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De a r Brethren :
n
1 '. ' 3
RAY
CARLSON
CEBU
CHRISTIAN MISSION
P.O. BOX 41
CERU city
PHILIPPINES
March
25
1958
We a r r i v e d in
th e
P h i l i p p i n e s on th e te n th o f March
an d s pe nt
t h r e e days
in Manila with th e Hales
th e
McElroys and Mrs. Wolfe. They
showed
us
th e
s i te of
the i r
new Seminary near Quezon City.
This plade
shows much promise
an d should
be
adeqiiate
for
t h e i r needs
fo r
a long time to come. They
expect to begin building
this summer but are
s t i l l
far short of
th e ir
f i n a n c i a l needs f o r con s t r u c t i o n
Th e bret hren in Cebu welcomed us w ith g ar la nd s and
open
arms when we
ar r ived a t
the
airport on March
13th.
There ha s been so
l i t t l e
change
in
the c ity that almost seemed as though we had been away
fo r
a short
time. I t was somewhat o f a sur pr i se to f i nd how l i t t l e of
th e
d i a l e c t we
had forgotten.
I t
seemed to back with a rush
to a ll
of us
except
Ted.
He wa s seven when we l e f t bet te r t han t h r e e years
ag o
and
has
f o r g o t t e n
e v e r y
word he
e v e r
knew.
Our house in
Talisay
was in good shape except f o r a few boards t h a t th e
termites require th a t we replace. The Seminary
property
looks
f ine and
our trees have made amazing growth. Betty Yarbrough and
Guen
Griffith
have
done
very well
in
caring
fo r
things and have a fund of
1500
which
h a s
been c olle cte d fo r th e needed
d o r m i t o r i e s . They have ag r eed
t ha t we
w i l l go ahead
to er ect
the frames of two 20 X
40 two story
structures
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S PO TL IG H T in
C E B U
Cebu Christian Mission. FQ ox41. Cebu City. P.I ?hbhhh ?^ July . i95
CRUGHT
in
THE ERITiS
Our
spotlight
has been fo
cused on events i n seve ra l d i f
ferent
places
during
the past
fe w mo nth s
The Ray Carlson
family
ar
rived in Cebu in March, and the
summer
months
gave
them time
to
ge t s e t t le d in to
th e work once
mor
Bro Carlson used h i s week
ends to good advantage in v i s i t
ing the churches
in
th i s area .
He made t r ips to Balamban and
Santander
on
the island
of Cebu;
The rays of the spotlight
followed Guen and Betty as they
traveled
rcm Cebu
to
Manila
and then on to Hongkong, After
two days
Guen
continued
on
her
journey to Hawaii
vdiere
she i s
now worldng.
The problem
of
Betty s
visa
was
solved
and
she
was
given
permission t o
remain in th e
Philippines unt i l May of
I960.
Her month in Hongkong proved to
be a
real vacation
and gave her
a much-needed
renewal O f
vim and
vigor. She. was
able
to
purchase
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A NEW
YEAR
After a yearns interrupt ion,
during v^ich t ime
only
a
few
spec ia l c la s se s were offered,
th e Seminary
i s
once more
on
a
regula r fu l l schedule. Classes
began on June
l o th ,
with
an
en
r o l lmen t o f
20 . Th i s
i n c l ude s
two seniors , two juniors, s ix
sophcmores, and one specia l s tu
den t .
All
of
these young people are
working students . The women do
the work in the dining ha l l ,
and
th e
men
do
yard
jobs ,
carpent ry ,
pimbing, or
whatever else, needs
to b e d o n e . Each
s t u d e n t
h a s
h is
own garden plo t ,
and
welook
fo rward
to
th e
day when
th e
pro
du c e
f rom
t h e s e efforts will
b e
s e rv ed a t mea l t ime .
more t h an :t^l20 a month. An ex
cel lent project
fo r
any
group or
i nd iv idua l would
be
to send ^10
a month to provide food fo r one
o f these worthy s tudents .
Some have writ ten asking what
they could
send
which ^^ould be
of
help to us. anything for the
kitchen
especially l ight
weight
food
stuffs would
be
much appreciated. To
help
us in
customs clearance, send
no
more
than
>^10 worth,
including the
postage.
Marx
GIFT.
MU HG GRACIAS/
A spec ia l word of thanks
i s
due B ro . benver Sizemore and
ou r
many o t h e r
f r i e nds
a t
At l an t a
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NEW BU
A DILEMMA
Funds
enough
on
hand to erec t
one
building,
but which
one wil l
it be? Boys*
dorm, girls* dorm,
dining
hal l ,
l ibrary,
or class
room?
This
was
the
problem
we
f a c ed a s
we
lo ok ed fo rw a rd t o
the opening
of
a new
school
year,
A
plan
was
worked
out
which
would
p rovide space for a l l
the
need s .
I n s t ead
o f th e conc r e t e
struct iore
which
th e
Seminary
plans original ly called fo r , a
two- story bu ilding
was designed
with cement f l oo r and wal l s
downstairs , a wooden super- ,
structure,
and a roof of palm
leaves, The upstairs could be
LD
/
NGS
INTHE mOF
T M f
Construction
began on
Apri l
8th ,
and the
carpenters
worked
fur iously to get
the
buildings
ready by
June 14th, when the
s t ud en t s
were
due
t o
a r r i v e .
They
were
ready r ight on time I
True, there were
as
yet no win^-
dcw
shut ters ,
no
par t i t ions ,
no
walls downstairs, no plumbing,
and no pain t .
However, th e
s tu
dents
are happy
to have
a place
to
s tay ,
so they
don t
complain
o f
th e i n conven iences . As
f unds
come
in , the other
things can
be
completed.
The two new .
buildings
were
formal ly
dedicated on June 22nd.
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MEET THE TEACHERS
The
s choo l
f a
cul ty
. th i s year
incliides
Ray
and
Iro. jgene
Carlson,
who
f o und ed th
Cebu
Seminary
in
1947. Bro.
Car lson
is Pres iden t
of
the
school,
and
also
teaches
cou r s e s in New
Tes t amen t and
hom i l e t i c s , iyirs* Car l son
han
dles a fu l l load of classes,
plus private piano lessons for
th
s t u d e n t s .
Betty Yarbrou^ gives
accor-
dian lessons, in addit ion to her
r eg ula r c la ss es . She also ac t s
as school
nurse,
and supervises
th e
gir l s*
dorm
and
th e cen t ra l
dining
ha l l .
of the
2nd
year s tudents,
and
his two children are l ively per
sonali t ies on the
campus,
Bro.
Cas te ll ano handl es the Old Tes
tament
classes,
as well as Reve
lation,
Christian Evidences, and
siglit-singing,
CAMPUS
CAPERS
One o f the
freshmen
students
i s a
lad
from the mountains of
the
island of
Negros,
and has
had only an elementary
educa
t ion ,
Since he
i s from one of
th e
nev;
churches
i n need o f l e a
ders, he
iiias
accepted in the
school
as
an exception to the
ru l e
t h a t s tuden t s must have had
some
high school work.
He some
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Cebu Chr i s t i a n
h i s s i on
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Box
41
Cebu City Phi l ippines
October 1958
In response
to
many
requests
for
information concerning the
Cebu
Chris t ian Mission we
are happy t o convey
th i s
suudy.
The
Mssion
was
begun in 1941 in Cebu City w ith
the arr iva l
of the
families of
Vex non
Newland
and
Ray
Carlson
The locat ion was
selected
because of
the
grea t
southern
pa r t
of
th e
archipelago
t ha t
had
been
unreached
by
the
gospel .
The success
of th e ila nila idss ion
under the
direct ion of the
la te Leslie vfolfe encouraged the Newlands and
the
Carlsons to come to
the
Phil ippines
The
war in
China
made
it
impossibl e f cr them to pro
ceed
to
Tibet as original ly
planned.
This
decision
has
proven to have
b een w ise.
The Philippines
have
shown
themselves to
be f ru i t fu l ly
re
cept ive to New
Testament Chr is t ian i ty
and hundreds
have
been
bapt ized
and
many
churches
established
borne
of these
brethren
in
turn
have
moved to new areas
seeking
land and employment and have
carr ied
the
gospe l w ith them. They are
spreading the t ru th
to many new cc mmuni
ti s
There a re severa l advantages which
iimericans
enjoy in
working
in
the Philippines
They
are granted privileges denied
other
foreigners.
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Manila
area
and
the
^sayan
i n
the
south
of
these
t h r e e t h e
Visayan
i s the
l a r g e r
group
of
which Cebuano i s
the
major p a r t .
All
these
languages a r e
Malay-derivatives
and have roots i n Borneo Indonesia
Indo-China and India
Most
Qirist ian work
i n the Is lands
must be
done
i n the
nat ive
tongue which
i s
not d i f f i c u l t
t o
learn. The many un
educated or poorly educated make t h i s necessary. The economic pros
t r a t i o n
which
st maintains makes t commonly impossible f o r t h e
average person
to
proceed
beyond Grade IV
Those who
f inish
high
school a r e th e
except ion r a t h e r than
th e
r u l e .
The
people
of the
Phil ippines
are a happy easy-going folk who
have
long ago learned t o
make
t h e most o f t h e d i f f i c u l t l i f e t h a t i s
t h e i r s
and l i v e
very s imp ly w ith not much hope f o r improvement i n
t h e i r l iv ing s it ua ti on . For t h i s reason
religious
faith plays an
important
par t
i n t h e i r
l i v e s
and
they
a re s er io us ly
concerned
with
ts exercise. I n
many
remote sect ions
of the Is lands which
a r e
scarcely
explored
and seldan
v i s i t e d
l i v e a number of non-Christian
t r i b e s .
In U iindanao and the Sulu
group
thousands of Mohaminedans
s t i l l hold on to t h e i r t radi t ions and send hundreds o f pilgrims to
Mecca
each year. I n the c i t i e s modern l i f e of a
sort
prevai ls ; but
i n
t h e
country
a r e a s housing
consis ts mostly of bamboo and l e a f -
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los t
a t l eas t one of t he i r children, look
upon
American
mothers
with
awe
who
have
a l l
of
t he i r
chi ldren
l i v ing
mlnu t r i t i on
i s the
preva
lent
si tuation. This,
coupled with
the
inevi table i nt ern al p a ra si ti ca l
infes ta t ion i s the reason
fo r
much of
the
sloth
tha t
characterizes
many. Fresh milk i s unavai lable in most places. Fish i s wholesome,
but
never a t
hand
i n
quant i t i es
needed, an amazing Tact i s t h a t t h i s
multitude
of 7^000 islands aboiinds
in
fish
in
the surrounding seas but
primi t ive f ishing methods necessi ta te
the
impo rt at io n o f thousands of
tons
of
canned
f ish
every
year
from
the
United
States,
Again
we
have
a case of the anomaly
vdiereby Fil ip inos
pay
American wages
they can
a f f o r d
The
chief
exports
of the
islands
are
sugar. emp
and copra coco
nut
meat .
Since dollar
control, a number
of industr ies have
come
into
being
which
f ree the
country
from
slavish
dependence on impo rts but
which
st a re dependen t on th e same fo r mach inery and
raw
mater ia l s
Poli t ics has
fal len
irito sadly wasteful extravagance, off ic ia ls
a re often
more
in te res ted in gaining qui ck wealth ra ther t han enfo rc ing
principles
of law,
Most
of the Philippine
consti tution
and
legisla t ion
has been patterned
a f t e r
American
examples,
but the tanptat ion to per
sonal gain
in
public off ice has
brought
the
country
to the brink of
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able to
refer
in qu ir er s to
ew Testament
Christianity using scriptural
names and
language
for
matters
pertaining
to
salvation.
In addit ion
to
th e more common sec ts
there a re
severa l
pecul i a r
to th e Phi l ipp ines
Here i s a people who ca l l themselves the
Phil ippine Independent
Catho
l i c Church. They broke off
from
the Roman heresy
about the
turn of the
century when Filipino pries ts fe l t they were being discriminated
against
by
the foreign
orders. They were
led
by Bishop
Aglipay
and
might
be
cal led the f i r s t
Filipino
religious ant isegregat ionis ts .
They are quite
strong
and presently are al l ied with the
Episcopalians.
wother group i s
led
by Fel ix wanalo, viio came under the
inf lu
ence of the l a te b ro ther Le sli e
Wolfe, i ianalQ
was
discharged
by our
people in
1914
for immorality. e
made a
t r ip
to the
States, fe l l in
with some l i be ra l s
and
came back to
lyianila
with the old heresy t ha t
Christ i s only a man.
His
work has been very successful from a human
poin t of
view
in
spi te
o f
h is holding
t i t l e personally to a l l chur:^
lands,
receiving
a l l
church
monies, and paying
a l l preachers
himself.
He h as en rich ed himself by the reputed sale
of
the votes
of h is mem
bers and bui l t
a
great
palace complete
wj.th
armed guards,
ne
has
designated
himself angel of the east
Rev,
7^2 ,
Some confusion
ar i ses because his churches use the s ame name
as
ours: Iglesia
ni
Cristo Church
of Christ ,
but
the worldliness of
his leaders and
his
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ta t ion
o f things tiiss
Betty
Yarbrough
joined
the
Mission
in
November
o f
1952 and
i s
s t i l l on the f i e l d .
Elston
an d Mary Knight arrived
in
t he is la nd s
in August
of
1953 and
stayed
unt i l April
of
1956
Guen
Griffith accompanied
Betty
Yarbrough from furlough in
November
of 1956
and stayed u n t i l March 1958 John and Jacquelyn Hasty came to Cebu
in January 1957 Mrs Hasty passed away in June 1957 necessitating
th e return of
Mr Hasty
and his
two
small
daughters
in July 1957. Hie
Carlso n s were in the Sta tes from 1954 to i la rc h 1 95 8. ^N eg otia tio ns
a r e
presently being
made
wherein
a new American couple may come
to
supplement e f f o r t s .
Your
prayers
a r e
s o l i c i t e d .
The Cebu Bible
S em in ar y b eg an
in
1947
in
rented
quar t er s. Since
then
a
reinforced concrete
classroom
building
and two frame dormito^
r ies
have been erected on
th e
campus
a t
San I s i d r o Talisay.
sozens
of
young men and women have been trained here. Two
of
the
graduates
a re
on
th e fac ulty:
Mrs
Cresencia
Bantiles
and
i^^r.
J^eo
Casteliano.
The witness
of the
gospel
has
been made
u t i l i z i n g sever al methods.
Person~to-person and
house-to-house
teaching
has
accompanied
customary
preaching
in chapel
and out-of-door meeting. Correspondence
courses
make Bible study
a va ila ble to
many who
l ive
fa r from th e
Seminary.
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in f i r s t a id
and
i l lness found fa r away from profess ional help Sim
p le la ye tte s are always welcome
and represent sjmipathetic help
to new
mothers vdth
primitive resources, Vitamins a re o ften in dica te d in the
t rea tment
of the s ick . Any
having drug house connections
please
re
member
Cebu,
Cebu province has f if ty- tv/o incorporated munic ipa l i t ies and
we
have
se t our goal of f i f ty churches in
th is
area .
Dozens of other
provinces in the
southern
Philippines
are unreached. The
churches
t h a t
have
di rec t
fellowship with
the
Cebu
Christ ian
i-iission
are:
CriUxiCH LoCaTIlW
MiHSTikl
1 Mart i res - Cebu
City
Leo
Caste l lano
2, Carreta
Cebu
City
Juan i laramara
3
San i s idro
Talisay,
Cebu
~ Pedro Panoy
4
Balamban
Cebu
iMarcisso
Curacha
5 Santander
*Cebu
Pas to r Burreros
6, Sangat
San Fernando, Cebu iiugenio xientura
7 Tuyan ; Naga, Cebu Tomas
Labrado
8 , (auiljungan
Cauayan,
x^iegros occ.
t ioll ie
Lusoc
San Isidro Numancia, ourigao w ouan Consigns
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J E C 2 2 i 8
SPOlLiGHT
on
CtB
Ccbu Ch r i s t i a n
M is s ion,
PO
Box-41,
Cebu C i t y , P . I O cto b er,
1958
Typhoon Season Coming
The r a i n s
have star ted and th e winds
may
be coming any
day,
so
we
must
v/crk
fast to
gat
the
school
dormitories
in
b e t t e r condition
fo r
possible stormy- weather, ./e have ordered windows for the-two new
buildings,
and
are
now waiting for
t he c arp en te rs
to ccme and
i n s t a l l
them. They are
the jalousie
type, a l l
wood
and cost about
derful to have running water for the icitchen and the showers
The
l o w e r ha lf o f the d ow ns ta ir s w al ls , o f th e boys dorm
are partly finished, and at- soon as we ca n
get
some ^
more cement these can be conpleted. j fjw
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PLAY BALlf
Basketball i s a favori te
sport
in the
Phil ip
pines,
and we
have
found
that the bal l court
can
be u sefu l fo r more than b l l
games.
From
August
15 to
September
15 we held a se r ie s o f evange
l i s t i c meetings t the
basketball
court t Tabu-
noc, >ach ounday af ternoon since the meeting we
have been conducting a children's Bible class
under
the same basketbal l r ing. On
September
30,
Bro,
i^eo
Castellano
had
a
debate
there with
represen tativ es o f a religious group
called
i^ianalistas,
who
teach that Christ
was a mere man
and not divine,
j e are glad
to have
access
to such
a place
vhore
we
can openly wit
ness for the i-ord i n v r ious ways.
AN ODD PARTY
i
The
church
members and Seminary students didn't know exactly what
to
expect when they
were invited to
a Sandpaper party, 'A, But they
were j us t curious enough to
f ind out
th t
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Curing
the f i r s t
two
weeks
of beptoni^
ber> Brother r iol l ie Lusoc minis te r
o f
the Guiljungan Church on the i s lan d o f
hegros
vis i ted
the
Semirury
to
help
in
the Tabunoc
evangel is t ic
meeting and to
give a
series
o f
lec tures
in
the school
chapel hour
we
hope to
have
othe r such
vis i tors ccme and bring us
similar
in
sp i ra t ion
during the
re s t
of the
year .
The
student
garden plots are now bringing
forth
vegetables and
i t^s
a
joy to
have home-grovm food
on
the tab le at
meal time.
The crops include egg
plant
tcmatoes radishes str ing beans squash
and a
number of leafy greens t ha t are peculiar
to the Phi l ippines
Bro . Car l son
and some o f
t h e s t ud en t s
v i s i t e d th e
b r e t h r en
n San t a nde r
on
September
21
and Bro. Solidum
went to
Balamban on
October Another t r i p
being planned
fo r
the
month
of
October
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flUGHI
lyiTH
T OOO S
One quiet
afternoon
we
were
s ta r t l ed
to
seo
f ive
very tough-looking characters
coming across
the
Semi
nary campus. They asked
for
Miss Yarbrough,
so
Betty hesi tantly
went
toward them, wondering who
they
might be, .^hen she
greeted them, they
infomed her
tha t
they
wore Secre t oeryice
men
Thinking quickly,
she could not remember having broken any
laws
or
having
failed to
report
to
the
al ien
registrat ion
author i t ies
.However>
she soon,
found out the why
of
the visi t . The men
reported th.at
the robber who
had
broken in to
the
house
of
Guen
and
Betty l a s t
Feb
ruary had
been
caught, and tha t we could go
to
th e
Police
Sta t ion
to
claim Guen's typewri ter , rte
were
a l l amazed, but
needless
to say,
thril loa
and thankful 'fhe thief
was
an
escaped
convict,
and a t
the
t r i a l
was
sentenced
to
another
22
years
behind
bars
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