Union Christian College

Welcome to Union Christian College Family! Yes, UCC is your family. It is your second home. Being yours second home, it is expected that all of us be bound by the love of our Creator. For you to know better your second home, Union Christian College, we invite you to feed yourself with her foundation goals and how she became into being.

Union Christian College is committed to: EXCEL to produce Educationally eXcellent an Christ-Empowered Leaders; SUCCEED to promote Stewardship, Unity, Community Collaboration, Exploration, Experiment and Discovery; Be a GREAT provider of a Glocally Responsive Education that Achieves Targets in Faith, Instruction, Research and Extension.

As an educational institution, Union Christian College seeks a life of faith, learning, competence and action that shall develop people into becoming spiritually and ethically competent and honest, technologically-oriented for global competence, creativity aware and responsive to the needs, aspirations, and realization of a just, free, and responsible social order.A distinct Christian educational institution committed to whole person development in response to societal needs.

Nipa house, tent, concrete building … laymen, ministers, and missionaries … Filipinos and Americans … Protestants and Roman Catholics … of all these help to tell the story of Union Christian College. Through its ninety five years, the school changed its courses of study, its personnel. Uncertainties and crises were experienced but were not without joys and victories. The one factor about the school which has not changed is its primary purpose of educating young people in a Christian atmosphere where they can find God’s purpose for their lives.

The school started as a young Women’s Bible Training School, the first educational program of the early American Missionaries in San Fernando, La Union. It was founded on November 7, 1910 by Miss Matilda Weber, a Missionary of the former United Brethren Church in America. The purpose of the school was to train young women as deaconesses to serve in Evangelical Churches. Even at this early date, it was envisioned by Miss Weber that this nucleus of Christian Education my someday become a bigger college and serve the educational needs of young people in Northern Luzon.

At the beginning of the first decade, there were only ten students with which to begin, but toward its end, the number had increased to more than fifty. In 1919, construction of the first concrete building was started. Completed in August 1926, it as appropriately dedicated as the Otterbein Guild Hall, having been built out of a “love offering” donated by the Otterbein Guild, a missionary society of young women of the United Brethren Church in the United States.

The second decade were years of expansion and growth; in 1920, elementary education was offered to the deaconess students. In 1926, Miss Agapita Obaldo, who later on became Mrs. Julian Bacalzo, was the first Filipino principal of the school.