President's Message Prayer Requests
A newsletter of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Manila, Philippines Vol 4, Issue 1 President’s Message By Hitoshi (Paul) Fukue studying in residence. APNTS is a very unique seminary where cultural Recently I had a chance to talk with distinctiveness is respected and Dr. Donald Owens, the founder of Asia sublimated to Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary create a family of and General Superintendent Emeritus of God. People from the Church of the Nazarene. I asked him different cultures what his thought was when he created the share joys and motto of our seminary, “Bridging Cultures for sorrows together Christ.” He said that twenty years ago when he and learn to founded the seminary, he saw much conflict become genuine among nations of the Asia Pacific region. There were conflicts among different religious groups, “I hope the reader political conflicts in South East Asia and the of this newsletter Korean Peninsula, Mainland China and Taiwan, will sense the and the wounds from the World War Two. He atmosphere of our wanted this seminary to be used of God to bridge campus which is these people groups together through the gospel purposely intended of Christ and love of God. to bridge cultures for Christ.” Twenty years later, we have a seminary here sisters and brothers in in Manila, Philippines, with students from India, Christ by living, studying, praying and Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Samoa, Papua worshipping together. New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Political, religious, and cultural conflicts Korea, Japan, U.S.A., etc. let alone the Philippines, continue to loom in this part of the world.
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