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.
Latoya Smythe-Forbes
Mrs Smythe-Forbes graduated from West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religion and Theology. Since then she had been involved in various areas of ministry, including being a missionary to South Korea, and as a Bible Instructor with CJC in 2014 and 2016. She has, however, never been employed as a Pastor.
“Latoya is a dedicated, hard-working and committed worker”, says Pastor Devon Champier, Senior Pastor of the Asia District, where Latoya has been assigned since October 2016.
CJC 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.…
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