A Strategy For Seventh-day Adventist Public Evangelism Within A Roman Catholic Society Context In Hispanic America

Problem The so-called New School of Integral Evangelism which has been operating in many countries of Hispanic America for the last few years has been demonstrated as quite successful in its evangelistic approach to Roman Catholic Hispanic Americans. To discover the nature of this approach has been the problem under investigation in this project. Method This research is a description of the nature, strategies, and techniques that this particular method uses. This was done mainly by analyzing the San Pedro Sula, Honduras, campaign, which was the first Andrews University School of Evangelism conducted by the author in the summer of 1974. The project was organized in two main parts. The first searched for sociological, historical, and theological foundations for evangelism today in the Hispanic American context. The second part deals with the strategies, methods, and techniques used by the author in his evangelistic approach. Results The computerized results obtained from a questionnaire applied to church members, new converts and evangelistic workers exposed to the author\u27s method, indicated positive approval for this evangelistic approach. At the same time, they suggest some changes that could be made in order to improve its efficacy. While this study does not provide the answer to all the evangelistic problems which might be encountered in Hispanic America, it does open additional area of methodological concerns for further research