One Mission, Different Voices: Overseas Missions of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches.
Baptist History and Heritage 2006, Spring, 41, 2
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Utgivarens beskrivning
This brief survey of the history of overseas missions undertaken by an association of local churches in the Philippines known as the Convention of Philippine Baptist churches (CPBC) covers the period from the inception of the CPBC's overseas missions work in 1969 through 2003. Filipino church historian Nestor Bunda, in his dissertation, "A Mission History of the Philippine Baptist Churches," argued that the history of the CPBC itself began in 1898 when Filipino Braulio Manikan joined a Baptist church in Spain and began translating the Bible into Hiligaynon, his native language. (1) Manikan and Eric Lund, a Swedish Baptist missionary supported by the American Baptist Missionary Union (which became American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910), started the first Baptist mission station in the Philippines in 1900 in Jaro, Panay Island. (2)