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| Today, Brazil has the worlds largest SDA population |
1884: A ship leaves a German paper behind. - A man in Brusque finds it. He notices an address that one can write to for tracts. He does. He uses the tracts to sell for buying alcohol & trades the rest to the grocer more to drink. - Grocer wraps items with tracts which end up in homes. - A buzz was created in town about the Sabbath & several families began observing it.
When SDA colporteurs from the U.S. arrive, they discovered these Sabbath keepers who already existed due to the tracts scattered by the grocer. The colporteurs were Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Thurston. They settled in Rio de Janeiro.
1915: A seminary was established at Sao Paulo.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Revelation 14:6
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| Adventist world church President Ted Wilson poses with a group of volunteers holding copies of The Great Hope, a sharing book based on church co-founder Ellen G. White's classic, The Great Controversy. Wilson led a distribution of 4 million copies of the book in São Paulo. |
