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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thompson
¢ Elaine Alice Christensen and Royce
C. Thompson were married in the
Miami Springs Seventh-day Adventist
_ church on December 29, 1953. Both
Elaine and Royce are children of In-
ter-American ~~ Division missionary
families. Elaine is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred L. Christensen of the
Bellavista Hospital in Mayaguez,
Puerto Rico. Royce is the son of
Elder and Mrs. F. S. Thompson of
Port-of- -Spain, Trinidad where Eider
Thompson is president of the Carib-
bean Union.
Prior to Elaine’s marriage she
served as secretary-stenographer in
the Home Missionary and Sabbath
School departments in the Inter-
American Division office.
* A program of progress is under way
at the Central American Vocational
College in Costa Rica under the com-
petent leadership of Professor Manuel
Carballal. The dining room and kit-
chen have been completely reorgan-
ized. Another welcome addition will
be a new bakery which is now under
construction.
¢ The Moztemorelos Vocational and
Professional Uollege in Mexico has
INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION
MESSENGER
ARTHUR H. ROTH, Editor
GLENN CALKIN Associate Editor
DOROTHY EATMERSON weeernn Associate Editor
Correspondents
Antillian Union ...... . Sylvia Powers
British West Indies Union Pear! Nation
Caribbean Union . ..... ........... joe Emmerson
Central American Union _....... Nell Gordon
Colombia-Venezuela Union
Mexican Union
Published monthly as the Official Organ of the
Inter-American Division of the General Con-
ference of Seventh-day Adventists, Box 228,
Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
Price : 30 cents a year
Printed at Caribbean Training wolege,
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, B.W.1.
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New Inter-American Workers
We take joy in announcing the
arrival of three new workers|to join
the working force of the] Inter-
American Division.
We introduce to you: Repert A.
Hamm from Orlando, Florida, who
with his family has recently ¢ome to
Inter-America to serve in the Colom-
bia-Venezuela Union as eyangelist
and district worker on the island of
Aruba in the Netherlands West Indies
Mission.
Robert A. Hamm and family.
To join our Bella Vista Hospital
staff at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, two
families have recently arrived, They
Jafeth A. Rogers and family.
are: Jafeth A. Rogers and family and
Ernest W. Estey and family who will
be serving our new medical institu-
tion as technicians.
Ernest W. Estey and family.
198 students matriculated for the
present year. Of this number, 120
are dormitory students. The fourth
class of nursing students graduated
from the Montemorelos School of
Nursing at which time six young la-
dies received their diplomas.
© Farm manager, 'M. A. Martin, of
the Pacific Agricultural and Industrial
School in Navajoa, Mexico, reports
120 acres of wheat being harvested,
120 acres are now in melons and
other truck crops, and 200 acres of
cotton will be planted this spring.
¢ Twenty-seven seniors received their
diplomas at the commencement ser-
vice at the West Indian Training Col-
lege in Jamaica, on December 20.
Fifteen hundred friends were present
in the recently completed chapel of
the new administration building as
Doctor Clifford Anderson from Wash-
ington D.C. delivered the commence-
ment address.
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MV WEEK
March 6 — 13, 1954
Missionary Volunteer Week,
observed each vear in March,
has grown to be perhaps the
| greatest evangelistic effort held |
at any one time by the church.
The fruitage of this week testi-
fies to its effectiveness. In 1953
the conversions totaled 5,524.
I Of these 5,524 young people
2,395 were baptized, and the
remaining 3,129 joined baptis-
mal classes.
May God make this Mission-
ary Volunteer Week of Prayer,
March 6-13, the occasion for a
mighty outpouring of His Spirit.
PLAN NOW for
Missionary Volunteer Week
Every Society—Every Member
— Participating
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