Along with San Agustin Iriga City and Maryhill tribal settlement, barangay Ubao in Bula the main mission area of the Congregation of saint Augustine.

The sisters of our congregation came there in 2007 by the invitation of the local priest who was willing that our nuns will help there in work with the poor and community development.

The first thing that we paid attention to upon the arrival to Umbao was children's malnourishment because many people of that severely deprived area are extremely poor and can't provide their children with the necessary food.

Our nuns assigned in that area first were trying to document all the children who has big underweight and make their mothers aware about bad affects of malnourishment on the children's body and their further development.

After all the malnourished children of the village were documented our nuns tried to provide their families with the food supplement and organize local woman to produce their own supplement using vegetables and other simple materials.

When we could rise up some founds we also tried to provide local poor with some rice and other kinds of food.

Another part of our mission in Umbao was catechetical ministry in the area.

People of very remote districts are not so often can attend church and let their children to attend catechetical lessons and study Catholic faith.

In these circumstances along with the catechetical lessons in the parish we tried to visit such people in their place and reach them and their kids with basic lesson of the Catholic faith.

In year 2009 because of luck of funds and personnel we had temporarily to postpone our mission activities in Umbao. But God willing later we could try to reestablish missionary to activity in that area for the god of God and his Church.