Mindanao Mission Academy

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Mindanao Mission Academy
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Mindanao Mission Academy
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Philippines
Information
Type Private
MottoThe School That Offers Something Better
Established1947
School districtManticao
PrincipalJeoneffer L. Blanza,JD
Grades7-12
Campus Suburban
Nickname MMA: The School That Offers Something Better
Affiliation Seventh-day Adventist Church
Website https://mindanaomissionacademy.org/

Mindanao Mission Academy (or MMA) is a private Seventh-day Adventist high school in Purok 15, Poblacion, Manticao, Misamis Oriental, Philippines. It is a boarding school operated by the North-Central Mindanao Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It is situated in a 20-hectare lot along the Butuan-Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Highway. [1]

History

MMA is the oldest Adventist high school in the Southern Philippines, and was the fifth in the entire Philippines when it was established on July 14, 1947. It obtained full government recognition two years later (on July 1, 1949). Before becoming a high school, it was an elementary school in 1946 and was called Mindanao Central School. [2] [3]

It derived its name from the then Mindanao Mission (which later became South Philippine Union Conference), which was organized ten years earlier (in 1937) and was formerly part of the East Visayan Mission. It also served as the host campus for Mountain View College (then known as Philippine Union Junior College) for a four-year period that started in 1949. [2] [4] [5]

Its first principal and business manager was Pastor Arsenio A. Poblete, who served for seven years. It had ten faculty members during its first year of operation. [2] [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road", Wikipedia, 2025-11-16, retrieved 2025-12-16
  2. 1 2 3 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1948). 1948 Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination.
  3. ↑ Brown, Walton J. (1972). Chronology of Seventh-day Adventist Education: A Century of Adventist Education, 1872-1972.
  4. ↑ Conard, Claude (1950). 1950 Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination.
  5. ↑ Wakeham-Lee, Irene (2003). The Mountain, The View, The College: The Pioneer Days.
  6. ↑ Klaser, H. W. (1954). 1954 Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination.


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