A Two Way Street: Jamaican SDB Pastors in North America, Part 3

A Two Way Street: Jamaican SDB Pastors in North America, Part 3  By Rev. Andrew Samuels   For the past two months, we have published the first two portions of an article written by Rev. Andrew Samuels describing the relationship between the USA/Canada and Jamaican Conferences. This is the third and final installment of that article, continuing in a list of...

A Two Way Street: Jamaican SDB Pastors in North America

A Two Way Street:  Jamaican SDB Pastors in North America

Aug 25, 2014

A Two Way Street: Jamaican SDB Pastors in North America Part 2  By Rev. Andrew Samuels   Last month, we began a series of three articles from Rev. Andrew Samuels detailing the relationship between the SDB Conferences in the USA & Canada and Jamaica.  This is the second of those three articles.  This series will be concluded in next month’s Recorder....

Jamaican SDB Pastors In North America

Jamaican SDB Pastors In North America By Rev. Andy Samuels     Over the last 40 years—approximately the span of a generation—no less than 27 Jamaicans or men of Jamaican descent have served as Pastor, Assistant Pastor, or Associate Pastor of a Seventh Day Baptist Church in North America. That is quite a remarkable occurrence when considered from any...

Correcting Mistakes, Part 3

Correcting Mistakes, Part 3 by Oscar Burdick          Note from Nick: This is the last of three articles correcting significant errors published about English SDB history found in Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Volume 1 and 2, which was published by the General Conference in 1910.        We remind you that a document containing corrections...

Correcting Mistakes, Part 2

Correcting Mistakes, Part 2 by Oscar Burdick Note from Nick: This is the second of three articles begun last month correcting significant errors published about English SDB history found in Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Volume 1 and 2, which was published by the General Conference in 1910. We remind you that a document containing corrections...

Correcting Mistakes, Part 1

Correcting Mistakes, Part 1 by Oscar Burdick   The writing of the English section of Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America1 has been plagued with errors. Once something is published it is easy to assume everything is true! When volumes one and two were published, a review said, “…much critical work [needs] to be done on the English sections.”2 The...