North Minas Mission Facade
North Minas Mission facade. Photo courtesy of North Minas Mission Archives. North Minas Mission LEÔNIDAS VERNEQUE GUEDES, LUCAS VÍTOR ALVES RODRIGUES SENA, AND YANKA DE ARAÚJO PESSOA Leônidas Verneque Guedes Lucas Vítor Alves Rodrigues Sena Yanka de Araújo Pessoa The North Minas Mission (MMN) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of Southeast Brazil Union Conference (USeB). Its head office is located on Geraldina Sarmento Mourão Street, no. 299, Zip Code 39401056, in Jardim São Luís district, in the city of Montes Carlos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The missionary field of MMN covers the cities in the north and northwest regions of the Minas Gerais state. Some of the countries included are Montes Claros, Januária, Unaí, Passos, Paracatu, Janaúba, Salinas, Rio Pardo de Minas, Mirabela, and Grão-Mogol. From 130 counties covered by the North Minas Mission, there’s an Adventist presence in 97 of them. The region’s estimated population is about 2,304,946 people. The Mission counts with 14,826 Adventists spread over 23 pastoral districts with 75 organized churches. In that region, the average is one Adventist per 156 inhabitants.1 The territory counts on an educational entity called the Adventist Academy of Montes Carlos (Eamoc). It is located on Domingos de Souza Guerra Street, at no. 95, São José district, in Montes Carlos, and it currently has 352 enrolled students. To assist the Adventist population of the region, MMN has a staff of 58, 24 of which are employees of the Mission office, two accredited workers, and two licensed workers.
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