The Central American Region is composed of 3 Unions—the Colombian Union, the Central American Union, and the Mexican Union, plus the Venezuelan Field, the Dominican Field, the Haitian Mission, and some other island missions. Doors have also opened now in Cuba; we now have a small group of supporters in Havana and Santiago who have gladly accepted the Reform message.

The Lord has blessed this region with 311 worship places, 5 missionary schools, 4 health institutions, 2 broadcasting institutions, and a school for primary and middle school education. We diligently seek to stand firm to the principles of our faith and to teach them in spirit and in truth.

The bulk of our recent work, however, has consisted of seminars on administration, home and family, doctrine, Sabbath school and missionary work, and of seminars for the workers’ wives.

Challenges are faced by the lack of human and financial resources. Surely now is the time we can echo the words of the pen of Inspiration:

“We must work in prayer and love, with faith and unwearied patience, hoping all things and believing all things, having the wisdom of the serpent and the meekness of the dove, in order to win souls to Christ. . . .

“We are not, as a people, sufficiently aroused to the short time in which we have to work, and we do not understand the magnitude of the work for the time.

“The night soon cometh, in which no man can work. God calls for men and women to qualify themselves, by consecration to His will and earnest study of the Scriptures, to do His special work for these last days. He calls for men now who can work. As they engage in the work in sincerity and humility to do all they can, they will be obtaining a more thorough experience. They will have a better knowledge of the truth and better know how to reach souls and help them just where they need to be helped. Workmen are needed now, just now, to labor for God. The fields are already white for the harvest, and yet laborers are few.”1

“Open new fields, is the word from the Lord, and add to your workers. Educate young men to labor, and tarry not. Educate, educate, educate.”2