07/10/2019
Facts about UCCP, Inc
UCCP, Inc. was formed with MALICIOUS INTENTIONS . It’s primary purpose was to DECEIVE and MANIPULATE the UCCP into believing that they are the rightful decision maker.
Here are some details..
shared by Dr E Mendoza:
1) The corporate secretary’s certification in the registration of amendments of UCCP, Inc. at the SEC is fake. Bp. MARIGZA was elected General Secretary of the Church. He may have been elected Corporate Secretary by another body perhaps by UCCP, Inc.’s Board of Trustees without the knowledge and consent of the General Assembly. The amendments may have been voted by the majority of the Trustees and by two-thirds of members of the Corporation but certainly not by the member churches of the Church numbering 2,500. It’s been admitted by NEC spokesperson that no such meetings took place on the date and place specified.
In other words, these were amendments of UCCP, Inc. but not of the UCCP CBL. The amendments of UCCP, Inc. at the SEC may have followed the procedures prescribed in the Corporation Code of the Philippines but did not follow the procedures prescribed in the CBL. These have not been announced nor published in the journals of UCCP and so are not part of the records of the Church.
2) Article 4 of the original articles of incorporation of 1949 says, “That the incorporation of the UNITED CHU'RCH OF CHRIST IN THE PHILIPPINES is for the administration and management of the temporalities and properties of the UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE PHILIPPINES.” The original intent of the incorporation is clear that the Church owns the Church’s properties and temporalities but it is incorporated for the legal purpose of acquiring and managing its properties never for making the Trustees the Church's supreme governing organ of power, meaning it's but a legal fiction. Sec. 2, Art. 5 of the 1949 By-laws says that among the powers of the General Assembly is to “Hold, own, acquire and dispose of property or and on behalf of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines.”
On the other hand, BP 68, Title III, Section 23, says “Unless otherwise provided in this Code, the corporate powers of all corporations formed under this Code shall be exercised, all business conducted and all property of such corporations controlled and held by the board of directors or trustees.” The national leadership contends that under the Corporation Code, the Board of Trustees of UCCP, Inc. holds the power of ownership and management over UCCP properties with or without the approval of the General Assembly.
3) The Amended UCCP CBL and By-laws duly proclaimed say,
Article I NAME
Section 1. “The name of the Church is UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE PHILIPPINES, referred to as ‘UCCP’ or ‘Church’ whenever appropriate.
Section 2. All local Churches and church-owned entities shall bear prominently the name: United Church of Christ in the Philippines.
Section 3. The United Church of Christ in the Philippines is a united and uniting Church, in response to the prayer of Jesus Christ “that they may all be one . . . that the world may believe that thou has sent me” (John 17:21, RSV).
On the other hand, the amendments of the UCCP, Inc. By-laws are different from the Amended UCCP CBL duly proclaimed, to wit:
Article 1: Section 1 - “Nature: That the United Church of Christ in the Philippines shall be organized as non-stock, non-profit corporation. It may undertake revenue-raising activities to fund its project, provided no part of its net income shall inure to the benefit of any private person.”
Section 2: “In the event of dissolution of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, the assets of the organization shall be distributed to another accredited NGO/Foundation ....”
Section 3: “The level of administrative expenses of the organization shall, on annual basis, not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total donations received and of total expenditures for the taxable year.”
Sections 1 to 3 of Art. I bear no semblance to each proving that these pertain to two different organizations.
Conclusion: These differences are incompatible and show that UCCP, Inc. and UCCP are not one and the same entity. They are distinct and operate on different sets of rules and yet indivisible. From one point of view UCCP is a church organization with a corporate personality and purpose. From another standpoint, UCCP is a business corporation with a religious personality and purpose. The two personalities are united in the National Executive Council-Board of Trustees since the two entities are constituted by one and the same people. But the same set of officers exercises the combined rights, powers and prerogatives of the UCCP CBL and the Corporation Code of the Philippines. On the one hand, they are elected executive officers of the General Assembly to constitute the NEC in accordance with the UCCP CBL; on the other, they are vested with the supreme authority over the Church’s properties as BOT by virtue of the Corporation Code. This set-up surpasses the medieval alliance of the Pope and the Emperor in the Holy Roman Empire.
Undoing and dismantling this unholy alliance is the historical task of the faithful of this generation. The current passing generation holds the key to understanding this anomaly and how it may be exorcised from the Church. But it’s a historical problem that can overcome over an extended period of time. This means the awakening and participation of the younger generations especially among the laity because the clergy are the bricks of this anomaly’s organizational existence.
- Dr E. Mendoza
