Adventists have the ability to radically transform the Society says NCU President
The benefits and blessings of Adventist Christian Education were evident for everyone to see at the 2017 staging of Education Rally held at the Trench Town SDA Church on Sabbath February 25, 2017. Held under the theme ‘Transformed, Inspired, Soaring to Success’, the rally saw scores of students from Adventist schools across East Jamaica Conference,…
Read MoreInter-America Launches Comprehensive Plan to Certify More Than 30,000 Church Elders
Miami, Florida, United States | Libna Stevens/IAD Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders at the Inter-American Division (IAD) took time last weekend to honor the work of its thousands of church elders who assist pastors in ministering to the 3.7 million members across the vast territory. The live two-hour online program was also a time to launch…
Read MoreIn Jamaica, five deaf persons join the church among dozens baptized
St. Catherine, Jamaica | Charmaine Bailey-Bloomfield/JAMU/IAD Five deaf persons were among the 104 persons baptized during a tent evangelistic series held in Portmore, St. Catherine, in Jamaica, last week. The hard of hearing new members are the first to be baptized since the Church for the Deaf was established at the Portmore Seventh-day Adventist Church…
Read MoreJamaica Union Launches Year of Adventist Christian Education
Mandeville, Manchester: In times of old, many children were expected to attend Christian schools, at least at the primary level, especially as many institutions were aligned to religious denominations; but over the years, this practice has changed and several other factors come into play when parents choose the schools they wish their children to attend.…
Read MoreJustice Minister invites Adventist pastors and teachers to become JP’s
Written by: Phillip E. L. Castell, Director- Communication, Public Affairs & Religious Liberty Minister of Justice Hon. Delroy Chuck and a team from his ministry, addressed pastors and administrators of East Jamaica Conference (EJC) at a Sensitization on Restorative Justice & Mediation seminar held at the Adventist church headquarters on February 16, 2017. The team from his…
Read MoreInter-America prepares for 4th international Pathfinder Camporee
Miami, Florida, United States | Libna Stevens/IAD In less than three months thousands of young people will travel to the Dominican Republic to camp out, meet new friends, learn new skills and be inspired during Inter-America’s fourth territory-wide pathfinder camporee. More than 13,000 young people from the Seventh-day Adventist Church across 24 major church regions…
Read MoreJamaican doctor pioneers disc replacement procedure
A group of doctors has high hopes that an artificial disc, owned exclusively by a Jamaican-born doctor, can be used as a tool to drive medical tourism in Jamaica. The technology was used for the first time in a four-level disc replacement procedure at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew on February 1. The…
Read MoreHagley Park Prep. School stages successful Career Day Expo
Students of Hagley Park Prep. School were given the freedom to dress in the career uniform of their choice for a day and exposed to different career options during their Career Day Expo which was held on the school compound on February 2, 2017. School principal, Dr. Paulene Gayle-Betten was pleased that the school had…
Read MoreYoung man falls in love with the Adventist Church through free literature in an empty church
Beruit, Lebanon | Chanmin Chung, communication coordinator, Middle East and North Africa Union Ahmet was visiting his sick father, who lived in a massive Middle Eastern city where Seventh-day Adventists are not legally allowed to witness in public or distribute literature door-to-door. Although he had never heard of Adventists or visited their church, Ahmet felt…
Read MoreNorthern Caribbean University signs $18.2 million dollar MoU with the government
NCU, Mandeville, Jamaica – Northern Caribbean University has signed an $18.2 million dollar Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of the In-Vitro Propagation of Irish Potato Seed programme. The MoU was signed between Northern Caribbean University, NCU, the Ministry of Industry Commerce Agriculture and Fisheries, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, JSIF, and the Scientific Research…
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