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Attended by 117 alumni, the Adventist University of the Philippines-College of Theology (COT) celebrated its first alumni homecoming\u00a0with the theme, \u201cSymposium on Leadership and Spirituality,\u201d\u00a0on June 30-July 2,\u00a02023,\u00a0at the Finster Hall of Nations.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the symposium breakout sessions\u00a0held\u00a0at the COT classrooms, Dr. Geoffrey Tio, Dr. Mel Baga, Dr. Ronald Yabut, and Mr. Bing Alabata, all\u00a0COT alumni,\u00a0served as resource\u00a0speakers.\u00a0In addition, the first officers of the AUP-COT Alumni Association,\u00a0Philippine Chapter were elected to office on July 1. The elected COT Alumni Officers\u00a0for\u00a02023\u00a0are\u00a0Pastor Restituto Bualoy, president; Atty. Chito Castillo, vice president; Dr. Maila Dizon, secretary; Pastor Jun Tayaben, treasurer;\u00a0and\u00a0Pastor Joel Sarmiento, Public Information officer. The ex-officio members are Pastor Lowel Domocmat, COT dean; Pastor Gerardo Cajobe, Northern Philippine Union Conference president; and Pastor Felixian Felicitas, Southern-Asia Pacific Division Mission Refocus director.<\/span><\/p>\n On the last day of the\u00a0symposium,\u00a0the College presented a certificate to Michael Jan Fuentes, grandson of Dr. Archibald Tupas, in recognition of the latter\u2019s leadership.\u00a0The gesture was done to honor the legacy of the late Dr. Tupas who served as professor and dean of the former School of Theology of the Philippine Union College. Dr. Jose Manalo, Sr., AWESNA president, concluded the event with his closing message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Attended by 117 alumni, the Adventist University of the Philippines-College of Theology (COT) celebrated its first alumni homecoming\u00a0with the theme, \u201cSymposium on Leadership and Spirituality,\u201d\u00a0on June 30-July 2,\u00a02023,\u00a0at the Finster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 16:00:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aup.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}