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Situated one mile above sea level in the Cordillera mountain range

on the island of Luzon in northern Philippines, 150 miles (250 km)

north of Manila, and commanding a spectacular view of mountains and

ravines lies the beautiful campus of Asia Pacific Theological Seminary

(APTS). As the flagship graduate theological school for the Assemblies

of God of Asia and the vast Pacific Rim, APTS is a dynamic center of

spiritual and academic development, serving students from more than

twenty nations each year. A highly qualified multi-national missionary

faculty, themselves representing a half-dozen or more nationalities,

provides a comprehensive and demanding academic program.

Over the forty years of the school's existence, the alumni have

gone out to serve in significant roles of leadership in the churches of

the Assemblies of God and many other denominations throughout

the region. A significant proportion of the administrators and faculty

members of the approximately seventy-five Assemblies of God Bible

Schools and extension centers in Asia Pacific are alumni of APTS.

Pastors of great urban churches and pioneers in remote and difficult

places have been trained at APTS. Many national church leaders in

their respective Assemblies of God fellowships have received their

ministry training at APTS. Increasingly, graduates are moving into

foreign missions service, representing Asian national churches that are

catching the vision of taking the gospel to the unreached peoples of

Asia and the world. It would seem that the Lord of the Harvest has

been pleased to use APTS as a major factor in sustaining continuity and stability within the Assemblies of God throughout the Asia

Pacific region over these past forty years. While there have been many

contributing factors to the dynamic growth, influence and strength

of the various national Assemblies of God fellowships in the region,

APTS surely has had a significant place. Governed by a dozen national

Assemblies of God general councils that border the Pacific Rim in

partnership with the American Assemblies of God World Missions

(AGWM), APTS is truly a shared vision and ministry.

In the pages that follow, we will take a journey through the story of

this remarkable school during the first forty years of its existence. We

will review its origins and trace its process through both humble years

and those with more dramatic developments, to the present. With the

completion in 2001 of a major new facility, the Asia Pacific Center for

the Advancement of Leadership and Missions (APCALM), an edifice

that is primarily intended to facilitate the equipping of Spirit-filled

Asians and Pacific Islanders for missionary ministry, APTS is poised

to provide even greater service in the 21st Century.