Dr. D. Paul Tuck, Sr., Director
Baptist Pulpit Ministries
48 Cobbler Crescent
North York, Ontario, Canada M3N 2Y7

Dear Brother Paul,

I greet you and yours in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom we serve. I trust this letter finds you in good health and in the joys of the Lord.

I praise and thank the Lord for you in your effort to spread the gospel in the Philippines and in helping pastors and churches. I thank you again for inviting me to preach in your church in Canada in 1988 and in supporting me and my family and my ministry in many years.

My mind fly back during the time that we were together with the ABA Missionary Baptists from 1972 to 1991. Prior to my joining with the ABA, I was a Southern Baptist Pastor and church planter from 1961 to 1971 and in 1972 I joined with the  A.B.A. Missionary Baptists.

I have been saved by the grace of God in 1959 and was converted to the New Testament church truth in 1972 by the A.B.A. Missionary Baptist published literatures and have been baptized by an A.B.A. related church which was organized by a missionary named Warren Hill who happened to be a former student of Dr. Ben M. Bogard at the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas and ordained by them in August 1974 and was sent out as missionary to San Francisco, Southern Leyte and organized the San Francisco Missionary Baptist Church on December 30, 1974. I started the work there in 1972 although I was not yet ordained by them at that time.

I went to Henderson, Texas in August 1975 together with my wife and 4 children in order to study at the Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary and obtained my Bachelor of Theology, Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology diploma. After my studies, we returned back to the Philippines and started the Southern and Central Philippine mission works based in Davao City. I was the only A.B.A. Missionary Baptists missionary at that time. God blessed His work with hundred of churches directly and indirectly organized by me in 17 years of church planting efforts.

In 1991 the Lord opened my eyes so that I could see the 5 Points of the Doctrine of Grace through Dr. R. Lawrence Crawford debate book with Dr. Jesse Alexander my fellow graduate at Texas Baptist Institute & Seminary. I read books about the Doctrines of Grace authored by non-Baptist, but I was not convinced. I thought that there was no Missionary Baptist who adheres to the Doctrines of Grace not until I read that debate book. The debaters were both missionary Baptist.

I preached and taught the the Doctrines of Grace to churches and missions and taught it at Davao Missionary Baptist Institute & Seminary sponsored by Bethel Missionary Baptist Church of Tatum, Texas of which I was the Director and instructor in Systematic Theology and other courses. I shared the Doctrines of Grace to my fellow pastors and teachers in the Seminary and then to my fellow pastors and missionaries throughout the Philippines..

Thanks be to God!  Few of them had accepted the truth, but the vast majority of my fellow pastors and missionaries rejected it. The treated me as their worst enemy. Then they reported this matter to our respective sponsoring churches in the United States composing the American Baptist Association of Missionary Baptist Churches. It resulted in my expulsion from the seminary as director and instructor, as president of the National Missionary Baptist Pastors and Missionaries Fellowship and eventually from the ministry as minister of the gospel.

My severed connection with the churches in the United States of America which supported me and my family for 17 years was difficult for us to adjust from the beginning considering my long years of associating with them and their kindness to us through the years. They brought me and my family to America, studied at their Seminary, supported us financially, sending me out as their missionary and sponsoring my mission work to which we are forever grateful.

I appreciate the A.B.A. Missionary Baptist Churches and brethren for the truth they do hold, but do feel as you do, that many things have been and are being neglected. I though and still think, that truth is more important than position or recognition.

I am now a missionary of a church here in Davao City, Philippines. If you happened to come to the Philippines, visit us and we welcome you to our house. Please send all communications to this address:

PHILIPPINE MISSION OF BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, INC.

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 81111, Davao City, Philippines 8000
Home Address: Baptist Compound, Zabate Village, Bangkal, Talomo District,
                        Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines 8000

Telephone: (082) 299-0248
Mobile Phone: + 639194277236

Email: PhilMissionBMBC@yahoo.com
Email: tcbadilles@yahoo.com

Website: http:www.bethelmissionarybaptist.info

Let me close here for the moment. May God's will continue to bless you in your work for Him and give you good health, long life about 120 years old, before you go to heaven, if the Lord tarry His coming.

Let us pray for one another as we work together for the honor and glory of Him who died for us in this part of the world.

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Brotherly in Christ,


Teddy C. Badilles