400 Baptized And Two
New Churches
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 26 more
individuals were baptized bring the total baptisms to 400. This brings to end the very successful and
the largest evangelist campaign ever held in the Bahamas. Two new
churches were formed with Pastor Sturrup and Rolle as the pastors Below
are photos of some of the charter members. Pastor Sturrup will pastor
(along with Centreville Church) the Gambia Seventh-day Adventist Church.
They will worship in a government school. Pastor Rolle will pastor
the Thompson Boulevard Seventh-day Adventist Church. They will worship
in a rented hall off Thompson Boulevard.
- Opening Night Began with An Explosion
- The Let God Speak Bible Campaign opened on Saturday
night (September 13, 2003) with an explosion of the Holy Spirit. More than
3,500 visitors and members packed the two tents and even sat in their cars
to listen to the dynamic Evangelist Guy Nembhard. The following day
another tent was pitched to meet the needs of the growing crowd.
Evangelist Nembhard kept the attention of the large crowd as he presented
the message. There were more than one thousand visitors
attending. You can hear
the sermons online.
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- Dress Rehearsal
Tonight at the Big Tent
Tonight,
hundreds of Adventist members and leaders will meet under two colorful
tents for the dress rehearsal for the big opening night, Saturday at
7:30. Excitement is in the air as members work together to put the
finishing touches.
More than two thousand five
hundred chairs will be set up under the tents. There will be a one
hundred-voice choir and lots of great music. There is ample parking for
hundreds of cars.
- LIVE TRANSLATION
For the first time in the Adventist church
in the Bahamas, there will be live 
translation
from English to Creole during the meetings. Pastor Edward St. Fleur, the
pastor for three Haitian churches in Nassau, will use a low-powered FM
translation device that allows each listener to use a regular FM radio.
There are more than two thousand Adventist Haitians living on the island
of New Providence and are all looking forward to hearing the message
in their own language.
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- CONTINUOUS POWER
- Not only will there be an ever-ready,
continuous flow of the power of the Holy Spirit during the Let God Speak
Bible Campaign, there will also be a continuous flow of electrical
power,
thanks to our new 25 Kilowatts Olympus Generator. This generator was
purchased by the Bahamas Conference due to the great difficulty and cost
of obtaining temporary power supply.
At the beginning of the week
for the tent preparation, Christiaan and Nadine Sawyer, members of the
Hillview Seventh-day Adventist Church, were attending a crusade rally at
Hillview Church and heard the appeal of Pastor Leonard Johnson for
prayers of members for God to open a way for electrical power to be supplied.
This impressed the Sawyers to lend their 25 kilowatts generator to temporally
supply the power needed for workers making preparation during night time.
The Sawyers are owners of a
very successful business called SunRyse Shredding Services Mobile Document
Destruction Company. This is the only company in Nassau specializing in
the secure destruction of all types of company information contained on paper,
video, or any computer media such as CDs or floppy disks. SunRyse business is
conducted each day in the back of a giant enclosed truck equipped with the
shredding equipment and a 25 kilowatts generator to run the business. This was
the first time the Sawyers used the equipment for electrical power.
There power supply, along with the new generator, will provide even more
back-up power during the crusade. The Sawyers can be contacted at chris.sawyer@coralwave.com
or 1-242-322-6448
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- SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS
- On Sabbath afternoon (September 13, 2003)
thousands of Adventists will go to the streets to give out the last flyers before
the grand opening. Click HERE to seek the flyer being given out. Click her
to see the ad in the Friday’s Nassau Guardian
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