East Jamaica Conference

Communication Department

74 Constant Spring Road P.O. Box 181 Kingston 10 Jamaica W.I. Tel:(876) 924-1061-3, Fax (876) 924-0263. E-Mail: ejccommunication@ejcsda.com website: http://ejcsda.com

March 20, 2014

To: All Pastors, Elders, Leaders and Church Members Sincere Christian greetings! Please see important dates and events of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists below.

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MM 14 Evangelistic series Notice from the Secretariat

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Notices from the Youth's Ministries Department Notices from the Children's Ministries Department Notices from the Women's Ministries Department Notices from the Sabbath School / Personal Ministries / Comm. Services Department Notice from the Ministerial Department Notices From the Health Ministries Department Notices from the Education Department Notices from the Communication Department Schedule of Upcoming Conference Dates and Events

(1) MM 14 Building Stronger Self, Families and Relationships & MM 14 Impacting Lives for Christ series The Metro Mission 14 Evangelistic Campaign Building stronger self, families and relationships with Dr. Alanzo Smith is approaching the end of the third week at Barbican Square. So far 88 precious souls have been baptized. Click here for story and photos. The series continues in the Square Sunday through to Thursday starting at 7:00 p.m and on Sabbaths at 9:15 a.m. The MM 14 Impacting Lives for Christ Campaign with Pastor Clive Dottin is also doing well and continues at the open lot beside the Hagley Park SDA church Sundays through to Wednesdays and Fridays starting at 7:00 p.m and on Sabbaths at 9:15 a.m. Please continue to pray for and support these campaigns. (2) Notice from the Secretariat An usher training and seminar will be held on Sunday March 30, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. -12 noon. Venue- EJC Board room. This will also include the formation of the EJC usher team. All churches are invited to send 3 ushers to this training exercise. -1-

(3) Youth Ministries Department 1. GLOBAL YOUTH DAY: Once again the great army of youth in EJC has proven beyond all doubts that they have a genuine passion for mission. From what I have observed the youth were motivated in putting a smile on the faces of some of the most vulnerable in our society...From children & golden age homes to Bellevue Hospital; from donating blood to conducting several health clinics; marching bands and distribution of care packages etc...But I just want to say THANK YOU all...Thanks to the 4 drum corps including Mr. Daley & the Boys Brigade, singers, AHVA volunteers, the Blood Bank, Mr. Wedderburn, Nationwide Insurance Co., Andrea Drysdale & son; Stacy & team, EJC Communication Team, Dr. Donna Brown, Pastor Paul Bailey, Zones 1-4, TVJ, NCU Media Group, KSAC, the police, youth leaders, youth, drivers & participating churches...Keep up the great job guys...Our GOD is AWESOME!!! Please see Department report on our website. Story and Photos can also be viewed by clicking this link.

2. BASIC STAFF TRAINING PROGRAMME: This course is a prerequisite to the Master Guide, Senior Youth Leader and Drill Instructor Programmes. It begins on March 23, 2014 and will run for two weeks. All other training programmes will start on April 13, 2014. If you did the BST Programme within the last three (3) years you are exempted. All training (Zones 1-3) commences at 9:00 am and will be held at Kencot. Trainees MUST be recommended by their church board. 3. EXTENSION: Youth Congress 2014-Guatemala The deadline for registration has been extended to March 31, 2014. Registration cost $US 80.00. 5. EJC HONOURS COMMITTEE: assistance will be provided by the Honours Committee. The deadline to make submission for assistance for your club is March 30, 2014. Early Bird Honours submission has been rescheduled. The new date is Sunday May 4, 2014. Exams for these honours will be held on Sunday May 25, 2014. Folders MUST be submitted on the same date. Sign Language Honour requirements: 1. Know the Sign Language alphabets 2. Know the Pathfinder Song and be able to sign the song Draw Me Close to You. 3. Complete a one page written report on a school that specializes in educating the hearing impaired. Note: a practical examination will be given for this honour. 6. PATHFINDER JAMBOREE 2014, Camp Verley, St. Catherine (APRIL 17-21): All Pathfinder Clubs get ready to spend your Easter Weekend with hundreds of youth from Jamaica Union @ Pathfinder Jamboree 2014. COST: Only $ 3,500.00 (includes a T-Shirt). Tents are available for rent at a reduced pricesend your request NOW!!! N.B: Please note that while the books for Bible Boom are the Minor Prophets, for the Bible Boom at Jamboree it is the first three books - Hosea, Joel and Amos. For the juniors, it is 2 Samuel and St. Mark. 7. BIBLE BOOM 2014: The Books to be studied are Hosea-Micah.The I.A.D Bible Boom Finals will be held in Guatemala during the Youth Congress instead of December. 8. 13th YOUTH & CHILDRENS MISSION TRIP TO BELIZE- July 24 August 18, 2014. Interested youth please contact the Children or Youth Ministries Department at East Jamaica Conference. Registration closing SOON!!! -2-

(4) Notices from the Childrens Ministries Department

1. The Childrens Ministries department will be having its Lap-a-thon on Friday, May 23, 2014. The laps will be done at Emancipation Park between 6 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Proceeds will be in aid of ASI/IAD Belize Mission 2000 & Beyond and Walkers Childrens Home. Childrens Ministries team members we need your help for this project. 2. CMDs get ready for our District Bible Spell-a-thon activity. Remember a boy and a girl is needed for each category. 3. The Childrens Ministries department, led by the Johnson Town Church will be having a fund raising fish fry on Thursday, June 5, 2014. Proceeds will be in aid of the ASI/IAD Belize Mission 2000 & Beyond and Walkers Childrens Home. Contact your Childrens Ministries director or the zone coordinator, Sis. Winsome Martin for tickets. 4. EJC Childrens first choir session will be held on March 22, 2014 @ 3:30 p.m. in the EJC Board room. CM Directors, kindly send us the names and telephone numbers of the parent/ guardian. 5. The office is now accepting orders for VBS materials and certificates.
(5) Womens Ministries Department

1. Our Mother Daughter Affair will be held on Sunday April 27, 2014. The contribution per duo is $ 2,000. WMDs you are asked to send in the list of names with at least 50% deposit for each pair by Monday, March 31, 2014. Our main presenter will be Shepherdess L. Brown. Two of our sectional speakers will be Shepherdesses Belinda McAnuff and Ann Marie Williams. 2. EJC HEART/ NTA Soft Skills The closing exercise has been rescheduled for April 20, 2014 beginning at 3:30 p.m. 3. Our Girls of Eloquence Morals and Standards one hour monthly rap session will be held on March 29, in the EJC board room. Our presenter will be Shepherdess, Sis. Norma Griffiths. GEMS remember the session begins at 3:00 p.m. 4. Girls of Eloquence Morals and Standards (GEMS) anniversary will be held on Sabbath, April 26, 2014, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Our speaker will be Dr. Grace Kelly. Venue -Half Way Tree Church. 5. WMDs please put on notice all the females in your church as you plan for a special IMAP treat especially for the non SDA spouses in June 2014. 6. Coming soon! Rejuvenation and re-tooling. Everyone is invited- man, woman and child. Save for this never to be forgotten, memorable re fuelling occasion. Ladies celebrate with your mates, family, children and non SDA friends as well as use this as another special IMAP treat. Get ready for October 2014 retreat. We need your suggestions for the venue which should include complimentary passes for children under 12 years old. We will shave off the formality so we can spend this time relaxing. Below is our week end guide. -3-

Thursday & Friday- depart Kingston (personal time) Friday - Personal time Vesper - Gather at the seaside for sunset Sabbath- Morning service 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Vesper Seaside Sunday/ Monday - ME TIME or departure

(6) Notices from the Sabbath School / Personal Ministries / Comm. Services Department

1. March 22, 2014 Sabbath School Community Relations Day. 2. March 23, 2014 Community Services monthly meeting in the EJC chapel at 10 a.m. 3. Zone 4 LEA, Sabbath School & Personal Ministries Convention March 29 at the Morant Bay SDA Church at 9 a.m. 4. The 2014-2015 Ambassador search continues. We are encouraging all churches to have the juniors, teens and youth, (ages 13-22 years) participate in this programme. Application & prerequisite forms are available online and at the EJC office. Registration closes March 28, 2014. Registration fee is two hundred dollars ($200). 5. The Zones 1-3 Sabbath School meeting scheduled for Sunday, March 30, 2014 will instead be held on April 6, 2014 SS/PM General Departmental Workshops - Zones 1-3 (Kingston & St. Andrew) in the EJC boardroom at 9:00 a.m & April 13 at 10 a.m for Zone 4 (St. Thomas). All Sabbath School personnel are invited to attend, especially teachers, in preparation for Sabbath School teacher certification in October 2014. 6. Senior Citizens bi-monthly meeting will be held on April 27, 2014 at the EJC office at 1 pm.

(7) Notice from the Ministerial Department

To All Pastors, Elders, Family Life Leaders and Church Clerks Dear Friends, Christian Greetings! Kindly be advised that the couples convention that is scheduled to take place April 12, 2014 will not be carried through at the Conference level. This is due to various factors; the main one being the Metro Mission 2014 (MM14) activities across the Conference. We truly regret this announcement at such a critical time, especially when a number of couples are having spousal challenges. However, we are inviting the churches (as many as possible) to recognize the couples on this day during the divine hour service. You may also want to invite the couples for recommitment and offer a special prayer on their behalf. May God continue to bless you all. Yours truly, Glenville Carr, Pastor Prayer Coordinator -4-

(8) Notices from the Health Ministries Department 1. Kindly take note of the following Stewardship dates: a. Stewardship Week April 19-26, 2014 b. Stewardship Convention May 3, 2014 c. Stewardship Training for Pastors May 5, 2014 (IAD,JAMU) 2. The Ministerial Department in collaboration with the Health Ministries Department of East Jamaica will conduct a Medical Missionary Training for Pastors An Introduction to Health Evangelism. The Programme will be conducted every Thursday in May Dates: May 1st , 5th 20th 22nd and June 5th. . The venue will be East Jamaica Conference Boardroom beginning at 9:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Please register now: - Hydrotherapy and Nutrition, Vegetarian Cooling, Anatomy and Physiology, Herbal Remedies, Gods Healing Programme, Health Evangelism, Health Reform, Basic First Aid. These are some of the topics to be presented. 3. 5K Run/Walk and Childrens Fun Day June 1, 2014.

(9) Notices from the Education Department

1. The Kingsway Kindergarten and Preparatory School Association will be hosting a fundraising event at the Little Theatre on April 3, 2014. Please see flyer below. 2. Kindly note contact information for the East Jamaica Conference Preparatory Schools and Kingsway High School along with the tuition cost per term.
School: Address: Principal: Tel.: Email:

Kingsway High
10-12 Osbourne Road, Kgn. 5 Mr. Jaron Whitely (926-2379 school) (kingswayhighandprep@gmail.com) (jaronwhitely@yahoo.com - personal)

Tuition:

$36,500.00 Per Term

School: Kingsway Prep. Address: 10-12 Osbourne Road, Kgn. 5 Vice Principal: Mrs. Kaydene Pusey-Bernard Tel.: (926-2379) school (845-1026/527-4830) personal Email (kingswayhighandprep@gmail.com) school (chappa_kay@yahoo.com) personal

Tuition:
School: Address: Principal: Tel.: Email:

$36,450.00 Per Term

Miramar Kinder-Prep.
2 Miramar Drive, Morant Bay Mr. F. E. Bingahm (410-5176) personal (emanubing@yahoo.com)personal

Tuition:

$13,000.00 Per Term

School: New Hope Prep. Address: 56 James Street, Kingston Principal: Mr. Lambert Forrest Tel.: (922-6507) school (833-1797/756-9430) personal Email: (newhopeprep@yahoo.com) school (forrest.lambert@gmail.com) personal

Tuition:
School: Address: Principal: Tel.: Email: Woodford Prep. Woodford P.O., St. Andrew Mr. Dave McNeish (323-9512) personal (dashie2006@yahoo.com) School: Address: Principal: Telephone: personal Email: Tuition :

$26,000.00 Per Term

Hagley Park Prep. 171Hagley Park Road, Kingston 11 Mrs. Elyn Spence 923-9507 school, 527-4824/9819805 (hagleyparkprep@yahoo.com) school (elyn.spence@gmail.com) personal $21, 000 Per Term

Tuition:

$10,000.00 Per Term

3. Education Week is to be held May 5-10 and Education Day on May 10, 2014
"In the school of Christ, students are never graduated. .......Those who give heed to the instructions of the divine Teacher constantly advance in wisdom, refinement, and nobility of soul, and thus they are prepared to enter that higher school where advancement will continue throughout eternity."
Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students pg. 40

(10) Communications Department

1. Explaining The Difference between ejcsda.com and metromission14.com websites

Just So you Know. We have been reliably informed that persons are not aware that the Conference currently maintains two different websites one being ejcsda.com and the other being metromission14.com. ejcsda.com is our regular website which carries news, photos, promotions etc about general Conference events. Information relating to the departments of our church, Sabbath School material, finding our churches and pastors and linkages with other Conferences and institutions, are all easily found at this website. If one goes to any search engine on the web such as Google and type in "ejcsda.com" you would find yourself right there. The website can also be easily reached by clicking here. The other website which we started to maintain from late last year is metromission14.com. This website speaks only to the metromission14 (MM14) events and will therefore carry information about the MM14 events, the speakers, news as well as photos relating to MM14. If you go to the google search engine and type "metromission14.com", it will take you right there. That website can also be reached by clicking here. The idea behind having a separate website was to provide one location where all information relating to metromission14 could be found. Since ejcsda.com is the parent website and have significantly more visitors to the site, we created a link on the front page of that site so that persons who visit the Conference website could easily migrate to the metromission14 site. That link is found on the sixth banner of the ejcsda.com webpage. If you go to the ejcsda.com website and wait for the web banners to move to the sixth one, if you click on the banner where it says "click here", you will automatically find yourself on the metromission14 website. If you go there (metromission14.com) and click on the "photos" tab at the top left hand corner, you will probably see images of past MM14 events that you have never seen before. Sorry for the long explanation, but I think it is well worth it. If you took the time to read this and found that it helped, feel free to share this information with others.

2. Communication Workshop for 2014 (Zone 1-3). A must for communication personnels ! A
Communication Workshop for will be held this Sunday for Zones 1 - 3 at the East Jamaica Conference Board Room. The workshop will begin at 9:00 am and will cover the areas of Church Website Administration, News Writing and Sound Equipment. We use this opportunity to invite all members of the Communication Team (Audio Visual & Sound Technicians) of every church to be in attendance.

3. Elders' Certification Training on April 13, 2014 at the EJC Board Room. 4. Latest News. The Communication Department have stepped up the pace of news writing in recent
times. The result of this is that more news items are being posted than ever before. We invite you to -6-

visit this section of website for the latest news. Four news items were written in the past, click here to see if you knew about any of these events before reading it on the Latest News. Click Here.

(11) Schedule of Upcoming Conference Dates and Events

Dates
Mar 15 - 22 March 22 March 22 March 23 March 29 April 6 April 6 April 13 April 17 - 21 April 19 - 26 April 27 April 27

Event
Youth Week of Prayer Education Rally Sabbath School Community Relations Day Communication Workshop - Zones 1 - 3 LEA/SS & Personal Ministries Convention Zone 4 Sabbath School / Personal Ministries General Departmental Workshop - Zones 1-3 Drama of the Ages Countdown Sabbath School / Personal Ministries General Departmental Workshop - Zone 4 JAMU Pathfinder Jamboree Stewardship Week Mother Daughter Affair Senior Citizens Bi-monthly meeting

Location
All Churches ST. Thomas Every Church EJC Board Room Morant Bay EJC boardroom Pembrook Hall Community Centre Morant Bay SDA Church Camp Verely All Churches EJC

Phillip E. L. Castell Communication Director

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