Alejandro T. Quiboloy

Alejandro Turla Quiboloy (May 3, 1909 - January 10, 1990), Kapampangan educator, public servant, veteran, and protestant minsiter.

The life of the late Alejandro T. Quiboloy is a brief but faithful sketch of his biography. Coming from a life more abject than that of common men, Quiboloy rose from the ranks and may well serve as a source of inspiration and emulation to many a youth.

Contents
1 Early Life
2 Personal life
3 Education
4 Teaching Career
5 Public Servant
6 His Ministry
7 External Link
8 Sources


Early Life
Quiboloy was born in Lubao, Pampanga on May 3, 1909 to Dioniso and Anastacia Quiboloy. His parents were married in a simple and quiet wedding in the town of their birth. Out of their wedlock were born eight children - Jose, Emilio, Alejandro, Delfin, Constantino, Eden, Angeles and Marcela.
Quiboloy grew up in Pampanga and inherited from his father a sound perception of purpose, lucid reasoning ability, and a strong, indomitable will. From his mother he acquired a sense of genuine love for others, self-possession, and a courage to defend the right.

Personal life
He was an active member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Rizal, Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Husband and Wife Club, Santa Catalina Rural Improvement Association, United Church Men, and many other civic and religious organizations.
In 1960, Quiboloy helped his father-in-law Bishop Roberto P. Songco to organize and establish The Children's Training for Christian Growth and Adult Education Center in Lubao. The Center began with a few pupils, with six teachers who were paid "gratis et amore", its faculty counts on competent, experienced former and present public and private school teachers, with Bishop Songco as director and chaplain.
His wife Consuelo Songco Quiboloy, a reliable housewife and deaconess died in 1977 at the age of 54, leaving him with two sons and two daughters. Elmore, Edwin, Eden Jocelyn and Erlene Rose. She spent 20 years of her life as a deaconess and 10 years as teacher at the Children's Training for Christian Growth and Adult Education Center.
With painstaking planning and labor, the family of Alejandro Quiboloy accomplished some projects which are as follows:
1. Yearly donations for Philippine/American Bible Society, Philippine National Red Cross, Far East Broadcasting Company and other non-profit institutions.
2. Voluntary aid to deserving sick and indigent persons.
3. Scholarship to 10 deserving students from high school to college.
4. Community development projects.

Education
He studied at the Pampanga High School and Magalang Agricultural School with honors. He earned his BS degrees at the National University and Arellano University in Manila. He took his MA at the Arellano University. When he was a student, he wrote several school articles and a leader.

Teaching Career
Quiboloy became the principal at the Lubao Institute, for almost 20 years, Northwesthern Academy of Pampanga for five years and Angeles University Foundation for five years. He was also a college professor at the Guagua National Colleges, for ten years Angeles University Foundation for five years and some universities in Manila. He wrote some text books for high school and college level.
During his off hours from school duties and obligations, Quiboloy wrote some articles. They were religious expositions of beliefs. He wrote them to evoke inspiration for church workers in the Vineyard to think or to write in order to assail arguments in favor of contradictory beliefs. His works, helpful to laymen, fortify the beliefs and faith of evangelical Christians.

Public Servant
He became the No. 1 councilor in Lubao and made several ordinances to improve his town and the welfare of the poor. He received several awards and citations from various private and civic organizations here and abroad.
He made time-out from his duties whenever he attended to public functions and engagements. He accepted speaking engagements at the invitations of various institutions. He attended meetings, round-table conferences and open forums sponsored by private and public schools.
In 1962 the Presidential Assistant on Community Development (PACD) hired him as Provincial CD Officer and became the regional officer in Central Luzon.
During the Macapagal administration, Cong Dadong transferred him and became the Regional Director, Region III at NACIDA with offices at Lubao, Pampanga.
For the past 50 years, Quiboloy has been active in the welfare of his community, especially in the field of health and sanitation, charity, peace and order, and family living.
During World War II, he served as adviser to the USAFFE in Central Luzon.

His Ministry
When he retired as a public servant, Quiboloy was ordained and became a protestant minister at UCCP.
His formal education was a stepping stone to his religious life. His close association with the youth kindled the flame of his desire to be a preacher. The prayers and intercession, and the conselling and guidance of his father-in-law brought him closer and made him more sympathetic to the Faith.
People wondered why. His intimates were puzzled why he preferred the tideous and non-salaried work of an exhorter to the profession that had a promise. To him the spiritual was more valuable than the material.
This is a paradox to the world but not to him. His philosopy in life was to serve, and to serve God with all his powers and capabilities. Genuine love for others even at a personal sacrifice was now a pattern cutting deep in his life.
His life and ministry have been a checkered one - a mixture of shadows and sunshine. At almost the sunset of his life, Quiboloy was strong and active in the service of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His keen awareness of duty to solve moral and spiritual problems has been manifested in and outside the pulpit.
Without ambition for honor and fame, he has worked zealously and vigorously in the promotion and expansion of the Kingdom of God on earth wherever his foot has trodden and whenever he has had the opportunity.
He wrote a large number of moral and religious tracts in prose and verse. He also wrote several articles at the Philippine Free Press during his time.
Acknowledgement is due to the people of Lubao for their research work on the subject and assistance to every stage of this enterprise, and to all persons who, in one way or another, helped to make this biographical sketch possible.

External Link
http:www.ucc.org
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Sources
People of Lubao, Pampanga,
United Church of Christ in the Philippines,
Municipality of Lubao, Pampanga
Schools/Universities:AUF,GNC,LI,NAP,NU,AUF
Government Agencies: PACD, NACIDA