2010 Missions Prayer Calendar

Cuba: A New Addition to Our Global Family

By Dr. H. C. Wilson, GP General Director

I recently returned from Cuba where I visited with a group with whom we have had intermittent contact over the last few years through former GP missionary Rod Guptill and Yuri Benitez, a Cuban American Wesleyan church planter from the Iowa/Minnesota District. The leader of the group, Rev. Nehemias Cardenas, attended a meeting of our Ibero-America area leaders in Panama a few months ago. That was my first time to meet him. Rev. Luis Azofeifa, the Costa Rican national superintendent, had been to Cuba earlier on an exploratory trip and was in Cuba while I was there.

I am pleased to announce that this group of 18 churches, 19 preaching points, and 24 missions, with a total membership of circa 3000, is now a part of the global family of The Wesleyan Church. Pictured here is the congregation at the annual conference held in the church at La Quinta. Please thank the Lord for this new addition to our family and remember to pray for them in their ministry.