An Evangelism Rally, aimed at motivating people in the ten-member islands of the North Caribbean Conference (NCC) of Seventh-day Adventists, including Anguilla, was held here and in the rest of the region on Saturday, September 22.
All the congregations in Anguilla assembled at the Mount Fortune SDA Church where the rally was conducted by Pastor Hesketh Mathew, visiting from the St. Croix-based NCC.
“September 22 is an important day in the life of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the North Caribbean Conference,” he said. “It was an Evangelism Rally hosted by all the churches in the ten members of the Conference.
“The purpose of the rally was to motivate and recruit a larger circle of participants and to outline some of our strategies in further impacting the community both in a humanitarian way, since we are still in the recovery phase of Hurricane Irma and Maria, and also to sensitise people of their greatest need which is a relationship with Jesus.
“The Church has been, since the hurricanes, opening its doors to helping people in a multiplicity of ways – such as building supplies, shelter, food, clothing and other basic needs. But we are also sure that man’s greatest need is a relationship with Jesus.
“We are planning a big evangelism initiative, in 2019, called the North Caribbean Conference Evangelistic Explosion which will be held for two weeks from February 15 to March 2. Two preachers, dynamic men of God, will be coming to Anguilla. They will be preaching at two sites with a target of twelve baptisms per site. In total, there will be 27 sites held around the North Caribbean Conference.
“We are hoping, praying and working that at the end of these two weeks of emphasis around the Conference, early next year, 324 people will be baptised. This is what we are praying and mobilising the Church for.”
During the Evangelism Rally, members of the New Life, Shemei, Jireh, Mount Fortune and the Spanish congregations of the Seventh-day Church, in Anguilla, reported on various activities in which they were engaged during 2018 and their plans for 2019.
