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Alfredo Ordóñez Withol dedicated his life to pastoral and teaching ministry in Nicaragua and Honduras.
The pioneer missionary work of Orley Ford in Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador has left a lasting mark in these countries.
Inter-American Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
William Adolphus Osborne was a leading pioneering Caribbean Adventist educator and administrator who worked and inspired Adventist youth for more than 40 years between 1930 and 1975.
Pacific Colombian Conference is a part of South Columbian Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Palenque Mission is a part of Chiapas Mexican Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Panama is located in the southeast of Central America. Adventism reached Panama in the late nineteenth century.
Panama Adventist Institute or Instituto Adventista Panameño (IAP) is a secondary level educational boarding institution within the Seventh-day Adventist Church educational system. For over 70 years, IAP has offered a solid education based on spiritual values, and a strong academic curriculum. It is the only boarding institution in the Panama Union Mission’s territory.
Panama Union Mission is one of 24 unions of the Inter-American Division (IAD) and serves the entire country of Panama with a population of more than four million people.
Paracentral El Salvador Conference is a part of El Salvador Union Mission in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Earl Jennings Parchment, pastor, evangelist, department director, and administrator, was born December 31, 1919, in the picturesque rural district of South Field, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. He was the last of seven children born to Ira and Earline Parchment.
James Elisha Patterson was the first black Seventh-day Adventist to go out from the United States as a foreign missionary.
Inter-American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Rolando Enrique Peinado Hernández was an Adventist mathematician and educator from Colombia.
George Edward Peters was one of the leading pioneering evangelists, urban pastors, and church administrators between 1908 and 1953, serving the predominantly African American believers. Elder Peters was the first Caribbean born Adventist leader to serve his church at its headquarters serving as the director of the Negro (Colored/Regional) department between 1941 and 1953.
Pinarena Mission, established in 2019, operates under the Cuban Union Conference within the Inter-American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Its headquarters is located in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Portuguese Venezuela Mission covers the entirety of Portuguesa State, one of the 23 states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, form the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Clarence L. Powers was the sixth and last American-born president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and he held that position between 1962 and 1970. Powers was also the religious liberty secretary for the division, one of the most challenging positions in the division at the time. His next assignment was as president of the Euro-African Division from 1970 to 1975, and he served as a vice-president of the General Conference for 13 years.
The Puerto Rican Union Conference was established in 1994 when the Antillian Union was divided.
One of the first Adventists to reach Puerto Rico was David M. Traill, a 27-year-old medic from the United States Army, in 1898.
Radio Lira, a non-profit organization in Costa Rica, offers its audience varied spiritual programming that includes blocks of music and messages by dynamic speakers.
Antonio Redondo was named the first Adventist convert in continental Colombia and the first licensed Adventist minister in Colombia.