Church News: February 2011

Northeast Asia District Inaugurated and registering INC in the Japanese government

Recounting the events that let to the creation of the district of Northeast Asia, the legal advisers of the church recalled how the Executive minister gave a direct order for an ecclesiastical district in Northeast Asia to be established and how he wanted the church to be registered formally in Japan.

The formal filling of the registration of the Iglesia ni Cristo with MEXT(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) of Japan took place on September 13,2010.

On November 7,2010, The Executive Minister, together with his wife Sister Lynn Manalo, inaugurated the new building that now serves as the Main Office of the ecclesiastical district of Northeast Asia. Located at 51-21 Chome, Kita-Magome, Oota-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, near the center of Tokyo, the five story building houses the office of the district minister, the finance office, the secretariat, and other vital offices of the ecclesiastical district of Northeast Asia.

Bro. Alfredo Carvajal, immigrant in Tokyo decades ago, said:

“I am very lucky to have seen this day come. Just barely a month ago, the Church was registered formally with the Japanese Government. We can now purchase and register properties here in Japan. We don’t have to rent anymore. We could not have done this by ourselves… The realtors asked one another about us. They were all surprised that the Church is buying properties left to right. The Church here is moving forward in great strides…..”

Excerpted From Pasugo January 2011



Iglesia ni Cristo to ordain new ministers

THOUSANDS of Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) members will converge in Cebu City to witness the ordination of new ministers tomorrow, Jan. 2.

Cebu City has been chosen as one of the 15 remote sites for the ordination during a worship service officiated by INC executive minister Eduardo Manalo, which will be held at the house of worship of the locale of Tondo in Manila.

The ordination will be beamed live to eight sites abroad and seven sites in the Philippines, including the INC house of worship on Gen. Maxilom Avenue, Cebu City.

There will be 46 candidates for ordination as new ministers of the Church, bringing to 636 the number of newly ordained ministers.

This is the seventh ordination held by the INC this year. The six ordinations were held twice in the INC Central house of worship in Quezon City on Jan. 2 and Feb. 13, once each in Tagbilaran City (April 17), General Santos City (May 29), San Francisco del Monte locale in Metro Manila (Sept. 4) and Bago Bantay locale also in Metro Manila (Sept. 18).

The INC members in the Cebu South district and nearby districts have been eagerly awaiting this momentous event as it will be the first time that the ordination will be beamed live to other areas since the Church emerged in the Philippines in 1914.

For most of the members who will be attending the event, this will be the first time they will witness an ordination.

In Cebu City, the ordination would be shown live on wide screen and 40-inch LCD television sets inside and outside the house of worship of Cebu City locale.

The INC members who will attend the worship service in Cebu City will come from the different locales in Cebu South district and from other districts, including the Cebu North district.

The ordination on Jan. 2 will commemorate the 86th birth anniversary of the late executive minister Eraño G. Manalo.

source: Inquirer.net

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