Youth & Adult Mission 3rd quarter 2024 features the Inter-American Division, which oversees the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s work in 42 countries and territories in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, and the northern part of South America. The region is home to 305 million
people and 3.7 million Adventists. That’s a ratio of one Adventist for 82 people.
The Inter-American Division has chosen six projects in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, and Mexico to receive the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering this quarter. I had the privilege of visiting project sites in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Dominica and hearing mission stories there. You can find more information about those projects in the sidebar on this page and in the related
mission stories published in this Mission quarterly. I also visited two sites of previous
Thirteenth Sabbath projects in Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago. In Costa Rica, your
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering in 2021 helped open a center of influence at Central America
Adventist University that trains missionaries and provides life-skills seminars to at-risk
children and youth in the community.
In Trinidad and Tobago, I saw the rising structure of what will be the first university
church at University of the Southern Caribbean, a 2018 Thirteenth Sabbath project. The university also received part of a 2021 offering to open a missionary training
center. I heard first-hand accounts of God’s life-transforming power while interviewing
people on the campus, and you can find two of those stories on pages 12 and 14.
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