116 years ago, the Presbyterian evangelical movement was started in Panay by Dr.J.Andrew Hall and his wife, Jean, as commissioned by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (USA).
The first worship service in Iloilo was attended by a handful of Ilonggos who became devoted and tireless disciplers.
Thus started the UCCP Church in Iloilo City, the "mother church of of all the other Presbyterian evangelical churches in Panay and Guimaras".