Guyana Seventh Day Adventists to convene quadrennial conference

Apr 18, 2015 News

The Guyana Conference of Seventh Day Adventist will be convening their fifth quadrennial session at the Central Seventh Day Adventist Church, on Oronoque Street. The conference will commence on April 22 and conclude April 25; opening ceremony will begin at 15:00hrs.
At the sessions officers will be elected as President, Secretary, Treasurer and other department Executives. Directors and administrators are expected to give reports on the previous four years. Delegates are expected to represent their respective Adventist churches from around Guyana.
Among the guests expected at the opening ceremony are President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar and outgoing Prime Minister, Hon Samuel Hinds.
Every day there will be a devotional speaking. These devotions will be done by Dr. Lael Caesar; associate editor of the Adventist Review, and Dr. Horatious Gittens; Pastor in California.
Press and publicity representative of the conference, Fenton Park gave a brief history on Adventism. He said that the church humbly began in 1883. It was founded by W.J Boynton, who gave a bond of tracts “Signs of the Time” to a sea captain. The bond was thrown off at a wharf in Georgetown.
It was then picked up by a stevedore worker, who took it to his home. After some time neighbors found it amiss that the worker was out of sight for days, they went to his home where he was found ill. It was then that they discovered the tracts, which was then taken to their houses.
The neighbors who were all women began studying the tracts as well as sharing them with family and friends. Adventism became a reality and began expanding into a multi cultural, multi ethnic religious organization.
“We have approximately 50,000 members and 216 congregational gatherings throughout the length and breadth of Guyana” boasted Park. He added that there is a worldwide organization present in every country that is recognized by the United Nations.
“As a church we operate schools from elementary to university.” One, a university, is the Andrews University which is recognized as one of the top ten in the United States of America. In Guyana, the University of Southern Caribbean with headquarters in Trinidad is another one of the existing Adventist Universities.
The church also operates hospitals around the world and health clinics. Davis Memorial is one such hospital known in Guyana. The hospital which has been in existence for over 60 years is located in Durban Backlands, Lodge.
Senior citizens’ homes in Guyana, one namely is the Millicent Graves Citizens home also in D’Urban Backlands, Lodge.
As part of the health message the Seventh Day Adventist tries to encourage people to eat healthy food, so that the total man can be satisfied. He further added that, Guyana Adventist Medical Aviation Services (GAMAS) medivacs injured people from the hinterland area.

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