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PRESENT MINISTRIES

The church, started by Free Methodists who emigrated from the Dominican Republic, is now crossing cultural barriers to reach Puerto Rican families. The Barrio Obrero FMC in the capital city, San Juan, is the fastest-growing FM church in Latin America. It is reaching people island-wide through radio, television and evangelistic campaigns. The work includes a small FM church in St. John’s Antigua, an island in the Caribbean Sea, 300 miles east of Puerto Rico.

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.