MGA KAUNA-UNAHANG KAGANAPAN SA KUMINIDAD NG MGA ADVENTISTA SA PILIPINAS

Tinawag siyang “Asia's first self-supporting missionary”.Si Abraham La Rue ang kauna-unahang nagpadala ng
mga babasahin ng pabalita ng Adbentismo sa Pilipinas.

1904, G. A. Irwin, president of Australian Union Conference, decided to pass by in Manila on his way to
Washington D.C. to attend the SDA General Conference in May 1905 session. He made an eight day stop over
in the Philippines and saw the need to evangelize the country.

Siya ang kauna-unahang misyonerong kulpotor na dumating sa Pilipinas upang personal namadala ang
pabalita ni Cristo ang ipakilala ang pananampalatayang Adventismo sa pamamagitan ng mga aklat ay si Robert
A. Caldwell.

December 1908, Pastor and Mrs. L. V. Finster arrived in Manila with an interest to learn the dialect. He hired
tutors to teach him. He began to use the dialect during the cottage meetings in Sta. Ana Manila.

The first Seventh-Day Adventist Church was organized with 22 members including the four missionaries in the
Philippines located in Sta. Ana Manila.

June 12, 1917, when the first Philippine Seventh-day Adventist Academy, located in Pasay formally opened its
doors with 36 students in the high school and only 12 pupils in the primary grade.

The opening of the first Seventh-day Adventist church school on July 31, 1916 in Jaro, Iloilo City with 22
students.

Three of these Filipino converts eventually became the very first Adventist Filipino ministers in the Philippines:
Emilio Manalaysay, Bibiano Panis – homeowner of Finster’s first cottage meeting, and Leon Roda

In 1951 to 1955, M. C. Warren, a former missionary in China, was the first president of the North Philippine
Union.

In 2006–2010, North Philippine Union Mission became a Conference under the able leadership of Pastor Abner
S. Roque, president, and Pastor Nephtali Mañez, executive secretary, and Mr. Romero Daquila, treasurer.

Robert A. Caldwell arrived in Manila on August 24, 1905 and he began selling books on health and religion in a
language that educated Filipinos can understand, the Spanish.

April of 1906, Pastor and Mrs. James L. McElhaney arrived in Manila. Their first target were the American
teachers. With this strategy, teachers shared their new faith to the students. They also distributed the Signs of
the Times.

Ang Tanglaw (The Lamp), one of the first evangelistic magazines published that circulated throughout the
country in the dialect.