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Sacapano, Felonito (1918-1987)
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| + | Salunga, Pa. — The founder and chairman of the Missions Now Church in the Philippines and founder of the Philippine Mennonite Biblical Institute died Oct. 6. He was 68. |
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| + | Felonito Sacapano was a former army officer who learned about the teachings of Menno Simons in 1971 when he visited the U. S. to look for a North American agency to partner with Missions Now. He made contact with the Metamora (Ill.) Mennonite church. |
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| + | Missions Now dates to 1952 when Sacapano and his wife, Maria, began a Bible study in a home in Laguna. Today the church has 22 congregations and outreach fellowships with a membership of 2,500. The Bible institute was organized in 1979. |
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| + | Sacapano also organized Faith Woodcrafts, a family business which employs people to make carvings to sell through Mennonite Central Committee Self-help Crafts program. |
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| + | Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions worker Melvin Thomas, who worked closely with Sacapano from 1980 to 1985, described him as a pioneer and a church statesman, one who generously shared his goods and gave himself unsparingly to the work of the church. |
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| + | Sacapano is survived by his wife and seven children. |
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Revision as of 10:53, 14 October 2010
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 31 Dec 1987 p. 2
Birth date: 1918
text of obituary:
Philippines Church Leader Dies at 68
Salunga, Pa. — The founder and chairman of the Missions Now Church in the Philippines and founder of the Philippine Mennonite Biblical Institute died Oct. 6. He was 68.
Felonito Sacapano was a former army officer who learned about the teachings of Menno Simons in 1971 when he visited the U. S. to look for a North American agency to partner with Missions Now. He made contact with the Metamora (Ill.) Mennonite church.
Missions Now dates to 1952 when Sacapano and his wife, Maria, began a Bible study in a home in Laguna. Today the church has 22 congregations and outreach fellowships with a membership of 2,500. The Bible institute was organized in 1979.
Sacapano also organized Faith Woodcrafts, a family business which employs people to make carvings to sell through Mennonite Central Committee Self-help Crafts program.
Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions worker Melvin Thomas, who worked closely with Sacapano from 1980 to 1985, described him as a pioneer and a church statesman, one who generously shared his goods and gave himself unsparingly to the work of the church.
Sacapano is survived by his wife and seven children.
