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Preparation in High Gear for the Launch of “That the World May Know”

Posted on Feb 02, 2012

Preparation is in high gear for the launch of the “That the World May Know” programme. Pastor Ted N.C. Wilson, President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, will arrive in the Jamaica on Friday, February 3, 2012 to be the main speaker for the Inter-American of Seventh-day Adventists (IAD) launch of this evangelistic initiative, which will be broadcast globally on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Immediately after their arrival in Jamaica on Friday afternoon, Wilson and his wife Nancy along with other top Adventist leaders from the Adventist World Church and the IAD will do courtesy calls on Governor General, The Most Honourable, Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen, Prime Minister The Most Honourable, Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller and Opposition Leader, The Honourable, Mr. Andrew Holness.

Hotel occupancy in Mandeville will get an extra boost for the weekend, as officials from the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and its 21 Unions located in Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean, the French Antilles as well as Colombia and Venezuela will join thousands of members in Jamaica for the launch at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Gymnatorium on Friday, February 3 to Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Pastor Wilson will also be the main speaker for the 50^th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service for the relocation of the headquarters of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Montego Bay.

“We welcome Elder Wilson on this his first visit to Jamaica,” said Pastor Everett Brown, President of the Adventist Church in Jamaica. “The significance of his visit after just 19 months as the global Adventist head cannot be fully underscored. He wants the membership here and throughout IAD to know that our evangelistic efforts and work in improving the lives of those who live in our communities cannot be accomplished without a close connection with God. I am sure the membership and wider society will benefit from his visit.”

The launch on Saturday will start at 8:45 a.m. with live broadcast on the Adventist-owned Hope Church Channel, Hope Esperanza, NCU TV on Flow Channel 188, and NCU Radio 91.1 and 91.3 FM starting at 10:00 a.m. It will also be webcast live at www.interamerica.org and www.jmunion.org. There will be a delayed broadcast on 3ABN on Saturday from 5 - 8 pm.

Wilson, who turns 62 year old in May this year, has served the Church for the past 37 years in pastoral, administrative and executive positions in the Mid-Atlantic United States, Africa and Russia. He leads the movement of approximately 17 million, which was established in 1863 as a worldwide family of Christian believers. Its presence manifests itself in 209 of the 232 countries recognized by the United Nations with roughly one-third of membership residing in Africa, while another one-third lives in South America and Central America. In composition, 39 percent of Adventists are African, 30 percent Hispanic, 14 percent East Asian, and 11 percent Caucasian. Jamaica has approximately 270 thousand members worshiping in more than 650 congregations