The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (Tagalog: Ang Nagkaisang Iglesia ni Cristo sa Pilipinas; Ilokano: Nagkaykaysa nga Iglesia Ni Cristo iti Filipinas) is a mainline Protestant denomination in the Philippines.

[7] In April 1901, Presbyterians in the Philippines invited missionaries of other evangelical churches to a conference to discuss the possibility of working together in the proclamation of the gospel of faith alone as the only way of salvation for Filipino Catholics, Muslims and pagans.

[8] The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Episcopalians did not join because they wanted to cover parts of the country already allocated to other groups.

Christianity • Protestantism After the foundation of the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas (IEMELIF) by Nicolas V. Zamora, a second major split occurred in the Methodist Church on March 23, 1933.

About three years before, Melecio de Armas, a prominent minister had been accused by his colleagues of immorality towards a teenaged girl who was a church member.

Bishop Herbert Welch, at the 1933 Annual Conference, declared the matter closed, and reinstated the minister.

Kalaw), and including five other missionaries and 27 ordained Filipino ministers led by Cipriano Navarro and Melquiades Gamboa, a University of the Philippines professor, left the church and declared themselves the General Conference of the Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands (GCMCPI).

Since the Seventh-day Adventists were forced into the merger by the Japanese, they immediately left the Evangelical Church of the Philippines after the war.

The United Church of Christ in the Philippines is trinitarian and believes in the deity, humanity, and atonement of Jesus.

It believes that the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God and that salvation is by grace through faith, repentance and following after Christ.

The following distinguish the UCCP from other communions: The church believes that there are two sacraments only: baptism and The Lord's Supper.

[15] Disciples understood that baptism is a confessional expression of faith and repentance, rather than a "work" that earns salvation.

Local churches in the Tagalog and Ilocano regions established by their missionaries practice only baptism by immersion for adult initiates.

The Church believes that every man or woman should be accepted and treated with dignity, grace, and holy love, whatever their sexual orientation (biological sex of person attracted to).

The UCCP, along with some other evangelical Churches, holds that when the historical contexts involved are understood, a coherent Biblical argument can be made in favor of women's ordination.

Each local congregation has a great deal of freedom in the style and ordering of worship, and therefore services vary among different churches.

More traditional UCCP churches use hymnals and may have a song leader or music director who directs congregational singing from the pulpit.

The United Church of Christ in the Philippines has, historically, been a leading Protestant denomination in mission work.

In addition, a number of indigenous churches were established among squatter communities in Metro Manila, in Baguio, and villages in the Cordillera.

[22] The Philippine arm of Campus Crusade for Christ, an international interdenominational movement, began and helped increase church attendance and membership.

[23] Other churches involved themselves into the Evangelism Explosion, a ministry that trains people how to share their faith in Christ [citation needed].

Sister-church relationships are held with the following churches abroad which hold to similar doctrine and practice.