One more soul, a sister in the faith of Christ, was baptized yesterday, on February 11, 2022, in the municipality of Mariveles, province of Bataan, Philippines, Pastor Roland De La Paz, Leader of Asia Division at IMS who performed the baptism, reported on Facebook. The daily temperature in in the municipality of Mariveles varied yesterday between 25 and 32 degree Celsius which is a wonderful weather for a Christian baptism.
The Municipality of Mariveles, located around the Mariveles Bay, a cove at the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula, adjacent to the Manila Bay to the east and to the South China See to the west, is a 1st class municipality with a population of 149,879 citizens, according to the 2020 census, and a land area of 153.90 square kilometres (59.42 sqmi) which is 11.21% of the 1,372.98-square-kilometre- (530.11sq mi) total area of Bataan.
Pastor Roland De La Paz just before the baptism; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Roland De La Paz.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
