Adventist Church in Haiti Struggles to Rebuild After Hurricane Matthew
Port Salut, Haiti | Libna Stevens/IAD Five months after Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti’s southern peninsula, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is still trying to cope with helping members restore their lives and rebuild dozens of churches. Pastor Jean Mathieu Mitchel, executive secretary of the church in South Haiti, says thousands of church members were affected by…
Read MoreEJC Communicators set to play critical role in massive Conference Wide Evangelistic Campaign in June of this year
More than ninety communicators from forty six churches in East Jamaica Conference participated in the 2017 Communication Retreat which saw communicators participating in practical hands on training to do live video streaming in preparation for a massive Conference wide evangelistic campaign set to begin in June later this year. This was the second Communication Retreat…
Read More‘Doctor’ In Waiting … Blind Senator Floyd Morris Nears PhD After Leaving High School Without A Subject
In a story of triumph over adversity, blind senator, Floyd Morris, who left St Mary High School 31 years ago without having a single subject in an external exam, is celebrating the successful defence of his thesis for a doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree. With the passing of the oral examination yesterday, the former senate…
Read MoreCJC EMPLOYS ITS FIRST FEMALE PASTOR
For the first time in its 66 years of operation, the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (CJC) has voted to employ a female Pastor. At the meeting of the Conference’s Executive Committee on the 15th February, 2017, members voted to employ Mrs Latoya Smythe-Forbes as the Assistant Pastor of the Asia District of Churches.…
Read MoreOutstanding Five Year Old Awarded Scholarship to Kingsway Prep. School
The Trench Town SDA Church erupted in appreciation when Dr. Donna Brown, Education Director in East Jamaica Conference, shared the good news that five year old Dakarai Williams of Trench Town SDA Basic School, would be awarded a scholarship to attend Kingsway Prep. School at the beginning of the next school year. The scholarship was…
Read MoreAdventists 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…
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