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The Bacolod Evangelical Church (BEC) is one of the oldest Protestant Evangelical Christian churches in the Philippines located at the corner of Rosario & San Juan Streets; Bacolod City. The church was established in 1902. == History == The Bacolod Evangelical Church emerged from the decision of Filipinos to shake off Spanish religious and political control of the Philippines. The religious shift was enhanced by the imposition of political control of the island by American occupying forces. On the island of Negros, this control was welcomed by the leaders of the Republic of Negros, who not only invited the American Army but one of the island leaders, Don Eusebio Luzuriaga, began requesting the participation of several American Protestant ministers in local affairs. Thus, when the American Protestant Mission Board met United States to plan a strategy for a cooperative evangelization of the island, the American Baptist Board favored working in Western Visayas. The first Baptist missionary in the Philippines was Dr. Eric Lund who, along with Braulio Manican, arrived in Iloilo City on May 3, 1900. They translated several gospels into Ilonggo, a Filipino dialect. In 1900, Dr. Eric Lund and John Dean, a YMCA secretary, made their first visit to Bacolod City. They called on the civil governor and a number of prominent families to secure permission to hold religious services for Filipinos in the military hospital. On February 3, 1901, Cornelio Samson, a Tagalog machinist, was baptized by Charles Briggs in Jaro, the first person to be baptized by the mission. Soon after being baptized, Samson settled in Talisay and organized a small group that was interested in the evangelical faith. Early in 1902, Reveran and Mrs. Archie A. Foshee of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society came to Bacolod City on the lorcha Hidalgo. The first Negrense they befriended was Glicerio Segovia who carried them on his back from their boat to the shore. Later, they took Segovia into their household and sent him to school and taught him how to preach. Glicerio Segovia became a lay preacher. Rev. Forshee held preaching services in Bago, Murcia, Sum-ag, Silay, Saravia, Victorias and Tobooso. Among his early converts were Don Juan Araneta, Don Quintin Maravilla, Don Eusebio Luzuriaga and Doña Felina Luzuriaga. Don Eusebio Luzuriaga donated the lot at the corner of San Sebastian and San Juan Streets where the house of attorney Amado Parreño is presently located and provided funds for the construction of a chapel. This chapel was the first Bacolod Evangelical Church. In 1903, Rev. Archie A. Forshee opened the Baptist Boys Dormitory in the place where BEC now stands. In 1905, he opened the Baptist Girls Dormitory, which would later become the ''Bacolod Christian College''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bacolod Evangelical Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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