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David Aaron Morgan: A Man for Whose Gifts God Generously Provided Employment

David Aaron Morgan The fourth son of Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Morgan; David Aaron Morgan was born in Corn Island, on March 13, 1904. At that time, Corn Island was not yet a municipality of Nicaragua; it was a part of Mosquitia. When his beloved pastor Rev. E. B. James died, Morgan experienced a spiritual awakening and he was baptized by Rev. George Stone on March 30, 1923, in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which had been formed in 1852 under the leadership of Rev. Edward Kelly from British Honduras (now, Belize). Morgan commenced his working life as a fisherman but soon decided that being a minister of the Gospel was part of God’s plan for his life. Morgan took the bold step of making his way to Jamaica and turning up at Calabar College, and, without appointment, presented himself to the College principal and tutor, asking for an audience. Ernest Price and David Davis were stunned to learn from the young visitor, whom they found in the waiting room at Calabar, ...

George Liele : Revisiting the Story of a Baptist Pioneer

Baptists of Jamaica should always remember to offer thanks to God for the pioneering work of visionary, George Liele, and his family. Extant publications have opened a small window on Liele’s family and service. Still, more details about Liele are only now coming into view. In 1983, during the Jamaica Baptist bicentenary, Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) published a book on George Liele by Jamaica Baptist historian, Clement Gayle. Especially since that time, there has been a flood of publications about this internationally significant pioneer African American missioner who started Baptist witness in Jamaica. Liele himself was born into enslavement in Virginia and the year of his birth is estimated to be 1750, 1751 or 1752. He identified his mother’s name as Nancy and his father as Liele. Separated from his parents early in life, George reports that he was told his father was a person of faith. At 14 years of age, while still enslaved, Liele was taken to the Province...

Edward Hewett: Man with a Passion for Mission

Edward Hewett Hewett was born in Norfolk, England in 1819. A graduate of Stepney College, now Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, England, Hewett was c ommissioned a BMS missionary to Jamaica. He and his wife, Eliza, arrived in the country in 1842. On arrival, Hewett was invited to serve in the so-called First Baptist Church in Montego Bay, the main church of Thomas Burchell. He declined the invitation and went instead to assume the pastorate of Jericho and Mt Hermon in the parish of St Catherine and St Thomas in the Vale. Unfortunately, Mrs. Hewett passed away on June 9, 1846. This had an adverse effect on Hewett who, shortly after this loss, moved to Mt. Carey and commenced oversight of some of the churches once led by Burchell – Mt Carey, Bethel Town, Shortwood and Watford Hill. On April 13, 1847, Hewett married a second time. His new bride was Miss Estrianna Louisa Burchell, the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Burchell. The spelling of her first name has been su...

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