relationships were deteriorating. After eight years, the church split into different churches. In 1984, four daughter churches of the FBCM became autonomous and indigenous. Each newly organized church shared with FBCM the burden of supporting the missionaries already in the list and each added more as the Lord moved. Onyx Fundamental Baptist Church, Paco, Manila (under Pastor Edwin Ormeo) First Baptist Church of Pildera, Pasay (under Pastor Dan Hiquiana) First Baptist Church of Victoria, Binan, Laguna (under Pastor Ernie Alvior) Sikatuna First Baptist Church, Quezon City (under Pastor Laudemar Lubaton) The call for a senior pastor In 1987, Pastor Antonio Ormeo retired as senior pastor of FBCM after 32 years of ministry in the church and in the ABCLVM. In 1989, FBCM called Pastor Ebenezer Nacita from Philippine American Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, United States as interim senior pastor after Pastor Antonio Ormeo retired. In the same year, the Fundamental Baptist Bible Institute pulled out from the ABCLVM to become the Metro Manila School of the Bible and later merged with Center for Biblical Studies and the Hilltop Ministries in Antipolo. In 1991, Dr. Antonio Ormeo with his sons Pastor Edwin Ormeo and Pastor Samuel Ormeo began working among Filipinos in California. Pastor Ed became pastor of the Filipino church in West Covina, California, the Christian Fellowship Bible Church. This church had been very hospitable to visiting pastors and missionaries from the Philippines including those from the AFBCP who many years ago had not been in fellowship with him. Pastor Samuel Ormeo, who pastors the Community Missionary Baptist Church in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, had set up missions partnership through scholarship assistance to deserving students at Doane. His church also has been in partnership with the missionaries of PABWE in Thailand for many years. The reconciliation One of the instruments of the reconciliation was Dr. Earnest Gordon Wray. He retired from ABWE in 1965 after serving as director of Doane Baptist Seminary several terms from 1946. He remained an inspiration to Filipino pastors and missionaries who visited the United States and the students who studied in the United States. His attitude toward the problems he knew were happening in the Philippines as a result of the split in 1965 had been fair, balanced and restorative. He had always remained a friend to the people from the AFBCP and those from the ABCLVM. Unknown to other people he had been