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B e a r
Br e t h r e n i n C h r i s t :
Houston,
Texas
January 6, 197^
I t has been
a t
l eas t
f ive months
since
I
sent out
our
l as t
news-let ter . They
have
been very busy months. Roberta and I
were
in eight weeks of
summer
camps which we enjoyed
so very
much
and since that time have been involved in a
number
of very successful Faith
Promise ra l l i e s as well as a nxunber
of
missionaiy ra l l i e s and mission emphasis programs.
In the
past
nine
months,
we
have
travelled
at
least 40,000
miles
by
car
and
plane
and have
appreciated so much the
opportunity
of
being
in ttie
homes
of many of you who
will
receive
this letter
Not very much news has been
received
from the Phil ippines since I left there las t
March,
but we
do
know
that
around 100 yo\mg people were enrolled in APARRI
BIBLE SEMINARY
for this school year. Prom
a ll
indications, they
have had a good year. The choir has been
active again this year in presenting special programs in Aparri and in several
surrounding
choirches
in
the province of Cagayan.
We also know
that
over 800 young people were enrolled in the two CHRISTIAN HIGH
SCHOOLS.
This i s essent ial ly the same as the enrollment of a year ago. Word
has
been received that
142 young people
and teachers
were
baptized
into Christ du ring the f i r s t Semester of
this
present
school
year.
This
means
that
over
990
have been
won
to Christ
in
these
two
sohools
alone
since they were established in 19^7
Some
who will receive
this
le t ter have been
support ing these
high schools regularly since the i r
beginning.
Others
have
given
generously
to help
build the bui ld ings
and equip them
adequately.
As a result, the schools are
highly
respected by the
officials
of the Bureau o f P riv ate
Schools
of
the Philippine
Government,
and
nearly 1,000 students and teachers have been brought
to
Christ along with an
unknown
nximber
of parents, re la t ives
and
fr iends
of
those
who
have been
won
a t
t he eohoo ls .
A
grea t concern r ight
now
i s
for those
who have
graduated from the h igh schoo ls and
are
enrolled in
Colleges and
Universit ies
in Manila,
par t icular ly
and also in
the
College
towns of
the Cagayan
Valley.
Most of these
s tudents are
l iv ing
in almost
unbelievable
circiunstances. Besides a l l of
t he p re ss ur es
tha t come to
them in
the class room to deny
t he ir f ai th
they have t e r r i f ic pressures from the social conditions
under
which they
l ive
to
withstand.
We
feel
a
grea t
need
for
what
we
ca l l
student
centers ,
especially
in
Manila, where
ve
can have
decent
dormitories under proper supervision and along with tha t
a
worship and recreat ional center
>diere
they can worsh ip together
regularly
and
have
regular
Bible studies each
week.
I t would also serve as a place
where
the
s tudents
could bring
t he i r new-found f r iends
from
the great campuses of the many u n iv e rs it ie s i n Manila fo r
study
of
the
Word
and fo r
recreation, etc .
We believe these
Centers could become
great
evange li s ti c cen te r s. Students f rom Ozark
Bible
College and Nebraska Christ ian College
have
given nearly 1,200.00 to begin
a
fund for t he se Cen te rs .
We
t r us t the Lord to
provide add i t iona l funds
as
they a re needed.
THE RADIO BROADCAST i s going very
wel l . Jus t
a
few days ago
I received a
l e t t e r from
our r ad io p re ac he r,
Bro.
Virgi l io Danao, from which 1 quote:
I
am glad
to
inform you
that
according
to
a survey
conducted
by
the
government
and
some
c iv ic
organizat ions,
our
program
leads a l l programs
aired
over
a ll eight
radio s ta tio ns in the Cagayan Valley. He
went
on
to
s t a t e
tha t th is
survey
had to do
with
which program
on those
s ta t ions had the
la rges t
l i s ten ing
audience. Our
program
received
a
10 point ra t ing with th e next h ighest r ece iv ing
a 5 point ra t ing . Needless to say, we
are
very
happy
fo r th i s news and we know you wil l be
too.
So
fa r
as I know, we
are s t i l l pay ing only
3*30 for th i s
13 minute
program,
s ix
days
a
week. We still have plans to get on two
other
s ta t ions as soon as funds are available*
Time
on o the r s ta t ions wil l cost more, perhaps
twice
as much, but we know
t ha t
thousands
a re hearing th is
program every day and many are coming to the
Lord through
it
I would l ike to close
with
a little persona l
news. Roberta
and I
came
to
Houston,
Texas on Dec.
9 fch and have been here
since
tha t t ime. One week-end during
tha t
time I
flew
to Parmington,
New
Mexico fo r
a
Fai th Promise Rally,
and was
in
Los
Angeles another
o f
those
week-ends.
We
have had
a
most
enjoyable t ime.
All
three
of
our
eons
l i ve
here .
We
are
happy to announce the birth of our fourth grand-child (third grand-daughter). She
was
bom on Dec. 29,
jus t
a few
hours
before I
returned from
my
t r ip to
Los
Angeles.
Roberta has been
s t r i n g
with Rob
and
Brenda
during th is t ime, helping
Brenda with
the
baby
and the other two
chi ldren.
Roberta
i s
s t i l l doing wonde rful ly
well . Right
now
our
plans
are
to return to
the
Philippines sometime in
May.
Nothing is
definite
as
yet . Do
-.pray fo r us^^
end
wa-send_cur thanks- ta
al l of
you-for your vondsrfAil
gi f t s
fo r the
work
izt-
the Philippines and for^our love which you have manifested in so maziy ways.
y /. y ^
Charles
W
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dU
M
b u r s
in
C h r i s t
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SEPTEMBER-
976. MEWS
LETTER
FROM
CHAKTES
AND
ROBERTA
SEIBY
Philippine
Mssion Churches o f Chris t, P 0- Box
^9, Aparri
Cagayar
iilS Philippines
Forwarding
Agent: Mrs R. L Tolliver; Fairfield. Nebraska 68938
September
28 1976
Dea r re th ren i n
Chrd.st?
We have been
back
in the Ph il ipp ines near ly four months and th is
is
our
f i r s t news
letter-,
We
arrived
in
Aparri on June
13^
Seminary enrollment began
the
next
day, and
classes began on the 16^ I
am teaching
hours a week and really enjoying i t Roberta
is
teaching a four
hour
class- Galatians through Colossians,
has
choir
two hours a week and
a
voice
class
Office
work had
piled
up
while
we were
in the IT
S. and
we are just now get-
ing ourselves dug out from under that- From
now
on, I hope we can keep you
better
informed
of what
i s
happening
here.
APARRI BIBLE SEMINARY began i t s 25^
year
in
June We have
our
smallest
enrollment
in
sev
eral years with something over 60 students enrolledr This is about
,35^
below last years
enrollment We expect to see this back to nonnal next year, Will you pray with us about it?
CHRISTIAN
HIGM: SCHOOLS Northern
Isabela Academy
and Southern
Isabela
Academy are
in
their
10th year 01 operation. Both schools have their largest enrollment in
history,
with
570
3-t NIA
and
40C
at
SIA
making
a
total
of
970?
All of these
young
people are
in
Bible
classes daily.
We will have
a
Week
of
Evangelism at each
school beginning October 11,
at
which
time several of our Seminary professors and some preachers
will
be going to the schools
to
t^e
over the Bible classes
and
hold evangelistic services It is usually
diaring
these
special evangelistic
se2rvice3 that many
of the students
who have
not yet accepted Christ,
do
so. There
seems
to be a very good
spiri t at
the schools and
we
expect
some great
victories
In^Augu.st,
Roberta and X
went
to SIA for a week-end Spiritual Retreat with the faculty
and
staff
of that
school;,
and again just last week we were
at NIA
for a similar meeting
Special Bible studies
were
conducted in three sessions of three hours each, Saturday
morning
Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon - I t was spiritually rewarding
for
all of us
Because of the increased enrollment
at SIA
this year we have been forced to begin the
3nd
anit
of the building there.
There
are no fundc
f c this,
but
we
have
started i t
never-
the-less ^^d are trusting the Lord to provide
what
vrill be needed as we go along It
is
a
72
by 30 foot
two
story
unit
which
will
he joined to the other
two
units
already there-
With
present prices the estimated cost
is
around 14,C00.00. That
is
about 3
25
per square foot
of floor space.
As
you might have already guessed, our buildings here are
not at
all elabor
ate
We
would certainly
oe
most grateful for any special help you
can
send for this project.
;THE~RADrO BROADCASTS are sti l l going out over station D NC in Cauayan. Isabela
Many
very
important contacts are being made
mth
fills program every
month.
Recently- Bro Danao has
been in correspondence with the
Mayor
of one of the major towiis of the province of Isabela
who
is
a regular listener of the program- I don^t know what the
results
of that have been
but
i t
J S indicative of
vrhat
the radio work can
do-
We are sti l l planning to expand this
par t of our work
as
soon
as
possible,
^P_EVAN(S:lISTIC
work
is coming along very well. During the past year,
Bro
Dennis McKinney,
with the cooperation of
many
preachers., put together a church
directory for
Northern
Luzon
101
Churches
are
listed
in that
directory
in
our area of
work.
This
compares
with the
approximately 10 churches
that were
in
existence
when we
arrived
in
1947- Bro- McKinney
and
his team are having meetings on a regular basis throughout the valley, Several of the pro
fessors and students of the Seminary are out every weekend preacliing-
Some
financial
aid
is
being given to several men as they labor in various capacities throughout the area-
APARRI CHRISTIAN PRESS continues to produce a tremendous
amount
of printed mateinal - Our
1250
Multilixh and the old manually operated 12 by 18 inch
letter
press are really kept busy.
Our main problem at present is that there is not enough room available
for
the amount
of
work to be done,- but we hope to remedy this situation soon
FUTURE
PLAI^i We
are sti l l negotiating for the purchase of a h i^ school here in
Aparr. i,
but just don t
seem
to be able to reach an agreement,
We
are giving serious consideration
.0 using the^land and buildings
now
being used by the
Seminary
to
open
a high school and
Christian College here in Aparri and then
move
the Seminary to the
25
acre site located
about
ten mile-s south of Aparri- This
is
a matter for
much
prayer. It
is on
this
same 25
acre site
where
we plan to build a recording
studio.
Will you pray with us about this also?
'Sin^^rely yours i]
V/
f^ l es and
Rober ta Selby
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OCTOBER
MD
NOVEMBER, 1976, NEWS LETTER PROM CHARLES AND ROBERTA
SEIBY
I Philippine Mission Churches of
Christ,
P. Oe
Box
49, Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines
III8
Forwarding Agents Mrs,
Ro
Lo
Tolliver,
Pairfield, Nebraska 68938
Dear Fr i end s i n Chr i s t ?
This, in a way, is a
very
special letter since
i t
is
being sent to a ll of
those
who have
had a
part
in the Lord s work here
in
a financial
way at sometime
during the
past
30 years.
We just want all of you to know what the Lord has done
here
during
those
years.
We
also want
to
share with
you
some
of the exciting opportunities
He
has opened up
for
the
future.
1977 is going to be a year of anniversaries, FIRST: i t was 30 years ago, June, 1947,
that Roberta and I
f irst
arrived in
the
Philippines, SECOND i t
will
be
the
25th anniversary
of
APARRI
BIBLE
SEMINARY which was
established in
1952, THJBDi
will
be
the
20th
anniver
sary of
the
establishment of APARRI CHRISTIAN
PRESS,
which began
operation
in 1957* FOURTH?
we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of
the
two
CHRISTIAN
HIG H SCHOOLS, Northern Isabela
Academy and Southern
Isabela
Academy,
both of
which were established
in
i967
These have been 30 even tfu l year s . The number of churches in th is area
has
increased
from around iO
in 1947
to more than 100 at the present time. The preacher training program
of
the
SEMINARY has
increased the
number of preachers from 1
in
1947 to more than 60
in
1977.
THE
CHRISTIAN HIGH
SCHOOLS
have 970 young
people
enrolled
this
school
year,
215
of
those
have been
baptized into
Christ
during the
f i rs t semester. This
brings the total
number of
baptisms
a t the
schools
since
1967
to
1,221,
THE RADIO
BROADCAST reaches
into
hundreds of
homes
every day. We
know
of a t
l eas t 7
churches
that
have been establ ished as
a
direc t re
sul t of this program. THE PRESS p rovide s the t racts
and
other printed matter needed for a
wide
ranging
EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM.
A major concern for
the future i s
to
put
as much of
this
work on a self-supporting basis
as
possible. In most
cases
this is
going to take an
additional
outlay of money
right
now
in
order
to accomplish the
desired
end.
The government i s making
nearly
impossible to make the
high
schools
self-supporting
through
tui t ion paid by the sti-idents. The
law
prohibi ts
raising prescjnt tui t ion fees but
other
laws and
decrees
demand
that
teachers'
salaries
and
benefits
be
increased
every
year.
At
Northern Isabela Academy we
have
about
9 acres of good rice land which
has not
been fully
uti l ized because of a lack of water when needed. A four inch irrigation well has just been
completed there which
i s deemed capable
of
supplying
the needed water .
I t
wil l take arovind
J:i,5UU.uu to
complete
Chis
project including
the purchase of
a pimip and
engine.
With
i r r l
gation, a t least 3 crops can be produced
every
year, which should enable us to
clear
10,000
or
more
p er y ea r. This
would very
nearly
make
the
high
schools self-supporting.
A
second
project is to make
th e
Seminars more
nearly self-supporting. We
own 25
acres
of
land
10
miles south of Aparri
which was
purchased
a number of
years
age
with the
idea
of'
moving
the
Seminary -idiere.
We
feel that
this is
the
time
to
do
i t although i t
will take
quite
a
s'um of
money for
buildings
rigiit now. This wd.H pezmiix us to use that vast area
for
producing
rice, fish,
mean and
vegetables
for
the
Senhuiary and
develop
projects
th at w ill
eventually help b ring the Seminary to a self-supporting position.. I t vri.ll probably take
around 40,000,00 to build two dormitories and a class-room and administration building ade
qua te
to meet
p2X)jected needs .
In
the
very nea r futur e
we
expect
to
begin construction
of a
building
which
for the
present
will
be used for a recording studio, enabling
us
to expand
our
present
radio
work
to at least two other stations
in
northern Luzon, The plan is to construct this building so
that can be
turned
into a broadcasting stat ion when that becomes possible. I t
will
be
located a t the new Seminary campus and i s
expected
to cost about 10,000,00,
In the six month period,
June
to November, expenses exceeded receipts by about 9,000,00.
Most of this, extra spending has been put into
the 3rd
xmit of the
building
at SIA which
i s
-
now
under
construction.
I t
will
take
about 8,000.00
yet
to
complete
this
building. In
a
growing work such as
this,
our greatest need
is
regular monthly or
quarterly
support, no
matter how small or large the amount. This
is
what real ly enables us- to keep
the
work mov
in g forward. However, i f each of you receiving
this
air-mail le t ter
could
.send 20,00 or
30,00 to o ur
U. So
address
right now,
just as a
special
offeiing,
i t
would put us
in
very
good
financial
shape once again. Above all ,
we seek your
]^ayers
for
t he Lord's work here.
other and
in
Chris t ,
and Roberta Selby