Minatitlán, Veracruz, México | Libna Stevens/IAD
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in Veracruz, Mexico, celebrated the culmination of intense evangelistic efforts during a live satellite event from the city of Minatitlán, last weekend.
Thousands packed the Minatitlán Convention Center during the event. Image by Libna Stevens/IAD
A crowd of about 8,000 filled the Minatitlán Convention Center on Sabbath, April 1, to worship, witness the transformation of new believers and recommit to nurturing them into the life of the church. Another four sites gathering over 30,000 believers across the Inter-Oceanic Mexican Union held hundreds of baptisms on the same day. More than 6,000 were baptized in the region during the day.
Thousands more throughout the church in Inter-America also welcomed new members into the church and viewed the day’s event through the satellite broadcast on Hope Channel Inter-America’s three channels.
The annual celebration, coined as “Lord Transform Me”, was the climax of a six-month-long evangelism undertaking by pastors and church members across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory.
Pastor Balvin Braham, assistant to the president for evangelism for the church in Inter-America and main organizer of the event, said Inter-America’s “Lord Transform Me” initiative has aimed to motivate leaders and church members to be totally involved in the mission of the church. “It’s about members being transformed in the way they live, they way they worship and the way they serve and proclaim the gospel, in preparedness for the Second Coming of Jesus.”
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Minatitlán, Veracruz, México | Libna Stevens/IAD Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in Veracruz, Mexico, celebrated the culmination of intense evangelistic efforts during a live satellite event from the city of Minatitlán, last weekend. Thousands packed the Minatitlán Convention Center during the event. Image by Libna Stevens/IAD A crowd of about 8,000 filled the Minatitlán Convention Center…
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