Church Building in New Gatun

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1914

Church Building in New Gatun

We clip the following from the Canal Record of March 4, a weekly paper "published under the authority and supervision of the Isthmian Canal Commission:"—

"The Seventh-day Adventist Conference for Panama and the Canal Zone is building a small church for the accommodation of its congregation in New Gatun. The structure is a frame building capable of seating about fifty persons. The Seventh-day Adventists have churches in Panama, Empire, New Gatun, Mount Hope, and at Cristobal, the headquarters of the organization. The building now occupied by the superintendent of the conference was erected to take the place of the one destroyed by fire on March 23, 1911. The building contains apartments for the superintendent and his family, and the secretary of the conference, on the second floor, and the church and offices on the ground floor. Books and periodicals of the conference are sold at headquarters, also canned goods put up at the sanitarium operated by the Seventh-day Adventists in Tennessee. The printing plant, which was formerly located in the building in Colon, has been removed to Jamaica. The conference church has been established in Panama and the Canal Zone since 1907. There are about 250 adherents."