Elder Ted Wilson

Visits AUP
O
n May 3, 2014 Elder Ted Wilson, president of the
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist
church, visited the AUP campus. During his visit, he
had various speaking appearances at diferent campus venues
with diferent audiences.
The Worship Service at Philippine Internatonal Church during the day
was the culminaton of South Central Luzons month long evangelistc eforts
in diferent areas of the provinces of Laguna, Batangas, and Quezon. Thou-
sands of SCLC members focked to AUP and flled up the Philippine Interna-
tonal Church and the university gymnasium. Afer Elder Wilsons message,
he joined 50 other pastors from the region even amid the scorching heat to
baptze 1,023 souls in the AUP Swimming Pool.
In the afernoon, Elder Wilson, afer a few minutes of rest, joined the
AUP faculty and staf in a special prayer meetng at the Alumni Hall. He was
impressed with the building which will house the future College of Medicine
program of AUP. During his message, he expressed his desire for AUP to be
more aggressive in working for the cites. He prayed for the soon opening
of the Doctor of Medicine program in this part of the world to begin train-
ing medical missionaries for the great cites. In the evening, he met with
the students of AUP in PIC and gave them a burden to tell others about the
truth of Christs soon return.
Pastor Ted Wilson together with his wife was in the Philippines for the
Hope Crusade in Manila during the month of May 2014.
AUP Workers Retreat 2014
May 29-31, 2014 marked a sig-
nifcant event in the lives of Adventst
University of the Philippines workers and
administrators as they celebrated the an-
nual workers spiritual retreat. It started
with an outng in the famous water rec-
reatonal center Splash Island for workers
and their families on May 29.
On Sabbath vespers, administrators,
faculty, and staf converged at the univer-
sity gymnasium to commence a whole
Sabbath of group discussions, sharing,
and actvites centered on the theme,
Loyalty. For this partcular retreat, each
worker was given an egg to symbolize
loyalty. The challenge was for the workers
to keep the egg safe at all tmes untl the
retreat was over.
Mrs. Rachel Capiendo, dean of
women facilitated the vespers program
and Pastor Abel Vergara, Spiritual De-
velopment Director, led the Sabbath
School program. During the Sabbath
hour of worship, Dr. Francisco Gayoba,
Summer 2014
AUP president challenge the workers to
be loyal to God. In the afernoon, Jemuel
Abcede, Associate PIC pastor and Ronnie
Genebago, College of Theology instructor
brought the whole retreat to its culmina-
ton with challenging actvites to further
bond the workers to one another. In the
end, most of the retreat partcipants were
able to keep their eggs safe, a symbolic
assurance that their loyalty to God and
to AUP is intact.
AUP PARTICIPATES
IN THE LAUNCHING OF
SILANG HYMN
Through an ordinance authored
by Honorable Councillor Aidel Paul Be-
lamide, Chairman, Communicaton on
Educaton and Culture, the ofcial hymn
of the municipality of Silang, Silang,
Bayang Sinilangan was adopted and
launched on March 10, 2014.
Other Silangenos wrote the hymn
but AUP Music department contrib-
uted to its fnalizaton. Professor Dante
Oblimar edited the musical piece while
Professor Sheryl Ann de Dios made the
arrangement to the music.
To help educate the people of Silang
of its ofcial hymn, the AUP Music Majors
made the ofcial recording for distribu-
tion to all schools and institutions in
Silang. The AUP Ambassadors performed
the song during the launching in the pres-
ence of local government ofcials.
SUMMER 2014
Enrollment
Summer 2014 is one of the hotest
summers in AUP history and the total
population of summer class this year
helped cool things a bit. As of May 5,
2014, there were 1,907 total students
enrolled. This is lower compared to the
number of enrollees last year. However,
MAKING CONNECTIONS
SUMMER 2014
ACTIVITIES
In the midst of the summer heat
waves, on May 8, 2014, Psychology
students under the leadership of Dr. Eva
Castllo, Psychology department chair,
went block-by-block and house-to-house
in Buklod, Silang, Cavite. The program
dubbed as Making Connectons was
crafed for children with special needs in
the area with the purpose of organizing
them into an associaton. Getng these
children to the Buklod Bahayan Center
was a challenging task to the Psychology
group. Despite reasonable circumstances,
some children came accompanied by
their parents and guardians for a short
program. During the program AUP CES
director, Mrs. Eunice M. Carpizo, the or-
ganizer, welcomed the children and their
guardians and told them that the program
was only the beginning of a service that
will cater to their special needs.
AUP praises God for these students who
have chosen the University as their part-
ner in achieving success in life.
DENTAL SERVICE
SUMMER PROJECT
AUP College of Dentstry has made
another impact on the lives of less for-
tunate community dwellers specifcally
the residents of Barangay Hoyo in Silang,
Cavite. May 8 saw a whole day of dental
services held at the College of Dentstry
Clinic. With the leadership of the col-
leges teachers, Dr. Mylene M. Tiongco,
Dr. Arvin B. Laguna, and Dr. Uriel Zarsaga,
69 benefciaries of this barangay were
given dental operatons free of charge.
Together with the dental team, students
from the College of Nursing and staf from
the AUP Health Services assisted in this
dental health project.