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Brief History of Southern Baptist College

The story of Southern Baptist College is the story of dedicated Christian men and women who desired to establish a Christian institution of learning that can answer the need for higher education in Mindanao. It is a story that has its beginning from the painful process of giving birth to an idea and ending in a beautiful promise of fulfillment for those who had founded this College and who dreamed dreams and saw visions.



In 1952, a group of Christian parents, who took it upon them to carry out the Great Commission of teaching and spreading the Gospel, fused themselves, prayed in faith, and agreed to establish an educational institution dedicated to the Christian ideals of Truth, Faith, and Service. These pioneers had nothing much but faith that out of the wilderness, so to speak, the institution of learning could be “carved out” that will teach, in a milieu of Bible-based culture, the children of their community, the three Rs and the more advanced ideas, methods, techniques needed by our modern technological world. The school was first named United Christian College owing to the fact that many of the early pioneers were affiliated with the local United Church of Christ in the Philippines.



There are eighty-five families and individuals whose names are inscribed today on a plaque. They were the Christian men and women who have made possible the establishment of this school today.



From a stock corporation, the school was changed to a non-stock corporation. Some stock members withdrew their ownership but others donated their shares. The stewardship of the school was then given to the local Baptist church. The Mlang Baptist Church, composed of Baptists from Western Visayas, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Mission and the school was later named Southern Baptist College in 1956. Today, the institution functions as a non-profit college under the directives established by the Board of Trustees in keeping with the regulations of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Department of Education (DepEd).



Like a young and growing thing, Southern Baptist College has, little by little, pushed itself forward to find its rightful place under the sun of learning. And, in this process, Southern Baptist College has become a citadel and a fortress where truth blooms untrammeled by heretical pollution and corruption, even to stand to answer today the once long and silent call for a Christian education in this part of the country.