The origin of the Adventist University of Central America dates back to 1925 when the Seventh-day Adventist Church established a school in the community of the Cascades, district of Pedregal, in the capital of Panama City. Worth remembering Pastor William Baxter who proposed the foundation of a house, high school gradually grow and come to life and become a column for the education and training of enthusiastic American youths. With simple but clinging to the arm of Omnipotence faith start is given to that dream with a meaningful ceremony in which singing and prayer were mixed, emotion and joy, boldness and confidence, the ideal and the win. "School for Spanish Youth Speaks": thus bringing the institution with the descriptive name.