Puebla City, Puebla, Mexico…[Libna Stevens/IAD]
On Jan. 31, 2005, church leaders laid the first stone for what will become the new headquarter office for the church in the Inter-Oceanic Mexican Union territory. The ceremony, which brought World Church President Pastor Jan Paulsen and Inter-American President Pastor Israel Leito among other local church leaders, took place in the City of Puebla, State of Puebla, Mexico.
More than 200 church administrators and members from the field territories were present to witness the ceremony.
The new union office will be located on an 11,700 square-meter property south of Mexico City, where church operations in the union had been led since the union was organized in 2001, according to Pastor Cesar Gomez, president for the church in the Inter-Oceanic Union.
“We are moving closer to our territory of church fields,” says Pastor Gomez. He says the union was using a house converted into an office.
Gomez adds that the construction of the new headquarter office is expected to be completed this summer, and will have room for the more than 35 church workers.
The Inter-Oceanic union is one of three church headquarters in Mexico. The two others are the North and South Mexican Unions. There are more than 157,600 Seventh-day Adventists worshiping in 829 churches in the Inter-Oceanic Mexican region.
