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t Sam & Carmen Reid Clarence Samuel Reid was a distinguished minister of the Jamaica Baptist Union, a statesman whose ministry traversed the landscape of both church and state. Born in Dumphries, St. James, on July 7, 1936, Reid received his early education at the Unity Primary School. In 1953, while he was still a teenager, he was admitted for ministerial training and formation at Calabar Theological College where he excelled as a student.    On September 10, 1960, he and Carmen Charlotte Reeves were married and they remained partners in the service of God’s church and world for the rest of their life. The union produced two children, Susan and David. From Calabar, Reid went to the prestigious Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. In January 1962, a few months after his graduation from Regent’s Park, Reid started serving as pastor at the Moss Side Baptist Church (now called Trinity Community Church) in Manchester, England, where several of the church members had roots...