Seventh-day Adventist Church

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These people are active in my little town of Orosi, Costa Rica. I frequently see them standing by their rack of free literature. As you can see from the Wikipedia article, they are successful - judging them by almost any standard.

What was interesting to me, was that my family's RLDS church, and the Seventh Day Adventists, were formed at the same time (the 1860s). The RLDS failed, but they succeeded.

They are part of the Evangelical movement, that is common throughout Central America. In the last Presidential elections in Costa Rica, an Evangelical candidate won 40% of the vote. Because he opposed same-sex marriages, and abortions.

They are conservative (in the American sense of the word) and receive generous economic support from their American churches.