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October 2008 News

Mission Trip to the Berry Islands

            On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 the President of the Adventist Church in the Northern Bahamas, Pastor E. Bryan Tinker along with the Executive Secretary, Pastor M. A. Smith and the Personal Ministries Director, Pastor Henry Moncur travelled to the Berry Islands to establish the nucleus of a congregation and Branch Sabbath School on Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands. 

            The Mission officials met with a group of Seventh-day Adventist believers and began the process of organizing and structuring them into a fellowship of worshippers. There are at present about 15 persons who will meet for bible study, Sabbath School lesson review, prayer, worship and fellowship. Those present at the meeting were challenged to consistently witness for Jesus Christ, maintain the Adventist lifestyle of Christianity and to increase their numbers so that during 2009 they could be fully organized into a church. The Mission is committed to servicing, nurturing and developing our brothers and sisters living in the Berry Islands.

The Berry Islands have "a land mass totaling only about a dozen square miles, these cays rest on the eastern edge of the Great Bahama Bank, starting with Great Stirrup Cay and extending to Chub Cay in the south, the largest of them is Great Harbor Cay at 8,300 acres. The Berry Islands lie some 132 miles east of Miami (one hour by a small plane) and 30 miles northwest of Nassau (20 minutes by air). The population is about 800 persons." This chain of islands is often referred to as "The Fish Bowl of the Bahamas".