Lapasan Baptist Church was founded on March 1986, a month after Missionary Bruce and Jeanne Rice came to Cagayan de Oro from United States on February 13, 1986 during the shaky political situation of the country – the 1986 EDSA Revolution. The Bible study started as the Golden friendship Bible Study Group in a rented house beside the Lapasan plaza, Cagayan de Oro City. After over a year on April 1987, the Bible study Meeting was formally organized into Lapasan Baptist Church with 25 charter members.To date, it has a congregation of 1000 – 1200 persons on Sunday Morning worship services. The ample supply of His grace is apparently seen in every ministry of this assembly even to each one of us who composes His local body. Lapasan Baptist Church is God’s gift to us. After Salvation, it is God’s desire to see us grow in His grace daily. Our own personal relationship to God, vital as that is, is not sufficient to produce spiritual maturity and endurance in the race being set for us. Relationships within the unified, spirit-filled body of believers (the real church) are essential for growth and for maintaining our individual faithfulness to the Savior. Sometimes, we would rather not involve in church life, thinking it is easier to go alone. But Christians who neglect church services and its ministries miss out on all the benefits. Let’s remember that God in His Wisdom has united us for strength.
