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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.

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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.