ELLINWOOD MALATE CHURCH

Last January 20,2012, I and my classmates walked on the way to Malate,Manila. I found the church "Ellinwood Malate Church.  Ellinwood is located at 1660 Vasquez St., Malate, Manila. It had researched the history about Ellinwood Malate Church. It was my first time to saw it. I like to entered here in Ellinwood Malate Church. It's so amazing.  I reached it from Malate, Manila.

In my first time to saw many Holy Bible in Ellinwood Malate Church. It was so beautiful.

Ellinwood Malate Church s one of the local churches of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP). 

History of Ellinwood Malate Church

It was at the turn of the last century that a country was to be reborn. The Philippines, ruled by Spain for 400 years was to give up its hold on their colony as a more superior nation takes over. It was in the year 1898, in the waters of Manila Bay that the American Fleet defeated the Spanish Armada. With tha defeat came a new order and a new beginning.

As the American way of life and governance came in, religious aspect of it came into play. In the summer months of 1899 a shipped docked in Manila bearing Rev. Dr. James B. Rodgers and with him the start of the American Presbyterian mission in the Philippines. The first Presbyterian work in Manila started two areas: in Binondo and in the Ermita-Malate area. From there missions to as far south of the country continued - Cavite, Laguna, Quezon, Bicol, the Visayas and Mindanao.