Nordic Venezuelans

It is believed that some of the first Nordic people to arrive in Venezuela were Danish Protestant missionaries from the Scandinavian Alliance Mission (SAM) in 1890.

[8][9] An additional small group of Nordic missionaries arrived in the country during the early 20th century; most were Scandinavian by birth or ancestry, and had previously immigrated to the United States.

[17] Christiansen Academy was an international private boarding school in Rubio which was founded in 1951 to serve missionaries' children in South America and the Caribbean.

[18] The first Free Swedish Church missionary arrived in Venezuela by 1898: the Swedish-American David Eduard Finstrom, from Kerkhoven, Minnesota.

[19] They helped establish the Emmanuel - Gott Mit Uns Church in Colonia Tovar,[20] a German settlement.

Other Swedish Americans, such as Wilford Anderson and Alford Bjurlin, developed congregations in the states of Aragua, Carabobo, and Guárico.