some, the
I
o ld
man
boing the worst
of
i l l^
We had a most
h^^ppy
reunion
iwith the HcElr*^ fai^ii jy and Mrs.
Wolfe and mapy
of our
close
Fil ipino
friends
uWdn our a r r i
shocks to~hear of the
death
of
Hrs. .John
Hasty, We had known
she
Was
sick,,
but
certainly
did
not
expect
such a
t ragic
r e s u l t
You w i l l rejoice with us to
know that our prayers and
yours
were
answered
in
; a wonder fu l
w ^ in regard to our Jeep Sta-
tioh
V/agon
and
other equipment
coming
in to
the country f ree o f
duty. The new law foi which we
had prayed was signed by the
Number 3
Pres ident
whi le we were a t
sea
lender
the old
law, duty on
the
Stat ion
Wagon
alone
would have
been
fe.QOO. We are so- gi^vtef-ul
to
tho
loixi
fo r th i s
answer
to
p r a y e r .
We arrived
in Aparri
on July
26, more thap a mohth and a
h a lf a f t e r we
left o u r Nebraska
home. It is
good
to
be b ad :
again . The
bre thren
and the
people of the town
seem
liappy
f o r
b u r
r e t u r n We were s i^v
weeks
l a t e fo r the opeping
of
the
Sendnab , so had
to
begin
teaching iii^a^iately. Sveiy-
thing
seined a t a
s tandst i l l
momentarily, a t leas t and
it
has
taken quite a lo t
o f
t ims
and
e f f o r t j u s t
to get
th ings
ro l l ing
aga in . We many
pL^s for expanding aid s: rehg
thening-
the-
work.
We
wish
once
again
to
express
our
deep
gra t
i tude
to
a l l o f
you who
havs
made it possible fo r us to re
tu rn to the
work
here, 5ind to
those who
shared
your bomoc.
with
us
and helped in
so tn.?jiy
ways
while wo wero
in
iimorica.
We Wish You ALL a Ve*^
H PPY N S W Y R
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As inost of you knowr IJie
Caiiip^ll
Family
i s
moving
to
liie west coas^ of
Luzon and
wil l
assume fu l l
responsibi l i ty
fo r the work on
t h a t
s ide o f
the mounta ins . This
l eaves
us
to
concen t ra te our work
i n th e
three provinces of the Cagayan
Valley
-Cagayan Isabela ajxl
Kueva Vizcaya and those parts
of Mountain province
that
can
be -reached from the e a s t s ide
o f
the~mouhtari
rahge.
i s
a
wide
te r r i tory
and
presents
many opportunities for preach
ing
the
Gospel We have
a
to ta l
pf
28
Churches in .
these
three
provinces a t
present with
about
16 places ..w^here work has been
.s tarted
and
where preaching
services
are frequently.
The s tudents are working in
several
of
these
places
on
the
week-ends. There
i s
only one
Church in
the province
of Nueva
Vizcaya
8
in Isabela
and 19 ^
Cagayan. Many
cf
these Churches
are weak
because o f
lack o f
proper leadership
and
regular
preadhing.
We have
taken a bold
step
recently
in
promising
ful l
sup
port to two of our
finest
young
preachers
both
graduates of
the
Aparid Bible Seminary. They
wil l
be giving their fu^l time
to the es tabl ishment o f
new
Churches in th i s three province
a rea . Both o f
these
young men
are
outdtanding personal
work
ers
and
ivery
good
preachers
the Gospel. They can defend the
fa i th when need be in public
debate
o r
otherwise
and both
have a great
zeal fo r
the
pro-
c l ana t ion
o f
the
Word.
The i r
plan
i s
. to
enter
the
l arger
c i t i e s
o f
th i s aroa
to open
new
Churches.
Already
Bi^. Virgi-
l io Ibarra has begun the work
in
Solano
Nueva
Vizcaya and
has several
prospects
t he^ . He
wi l l ; soon begin doing personal
evangel is t ic work
from
bousji t o_
house
in
the
town of Bayoirijong
the Capital
of
the province.
Besides this
he.
has sevei^
prospects t in
a
vallage betweeh
the
. two
towns. Sergio
Banggo
wants to begin
as soon
ab
pos
sib le In the Capital
pf Caguyan
Tuguegarao . but i s willing to
work a iy place where
the
pros
pects
are good
fo r
the estab-
255^nt.of
i
nex^
..Church.
We
fee l ju s ti f ied in
giving f u l l
support
to these
preachers
since they
wi l l be working in
new places .
We
are
sharing in
the support of other preai^ors
who are working
with
establ ish
ed
congregations..:
The Churches
are
usua lly abl e .to supply them
with
food and
a.
place
to
l ive .
We
look forward
to
the
day
when
the- Churches
.
wi l l be
.
taking
fu l l resp onsib ility for
the
support
of
the i r preachers. .We
ask fo r your prayers
on
behalf
o f
th i s
great work o f evangel
ism
the work of consorving
what
we have and
o f
esfcablish-
^ng new work
in
th is
wide
area.
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PRINTPIG PRESS
We had: hop d
tha t
the i^dlt i-
l i th
off -se t press
would be
here
hy ^now so tha t we could
prtnt this
issue
of-the
Aparri
Chris t ian on it and so tha t we
could
assure those of you who
have
given so generously for
the press
and i t s equipment
that
it
had arrived safely and
was being put to good use
in
the
Lord s work here
We were
made even_inore eager
for
i t s
arrival ,
the other
day^^
when one of our preachers came
in
to
see us> and asked to bor
row
one
of our typwri te rs
so
hp
could
type
some things
to
use
in
h is personal evangelis
t ic
work He
said that
many
times he goes into a home to
talk to them about Christ, and
f inds many
people there
idio are
talking
about
eveiything
imagi
nable
and he
never
gets
an
opportunity to begin a conver
sat ion
concerning
Christ and
the
Church.
BUT ,
he said, If
I Just had some. t racts or print,
ed mater ia l
o f
some
so r t ttiat
I
couid ^
pass out to those in t f i^
house, it XTOuldn^t
bo
long be
fore
they
^ould
be
asking
ques
tions about the tract Every
one here i s very happy:
about
the
prospects
of having
the
press*
are hoping to get
started ri^t away on transla
t i ons o f t r ac t s o f a l l kinds
and
teaching
materia ls
tha t
can
be used i n the
Churches^
We
a re
more
convinced
t han
eve r
t h a t
this
press
is
going
to
be a
most s ign i f ican t addi t ion
tc
our
work
here in t he Philippine
Islands* Again we wish to . ex
p re ss publ ic ly
our
deep
gra t i
tude
to the
Churches
of Clay
County, I l l ino i s , who purchased
the press and
are
paying fo r
i t s shipment to the Phil ippinesj
a l so
to
the
Church
in
Fisher ,
I l l i no i s , which
gave the i n i
t i a l gi f t of $700 and to
the
Church in
Hondamin,
Iowa, which
gave
2^
for
the
purchase
of
the
copy camera which i s
needed
in
order
to use
the press
to
the best
advantage.
We would
not
forget
a l l
of the
others
who have given . tha t we- might
have th i s
most;valuable equip
ment f o r th e work
o f th e
Lord
here*
To
a l l o f you, wesay,
TH ^
IDU.
,
BOILDim K WS
As yet we have been ., unable
to
purchase
any
of
the property
that we sq much
des i i^ to
get,
though Vwe have made . severa l
contacts
concerning i t . It i s
ou r
f ee l i ng
r i gh t now, th au th e
owners think-
we
want it .quite
badly
and
are
refusing
to
se l l
hoping we wi l l offer
them
more
money ; than , we hay
up to-now*
We
are,
not
going
to do
tha t .
We
ask that you pray Td.th
us
that
we wi l l be able to get th i s , o r
other property very soon
so
t ha t
we can
have
a
new
boys*
dormitory before
the
opening
of
the
new
School
year
next
June*
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STATEMENT f o r HORIZONS
JUH 18 6
A new program for expansion of th e work
in
n o r t h e r n and w es ter n
Luzon in
t he P h il ip p in e s
has been
outline d and th e
ground fo r it h as
been l id
In l iar ch
1953
Norval A.
Campbell family
jo in ed th e
Charles
W
Selby family in
A parri
Cagayan
Philippines.
This
joint work i n
the Ilocano Field has dealt with m ny phases of eTTangelism^a^d not
th e l eas t o f which
has been
th e A parri B ib le
Seminary. During
th e
p a s t four
years
12 0
st udent s have
earned cred i t ; 25
young women
have
earned
th e ir
two year certificates and
l6
young men and
women
ha ve
completed th e
fo u r y e a r co u rse o f st u d y .
U ntil th e
p a s t school y e a r
th e
Selbys
and C am pb el ls h av e done most
o f
th e t e a c h i n g .
Th e
amount
o f t e a c h i n g done b y Fi l ip ino t e a c h e r s wa s
i n c r e a se d
a s th e y v/ere pre
pared
for
th e work.
The
Selbys
v/ere in
the
States
during the 1 9 5 ^
1957 s ch o o l y e a r an d
fo r
th e f i r s t t i m e
Fi l ipinos d id
more tlian half
of
th e teaching
in
the Sbmihary. The work
o f
Laureano Lopez
an d Mrs.
Esperanza Aguas
i s
o f
such
high ca l iber tha t they
ha ve p rove d
t he i r
v a l u e to
th e work in Aparr i
For a lo ng tim e we
iiave
known .the need fo r a Seminary in Western
Luzon. Luzon i s th e la rges t
i s l a n d
o f
th e
Phi l i ppi nes
and
it i s
sep-
. :
ara ted in to eas t and w e s t sec t ions by a rugged range o f mountains.
T r ave l
f rom
e st
t o we s t is diffi ult
t
ll
t ime s
and is somet imes
impossible.
Students
have been coming
from
th e
western
section
to
Aparri
each
y e a r to s tudy b u t the y
a r e
n o t
a b l e
to l a b o r fo r
th e
Lord
in
the i r own p l a c e s e x c e p t
a t
v a c a t i o n
t i m e .
Furthermore
many
can n o t
a f f o r d th e
t r ip to A pa r r i b u t could study i f a Seminary wa s
l o c a t ed in
t h a t
a r e a With
th e week end work o f
th e
s t uden t s
w e
cou ld
i n c r e a s e th e number
o f
congregations in t he p ro vi nc es
o f I lo co s
Sur an d
Abra
an d
open churches in
Il ocos
Norte
La U n io n an d M o un ta in pr ovinc e s .
Aiik o f t h e s e
p r o v i n c e s
a re in th e w es ter n
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Much prayer and
consultation
has
gone into
the plans
for
expansion.
The
Selbys are returning to Aparri for the
1957-1958
school
year,
and
t]ir
ima:
r
?,
the
Campbells
will
return
to
t>ie
States
about
the
__y;
first
of August. If the necessary funds for the new Seminary can
bo raised quickly,
the
Campbells will
return
to
the
Philippines
a f t e r s i x months
in
the S t a t e s . This w i l l
be
done i n order t o open
the new seminary
in
June 1958 The Campbells will be assisted
in
the
new
venture by
trained Filipinos. Will you
join
us
in
prayer
for
this phase of the extension of Christ's
kingdc^
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r l e s W, Selby
Ndrval
A. Campbell
Mac
Add t h i s
n o t e
t o
t h e
l a s t
b e f o r e t h e
s i g n a t u r e s ;
In
t he f ut ur e, g i f t s for the work of Aparri
Bible
Seminary and +he
Aparri Area should be sent to Charles
Selby,
Box
49, Aparr i,
Cagayan, and
gifts
for the
Campbells
work
should be
sent
to theit forwarding address,^>* 0/0 is
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Campbell, Wahington Court House,
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BRIEF
HISTORY OF
THE
WORK
IN NORTHERN LUZON,
PHILIPPINES
The Lord s
work
in
th e Cagayan Val ley , nor thern
Luzon,
Phi l ipp ines , was begun
about
1917
by Brothe r Faus t ino Peneyra , who had
moved
from th e prov ince
o f
I l o cos Sur on th e
wes t
coas t o f Luzon to Aparr i . During th e a po sta sy here
when
th e
UCMS
(Uni ted
Chr i s t i an
Mission
ary Socie ty)
entered in to
the Comi ty Agr eement
and the prac t i ce
of
open member sh ip .
Broth
e r Peneyra , along w ith Bro. Les l i e Wolfe and o the r s , took a f irm s ta nd fo r th e t r u t h . When
th e Cagayan Valley was t u rned
over
to the Methodis t s under
th e
te rms
o f
th e Com ity Agr ee
ment,
Bro.
Peneyra courageously
refused
to become a par ty to th i s
arrangement.
At his own
expense ,
he
took
the
case
to
th e
cour t s when
th e chapel bui ld ing
( bu i l t
by
th e bre th r en)
was
given to
the
Methodist
church, an d when
they
of fe red him a luc ra t ive
job
in Manila , he wrote
in an a r t i c le
publ ished
in
the
Restorat ion Herald, th e famous s ta tement , My f a i th i s ne i
the r saleable n o r
transferable.
In an
a r t i c l e
in
th e Manila
Chris t ian in
1946, en t i t l ed
Come Over
In to Macedonia
and
Help Us , Brother
Peneyra
pleaded fo r a miss iona ry f am il y to come to A parri. When Charles
and
Roberta Selby
read t ha t a r t i c l e
on
Sunday n igh t in the small
parsonage
in
Clay
Center ,
Nebraska, it proved to
be
God s ca l l
to them.
Bro.
Ben Allison had contacted
them
prior
to
th i s , chal lenging them
to be
one of 3 missionary fami l ies
to
go to the Phi l ippines r ight a f
te r
World War
I I .
They made a
d ec is io n to
go when he
visi ted them
on Dec.
22, 1946. Within
three weeks, they had ful l l iving- l ink support pledged from t he Indianola Church of Christ
in Columbus, Ohio, W.R. Walker,
minis ter .
For 43 years , the Indianola
Church
has
never
fai led to d el iv er tha t
monthly check
to the
Selbys,
increasing
it
on
t he i r
own
i n i t i a t ive
th rough th e years.
On
June 22. 1947.
exact ly
s ix months af te r making the i r
decis ion,
the
Selbv s wai f^nwn th o
gangplank
of SS General Gordon onto the docks of Manila. With
them
were
two
other missionary families, Robert and
Eleanor
(Wolfe)
Hanson
and Robert and
Marjor ie
Schondelmaver. They
were
gree ted by th e
Al l i s ons .
Mrs,
wolte.
Kurh Sm itn ana .
and
Mrs.
J .
Will i s Hale
in
Manila. With Charles
and
Roberta
was
t he i r
son,
Lloyd, who had
h is first bi r thday aboard s h i p ,
c ro s s i ng
th e Pac i f i c
Ocean.
Looking
back,
i t
seems
the
f i r s t
three years were spent in learning
and
absorbing the
cul ture . In ad ditio n to
teaching in the
small t raining school Bro.
Peneyra had started for
part-time
students, Charles
and Bro.
Peneyra
travelled
up
and
down
the
Cagayan
Valley,
and
over
into the
I locos
provinces and Abra, gathe ri ng b re th ren toge ther who
had
been
scat tered
by World
War
II
during
the
Japanese
occupation
of
th e
Philippines,
encouraging
and
strength
ening the
churches,
and
urging
them to meet
regularly.
They
held
many
evangelist ic
meetings
and bap t i zed
l a rge
numbers
o f people in to C h ris t.
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During
that
f i r s t term,
a
second son, Richard Charles,
was born.-
in Manila in
1948
and
Robert
William was born during their f i rs t
furlough,
in Has tings, Nebraska. The
Selby
boys
grew up in Aparri playing with the i r Fil ip ino f ri ends and speaking
Ilocano fluently.
Part
of
the i r
schooling
was
in local schools, part at
home
with furlough
in tervals
every
4
or
5
years in
U.S.
schools.
Lloyd
stayed
in
the U.S. for
his l a s t year
of
high
school;
Rick
and
Rob each had 3 years as
boarding
students a t Faith
cademy
high school in
Manila.
Lloyd
re
turned to
the Phi lipp ines in
1979 to become
Adminis trator for Philippine
Mission Churches
of.
Chris t of Northern Luzon, Inc. He
mar rie d Mar iv ic T enor io
Dec. 19 ,
1981;
they
have
an
adopted son, Jerry. Rick and Carol, w ith children Jennifer and
Warren, own
and
operate a
Pizza
Inn
in
Galveston,
TX. Rob
and Lory and
children
l ive
in
Camarillo, C
Rob
is
a dis
t r i c t
sales
manager
in charge of
8
western
states
for Kennametal;
Lory
teaches in
a
Chris
t i an
school .
All a re h ap pily ac t ive
in the
Lord s work.
EV NGELISM
is
the
primary
goal
of the work
here:
-
to win people to Christ, to estab
l i sh churches, and then to teach those
churches
to be s tr ong cen te rs of
evangelism.
In
1947
there
were
around
10
local , active congregations. Now that
number
has
grown to
around
150. These churches have
been
established by Fil ipinos,
primari ly
those t rained in Aparri
Bible Seminary. Many are now completely self-supporting;
a ll
are self-governing and self-ex
t end ing , reach ing out
to
nearby communities with the gospel.
The web
system
works
natural
ly in th is country
where
th e
people
are family-oriented. PMCC
s t i l l
helps with the
support
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of some preachers
through the lo ca l e ld ers
but the
pat tern
of
to ta l
se lf -support i s gath
ering momentum. May the day come when the
churches
t o t a l ly
support
themselves, the i r own
Bible col leges and the i r own
missionaries
to unreached par ts of the Phil ippines
and even
to
other countries
of Southeast Asia
The
Lord
led in 1952 to th e e st ab lis hm e n t
o f
APARRI BIBLE SEMINARY by
Char les
and
Rob
er ta Selby,
who
along
with Bro. Peneyra, were
the
only
teachers . Norval
and Don dena Camp
be l l came in 1953 to help
in se t t ing
up the
curriculum
and teaching
for
4 years , before mov
ing
to
the west coast to s ta r t a Bible college
there.
Marj B oudreaux was academic dean and
registrar
for
many
years
as
well
as teaching
many
classes .
Other
missionaries taught
br ief
ly , including
Harvey Beard
for
3
years, but the
main
teaching s taff is
made up
of
Filipinos
trained
in
ABS. Some
have other college degrees as wel l .
Roger
Fletcher i s
presently Aca
dem ic and Administrat ive Dean and has b een workin g w ith the Seminary s ince 1984.
Other
missionaries
who have worked in the Cagayan Valley
are
Dennis McKinney and Mike
Carman, who have formed
their
own mission
organization, Philippine Christian
Mission , and
a re
now l i v i ng
and based
in
Baguio Ci ty .
In 1967, two Christian High
Schools
opened in the province
o f I sa be la , south
of Cagay
an.
NORTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY i s 100 m ile s s ou th
of
Aparr i ,
SOUTHERN
ISABELA ACADEMY 150
miles. CENTRAL ISABELA
CHRISTIAN
ACADEMY
halfway
between
NIA
and SIA, began
in 1986.
Brother Amador
Aguas, son-in-law of Bro.
Peneyra,
was the
able administ rator of NIA
and SIA
for
18
years.
He
has
re t i red, and
Rogelio Tenorio
now
supervises
a ll
three
schools.
Roge
l io graduated
from ABS and
has his
A.B./M.A. in
Education
from secular
colleges.
Arotmd
1200
students are in
Bible classes
every
day, and more than 4000 hav e
been
won
to
the Lord
since
1 9 6 7 .
A RADIO MINISTRY has been
going
on since 1970 over local radio stations.
Many
have
been won to the Lord through followup work,
several
churches have been established, and an
active correspondence course in
two
languages
is
being
carried on by Francisco Domincel,
ra
dio preacher,
with
the help of his wife, both graduates of
ABS.
Francisco also heads up the CHRISTIAN GOSPEL TRAVELERS a 4-man evangelistic team
working constantly among
the
churches in church growth s eminars and evangelistic meetings.
Recently
they investigated the
needs
of
typhoon victims, then
distributed
rice which had
been supplied by I.D .E.S ., in many areas. Resulting
evangelistic
endeavors brought several
to an accep t ance o f C hr is t a s Lord .
CAGAYAN
VALLEY
CHILDREN S
HOME
was
established in
1977
with
Mary
Pru i t t as
director .
Mary was married in 1982 to Gilbert Bureros. Ber t is a registered socia l worker with the
DSWD Department
of
Social We lf ar e and Development ), and f i l led that need at
th e
Home
Bert and
Mary
have
two
son s, Jordan and Jacob,
in addition to the
90
children at
CVCH This
is the
only
Home fo r abandoned
child ren in
all of Northern Luzon. The
children
and the
personnel of th e home were happy to welcome Bert and Mary Bureros back from an 8month fu r
lough
in
January.
Bert became a
naturalized
U.S.
citizen while they
were
there. Filipinos
were
in
charge
of
the
Home
while
they
were gone, and did a good job. They have a
very
fine
working
staff.
At
the
urging
of the DSWD
and with their encouragement and
help,
a branch
of
CVCH
will
be opened
in
May
1990
in
Ifugao
Province.
Dick and
Kay
Davidson,
who
had
worked fo r two
years
previously
with Littels in
Davao,
recently
returned from a 6-month
fu r
lough and will be taking charge of the
new
branch. They
will
be working there with the help
of
Dionisio
Manuel and his
wife
Jeannie.
Dionisio
graduated in 1990 from Aparri
Bible
Semi
nary
In
addition to
the above,
PMCC
and
the
Seminary s pon sor a Conference on Evangelism e ac h
March, a
VBS
clinic
in April,
two
Weeks
of Evangelism
at the
high schools, three youth
camps, an in-service SALT Service and
Leadership
Training) Seminar two times a year fo r
church leaders unable
to
attend the Seminary, Kindergartens, th e
CGT
evangelist ic
team
who
cooperate
with
local churches in conventions, ral l ies and other programs. PMCC has no over-
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FUTURE PLANS
include a
CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL
here in Anarr^
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