NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
) 
Second Regular Session 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
HOUSE BILL NO. 9842 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE VIRGILIO S. LACSON 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to grant Philippine citizenship to Mr. David Loran Sisson, an 
American national who has planted his roots and contributed much to the Philippines as 
a person of faith.  
David Loran Sisson was born on September 24, 1991 to his parents Douglas and 
Rebecca Sisson, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America. He and his family 
came to the Philippines on September 5, 1996, and established their residence at Purok 5, 
Barrio 1, Lagao, General Santos City.  
In May 1998, his father established a church to reach out to the people of the said 
city and help provide for their spiritual needs. They have established a growing and 
flourishing ministry that includes teaching over three thousand five hundred children 
every Saturday for the past twenty-three years. David, together with his family, started 
this ministry with two classes, and now it has grown into one hundred fifty classes. They 
also have a PNP Ministry wherein they teach the trainees Biblical values that helped and 
guide them and their families toward a faithful and meaningful life, while imparting to 
them how to be an honest and productive citizens. They were allowed to teach in all eight 
police stations present in the entire General Santos City.  
With the establishment of the church, they have managed to conceive other 
ministries which include school ministries, deaf ministry, children ministries, and 
ministries for widows. They conducted Annual Youth Camps, reaching over eight 
hundred teens, and Annual Pastors' Conferences that has provided materials for Pastors 
all over Mindanao. Moreover, they have established a television ministry, a nightly Bible 
Institute and have been successful in establishing a four-year Bible College.  
From the time David and his family set foot in our country, his family embraced 
the Filipino people and our culture. David, together with his siblings, are fluent Cebuano 
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speakers, which has enabled them to further reach out to our people and share the values 
inscribed on the Holy Bible.  
David is married to Ruthie Alonzo Sisson, whose parents are of Filipino descent. 
His wife has become a vital part of the ministry, teaching piano to young children, teens 
and adults, and led the Children's and Teen's Choirs. She likewise spends her time in 
teaching music in the Bible College that David and his family has established. David and 
Ruthie both completed four years of ministry college training in Lancaster, 
California, USA, and have chosen to come back to the Philippines to use their learnings to 
enrich and help our fellow Filipinos.  
Mr. Sisson have considered the Philippines as his home and the place where he 
wants to spend his life with, together with his family. Indeed, in his twenty-three years of 
fruitful stay in our country, he has decided to become a citizen of the Philippines and make 
our country as his permanent home, wherein he shall forever pledge and hold loyalty, 
obedience and allegiance, and continue serving our people he has always loved.  
In view of Mr. David Loran Sisson's wish to become a Filipino citizen, approval of 
this bill is earnestly prayed for.  
 
 
 
HON. VIRGILIO S. LACSON 
Manila Teachers Partylist 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
) 
Second Regular Session 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
HOUSE BILL NO. 9842 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE VIRGILIO S. LACSON 
AN ACT GRANTING PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP TO 
DAVID LORAN SISSON  
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled:  
SECTION 1. Mr. David Loran Sisson is hereby granted Philippine citizenship with 
all the rights, privileges  and prerogatives, as well as the duties and obligations 
appurtenant thereto under the Constitution and the laws  of the Republic of the 
Philippines.  
SEC. 2. Mr. David Loran Sisson shall take the Oath of Allegiance to the Republic 
of the Philippines before  an officer duly authorized to administer the same. The Oath of 
Allegiance shall be registered with the Bureau of Immigration.  
SEC. 3. Upon registration of the Oath of Allegiance, the Bureau of Immigration 
shall issue a Certificate of Naturalization to Mr. David Loran Sisson who shall thereupon 
enter into the full enjoyment of Philippine citizenship.   
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official 
Gazette or in a  newspaper of general circulation 
Approved,