Category: Pastoral Statements

STAND UNITED IN DOING CHRIST’S MISSION IN THESE CHANGING AND CHALLENGING TIMES

STAND UNITED IN DOING CHRIST’S MISSION IN THESE CHANGING AND CHALLENGING TIMES

UCCP-Haran has for many years now been serving as a domicile for Lumads who had been forcibly displaced by violence and attacks by paramilitary groups. It has served as a home for victims of oppression and unpeace. It has become a place of healing among them who have been distressed by intermittent harassment and violence committed against them. It also provides a venue for the schooling of Lumad children. But more than these, UCCP-Haran is a sanctuary of peace in keeping with God’s own purpose: “For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death. He will rescue them from oppression and violence, for precious is their blood in his sight.” — Psalm 72:12-14

ONWARD UCCP: FORTIFY THE FOUNDATION OF UNITY, PERSEVERE IN DOING CHRIST’S MISSION IN THESE CHANGING TIMES!

ONWARD UCCP: FORTIFY THE FOUNDATION OF UNITY, PERSEVERE IN DOING CHRIST’S MISSION IN THESE CHANGING TIMES!

THIS DAY, May 25, 2019, marks the 71st birthing anniversary of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP). Over the past 7 decades of its existence as a faith community, UCCP has gone through great challenges and encounters. Yet God never failed to sustain us and carried us through all those tempests. Indeed, God is worthy to be praised and glorified. Hence the words of the psalmist reverberate as we gather to celebrate: “Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.” (Psalm 115: 1)

UCCP SEMJA OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON LUMAD BAKWITS IN HARAN

UCCP SEMJA OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON LUMAD BAKWITS IN HARAN

In fulfilling this duty, we opened our doors in Haran to the Lumad bakwits for the past years. Haran has been the second home of these Lumad brothers and sisters, as they find time to heal from the trauma of attacks from elements of paramilitary in their ancestral territories, and at the same time continue the schooling of their children through the bakwit school.