President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, Pastor Ted N. C. Wilson, will visit Jamaica this coming weekend, April 11-13, 2025.
The visit, the third since being elected world church president in 2010, is primarily to meet with the Island’s Adventist young people to launch the Youth Ambassador programme.
“We are delighted to have the chief Pastor and President of the Worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Ted Wilson, and his wife, Nancy, in Jamaica,” said Pastor Everett Brown, President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica. “We welcome him as the keynote speaker at the first-ever Ambassador Convention organized by the Youth Department of our church. I am eagerly looking forward to his message on Sabbath, April 12, 2025. I am confident that our young people and the broader leadership members of the church will be inspired and blessed as he urges us to remain focused on the church’s mission.”
Pastor Wilson’s last visit to Jamaica was in February 2019, when Jamaica hosted his team and senior officers from the World Church headquarters and other regional offices worldwide to focus on the church’s health strategies and methods. They also participated in a members’ convention named “Lord Transform Me” at the Montego Bay Convention Centre.
Wilson’s previous visit was in 2012 when he was the main speaker for a convention at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Gymnatorium in Mandeville dubbed “That the World May Know.”
“Pastor Ted Wilson’s visit is critical because the Ambassador Ministry is a comprehensive initiative of the Adventist World Church to address the needs and challenges of youth aged 16 – 21,” said Pastor Dane Fletcher, Youth Ministries Director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica.
“As our world leader, he will emphasize that the Ambassador Ministry is a high priority for the Adventist Church. In line with the Church’s Total Member Involvement strategy, it calls for all members to engage in the widespread efforts of Ambassadors. Since Ambassador Ministry is relatively new, Pastor Ted’s presence signals to youth, youth leaders, and all stakeholders that it is a strategic priority for the leadership of the Adventist Church both in Jamaica and around the globe.”
Pastor Wilson will be accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and other leaders of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
An ordained minister, Wilson holds a doctorate in religious education from New York University, a Master of Divinity from Andrews University, and a Master of Science in public health from Loma Linda University School of Public Health. He speaks French and some Russian in addition to English.
The Adventist Church’s mission emphasizes various aspects of human freedom and responsibility. These include religious liberty and human rights, humanitarian aid and development, better lifestyles, health and wholeness, education and personal growth, social issues, and community involvement.
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He should visit the Cayman islands prison Northward and see the work we are doing there. I am the great grandson of William Daniel Peart, ( see history of West Indies College Now called NCU ) grandson of his eldest daughter Maud Gouldbourne and son the late Lee A Gouldbourne
John Gouldbourne
Victor Dixon ( VICTOR DIXON HIGH SCHOOL ) is family to John Dixon in Troy Trelawny who married to Blanche second daughter of William Daniel Peart and sister to Maud Gouldbourne nee Peart the eldest daughter in Spring Garden The third daughter Sarah Smart of Colleyville Manchester along with the other sisters each donated land and built the SDA church in Troy and in Spring Garden.and in Colleyville Manchester Former Cayman Islands Present Shian O’OConnor was once pastored in the Colleyville Manchester church.