Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Gift of Choice


The Gift of Choice: The Lives and Times of Leon Z. Roda and Alfonso P. Roda
By Consuelo Roda Jackson
Published 2003
TEACH Services, Inc.
363 pages
ISBN:1572582464

http://books.google.com/books?id=KKOSMjahrB4C&dq=history+of+philippine+union+college&output=html&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

FOREWORD...

... this book touches some sensitive issues surrounding the establishment of the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS) and how it would affect the graduate program and very survival of Philippine Union College (now Adventist University of the Philippines.)...

May this book - The Gift of Choice - be not only of history and its interacting forces but also of peace, above all, the tool for understanding the very roots of variance and resolution - forgiveness.

D. M. Hechanova,Jr., M.D.
September, 2001

Standing back, L-R: Leon, Sergio, Alvaro, Antonino; Seated L-R: Maria with son Alfonso standing on her right, Candida holding daughter Natividad, Maxima holding daughter Esther and son David standing in front of her, Bartolome?; Children seated in the foreground, L-R: Mercedes, Manuela?, Elizabeth, Eduardo

Sarrat - Page 83
Two new church groups organized in Sarrat from this evangelistic effort. Antonino was baptized on November 19, 1919, and at once began his own ...
more pages: 74 75 82 134

Bacarra - Page 135
They had taken a bus from Bacarra, where they had stopped to visit with his wife's folk. Alvaro shed tears as he embraced his older brother. ...

Tayabas - Page 77
The Manalaysay team moved on to Tayabas for another evangelistic effort, which was interrupted when malaria struck the young preacher. ...
more pages: 110

Manila - Page 78
Following his ordination [together with Leon Roda and Bibiano Panis], he [Emilio Manalaysay] and his team began a series of nightly cottage meetings near Manila. The meetings continued for three months, ...
more pages: 23 73 77 83 293 312 313 315 330 351

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