SePUM Executive Secretary Conducts ACMS and Retirement Application Orientation to Secretaries

Southeastern Philippine Union Mission (SePUM), aiming to educate mission and institution secretaries concerning church record keeping, data management system, and retirement policies, conducted Adventist Church Management System (ACMS) and Retirement Application Orientation initiated by Pr. Edwin Magdadaro, SePUM Executive Secretary, and attended by secretaries of five missions and two institutions on April 29-30.

Attending this series of lectures are secretaries from the Davao Mission (DM), Southern Mindanao Mission (SMM), Northern Davao Mission (NDM), South Central Mindanao Mission (SCMM), Southeastern Caraga Mission (SECM), Adventist Hospital Davao (AHD), South Philippine Adventist College (SPAC).

During the first day’s morning devotional, Pastor Danielo Palomares, SePUM President, emphasized the secretaries are ministers of records and there is a need to establish and safeguard accurate data because records can save lives, preserve history, and inspire. Exhorting from the entire book of Esther, King Ahasuerus read the court records that Mordecai had prevented a previous plot against the King’s life. He discovered that Mordecai never received any recognition, and he took that time to repay and grant requests of Mordecai and Queen Esther to stop the destruction of all Jewish people as ordered by the King through the plot designed by Haman, the King’s viceroy, who hated Mordecai for not bowing on him.

In order to determine the number of our armies in our battle against the evil forces of this earth, we need to find ways of assessing our active and indolent church members. Ellen G. White, one of the church’s pioneers, wrote: “The work of God in this earth can never be finished until the men and women comprising our church membership rally to the work and unite their efforts with those of ministers and church officers.” Gospel Workers, 352.

The ACMS is a powerful digital databank network and system that collects data from local churches to missions, unions, divisions, and up to the General Conference, the worldwide headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This system provides the basis for actual church statistics, empowering secretaries with accurate and up-to-date information. The orientation with Sir Lolito Fuentes, Jr., SePUM Administrative Assistant III, will equip secretaries with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage new baptisms, reclaimed and duplicated memberships, missing members, unknown locations, and membership by profession of faith, among other conditions, in line with the church’s mandates.

Ma’am Meldy Cole, SePUM Assistant Treasurer, will talk and provide on the second day beautiful insights on retirement applications that will enable the delegates to gain a deeper understanding of the procedures and requirements needed to offer privileges and opportunities to denominational workers who dedicated their time and talents for various ministries of this church “in which each member of the church has a part to act in order that the body may be preserved in a healthful condition.” Ellen G. White, The Review and Herald, July 9, 1895.

To end, we thank our leaders for exercising this counsel from Mrs. White, who wrote: “Those placed in positions of responsibility should patiently seek to make others familiar with all parts of the work. This will reveal that they do not desire to be first, but that they are glad to have others become acquainted with details, and to become as efficient as they are. Those who faithfully fulfill their duty in this respect will, in time, have standing by their side a large number of intelligent workers whom they have trained.” —The Review and Herald, December 1, 1904. (SePUM Communication)

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