A Year in Panama by B. E. Connerly

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 3, 1913

A Year in Panama

By B. E. Connerly

It is now a year since our company was organized into a church, and what a happy, prosperous twelve months it has been!

The initial impulse of our success as a church may be traced to an abiding faith in the speedy triumph of the advent message, and harmony and unity in its propagation among our radically cosmopolitan population. We have been encouraged by the inspiring watchword, “Every man to his work, each to do his best.”

Some items carried by our delegate to the annual session of the West Caribbean Conference were: membership increased from sixteen to forty; tithe, $432.90; Sabbath-school increased from thirty-seven to seventy members, with donations to foreign missions $75. The work of our young people’s society has been the most interesting branch of the work. In the hospitals and prisons, among the poor and in the highways and hedges, by word and deed, we have tried to minister faithfully to the unfortunate ones for whom Christ died. We have distributed 4,000 Bibles and portions of Bibles in seven different languages. Among rich and poor we have sold and given away more than 13,000 of our papers in five different languages, fifty per cent of which were our ten-cent magazines. Though none of us are regular canvassers, we have sold during the year $2,459.27 worth of our denominational literature.

For more than six months of the year we have conducted a prosperous church-school with an enrolment of ninety.

Our regret is that though in a Spanish country our work has been so largely in English. We have, however, conducted a little Spanish Sabbath-school on Sabbath afternoons.

We are now busy collecting funds for

a church building. As the enormity of the work undone looms up before us, we are sure that there is no needier field than Panama, and we earnestly desire an interest in the prayers of God’s people. B. E. CONNERLY.