p. 18 | Our Work in South America

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 26, 1908

Our Work in South America

ABOUT three thousand Seventh-day Adventist believers in South America are working loyally to spread the light of the advent message through those Catholic republics. The general outline of the work is as follows:—

Argentina is a conference, with its office headquarters and a publishing house in Buenos Aires, and a training-school and sanitarium in the province of Entre Rios, up the Paraná River.

Uruguay and Paraguay are growing mission fields.

Bolivia is a mission field, newly entered.

Chile is an organized conference, with a printing-office and a training-school.

Peru and Ecuador are also promising mission fields.

Brazil is organized as two conferences and two mission fields, having two training-schools and a publishing house, the latter in a suburb of the growing city of Sao Paulo.

All these fields are grouped together in the South American Union Conference organization, the union headquarters being in the city of Buenos Aires.

Notwithstanding the blighting influence of centuries of Catholicism and priestly rule, our missionaries find, wherever they go, many earnest hearts open to investigate Protestant truth, and some even longing to know the way of salvation through the faith of Jesus. Again and again we have heard Catholic lips asking us to come among them and teach them the truth of God. The crying need is more workers, and still more workers.