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8/11/2019 Selby Charles Roberta 1975 Philippines
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Missionaries: Charles
and Roberta
Selby
Furlough address: Fairfield,
68938), Sid
and M arj
Boudreaux, Dennis and Lorrita McKinney, Ann Tolliver, Barbara Mangskau.
Admf
HiSTORy
of m work in m
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Work in this part of the Philippines was begun many years
ago
by early missionaries
and
Filipino preachers. Charles
and
Roberta Selby
were
the
first
missionaries to live in the area
permanently, arriving in
June,
1947. In 1953,
Norval and Dondena Campbell
joined the
Selbys
in
Aparri where they
spent one term of service before crossing the mountain range to the
west
to open another Bible College. Sid and
Marj Boudreaux came
to the work in 1964, Ann Tolliver
in
1969, Dennis and
Lorrita McKinney in early 1970, and
Barbara
Mangskau in 1974,
having
spent
one year on the field previously as an
intern.
APARRI
BIBLE SEMINARY
was established by the Selbys in
95
for the
purpose
of training
Filipino young-peopTe-to become
effective
preachers and
teachers
of the Word to their
own
people. In each of the
last
3 years
more
than 100
young
people
have
been enrolled. Through
the years hundreds have received
training
in
this
institution
and today
there
are well over
40 well-trained preachers and teachers involved in every aspect of the evangelistic program
in the Cagayan Valley and adjacent provinces. Two graduates are working for the Lord in Hawaii.
THE EVANGELISTIC
PROGRAM:
is a direct outgrowth of the work of
Aparri
Bible Seminary. During
the past 20 years more than 80 churches have been established by graduates of the Seminary. For
the past several years, an average of
700
souls
have been
baptized into Christ each year. This
work
of establishing
churches and winning souls to
Christ is
the work of
Filipino
preachers who
have been
trained
in
Aparri
Bible Seminary.
APARRI
CHRISTIAN
PRESS was
established in 1957. Equipment consists
of
a 1250 Multilith Offset
press and a 12 by 18 inch letter press, an old type job press. Because of lack of equipment and
funds,
this
work
is
limited, but
s t i l l
between 15 and 20
tracts
have been published and
printed,
and then
reprinted
as they have been needed. These
tracts
have been written by Ilocano preachers
in their own language and meet the problems and needs
of
the Filipino as only Filipinos can
know
and understand them. Two bi-monthly
papers,
written in Ilocano and edited by graduates
of
the
Seminary, are
sent
out to thousands regularly. The Sunday School
quarterly is translated
into
I locano by another graduate and
is
proving to be a wonderful help to the churches in
northern
Luzon and even on the island of Mindanao, more than 1000
miles
to the south. This printed material
reaches hundreds of people who might not ever be contacted
in
any other way, and is proving to be
a very great help
in
breaking
down
barriers
to the preaching
of th e Gospel.
THE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLS, Northern
Isabela
Academy in Calinao^pj Santo
Tomas, Isabela,
and
Southern
Isabela Academy
in
San
Guillermo, Isabela, were
both started in
1967.
These
schools
were
begun
primarily
because
of
the
tremendous
evangelistic
opportunities
they
offer. All
students
are
in
Bible
classes
daily, 5 days a week, 10 months
of
the
year.
During the 1974-75 school
year,
824 were enrolled in the two schools, and 191 were
baptized
into
Christ includ ing three teachers) ,
There have been 847 won to Christ at these schools since they were begun in 1967, an average of
106
per
year. The average
for
the last
three years
ha^ been 154.) In addition, each student
won at
the schools presents an
opportunity
to
reach his
parents and countless
other relatives
and
friends,
and as a result , whole
villages often
become open
to
the Gospel.
Several
churches
have come
into existence
as a direct
result of
this work in
th e
high
schools.
From
these
students
will
come Christian homes
and a
well
grounded leadership for
local
churches,
including future elders,
deacons and Bible school
teachers.
Hundreds have graduated
from
these schools
since 1970, and several have gone to
the
Seminary
to
become
preachers of the
Word two of these are now back at their respective Alma Maters teaching Bible classes.) Many
have gone to universities and colleges in Manila and
other
places to prepare
to
become school
t eachers , doctors ,
lawyers, engineers,
etc.
If
we can
hold
them
faithful
to the
Lord
during
their
college years, these are the people who will help bring
the
church in
the
Phil ippines to
a self-supporting
position,
completely supporting their own preachers, their
own
Bible colleges,
and eventually the i r own missionaries
as
they go
to
other countries
of
southeast
Asia
with the
Gospel of
Chris t .
RADIO BRQAPCASTING has been used to preach the Gospel in .nothern Luzon since 1970. Virgilio
Danao,.
a^graduate of
Aparri Bible
Seminary, preaches
every day s ix days a week
over
s ta t ion
DZNC in Caoayan, Isabela, to a large audience. This 15-minute program s t i l l costs only 3.50.
At leas t 6 churches have been
established
as a result
of follow-up
work. Plans call
for
pro
grams on 2 more
s ta t ions the building of
a
recording-broadcasting studio, and the establ ish
ment
of
a radio
stat ion for sending the
Gospel
to a ll of northern
Luzon
and across
the
China
Sea
to th e
o th e r
coun t r i e s
o f
s ou t h ea s t
Asia .
FUTURE PLANS include
a
radio station,
2
more
high
schools,
and
the establishment of
a
student
work among col lege s tudents who are graduates of
the
high schools.