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.

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.

A Study of United Missions and Interboard Committees

1961 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Loren E. Noren
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
American Baptist ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Mission Agencies ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Theological School ◽  
Set Up

The Reverend Loren E. Noren is a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies, stationed in Kong Kong. He was educated at Ottawa University in Kansas and at Andover-Newton Theological School in Massachusetts. He served in Swatow, China, from 1946 to 1952 and has been Secretary. Treasurer of the American Baptist Mission in Hong Kong since 1954. When the Missionary Research Library was asked to undertake research for appraisal of various cooperative efforts in foreign missions, an Advisory Committee for the Study of United Missions ana Interboard Agencies was set up, with Dr. Barnerd M. Luben, then Executive Secretary of the Board for the Christian World Mission of the Reformed Church in America, as chairman. Mr, Noren, on furlough, was asked to conduct this research, under the supervision of the Advisory Committee, the Missionary Research Library, and the faculty of Union Theological Seminary. The study was accepted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the S.T.M. degree at Union Seminary. It has been published by the Missionary Research Library under the some title as that of this Occasional Bulletin. It is available at a price of $1,50, postage included. The terms used, new to the modern missionary endeavor and unique to the American undertakings in mission, reflect a similar approach to a united effort but with differences arising out of historical situations. The “United Mission” represents an instrument by which several denominational mission boards Join in initiating and carrying on missionary work in newer territory with a view to providing from the outset a united evangelical witness. The “Interboard Committee” represents a technique by which several denominational mission agencies undertake cooperative administration of work in situations where indigenous churches, once related to the mission-supporting denominations, are already united into a single church. Few even among those acquainted with missions are aware of the thrilling and pioneering character of these approaches to the fulfillment of the missionary obligation. Therefore we are happy to present a summary of Mr. Noren's study.

An Introductory List of Readings on Communism and the Christian Response

1951 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Keyword(s):  
Research Library ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Short List ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Wide Reading ◽  
Academic Year

During the academic year 1950-1951 a Missionary study Fellowship sponsored by the Board of Foreign Missions of the presbyterian church in the U.S.A. made an intensive study or communism and the christian response to it, the members devoting all their time to this project. At the conclusion of their study this group of students prepared the following list of books. There has been a constant demand for a short list, and this one is based on wide reading and intensive study. Those desiring a more detailed bibliography are referred to “A selected Bibliography on the Christian Approach to Communism” issued by the Missionary Research Library. Additional copies, 10¢ each.— Editor.

“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.

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