Church
In the first Sunday of April of 1997 Pastor Roy Raquintan led the first Sunday Worship Service in a small boarding house at Paglinauan Compound in Barangay 2 of Legazpi City. The attendees were only three adults and three young boys. That was the rented boarding house of Mr. & Mrs. Leo Raquintan where Pastor Roy held the first service. This family of five were the main reason why he came back to the city where he was raised, educated, got saved and learned to served the Lord. Pastor Jed Raquintan instructed him to encouraged the unchurched couple to serve the Lord again. By June 1997 Pastor Roy relocated his family to Naga City where he worked from Monday to Saturday. Every Sunday they travel a hundred kilometers to Legazpi City for the worship service. From six attendees it grew to a dozen. Thus they were forced to look for a bigger place.
By the end of the year 1997 the Mission outreach was relocated to the United Institute (UI) Building in Daraga, Albay using a chemistry room as their place of worship. In UI the Lord added to them new attendees and the children ministry grew also. On February 2002 Pastor Conrad Castillo came to the Legazpi Mission to help in the work. (Read More)
Ptr. Roy B. Raquintan, Missionary
"A modern day Andrew and a resurrected Paul," such will I describe the following missionary pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church (CBC).
Roy Baloyo Raquintan, the CBC missionary pastor to Legazpi City, Albay, belonged to a middle class family in Sorsogon, Sorsogon. His father bore the name Leoncio and his mother the name Norma. They both served the local government as public dentists in rural communities. Their second son, Roy, was born in the fourth day of March, 1965. The Raquintans were strict and strong followers of that big yet blind religion and Roy and his six other brothers were raised in the traditions, and superstitions of Roman Catholicism.
The family later on moved to Magallanes, Sorsogon and there Roy studied at Magallanes North Central School. After finishing his elementary education, he was then sent to Legazpi City to continue his studies at Bicol University. Upon graduating from high school, Roy decided to enroll at that same school to take up civil engineering. (Read More)