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Sanchez has received many awards and honours in the Philippines and the Church, including winning the Ten Outstanding Young Men award in 2006. [11] He is the founder of the Filipino religious community, the Light of Jesus Family. [12] As of 2016, the community had 35,000 members in the Philippines and around the world. [13]
The church sees Jesus as God's highest creation, believe that he is a Man and denies the deity of Jesus. [19] Adherents profess Jesus' substitutionary role in the redemption of humankind. He is believed to have been "foreordained before the foundation of the world" and sent by God "to deal with sin".
Gawad Kalinga (GK) ("to give care" in Tagalog) is a Philippine non-governmental organization known officially as the Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation. It describes itself as a " poverty alleviation and nation-building movement".
Both bodies are an outgrowth of the first mission work on the islands. The work began in 1900 with Eric Lund (a Swedish missionary working with the American Baptist Missionary Union) and Braulio Manikin (a Filipino converted during Lund's work in Spain) on the island of Panay. Neither national organization actually existed at the time of the split.
In 1982, Chinese Filipino businessman Peter Tan-Chi began an evangelistic home Bible study in Brookside Subdivision, Cainta, Rizal.During that Bible study, only three couples were in attendance, but as they began to invite their friends, who then invited their own friends and families, the Bible study grew and moved to San Juan in Metro Manila.
Couples for Christ (CFC) was established in 1981 by the charismatic community Ang Ligaya ng Panginoon (LNP; Filipino for "The Joy of the Lord") in Manila.Its target groups were primarily married couples, inviting prospective couples to a private home for a series of weekly gospel discussions.
The Division of Church Ministers can be compared to the Philippines' Department of the Interior and Local Government. This division administers and in charge of coordinating with the different local churches of the CAMACOP. Each local church is handled by districts and by regions. In tradition, the Vice-President was appointed to this post.
Behind the founding of the IEMELIF were Filipino nationalist and subsequent independence movements that blossomed in the late 19th century. Filipinos wanted full autonomy in all spheres including religion, as three centuries of Spanish rule were marked by the Catholic Church's near-absolute control over the colony's temporal and spiritual affairs.