A one-week series of revival services, embracing all five congregations and companies of the Seventh-day Adventist community in Anguilla, ended in a number of baptisms in the indoor baptismal pool at the Mount Fortune Church on Saturday, March 28.
The preacher was Evangelist Andre Johnson of West Jamaica where there is a large following of the Seventh-day Adventist ministry. “I wanted to go to school to study business,” he recalled. “My then supervisor asked me how can I major in business and minor in God? That simple statement spoke a lot to me. I went to school and studied religion, and God just led me straight into the field which was actually waiting for me.”
He studied at the Northern Caribbean University formerly West Indies College. “I have been preaching for the past three years,” he continued. “I have preached in the United States, Canada and here in the Caribbean, and I have done a lot of my crusades back in my homeland, Jamaica.”
Commenting on Anguilla, he said: “My visit here was very, very interesting. There are so many things I enjoyed for the first time. The people on a whole were very friendly, very calm, very relaxed. They love you with a genuine love and very hospitable, and I enjoyed the sacrifice to bring their friends to hear the Gospel. Anguilla is a really nice place.”
Resident Minister, Pastor Trent Berg, commented: “I am excited that we were able to provide this wonderful series of meetings to our community and church family. I know everyone enjoyed the meetings tremendously. It is meetings like these that are intended to warm the heart of each believer – and to encourage our friends to start that walk with God if they had not done so before.
“This was an initiative of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It means that this one week of meetings was being duplicated in all of the islands of the Southern Caribbean, and in the other parts of the Northern Caribbean as well.”
Asked what else was now being planned, he replied: “We are going to start making arrangements to go to Jamaica for Easter 2016,” at the invitation of our fellow Seventh-day Adventists in West Jamaica.”
