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Northeast Peru Mission Image not found or type unknown Northeast Peru Mission ANTONIO MANZANARES, AND DÁLCIO DA SILVA PAIVA Antonio Manzanares Dálcio da Silva Paiva Northeast Peru Mission (Misión Nor Oriental or MNO) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, located in the territory of North Peru Union Mission (Unión del Norte del Perú or UPN). Its headquarters is at Jirón Ramírez Hurtado, 321, Zip Code 22202, in the city of Tarapoto, Province of San Martín, Department of San Martín, Republic of Peru.1 Territory and Statistics MNO comprises of the following territories: the department of San Martín; the province of Alto Amazonas in the department of Loreto; and the provinces of Bongará, Chachapoyas, Luya, and Rodríguez de Mendoza in the department of Amazonas. The general population in this territory is 2,092,096 and the number of Adventists is 37,560 (one Adventist per 56 inhabitants). MNO has 627 congregations (271 organized churches and 356 groups).2 The Adventist Education Organization of North Peru (Asociación Educativa Adventista Nor Oriental or ASEANOR) runs four educational institutions: Institución Educativa Adventista José de San Martin [Jose de San Martin Adventist Academy], located at Jr. Augusto B. Leguía, 129 and 1219, Tarapoto, San Martín; Institución Educativa Adventista Moyobamaba [Moyobamaba Adventist Academy], located at Jr. Serafín Filomeno, 448, Moyobamba, San Martín; Institución Educativa Adventista Nueva Cajamarca [Nueva Cajamarca Adventist Academy], located at Jr. Martín, 540, Nueva Cajamarca, San Martín; and Institución Educativa Adventista Alto Mayo [Alto Mayo Adventist Academy], located at Jr. Santo Toribio, 1166, San Martín.3 All these institutions have as their mission to “promote the full development of students, to educate autonomous citizens, committed to the well-being of the community, to the country and to God.”4 Northeast Peru Mission employs 325 workers. Of these, 43 are ministers (23 credentialed and 20 licensed), four are workers with missionary credentials and the other 227 employees perform various functions in administration and education.5 The Origins of the Adventist Work in the Territory of the Mission The origin of Adventism in Peru dates to the late 19th century thanks to the efforts of volunteer missionaries and canvassers from abroad. In 1914, the Adventist church had already established Inca Union Mission (Unión Misión Incaica), which is the present South Peru Union Mission (Unión Peruana del Sur), to direct the missionary work in the territories of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.6 Not long after 1914, the Adventist work was developed in the Peruvian jungle through the efforts of Pastor Ferdinand Stahl and his wife Ana. After working as missionary doctors for several years among the Indians of the Peruvian Andes, they decided to serve the Campas Indians7 (currently called Asháninkas).8 In November 1926, the Inca Union Mission Board of Directors decided to establish Upper Amazon Mission (Alto Amazonas Mission), presently known as East Peru Mission (Misión del Oriente Peruano - MNO).9 The Upper Amazon Mission was organized between 1927 and 1929.10 Following the Inca Union Mission meeting, the Stahls made a trip to San Roque de Cumbaza district in Tarapoto. As a result of their work, the first Adventist congregation was organized in the department of San Martín. About the same time, around 1930, the Adventist message reached the village of Morales in an unusual way. God used a flooding river flood that devastated the house of a canvasser in San Roque.11 That canvasser was Manuel Panduro. As usual, he and his wife went out to visit some small farms in another village and offer evangelistic books. Upon learning that the Cumbaza River was flooded, they rushed to return home. Then they saw that the house, with all their books and other belongings, had been destroyed by the flooding river. After the waters of the river calmed, Panduro searched carefully along the riverbank for his books and other possessions, but his search was in vain.12 One day, soon after the flood incident, a half-drunk farmer walked along the sandy shore of the riverbed and spotted what appeared to be a shiny piece of gold in the stream. When he bent down to pick it up, he discovered that the object in the water was a book, partly covered in mud and sand, with the title in golden letters Hacia La Edad de Oro [Towards the Golden Age], by Marcelo Fayard. After carefully drying and cleaning the pages of the book, this farmer, whose name was Humberto Pinedo Pezo, read the book along with his family and some of his friends.13 When Manuel Panduro later met Humberto Pinedo Pezo, he was ready to study the Bible. Very soon Pezo was converted, began to keep the Sabbath, and was baptized by Pastor Bernabé Chávez. Pastor Chávez assisted the church of San Roque de Cumbaza, all the way from Yurimaguas, the capital of the Alto Amazonas province in the department of Loreto. About ten years later in 1940, radio became one of the most efficient evangelistic instruments for preaching the gospel in the region. Thanks to radio programs, the dissemination of the message to the population in the most distant parts of the Amazon jungle was finally possible. At the time, many tuned in and listened to the program “La Voz de la Profecía” [The Voice of Prophecy], which was broadcasted on local stations.14 One of the main objectives of the radio was to enroll listeners in Bible correspondence studies.15 In 1954, the Bible correspondence school had a hundred-year-old woman among its students, in the town of San Roque, in the province of Huallaga, department of San Martín. This woman, Úrsula Solsol, was a faithful listener who attended the Sabbath School and shared the gospel among her relatives.16 The Adventist work continued to grow in that region and several churches were organized. By 1956, a small group of believers in Tarapoto decided to build a church with enough space to receive more people interested in studying the Bible. Hence, as soon as the building construction was completed, the church was dedicated to the Lord. Pastor W. E. Murray, the South American Division president was present at the dedication service. Pastor Francisco Scarcella and his team of Bible instructors began to hold evangelist series in Tarapoto and its vicinity.17 Three years later, around 1959, the Adventist congregation in Tarapoto faced serious difficulties. The main priest of Tarapoto spoke in the public square against the Seventh-day Adventists, saying: “These people will have to return to Catholicism, or they will have to die.”18 However, the faith and the desire to continue preaching and taking the truth to all parts of the Peruvian Amazon kept MNO growth constant. Thus, between 1968 and 1975, the Mission went from 16 to 26 congregations. At the end of those eight years, it achieved progress of more than 100 percent in the membership growth, reaching up to 6,715 Adventists.19 In the following three decades, a gradual increase was recorded each year. As a result, in June 2001, Peru Union Mission (Unión Peruana or UP) agreed to authorize the process of dividing the territory of East Peru Mission. 20 By November 2001, UP Plenary Board requested the South American Division to name a special committee to study the viability of dividing the territory of the East Peru Mission, which would give rise to a new Mission.21 The proposal was that this mission would be called Altomayo Mission (Misión del Altomayo), whose headquarters would be established in the city of Tarapoto and would have 15 missionary districts.22 Finally, in December 2001, the South American Division voted the creation of the “Investigation Committee” to study the division of MNO’s territory.23 The committee was comprised of the South American Division, the Peru Union Mission, and the MNO administrators, a district pastor and a lay member. The Mission’s Organizational History In August 2002, Peru Union Mission Board of Directors registered the report of the MNO commission Survey, which contained a favorable opinion for the creation of the new Mission. The new institution received the name of Northeast Peru Mission (Misión Nor Oriental or MNO).24 Northeast Peru Mission’s headquarters was in the city of Tarapoto. Northeast Peru Mission began operating on January 1, 2003.25 Its territory comprised of Alto Amazonas province, department of Loreto, and department of San Martín, except the province of Tocache. The new field was organized into 17 missionary districts, with 97 organized churches and 357 groups, with a total of 72,899 members.?26 During this organizational period, the Peru Union Mission administration promised to purchase a place for the MNO headquarters. The land was located at Jr. Los Mártires, 218, Santa Lucía neighborhood, Morales district. With the purchase of this property, the construction of the first rooms for the mission headquarters began. In late 2002, Peru Union Mission appointed the first MNO27 administrators and approved the statute of the new administrative unit.28 In addition, the date was set for the first MNO congress, which was held in that same year, and assigned the baptism goal for the following year.29 With the first headquarters ready, the MNO first Administrative congress took place from December 12 to 14, 2002.30 This congress took place in the Global 2000 church and the administrations of Peru Union Mission, MNO, Ana Stahl Adventist Clinic, Good Hope Clinic, ADRA, Peruvian Union University participated.31 At the end of the congress, MNO had 17 missionary districts, two schools and an ADRA office. The first administrative leaders of the new Mission were Pastors Salomón Arana and Abel Guevara, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively.32 In 2004, in order to strengthen the faith of the brethren and motivate them to fulfill the mission, Peru Union Mission and MNO carried out the evangelistic program “Caravana de Poder” (The Caravan of Power).33 This program crowned the missionary work of the volunteer Bible instructors known as “Gedeones” (Gideons).
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