Leaders New and Old: Faith Community Fellowship and Baguio Chinese Baptist Church

Abstract

Leadership surfaced in rather different ways in the two other congregations. For Faith Community Fellowship (FCF), the break from La Trinidad Baptist (TBC) provided a chance to rethink patterns and roles. For the Chinese congregation, their venerable traditions were always a factor in thinking about changes of any sort. In terms of continuity and instability, these two congregations occupied opposite ends of a continuum: the Chinese church was the most stable, with their pastor in place throughout the 18 months of my work. FCF, as a nascent congregation, changed from day to day as various individuals came into their group or they reevaluated basic issues of church life. Both examples reflect the processes of context creation in Christian, cultural, transcendent and local terms.