Mandeville, Jamaica…Nigel Coke Jamaica Union through its Conferences and Institutions are mourning the passing of former director, Pastor Claude Plummer. Pastor Plummer passed away on January 23, 2023, at the Falmouth hospital in Trelawny. He was 93. “Pastor Plummer gave long and distinguished Christian service to the West Jamaica Conference and the West ...
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Mandeville, Jamaica…Nigel Coke Vice President and Administrative Field Secretary of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists (IAD), Dr. Balvin Braham, was hailed as a leader extraordinaire by the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during its Year-end Meetings on November 29 & 30, 2022, held at the Union’s Headquarters in Mandeville, Jamaica. In ...
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Twenty-two years ago, when then-students of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Omar Oliphant and Sharette Kirby, met on the Adventist campus in Jamaica, little did they know that a life of service would evolve into a marriage giving birth to the first Adventist pastoral attorney couple. On December 15, 2022, ...
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When Shirley Richardson-Thomas isn't busy mentoring youth, the 83-year-old is drilling and marching or engaging in camp activities in her role as a master guide in the Seventh-day Adventist Pathfinder Club. A sash of honours slung across her chest symbolises her completion in studies such as planets, the constellation, music, ...
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The Pathfinder youth development group is on a mission to improve the lives of youngsters, using suitable resources at the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists' fifth Pathfinder Camporee, scheduled for April, to combat the current challenges they endure. Addressing this week's Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange, officials of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in ...
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THE Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica is touting its flagship youth ministry, Pathfinder, as a transformational development programme that has made tangible positive changes in the lives of thousands of young people. Speaking at this week's Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange, Pastor Joel Jump, youth ministries director for the East Jamaica Conference ...
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Five years after Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Pastor Omar Oliphant was called to the bar, his wife, Sharette (nee Kirby), has followed in his footsteps, overcoming pandemic hurdles to form a husband-and-wife lawyer couple. “The truth is, it really does bring excitement; I feel very good, I feel more proud of ...
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