Pray For
- good health for pastors and ministry candidates who are suffering from diabetic naturopathy and kidney problems
- realization of the vision to reach the unreached
- the conference to reach other people outside the metropolitan area of San Juan
- the church in Antigua
- wisdom for Superintendent Mercedes as she leads the conference and a local church
- new church-planting initiatives beginning with new Houses of Peace
PRESENT MINISTRIES
The Free Methodist Church in Puerto Rico has a vibrant, apostolic outreach to the community through street ministry, radio and other forms of evangelism. This conference is self-sustaining and continuing to grow, with four new community churches opening in Antigua at the end of 2021. Pastora Mercedes Reynoso is serving her fourth term as superintendent. One of the churches recently acquired property that is being transformed into a training and retreat center.
ORIGINS
Citizens of the Dominican Republic immigrated to Puerto Rico in large numbers for economic reasons. In 1967 a Dominican pastor and his wife, Manuel and Joaquina García, began holding services for their fellow countrymen in their home. Two years later, this church in the capital city of San Juan was officially organized.
Country Leader
Superintendent Mercedes Reynoso
Puerto Rico Annual Conference
COUNTRY STATISTICS
Annual Conference
- Population: 3,328,930 (93.59% urban)
- Evangelical Christians: 32.76%
- FM Work Opened: 1967
- FM Churches: 7
- Houses of Peace: 15
- FMC Membership: 926
- Ordained Ministers: 22
- Ministerial Candidates: 26
- Superintendent: Mercedes Reynoso
- Ecclesiastical Accountability: FMWM through Latin America Area Director, Dr. Ricardo Gómez
Major City
- San Juan: 2 million
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Join the ministry in Puerto Rico / Antigua
Church Planting & Development
Support for Puerto Rico Church Planting and Development (CPD) will help resource the following people and strategic initiatives:
- Pastor Mercedes Reynoso who pastors the largest church and serves as superintendent of the provisional conference (She is uniquely gifted in mentoring leaders and effective evangelism.)
- Radio, TV and evangelistic campaigns reaching thousands of people all over the island with the gospel
- The Barrio Obrero FMC as it continues to proclaim words of hope to some of the most problematic strata of Puerto Rican life and as it ministers among those living in the housing projects
- Preparation of new ministerial candidates and multiplication of new churches
- Effective discipleship of new believers and effective development of new leaders