“Aliens Ministering to Aliens”: Reformed Church in America Missionaries among Chinese in the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris White
Keyword(s):  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Major Point ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Chinese Churches

This article reviews the two decades after RCA missionaries were forced out of China, revealing that the church’s “China mission” was not abandoned, but simply changed geographic focus to overseas Chinese in the Philippines. Although the RCA continued a ministry targeting Chinese from South Fujian, where they had worked since 1842, they faced many new challenges in the Philippines that were quite inconsistent with their experience in China. A major point of contention for missionaries was balancing their relationship with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and Chinese churches that refused to join this ecumenical organization.

Local Church Government among the iKalahan

1972 ◽  
Vol os-19 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Delbert Rice
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Local Church ◽  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Civic Mindedness ◽  
Church Government

Traditionally, decisions among the iKalahan (North Luzon, Philippines) are made by the entire community in open conference. Elders, chosen for maturity, civic-mindedness, activity, memory, good public relations, cooperativeness, and dependability, formulate community decisions and assist in settling disputes. Mutual moral support is strong, and community disapproval and removal of support is a powerful means of social control. When the United Church of Christ in the Philippines came on the scene (1954), it brought its own Western-type Book of Government. But the prescribed representative structures were rejected by the iKalahan in favor of open congregational meetings; church officers are task oriented and do not exercise much authority. Congregational nurture, as distinct from making decisions, is the province of specialists, which is in accord with tradition. Means of social control are also being evolved along traditional lines.

The Missionary Vocation Today: What is the Role of the Missionary in a Rapidly Changing Society?: A Selected Reading List on the Christian Missionary.

1960 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Addison J. Eastman ◽  
Richard B. Poetig ◽  
Frank W. Price
Keyword(s):  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
American Baptist ◽  
Reading List ◽  
Christian Missionary

The Reverend Addison J. Eastman has been a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in Burma, and is now Director of the Missionary Personnel Program in the Division of Foreign Missions, NCCC-USA. The Reverend Richard B. Poetig has been sent by the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to serve as Minister for Industrial Evangelism, in the United Church of Christ, Manila, The Philippines. Frank W. Price is Director of the Missionary Research Library

The Changing and Unchanged Mission

1959 ◽  
Vol os-10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Eliezar D. Mapanao
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Authentic Voice ◽  
World Mission

The following address was delivered at the Annual Assembly of the Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 7–10, 1958. The Reverend Eliezer D. Mapanao has been co-pastor of the Ellinwood-Malate Church, Manila, of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. He has been active also in interdenominational youth and student work in the Philippines end a delegate to several international conferences. At present he is doing graduate study in theology at Harvard Divinity School. We are happy to publish his thoughtful, evangelical and challenging paper. The “younger churches” which have been recipients of mission are now becoming participants in mission and are giving us fresh insights and interpretations en the meaning of the Christian world mission. Here is a new and authentic voice of Asian Christianity. Ed.

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