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JANUARY
N
FEBRUARY
1978,
NEWS LETTER
FROM
CHARLES
N ROBERTA
SELBY
Philippine Mission Churches of Christ, P. 0.
Box
49, Aparri, Cagayan Philippines
8
Forwarding Agent; Mrs, R. L.
Tolliver, Fairfield,
Nebraska 68938
March 7, 1978
D e a r
F r i e n d s
in C h r i s t :
In the
name of
Jesus, our Lord,
we come
once
again
to
express
our deep
grati tude
to
a l l of
you
who make
it possible
f o r us
to
keep
His work
i n
Northern Luzon moving ahead.
We
would
l i k e
to share with
you
some
of
the things
t h a t
have happened
during
the
p a s t
two
m onths, and some o f th e p la ns we have f o r th e months ahead,
APARRI BIBLE
SEMINARY
completed i t s
26th
year on February 24th when s ix young men,
a l l
of whom
v;ere top notch
s tudents ,
received
t h e i r
degrees and
diplomas, and
s i x young
women received t h e i r two and t h r e e year
c e r t i f i c a t e s
i n C h r i s t i a n Education, Two o f
t h e s e men
have
been c al l e d t o
s e r v e congregat ions
on a f u l l t ime b a s i s . One o f t h e s e
congregations i s among
t h e
o ld es t in the
Cagayan
Valley and
one o f
them was e s t a b l i s h e d
j u s t . r e c e n t l y . Three o f t h e graduates
i d . l l
be
working
w i t h
an e v a n g e l i s t i c team during
th e s immer months beginning i n
e a r l y
A p r i l .
This
team w i l l be e m p o a e d
o f - f i v e
maay Ydur
o f whom
make up
an e x c e l l e n t q u a r t e t and the f i v e w il l form a b a s k e t b a l l team and w i l l
use t h a t
whenever it
seems
a p p r o p r i a t e
as
a
means
o f catching the
i n t e r e s t o f
t h e people,
e s p e c i a l l y th e young people,
i n t h e
communities
where
they w i l l
m i n i s t e r A l l
f i v e a r e
e x c e l l e n t p r e a c h e r s and B i b l e
s t u d e n t s .
J u s t
proceeding the Seminary Commencement program, we had our
annual Conference
on
Evangelism which i s sponso red each year by the Seminary.
121
preachers,
elders ,
deacons
and C h r i s t i a n workers r e g i s t e r e d f o r t h i s meeting. t was one o f th e
b e s t
we have ever
had. Along
with
the Conference t h i s
year , a VBS
c l i n i c was
conducted with
sessions
both
morn in g an d afternoon f o r a l l th e women who d e s i r e d
to
a t t e n d .
This prov ed
very
success
f u l .
The
b ig problem i s
t h a t we do
not have large enough
f a c i l i t i e s
to accomodate t h i s
many
e x t r a
people
besides our r e g u l a r Seminary family. These are the
kinds o f problems
we like
THE CHRISTIAN HICTi
SCHOOLS;
On March 28th and 31st,
Roberta
and I wil l
be
a t the two
high schools
for
t h e i r
commencement
programs,
202
young
people
are
scheduled
to
graduate
from these schools this year. As t h i s i s being written, the Week of Evangelism
i s
in
pro
gress a t
both
schools. Two o f our
Seminary teachers and four
preachers
f rom Churches
in
the Cagayan
Valley make
up the
preaching
and
teaching
teams. They
are being
a s s i s t e d by
a
male q u a r t e t and a g i r l s t r i o from the Seminary. During the f i r s t Semester Week of
Evangelism ,
l66
young
people
were baptized
into Christ. We are
prajang
for
several more
t o
t a k e
t h a t ~ s t ^
t h i s l ^ e e k . ^ . . -
Of
grea t concern
to
us r i g h t
now,
i n r el at io n sh i p t o
these
tvjo
high schools, i s the
f a c t t h a t
we are losing many of our bes t
and
most qualif ied teachers s imply because the
s al ar y s ca le of
teachers
i s so f a r below the s a l a r i e s being paid by government corpora
t ions and e n t i t i e s as well
as
the business world.
The
basic salary f o r
a
teacher as s e t
by
the government
i s
the equivalent
of about $58.50
a month
and
most
of
those are
paid
on
a
10 month b a s i s .
I n
the f i r s t place, w ith l i v i n g costs what
they
are r i g h t
nov;,
it
i s
impossible
for
a
family
to
exist
on tha t amount, and when
the
two
months
with no
pay
come
along,
they are r e a ll y i n
t rouble .
As a
r e s u l t they are seeking jobs w ith
higher
pay and
pay
t h a t
comes
twelve months out of the year. I f
we
want to
keep good
teachers
we
are
go
ing to
have
to
pay
higher s a l a r i e s .
At present, income from tu i t ion
and other fees
pays
about two-thirds
of
the teachers s a l a r i e s .
The
r e s t i s paid by g i f t s
from
churches and
individual
Chris t ians
i n the U. S. I
would
l i k e to
increase
the s a l a r y
scale
by 20 per
cent t h i s year
and put
a l l of the
emp loyees on
a
12
month
b a s i s .
To do t h i s it
would
mean we
would
have
to increase our monthly i n - p u t from mission funds. This would n o t
be
p o s s i b l e on the
b a s i s
o f our p r e s e n t i ncome, whi ch
i s
not meeting p r e s e n t expenses
f o r
the
t o t a l
evangelist ic program here. Can you
believe
that
$70.00
a month or
$840,00
a year
would
pay the
f u l l
s a l a r y
of a
high school teacher?
Can you a ls o b el ie ve
t h a t $20,00
a
month would pay
the
m i s s i o n s
share
o f
the cost of
giving
a
high s chool educa ti on
to
12
young people?
This
i n c l u d e s
a Bible c l a s s every
day o f th e
10 month school
year
Even
With
t h i s proposed
i n cr e as e o f
wages f o r t e a c h e r s and p u t t i n g them on
a 12
month
b a s i s it
wil l s t i l l only
cost the
mis sion abou t $1. 67 a month
per student,
or
$20.00 per year.
This, it seems t o me, i s a
ver y sma ll in ve stmen t
f o r
t he oppo rt un it y
o f
t ea ch in g t he
Word
t o a
s t u d e n t
5 days a week f o r
10
months .
This
i s
an i nves tmen t
t h a t w i l l i n f l u e n c e
t h e
l i f e
of t h a t student a l l of the years of his l i f e . In
addition,
his influence wil l be
f e l t
i n the l i v e s o f count less others throughout
h is
l i f e t i m e .
We are
praying for Churches,
classes or individuals
who
w i l l
be
will ing
to take the
support
of a
teacher
at $70.00 per month or a
group
of 12
students
at $20,00 or 24
a t
$4o.
You
cannot
imagine what a tremendous contribution t h i s
would
be to the
Lord's
work here .
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THE SVANC^LISTIG
V?QRK:
Avery important step being taken here
right
now is the
for-
'
mation of a
special
team
to
be
put into the field
on a
full
time basis with the
task
of
working with local congregations
in
the Cagayan Valley, training leadersiiip
in
those con-
gregations
and
getting
as many of
the members
of each congregation as
possible
involved in*
soul-winningc The team will plan to
stay
with each congregation
for
two weeks.. Each
morning
they will have Bible classes and leadership training classes and classes dealing
with stewardship and personal evangelism. In the afternoons, they will show the
brethren
hnw to
do
personal evangelism by going v/ith
them
into the
homes
of the
community and
each
evening of the two
weeks
they
vra.ll
have, i f
possible,
a public evangelistic meeting. I t
is
our
desire
to help every
local
congregation to
become
a
center
for
evangelism. This
team will
consist of t; Jo of our finest preachers in the area, both
of
them very mature in
every way. Both of them
have
many years of experience in working with local congregations
and
both are
powerful
teachers
and
preachers of the Word.
They will be equipped with a
Jeep and other equipment necessary
for
successful teaching and evangelistic ministries.
They will have another man with them
vjho
-.ra-ll
serve
as their
driver and
mechanic who
wil l
be responsible
for keeping the i r
equipment
in
working condition.
I t i s
estimated
that
will
take around
300.00
a month to keep
th is
team
in
the field. Thiis includes
salar ies
for
th e th ree men and
t ravel l ing and
other expenses
connected
with a work such as
this .
The churches
here will
be encouraged
to share in the
expenses
of this
team and we hope
they will accept the challenge to share in tliis venture
in a very substantial way.
How
ever
,
this
investment
is
much, much less than
i t
would
take to bring
a
missionary
family
over here to do such a vjork, and even
after
such a family would arrive on the field,
there
\-Jould
s t i l l
have
to
be
Filipino
men
to
work \ra.th them.
We
a re try in g to
hold down
on
missionary
personnel and
get as m.any Filipinos
involved
in the leadership of this
work
as
possible. These men know their
people,
they
speak
the i r language and they know th e needs
and
how to
meet them.
A
church could not in ve st 300.00
a month
in
any
missionary
work
more needful
or one
with more
potent ia l
then
th i s team.
We
are
praying
tha t
some
church
,
wil l
accept this team as
the i r
missionary p2?oject
on a
year
around basis .
CAGAYAN
CHILDREy'S
HOr IB
i s
coming
nearer to real i ty as
each
week
goes
by
We
are
be
coming
more
and more axvare of
the
great need
for
such a home. So many
chi ldren are
living
under conditions so horrible
that
staggers the imagination. The need i s so
great,
and
since
we
do not have funds for
the
erection of a building at
th e
present time,
we
are
thinking
about rent ing
a
building
of some
ld.nd just to
get
s ta r ted
The
Social Welfare
people
are
encouraging us
to
do this .
We
have
looked
a t
a
rather iarge
house
which
is
lo
cated on
an acre
of land
about f ive miles
south
of Aparri.
The owners of
th is
house are
in the U. S. and they have
up for rent, but we don't know as yet i f they would be will
ing
to
rent
to be
used for
a Children's Home. We
cti^e trying
to get
the i r
address
in
the U. S. so we
can deal
with them
direct ly ,
but we haven't been able
to
do
that
as yet,
\Je understand
t ha t
can
be
rented for
75.00
to 100.00 a month. We own- a
beaut i fu l
lo t
where we intend
to
establ ish
th is
ho.me. The
f i r s t
uni t of
the building
v;e
plan to erec t
will
be a two s tory bui ld ing
containing
about
5j850
square feet of
floor space.
Our Archi
tec t estimates cost of
building at
about 500 to 6,00 per
square
foot.
Please pray
^\'ith
us about th is I f
you' can
help
with
i t please send gi f t s
marked
for Children's
Home ,
THE RADIO BROADCAST s t i l l
continues
to go out s ix
days
a week and i s reaching a very
wide
area with the Gospel, This i s
a 15 minute
program of t he p reaching of the
Word
and
i s
wel l
rece ived
t hr oughou t t he
area
THE
PRINTING
PRESS i s s t i l l
a
very busy place every day. Along with
the
Gospel
t racts and
the
bi-monthly Ilocano paper known as CRQNICAS
they are
very busy especially
r ight
now
with
much
printing for th e
Seminary,
the High Schools and the
summer
evangelistic
program. The press i s a great blessing
to
our
to ta l
program here.
I t
is
your gi f t s that
make
th is e ntire
program possible and
we
thank you so
much
for
your
fai thfulness.
We ask
you
to
pray that others will join with you in
fai thful monthly
s uppo r t o f t h i s work
in C hr is t
Aarles
and Roberta Selby
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April;
my
joiis,
1978, news le t ter from charles AiNd Roberta
selby
^lilippine
Mission
Churches of Christ, P. 0.
Box 49
Aparri,
Cagayan
Philippines III8
Forwarding
Agent; Mrs. R.
L. Tolliver, Fairfield, Nebraska 68938
Dear F r i e nd s n Ch r i s t ;
With this
long overdue news-letter, we are enclosing receipts
for
gifts received for the
work
here during the
past
four months. These
months
have spanned our
summer
months
and also the
f i rs t month of a new
school
year. I t has been a busy and fruitful summer. Two conventions
were held
in widely
separated areas . I spoke
three
times at each of these conventions A
total of 169 young people attended our three camps and
^
them were baptized into Christ. A
Spiritual Retreat was held for all of the high school teachers and the Seminary faculty also.
APARRI
BIBTE
SEMINARY began
a new school year in early June with
just
over 80 young people
enrolled.
A large number of students are going out each week-end to preaching points within
50 miles of Aparri, and students remaining in Aparri are teaching in
at
least four different
sections of
the
town. We have
had
to increase the salar ies of
our
Filipino
personnel
in the
Seminary again this
year
and
thus
our operating expense
continues
to ^ise. I t
is
costing a-
bout 135 .O^TlSonth
f ^
each/full time student.
This
includes his
room
board and tuition.
TIfE
TVAInICtELTSTIC
WORK
continues
to
produce
resul ts
and
the
future
looks encouraging.
The
churches are beginning to take more
responsibi li ty for
the support of their preachers and
for
the evangelistic work in
their
areas. During
the
summer
much
evangelistic work was going on
a ll over
our area. One team, made up
of some
of
our younger graduates
and
seminary students,
v/on 37 souls to Christ and did a tremendous job of rev iv ing churches wherever they went. A
permanent team, composed of three of our older graduates, known as the
OBI
(Operation Bible
Institute)
Team xvent
into the
field on a full time basis
in
May.
I t
is
costing the
Mission
^250 00 a month
to
keep this team in th e field. I t
is
the goal of
this
team to reach as many
of the established churches (over 100 in
our area)
as possible, holding Bible
Inst i tutes
to
train leadership in
th e Churches, as well
as
giving instruction
in t he matt er
of stewardship.
They will also be involved in reaching the lost and teaching the members of each church how to
seek
the
l o s t in
t he i r
own
communities.
There have been
3^4
baptisms
reported
so
fa r
in
our
entire
evangelistic
effort
during
the
f i r s t
six
months
of
1978. Over
sixty
of
these
were
re
ported
by the OBI Team
just
in May and June. The tota l investment in th is program during th e
pas t s ix
months
has averaged about
1,100.00
a month,
THE
CHRI^IAN H I^ SCHOOLS~have^ to ta l of~T,008
enro l l ^d^ i s year. I t is
t ruly
a lh r iXl
to ^
have
the opportunity
to reach
this
great number
of
young people
with the
Word
of
God every
school
day for 10 months of the
year. We have also had
to increase
the salaries of the nigh
school teachers. We have taken a great step of fa i th by putting
them
a l l on a 12-month basis .
Tui t ion fees have
been
increased
fo r
the f i r s t
t ime
in
many
years, and
we
are
hoping
to
in
crease in come from
o ther
sources . Mission investment
in
the
operat ional
expenses of these
schools i s around 1.25 per month or 15 00 year
per
student, a m.odest investment to make
in
the
l ives of our future p re ache rs , doc to rs , nur se s, lav;yers, etc.
Since
t he schools began
in 1967? over
1,500
young
people
and
teachers have been baptized into
ChristI
THE RADIO
BROADCAST
continues
to
reach
a large audience in
the
somex^jhat l imited area which the
stat ion reaches. Bro. Danao receives many l e t t e r s
of
inquiry each month, I know
of
a t l eas t
8 churches establ i shed
as
a di rec t resu l t of th i s
program.
Bro. Danao
repor ts
tha t the cos t
of the
program
has
been increased by aroxand 3 ^? going from 3*90 to 5
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r Vli Vii SwSlx.r
We have
been
praying
much
regarding the
need
of
a
bul ldozer to l eve l
the
s i te on our 25-acre
.
proper ty
in
Lal- lo where the ch i ld r en s home wi l l
be
bu i l t .
Rent ing
on e would
cos t
5^25.00 an
hour, |>200.00 a
day,
$6,000.00 a
month.
An interested friend in Aparri
ran
across an old,
medium-sized bulldozer in Manila, s t i l l in very good condition,
cost ing
about $3?000.00, in -
eluding f r e i gh t to Aparr i . Since
we
have had to move f a s t on t h i s ,
we a re
borrowing
the
money
fo r th i s equ ipmen t and
wi l l
t r u s t
the
Lord
to provide
it when
it
i s
needed.
VJith the bul ldozer ,
we can begin
l eve l l ing
the s i t e fo r the
ch i ld r en s
home immediately. Then it wi l l
be
ava i lab le
f or fu rth er le ve ll in g ,
road-building, e tc . , as the property i s
fur ther developed.
This prop
e r t y
is
a l so th e s i t e fo r th e fu tu re Radio Sta t ion and Ch r is ti an L ib e ra l
Ar t s
Col l ege . Needed
bul ldoz ing
can
a l so
be
done
a t
the
presen t
high schools .
When
we
a re
f in i shed
with
it
we
can
probably
s e l l it f o r a t l e a s t
as
much
as we
pa id
fo r
it Pra i se
God
fo r
answered prayer .
During the pas t f ive
months
much
work has
been
done
on the Lal - lo proper ty
in
clear ing ou t
brush, unwanted t re es , e tc ,
A
cement block fence
now
graces the frontage along the nat ional
highway. Although
cost ly , th is work
was nece ss a ry be fo r e
the
chi ldren s home,
radio
s ta t ion
and
col lege
could be bu i l t . This
property
i s in a beau t i fu l
locat ion ,
an d when development
is completed,
it
vjill be
very valuable,
something that the
Church in
t he Phi lipp ines (and in
the United States)
can
be proud of,
something
that
wil l produce
fo r
the
Lord for
many years .
You may have noted in the above
paragraphs t h a t
I have mentioned the cos t s of
our
present
program. Our
to tal expenses
in th e las t six months average
about $7,680.00 per
month. With
this
amount we are running a Bible College
with
over 80 students, two Christian high schools
w ith ov er
1,000
s tudents , a
dai ly
radio
program,
a pr in t ing pres s an d a v er y e x te ns iv e evange
l is t ic program. Average monthly receipts from
the
U.S. have been only $5,1^0.00. A
big
ex
pense
has
been
improvement of the
Lal - lo
property where
vje
hope
to
put the
new
col lege
and
h igh s choo l,
and those funds have come
from
spec ia l fun ds give n fo r tha t
college
and high
school. Because these funds are running low, we have
had to
stop a l l work on th i s
development
and
may have to cu r t a i l some of our o ther
work. We even
gave
ser ious
cons iderat ion to clos ing
the
Seminary
th is year, or
cut t ing
back sharply
on
other phases of
our work. We
bel ieve,
however,
tha t the
Lord
wants
th is
work to continue
to grow
and expand, and we ju s t
wanted
to
share
these needs with
you.
The
Lord
has p rov id ed t hrough H is pe op le
in a
marvelous
way,
and
we are t r u s t i ng Him. Pray
with
us t h a t
t he se
needs wi l l be m et.
Sid an d Mar j Boudrea ux
and
family
l e f t in
May fo r t he i r fur lough in the
Sta tes .
Thei r
address
i s
Box
1641,
Joplin,
MO
64801.
Roberta,
the i r
oldest
daughter,
was
married
June
25
in Joplin
to
Robbie Pommert. We miss them A year ag o
in
June,
Ann Tol l ive r
re turned
to th e
S ta tes ,
and
although
she planned to return to
th e Philippines,
the Lord changed those plans. On ay 6
Ann
mar r i ed
Dr.
Steve P l e t t n e r ,
and
the y p la n
to
go
to In d ia
as medical
miss iona r i e s . Mary
Pru i t t has
been
f i l l i ng in
and
doing
a grea t
job
in the o f f i c e , bu t i s needed f u l l
t ime
in
the chi ldren s home so we have been
praying. We
praise God tha t Mrs. Naomi Goode of Grants
Pass , Oregon, a f r iend .of
Mary's
family, wil l be
arr iving
next week to
fill
th i s need. Naomi
i s
a
re t i red secre tary , l iving
on her
re t i rement
income,
and paying her
own way. The Lord
led
he r
t o
volun tee r he r s e r v i c e s . God is so good
How we praise
and
thank God fo r
the g i f t s you
have
sent
so
tha t you could share in th is
work.
It would be impossible to
do.
without
your help .
May God
bless
you,
supplying your every need
ou t
o f His
r i ches
in
glory through Ch ri st J es us ,
as He
has
promised in His Word.
Fa i t h f u l l y yours
in
Chr i s t ,
Cha r l e s and
R o be rt a S elb y
8/11/2019 Selby Charles Roberta 1978 Philippines
5/6
JULY
TO
OCTOBER,
1978, MEWS
LETTER
PROM CHARLES AND ROBERTA SEIBY
PhLillppine Miasr>n- Churches--of-Christ, P. 0. Box
49,
Aparri, Cagayan,
Philippines
l l l8
Forwarding
Agent:
Mrs.
R. To]liver, Pai.rfie3.d, Nebraska 68938
D e a r
B r e t h r e n
i n
C h r i s t :
Nov.
8,
1978
Here t
i s
November
and
our
l a s t
news
l e t t e r
was
s e n t o u t
i n
J u l y . I was so sure I would
g e t t h i s o u t
i n
September,
b u t
j u st d id n t make t Many o f you w i l l f in d r ec ei pt s enclosed
covering the months
of
July,
August, Sep tember and
October. In t h i s l e t t e r
we
want
to share
with
you
some
of th e th in gs t h a t have been happening during these
months.
APARRI BIBTiR SEMINARY, now
in
i t s 27th y ea r, has around
80
students enrolled.
We
are now
i n
the second
semester of t h i s school year . Quite a large number of students
and
facul ty members
were
involved in spec ia l evangel is ti c
work
during the semester vacation, Oct.
8
to
15
VTe
viere so
pleased to
have
Dr.
Steve
and
Ann
Plettner
with
us
for our
Deeper Life
Week ,
Sept.
26
to
29 . Ann
Plet tner , formerly
Ann Toll iver ,
worked with
us here
for
nearly
nine
years.
Dr. P l e t t n e r and Ann
were
on
t h e i r
way te-Kulpahar,-
India-where-they
w i l l be -establishing a^
Medical Evangel ism work
in connection
with the Kulpahar
Kids
Home.
Everyone here
vias t r u l y
sad
to
see
Ann
go.
An
o ff er in g o f
100.00
was
given
to
them
by
the
Seminary
family
and
the
A p a r r i Church o f C h r i s t combined.
THE EVANGELISTIC
WORK; 620 baptisms have been
reported
for
I978
so ifar.
We
wish t were
many more than t h a t but vje praise
the Lord
f o r those who
have
come to know Him. When Roberta
nud I
arrived in
Aparii
In
1947
there
v/ere around 10 churches
in the
Cagayan
Valley.
Today
there are
at
least 110, Many of these are quite small but most of them are growing. A few
are running above
the
200 mark each Sunday bu t I suppose most
of
them would average between
50 and 100
in
attendance each Lord's day. Right now
we
are giving a
lot
of
attention
to
leadership
training
in
the local churches as v/ell as to the spiritual growth of the church
members as a
whole,
without
lessening our
continuous efforts to reach
the unsaved.
TH E CHRISTIAN
HIGH SCHOOLS: A total of 125 young people were baptized into
Christ
at
the
annual
1st
Semester
Week
ol
Evangelism
Oct.
9-13?
66
at
Northern Isabela
Academy
and 59
S t
Southern Isabela Academy. Including others wh o had
been
baptized earlier in the school year,
this
makes a total of 155 the
1st
Semester.
These
schools are tremendous evangelistic
agencies and
at
the same time give an opportuni ty of teaching the Word to hundreds of future
leaders in eve:^ area of our society here. Many of the graduates have already taken positions
of l eade rship
in
churches from
Northern
Luzon
to
Manila.
^^C^ay^^^IcSol^ Gospel
is
still being
preached
6days aweek over dio Staticn ZN
to get this program on other
stations
which X /ould permit us to reach a much wider area.
We
have
tentative
plans to get time
on at
least two other
commercial stations
as funds permit.
Plans have been
made
to
build
a
recording studio
of our own as soon as funds
are available.
This
will
enable us
to
control
the
quality
of
the programs
that
go on
the
air.
TH E A PA RK L
CHRISTIAlf
PRESS
enables us to reach a vast area
i>jith
the m.essage of
Christ via
the
printed page. We are pleased with the
many
requests being received
for printed materials.
These requests come from all over the Island of Luzon wherever Ilocano people are found and
many come also from Mindanao,
the
southern most I sland o f
the
country. We
believe
that
this
can develop into one of the most effective tools of our ministry here both in reaching
new
people
for
the Lord and
in providing
material
for the
spiritual growth
of those who
have
a l r e a d y
a c c e p t e d
t h e Lord.
CAGAYAN CHILDREN S HOM:
We were happy to
leam jus t this past week that Cagayan
Children's
Home, though not yet l icensed, has been listed by the Regional Office of the Ministry of
Social Services
and
Developiient as a place
where
cliildren can be brought
either
for temporary
shelter
or
for
permanent
care.
I mentioned
in
my
l as t l et te r
that
we
hoped tc begin the
new
for the
Children's Home
no
la ter
than the
1st cf
September. This
i s
now Nov. and we
s t i l l have not begun
that
building.
The bulldozer which
v;e
purchased vias
not
ready for the
^^^ork that needed
to
be done as
early
as we had hoped. The las t month
has
been one
of almost
constant typhoons and heavy
rains
so
we
s t i l l have no t been
able
to
get to
work on
this.
Because of present v/eather conditions I cannot
predict when
we
will
be able to
start. Hovjever,
we are hoping to
start
purchasing materials
sometime this month,
hoping
to
ge t
some
things
before the expected price increase at the end of the year. I t is estimated
that
this building
mil
cost between 36,000.00 and 40,000,00 which is between 6.00 and 7.00 per square foot.
8/11/2019 Selby Charles Roberta 1978 Philippines
6/6
Plans to establish a
new Christian
High School and
Christian Liberal
Arts College
are
progressing nicely. Last
week I had the rare
opportunity cf visit ing at length
with
the
acting Regional Director of the iytinistry of Education
who
is also the Distr ict Superintendent
of Schools
for the
Privince of Cagayan.
He is
the cne
who will
have to give primary approval
for
the establishment of
a
school
such as
is
proposed. He gave
me some very
helpful inforroation
and
indicated
that there would be no trouble
at
a ll
in getting a permit to open a Technical
high
school,
and
that is just
what
we
want
to
do. We
believe this is the
type
of
school
needed
in
th i s
area.
I t
wil l
probab3.y
be
more
expensive
to
establ ish
th is so r t
of
school
because of the equipment
that
will be needed,
but
i t
is possible that much of the equipment
we already
have
fo r t he v ar io us phases
of
our present mission work
can
be ut i l ized a t the
s c h o o l
Plans have
already
been drawn for the Administration and main Academic building of this
school. I t will be a two story building containing about 23,000 square feet cf floor space.
Plans
call for at
leas t
four
other
buildings, smaller than this one.
Theyinclude
two dormitor
ies , a shop building for
spec ia l t echnica l
courses and
a
fairly
large chapel building.
Plans
have
also
been drawn
fo r
a
Recording
Studio to
be
bu i l t on
th is
same s i t e This
will
be buil t
in
such a way
that
i t can be used
as
a
broadcasting station
when
we can
get a
license to operate
such a
station. I t is
our
desire to use this radio
work as a
part of
the
technical
t raining
curriculimi
of
th e Ch ris tia n
High
School
and
College.
I t
is
estimated
that
this
entire
project, th e Children's
Home,
th e Recording Studio: and
the five buildings
of'the Christian
High School and College
will
cost between $350,000.00 and
400,000.00/
I t is
our intention to
move
forv/ard on tliis only as the Lord provides
the
funds,
Np_ indebtedness
wi l l
be incur red .
I t
i s dif f icul t to even
imagine th e
tremendous
potential this entire project
has
for the
future
of the Lord' s work here.
First ,
hundreds of children will pass through the Cagayan
Children's
Home,
having been taken
out
of an aLmost living hell and placed in a beautiful
Christian
atmosphere where
they
will
come
to
know
the
Lord, and where
they
vri-ll have an oppor
tunity for
a thorough
Christian
education
fr -^m pre-school a l l th e
way through
college.
i
Hundreds
of other students will also
be attending
the school at a ll
levels,
kindergarten
through College. They >7ill come to know th e Lord during
these
veiy important
years
and will
eventually become very capable leaders in the churches throughout this whole
area. At
the
same tLme,
these
hundreds and even thousands
of students
will
leam the principles of Chr is tian
stewardship;
then
because of their
education
they will surely be wage earners, and
will
thus
become the answer
to
a self-supporting, self-extending Church in the
Philippines.
Even
as plans are being
made
for expanding the
work on a
rather
large
scale,
we
remain
deeply concerned about
cur
day
to
day financial situation, The cost of
living
i s s t i l l esca
lating
here as i t
is
everywhere. In the
f i rs t
10 racnths of
this year,
expenses have averaged
aroung 1,900.00 per month over and a^ove receipts from a ll soiur^ceSn Tliis is almost exactly
one
third
more
tlian
we
are receiving
each
month.
We
see
no
re l ief
from
this
except
closing
down
some
of the
work we
are
now doing. We do
net
want to do
this
and
will
dc
t only as
a
l a s t resor t
We are t rus t ing the
-Lord to s upply our needs
as
He sees
them.
Please do pray
with
us about
this
Yery
serious situation.
We
Praise
God
that
He has given
us
so many,
many wonderful avenues
o f
s e rv i ce We have
been
in d i f f i c u l t
f i n anc i a l
s i t u a t i on s
before and He has always seen u s thro ug h. We are cer ta in He
wi l l
dc so th i s t ime.
Please
pray
also for
your
missionaries Sid
and Marj Boudreaux (Box 1^4l,
Joplin, Mo 64801)
Mary Pruit t , Mrs. Naomi Goode,
Charles
and Robert Selby, V/e would surely appreciate even a
shor t
note
of
encouragement from
you..
e
o
our
w
r f u l Lord
Charles and
Roberta
Selby
