Adventism in Panama
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
6-22-2018
Keywords
Seventh-day Adventists, Panama
Abstract
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA Church) in Panama was established and later developed in three specific places and among two different language groups. The first congregations were established in 1901 among English-speaking people, in the Caribbean Coast, Bocas del Toro, as well as Colon City. Later on, as the Panama Canal was being built, the SDA Church extended toward the Pacific Ocean, in Panama City, where Spanish-speaking congregations appeared alongside the English-speaking ones. Around 1914, a third place was established, in the western side of the Chiriquí province, where some English-speaking members were successful in establishing and developing the SDA Church among a population that spoke Spanish. This present document will offer a short description of the effects or the results of the efforts of the first missionaries and will inform about the number of people that joined the church from 1901 to 2013.
Book Title
Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions
Editor
Gooren, Henri
Publisher
Springer
City
Cham, Switzerland
Edition
Springer Link
ISBN
978-3-319-08956-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_402-1
First Department
Graduate Psychology and Counseling
Recommended Citation
Grajales Guerra, Tevni, "Adventism in Panama" (2018). Faculty Publications. 1054.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/1054