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South Metropolitan Chile Mission

PABLO MILLANAO TORREJÓN

Pablo Millanao Torrejón South Metropolitan Chile Mission (Mision Sur Metropolitana de Chile or MSMCh) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church within the territory of Chile Union Mission. It is headquartered at 173 Fernando Rioja street, Zip Code 7980186, in the commune of La Cisterna, in the city of Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile Metropolitan Region, Republic of Chile.1 Territory and Statistics The MSMCh is responsible for guiding Adventist churches and evangelistic work in 17 communes located south of the Santiago Metropolitan Region. That is, the population of these communes corresponds to about 14 percent of the total inhabitants in the national territory,2 where almost 11percent of the Adventist members live in Chile Union Mission.3 The communes that comprise the ecclesiastical field cover an area of approximately six thousand eight hundred four km2, in which there are 80 organized churches and 16 groups. Until June 2019, the total population in this territory was 2,636,766 inhabitants, and the total number of members was 10,871. Thus, in the MSMCh missionary field there is one Adventist per 243 people.4 The MSMCh administers Adventist Education in its territory through the Graciela Carvajal Rojas Educational Foundation. This institution has four educational units5 and serves about two thousand one hundred thirty-three students at all levels of education, that is, from preschool to middle or high school. The academies in the MSMCh field are: el Colegio Polivalente Adventista Santiago Sur (South Santiago Adventist Academy), established in 1945, located at 4349 Las Industrias avenue, San Joaquín, Santiago (South Zone), Santiago Metropolitan Region, with 660 students–this “academy is currently subscribed to free admission and has the SEP (Preferential School Subsidy) and PIE (School Integration Program)” agreements6 with the Ministry of Education of the government of Chile; Colegio Adventista La Cisterna (La Cisterna Adventist Academy), established in 1962, located at 203 Ossa avenue, La Cisterna, Santiago (South Zone), Santiago Metropolitan Region, with 526 students;7 Colegio Adventista Buenaventura (Buenaventura Adventist Academy), established in 1962, located at 3928 Buenaventura street, Lo Espejo, Santiago (South Zone), Santiago Metropolitan Region, with 717 students;8 and Colegio Adventista La Florida (La Florida Adventist Academy--Millawe), established in 2014, located at 9262 México avenue, La Florida, Santiago (South Zone), Santiago Metropolitan Region, with 230 students.9 All of these Adventist academies promote interaction between theory and practice, with a strong emphasis on moral and Christian values.10 In the area of evangelism through communications, the mission has one radio station (New Time) and two open television channels (Hope Channel) in the region. Furthermore, both radio and television are also digitally transmitted and can be tuned through channel 25.2 (digital TV signal) and channel 25.3 (radio signal through digital TV). Since 2017 this new means reaches nearly 80percent of the population of Santiago.11 Regarding the number of servers, the MSMCh has a total of 287 employees, of whom 18 are credentialed ministers, 6 are licensed ministers, 5 are missionary credentialed workers, and 3 are missionary licensed workers.12 The Origin of the Adventist Work in the Mission Territory Adventism in Chile began in the late 19th century and was characterized by strong confidence in God on the part of the pioneers. The first Adventists in Chile were Claudio Designet and Antonieta S. de Dessignet, a French immigrant couple who settled in the south of the country.13 “However, it was with the work of Clair A. Nowlen, F. W. Bishop, and Thomas H. Davis that from 1894 the establishment of the Adventist Church in Chile was more successful. G. H. Baber was the first Adventist pastor to arrive in Chile, in 1895. The first church in the country was established in the city of Santiago.”14 Later, once converted, Carlos Krieghoff joined them to help spread the gospel. In addition, the young Pastor Alfredo R. Ogden arrived in November 1901, and weeks later he performed a baptism with catechumens that had been prepared by one of the Thomann brothers.15 It is worth highlighting some events that took place at the time in the southern area of the capital. At the beginning of the 20th century, the printing press of the missionary review Las Señales de los Tiempos (The Signs of the Times) and the church review, La Revista Adventista (Adventist Review) moved to what today is the commune of Lo Espejo (1908). Before that the equipment had been in the city of Iquique and then in Valparaíso, where evangelistic leaflets for the entire country were printed. The Chile Conference office was also located in Lo Espejo until 1916, when the transition of the headquarters to the commune of Santiago began.16 Around 1923 canvassers were the main form of spreading the Adventist message through the sale of books and reviews.17 While the publication work stood out to fulfill its prophetic role, one of the first churches to rise in leadership, missionary initiative, and educational endeavor was the church of La Cisterna. From the beginning they invested in this area and established an academy, which with the course of time started to offer elementary and high school. On the other hand, just as the church of La Cisterna was active in evangelization through education, in 1932 the churches of San Bernardo and La Legua, in southern Santiago, were very active in carrying out many missionary activities in their communities.18 In fact, over the course of three decades, Adventist education in Chile had strong support from the brethren, as they created approximately eight educational units in many regions of the country.19 Thus, one of the first schools established in MSMCh was La Legua Academy, which began to operate in 1945, and received official recognition two years later. After three and a half decades, a new school was built, which years later became South Santiago Adventist Academy.20 This academy was built together with a church, on more than 3,000 m2 , located on Las Industrias avenue.21 In the field of educational work in the southern region of Santiago, in the period from the 1940s to the 1960s, three schools were established, which over the course of time started to offer elementary and high school. One of them was Buenaventura Adventist Academy, which began operating in 1962 as an elementary school, and in 1963 received official recognition. “In its beginning, Buenaventura Academy was public, serving children from the nearby region and the church, receiving a lot of support from OFASA (present ADRA) and funding from the SDA church. As the time went by, it became a private school, supported by contributions from parents and the SDA membership.”22 Another school that also began operating in 1962 was La Cisterna Central Church. At first it operated in the church rooms, which at the time was located at 86 Ossa avenue, and served approximately thirty students. On December 7 of that same year, the Ministry of Education, in Exempt Resolution no. 18,195, recognized the Adventist Private School no. 60 as Cooperator of the State Educational Function. Subsequently, “the property where the church and school were located was sold to the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and became part of the Intermodal Corridor of La Cisterna Metro Terminal; so, it was finally expropriated.” For this reason, in the 1970s, the school moved to where it currently is, at 203 Ossa avenue, La Cisterna.23 During this time the Adventist church public evangelism in this region of Santiago was responsible for carrying out work in favor of the gypsies.24 This interest in them began in the late 1970s, when Francisco Milanovich attended a series of meetings on the book of Revelation, in the church of La Cisterna. Once converted, he wanted the truth to reach his people. Thus, supported by the Sepúlveda, Bravo, and Tiszavari brothers, he developed a preaching program for the ethnic comrades. The first evangelizing campaign directed specifically at the gypsy people took place in 1982, inside an old tent. The speaker was Antonio Tiszavari, of Hungarian descent, and whose language was similar to that of the gypsy people. Two years after the series of meetings began, this group received the donation of a new tent to continue the meetings in better conditions. Furthermore, that same year they were visited by the president of the General Conference and the South American Division (Neal Wilson and João Wolff, respectively). The following year land was purchased for the construction of a gypsy church with the help of the Central Conference (presently Metropolitan Chile Conference). In 1986 Antonio Tiszavari was called to serve the church as an evangelist worker, and the district that included the gypsy brethren was assigned to him. The target audience at the time was about one hundred fifty families, within a 10 km radius around the commune of La Cisterna. With the establishment of an Adventist community of gypsies, the SDA church continued to fulfill its role of carrying the message to every tribe, race, and people in its own location.25 In the last decade of the 20th century, with the support of Chile Union Mission, the preaching of the gospel advanced throughout the country and consequently in all missionary fields. As a result, many church departments carried out working with greater emphasis on mission. Among them, it is worth mentioning the role played by the “Women's Ministry,” which in 1995 provided services in hospitals to terminally ill patients, organized and directed small groups in order to study Bible prophecies, and promoted many seminars in households. All of these actions positively influenced the families of the church and of the society living in the capital.26 At that time, in 1998, due to a great increase in the number of members and churches, the SAD, along with the Chile Union Mission, restructured the territory of the Central Conference and organized the Central Mission to serve the VI and VII regions of Chile. Thus, Central Chile Conference became responsible for the entire Santiago Metropolitan Region and, naturally, it was named Metropolitan Chile Conference (AMCh).27 The Conference Organizational History About eight years later, the number of congregations in the Santiago Metropolitan Region reached 188 (148 organized churches and 40 groups). There, 50 pastors were responsible for 31,717 SDA members and for mobilizing many missionary activities aimed to reach an average of 215 non-Adventists who lived in the region at the time.28 Accordingly, around 2007 the Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, under the direction of the SAD, developed plans to study the feasibility of another restructuring of the Metropolitan Conference.29 Thus, in 2009 two possibilities were proposed: to organize two conferences (East-West Division) or a conference and a mission (North-South Division). The second option was chosen, and in February 2011 they approved the project to build the headquarters of a new field, which would be separated from the Metropolitan Chile Conference.30 A few months later, the delegates of the new mission met on November 13, 2011, at the First Congress of South Metropolitan Chile Mission, with the theme “United to Fulfill the Mission.”31 At this meeting, after having planned the future of the MSMCh, the goals for the coming years were established. The Nominating Committee elected the first administrative leaders; that is, Pastors Héctor Ogalde and Mauricio Comte, as president and secretary respectively, and Nelson Dill would be the new treasurer of the mission.32 Under the administration of these three men, the MSMCh assumed the leadership of the Adventist work in the south of the Santiago metropolitan region from the territory of its headquarters at 173 Fernando Rioja. Thus, in its first year, as an administrative unit, the mission was initially in charge of 75 organized churches, with a total of 14,087 members, in a territory of approximately two million nine hundred two thousand eight hundred twenty-three inhabitants.33 In other words, the average was one Adventist per 149 inhabitants. Since its first congress in 2011, one of the goals set by MSMCh was to organize and build five congregations a year.34 For this reason and fulfilling that proposal in 2012, MSMCh organized some churches and groups, including the Church of Buin and Maranatha Observatorio, and the groups of Amor y Esperanza, Cantillana, Dulce Refugio, El Alto, Mahanaim, Nuevo Buin, Villa Alamedas, Juvenil COALC, Fortaleza Divina, and Villa Cordillera III. In addition, with the support and commitment of church members, 11 new properties were acquired, which comprised the churches of El Llano, Porto Alegre, Maipo, Renacer, El castillo, Ejército Libertador, Grupos Mahanain, Pirque, Papelera, Cantillana, and Poder de la Oración. Simultaneously, five temple-chapels were also built for the congregations of Ejército Libertador, Pirque, Sinaí, Jerusalén, Central San Bernardo Sur, and a sixth temple in Champa. In fact, such acquisitions and constructions made the Adventist presence better known by people in the neighborhood, and as a result they become familiar not only with the church but also with its members, being influenced by them. With the same idea that Seventh-day Adventist churches should be the best buildings on the streets, in 2013 MSMCh, with financial support from all the Chile Union Mission fields, was able to build a modern building to be the new administrative headquarters of the mission. The inauguration took place on June 17, 2013, and was attended by the leaders of the SAD, the Chile Union Mission, and other local ecclesiastical authorities. Thus, through this new building and its offices, the Adventist Church in Chile has been able to continue fulfilling its mission in much better conditions.35 There were also improvements in the educational field. In 2014 MSMCh acquired Millawe Adventist Academy (a Mapudungun word,36 which means “place where there is gold”), and incorporated it into the Adventist Educational Network.37 This academy, which at the time had 180 elementary school students, joined the other three4 educational units of the mission and received a new name: Florida Adventist Academy.38 However, the following year, in accordance with the new requirements of the Chilean educational legal framework, the mission's four educational establishments (Santiago Sur, La Cisterna, Buenaventura, and La Florida) were transferred to the new entity that the Adventist Church created as holder: Graciela Carvajal Educational Foundation. In 2015, within the framework of the evangelistic strategy to expand Adventist work in the region, 13 opening projects of Centers of Influence were approved. These would be established as of 2016 in the districts of La Florida, San Miguel, San Ramón, Buin, Puente Alto Oriente, Puente Alto Centro Poniente, Bella Esperanza, and Los Heraldos.39 The goal is to reach people who in one way or another would not get to know the SDA church through traditional means. For that purpose, these centers carry out activities and courses to help the community in the areas of health, food, education, computer training, and other activities related to music. As a result of these actions carried out by church volunteers, in December 2016 a former philosophy professor at the Catholic University of Chile and his wife, neighbors of the Adventist church El Llano Center of Influence (San Miguel district), decided to be baptized. They got to know the gospel initially through free violin and healthy eating courses offered at the center and also through the impact of studying the Bible in a different way with a young theologian recently graduated from Chile Adventist University.40 In order to continue the work carried out by the Adventist Church in the southern sector of Santiago, MSMCh, through La Cisterna Adventist Church of Gypsies, offers literacy courses. This action tries to minimize the discrimination this people have suffered and to make an important educational and spiritual contribution.41 The gypsy church in Santiago has a temple located at 172 Domingo Correa, commune of La Cisterna,42 with approximately 517 members. Such advances demonstrate MSMCh’s missionary focus. These actions are in accordance to several other projects carried out by the many departments whose challenge is to lead and inspire the churches in the region. Therefore, the Evangelism and Communication departments, along with Nuevo Tiempo (Hope Channel) Chile Bible School, launched in 2018 the pilot project called “Equipo Evangelístico de Avanzada de Nuevo Tiempo” (Hope Channel Advanced Evangelism Team). Its goal is to increase the number of Bible students, and for that church members visit their neighbors from house to house, introducing themselves as representatives of Hope Channel Network and indicating the channel as an SDA church media that wishes to bless them.43 Another missionary action in which MSMCh’s leaders, employees, and church members have been actively participating in recent years is Hope Impact, a project carried out by the Adventist Church throughout South America that encourages reading and distributes books with special content every year. In 2018 alone, about forty-five thousand books, “El Poder de la Esperanza” (The Power of Hope), were distributed in southern Santiago. On May 26 specifically, the largest number of these copies was distributed. On that same day, “health fairs” and marches were held, along with the delivery of books.44 As part of its project, from July 1 to 5, 2019, to work with the children, adolescents, and young members of the church, MSMCh's “Youth Ministry” team held a program called “Sin Prejuicios, más que conectados” (Without Prejudice, More Than Connected). During that week specialists and leaders of the mission addressed adolescents from 12 to 16 years old with the purpose of preparing them to be brave and know how to position themselves on important issues without renouncing solid biblical principles.45 In 2020, for the same purpose, MSMCh’s “Pathfinders and Adventurers” department leads 60 Pathfinder clubs,46 with 1,298 members aged 10 to 15 and 45 Adventurer clubs47 with 568 boys and girls aged 6 to 9. This ministry focuses on guiding its participants to have a life of service dedicated to the family, society, and the church, just as its main leader, Jesus Christ, did.48 Finally, the history of Adventist work in MSMCh’s territory inspires members to continue fulfilling God's mission. Although the challenges they currently face appear to be more difficult, one cannot forget the sacrifices made by the pioneers, who, loving the message of the cross, did not weaken their efforts so that today it is possible to reap what they planted. However, in their example there is a lesson that the gospel seed must be planted continuously and with dedication. Therefore, MSMCh’s plan for the future is to keep motivating and empowering the new generations to preach the eternal gospel until Christ returns.

Chronology of Administrative Leaders49 Presidents: Héctor Ogalde (2011-2014); Luis Jerez (2014-2018); Josué Espinoza Henriquez (2019-Present). Secretaries: Mauricio Comte (2012); Rodrigo Carcamo (2013); Ronald Toledo (2014-2018); Vladimir Sanhueza (2019- Present). Treasurers: Nelson Dill (2012, 2013); Ricardo Melo (2014-2016) Christian Martin (2017, 2018); Marcos Cueto (2019- Present).50

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NOTES 1. Seventh-day Adventist Online Yearbook, “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” accessed on May 6, 2020, https://bit.ly/2Zp7mU6.? 2. Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas – INE [National Statistics Institute – INE], “2017 Chile Census, first delivery of definitive results,” accessed on April 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3bpjuYr.? 3. Adventist Church Management System (ACMS) – Chile Union Mission, June 30, 2016.? 4. Seventh-day Adventist Online Yearbook, “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” accessed on May 6, 2020, https://bit.ly/2Zp7mU6.? 5. Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Brazil) website, “Misión Sur Metropolitana de Chile: Instituciones Educativas” [South Metropolitan Chile Mission: Educational Institutions], accessed on May 6, 2020, https://bit.ly/2WcvKXc.? 6. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Colegio Adventista Santiago Sur: Nosotros” [South Santiago Adventist Academy: Us], accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/2X5vt7D; Information obtained from Adventist School System (SEA) – June 30, 2016.? 7. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Colegio Adventista La Cisterna: Nosotros” [La Cisterna Adventist Academy: Us], accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/3dOIJUS; Information obtained from Adventist School System (SEA) – June 30, 2016.? 8. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Colegio Adventista Buenaventura: Nosotros” [Buenaventura Adventist Academy: Us], accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ydG4oD; Information obtained from Adventist School System (SEA) – June 30, 2016.? 9. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Colegio Adventista La Florida: Nosotros” [La Florida Adventist Academy: Us], accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/3dUv5zw; “Contexto Institucional” [Institutional Context], Institutional Educational Project 2020-2024 (Santiago: La Florida Adventist Academy, 2018), 7.? 10. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Por qué EA” (Why AE [Adventist Education]), accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/2X26vHM.? 11. Ángela Arias and Carmen Moraga, “Nuevo Tiempo Chile lanza canal de Radio Digital en Santiago” [Hope Channel Chile launches Digital Radio channel in Santiago], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], February 24, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2020, https://bit.ly/2X6XnjF.? 12. “South American Division,” 2019 Annual Statistical Report (Silver Spring, MD.: Seventh-day Adventists Church, 2019), 42.? 13. “Una Semilla de Esperanza” [A Seed of Hope], La Revista Adventista [Adventist Review], February 1, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2WHs142.? 14. Seventh-day Adventist Church (Brazil) website, “Historia de América del Sur” [South America History], accessed on May 19, 2020, http://bit.ly/2ScYEEu.? 15. Leopoldo Zambra Ríos, No con ejército, no con fuerza, sino con su espíritu [Not with army, nor with force, but with His spirit] (Santiago: Educational Home and Health Service, 1994), 70.? 16. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, July 25-27, 1916, vote no. 22.? 17. Floyd Greenleaf, A Land of hope: the growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America (Tatuí, SP: Brazil Publishing House, 2011), 217-218.? 18. Minutes of the Board of Directors of Chile Union Mission, August 15, 1932, vote no. 2812.? 19. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education Website], “Chile: Historia” [Chile: History], accessed on May 12, 2020, https://bit.ly/2WNRW8V.? 20. “Reseña Histórica” [Historical Review], Institutional Education Project 2015-2019 (Santiago: South Santiago Adventist Academy, 2015), 8.? 21. La Revista Adventista [Adventist Review], vol. 80, no. 10, October 1980, 13.? 22. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education website], “Colegio Adventist Buenaventura: Nosotros, Reseña Histórica” [Buenaventura Adventist Academy: Us, Historical Review], accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ZpfC6J.? 23. Portal de la Educación Adventista [Adventist Education Website], “Nosotros: Biografía del Colegio Adventista La Cisterna” [We: Biography of La Cisterna Adventist Academy], accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ylozTq.? 24. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, May 10, 1987, “Proyecto alcanzando a los gitanos” [Project reaching the gypsies].? 25. Kenneth J. Mittleider, “Rapid Growth in South America,” Adventist Review 165, no. 43 (October 27, 1988): 29.? 26. Celeste Ryan, “World Survey of Women's Ministries: South American Division,” Adventist Review 172, no. 20 (May 18, 1995): 8.? 27. Nuevo Tiempo Chile [Hope Channel - Chile], “Video 150 años de la Iglesia Adventista en Chile” [Video 150 years of the Adventist Church in Chile] (historical video of Adventism in Chile, August 8, 2013), accessed on March 12, 2020, https://bit.ly/2J8v4e5.? 28. Seventh-day Adventist Online Statistics, “Metropolitan Chile Conference - Yearly Statistics (2006-2006),” accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/36lbNkq.? 29. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, August 6, 2007, vote no. 2007-180.? 30. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, June 15 and 16, 2011, vote no. 2011-171.? 31. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, August 12, 2011, vote no. 2011-201.? 32. IASDMetro [SDAMetro], “Nota Congreso Misión Sur Metropolitana de Chile” [South Metropolitan Chile Mission Congress Note] (informative video on the I Congress of South Metropolitan Chile Mission, November 21, 2011), accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2LF92AM.? 33. “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Hagerstown, MD.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2013), 273? 34. IASDMetro [SDAMetro], “Nota Congreso Misión Sur Metropolitana de Chile” [South Metropolitan Chile Mission Congress Note] (informative video on the I Congress of South Metropolitan Chile Mission, November 21, 2011), accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2LF92AM.? 35. Joaquín Pinchera, “Moderno edificio alberga a la Misión Sur Metropolitana de Chile” [Modern building houses South Metropolitan Chile Mission], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], July 3, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ZjryXy.? 36. Mapudungún is “the Mapuche language [that] before the 16th century, […] was spoken up to the semi-arid territories crossed by the Choapa River. […] [And] it is believed that its extension involved many fertile valleys that descended from the Andes to the south: the Aconcagua, the Maipo, the Mapocho, the Cachapoal and the Maule, encompassing the entire region of central south Chile until reaching to the big island of Chiloé. In historical times, the communities that used Mapudungún as a lingua franca called themselves Mapuche or Reche. Later these communities would be known by the Spanish as Araucanians.” Memoria Chilena de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile [Chilean History of the National Library of Chile], “Mapudungun,” accessed on May 19, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ZjvtmZ.? 37. “Reseña Histórica” [Historical Review], Institutional Education Project 2020-2024 (Santiago: La Florida Adventist Academy, 2018), 9; Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, December 19, 2013, vote no. 2013-454.? 38. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, September 23, 2015, vote no. 2015-240.? 39. Minute of Chile Union Mission Board of Directors, 2015, vote no. 2015-309; Carmen Moraga, “Nuevo templo y centro de influencia ofrecerán servicio a la comunidad” [New temple and center of influence will offer service to the community], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], April 3, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/36fH7Rv.? 40. Gabriel Gamboa, “Centro de influencia impacta la vida de profesor de filosofía” [Center of influence impacts the life of a philosophy professor], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], December 15, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3bJbHE8; Gamboa Cofre, “Testimonio I Will Go Chile Francisco Rozas Bravo” (video - Testimony of Francisco Rozas Bravo commenting on his conversion, December 6, 2016), accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3cKdDxv.? 41. María Paz Rubilar Donoso, “Los Gitanos en Chile: de viajeros eternos a viajeros soñadores” [The Gypsies in Chile: from eternal travelers to dreamy travelers], Memoria Chilena de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile [Chilean History of the National Library of Chile], June 28, 2007, accessed on May 14, 2020, https://bit.ly/2yVMp8r.? 42. Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Brazil) website, “Encuentra una iglesia: Gitanos la Cisterna” [Find a church: la Cisterna gypsies], accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/2z7eycZ.? 43. Ángela Arias, “Proyecto piloto de Nuevo Tiempo en Chile pretende incrementar estudiantes de la Biblia” [Hope Channel pilot project in Chile aims to increase Bible students], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], October 31, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3bJudME.? 44. “Entregando Esperanza MSMCh” [Delivering Hope MSMCh], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], May 30, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3g9Xx27.? 45. Emilly de Souza, “Adolescentes participan de programa en vivo enfocado en los prejuicios” [Teens participate in a live show focused on prejudice], Noticias Adventistas [Adventist News], July 14, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/3d1nD5P.? 46. The Pathfinders Club is made up of “boys and girls aged 10 to 15, from different social classes, color, religion. They meet, in general, once a week to learn to develop talents, skills, perceptions and a taste for nature.” These adolescents “are thrilled with outdoor activities as camping, hiking, climbing, exploring the woods and caves. [...] It is worth mentioning their knowledge of outdoor survival in places that are not easily accessible. They know how to cook outdoors, light a fire without matches, among others.” Besides, they demonstrate “skill with discipline through drill commands and have their creativity awakened by manual arts, and fight the use of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.” Seventh-Day Adventist church (Brazil) website, “¿Quiénes son los Conquistadores?” [Who are the Pathfinders?], accessed on February 20, 2020, http://bit.ly/2TpEBBY.? 47. “The Adventurers Club is a program for children under 10 years old, created by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the USA, in 1972. [...] In 1991, the General Conference authorized it as a world program, establishing its objectives.” Seventh-day Adventist Church (Brazil) website, “Historia” [History], accessed on February 27, 2020, http://bit.ly/2PwNatP.? 48. Ministerio de los Conquistadores y Aventureros DSA [SAD Pathfinders and Adventurers Ministries], “Estadísticas - Misión Sur Metropolitana de Chile” [Statistics - South Metropolitan Chile Mission], accessed on May 14, 2020, https://bit.ly/2LwI91G.? 49. Seventh-day Adventist Online Yearbook, “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” accessed on April 20, 2020, https://bit.ly/2Vp7i48; “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Hagerstown, MD.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2013), 273; “South Metropolitan Chile Mission,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Nampa, ID.: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 2018), 237. For a more detail information about all presidents, secretaries and treasurers in the MCCh history, see the Yearbooks from 2013 to 2018.? 50. More information about South Metropolitan Chile Mission can be found on the Web site: https://msmch.adventistas.org, or on social networks–Facebook: @iasdmsmch, Twitter: @iasdmsmch, and YouTube: iasdmsmch.?

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