Former WCG Pastor Missing in Plane Crash in the Philippines

Noynoy Aquino

Noynoy Aquino, the President of the Philippines, lost his Secretary of the Interior, in a recent plane crash there, which also involved former WCG/GCI Pastor Jessup Bahinting:

22 August 2012

After three days of a deep sea search in Masbate, President Aquino took home the remains of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, fulfilling a promise to his grief-stricken family.

Robredo’s flag-draped coffin was flown to Naga City yesterday with plans set in motion for a state funeral.

Retrieval operations continue for Cebu pilot Capt. Jessup Bajinting and his Nepalese co-pilot Kshitiz Chan. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/255352/president-escorts-body-of-robredo-to-naga-search-for-plane-and-pilots-ends-in-sunken-plane-at-depth-of-180-feet?ModPagespeed=noscript

22 August 2012

The family of Captain Jessup Bahinting grieved upon learning that the wreckage of the aircraft that Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo took has been found in the seawaters off Masbate.

But Bahinting’s wife, Margarita, has accepted her husband’s fate. Bahinting was the pilot of the ill-fated plane.

Express your condolences to DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo’s family…

Margarita, a member of the Grace Communion International (GCI), said her faith gave her strength and eased the pain of her loss.

GCI is a Christian group where Jessup was a pastor and supervisor for the Visayas. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2012/08/22/pilot-s-wife-says-she-has-accepted-husband-s-fate-238720

Being good friends, Capt. Jessup Bahinting couldn’t refuse a request by Interior and Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo for a special afternoon flight to Naga City last Saturday…Before starting their aviation business, the Bahintings lived in Cagayan de Oro from the early 1980s to 1991 where he worked full-time as a church pastor of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG). http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/253672/robredo-asked-for-naga-flight-to-attend-childs-awarding-rites?ModPagespeed=noscript

The old Worldwide Church of God (WCG) made a series of doctrinal compromises in the late 1980s and 1990s under the leadership of Joseph Tkach. The group that did that, later (after his death) renamed their church Grace Communion International (GCI). Those that did not accept the doctrinal heresies of the Tkach-WCG left and formed many Church of God (COG) groups.

GCI itself is now a Protestant group, yet the genuine Church of God is not Protestant as it preceded the formation of not only the Protestant movement, but that of the Roman Catholic Church of Rome.

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