- About New
Englerston
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- Our Mission Statement
The Mission of the New
Englerston Seventh-day Adventist Church is to share the gospel of Christ to
the residents of the Englerston constituency and the wider community in the
Bahamas through personal witnessing, evangelistic outreach meetings , and
nurture and care programs.
- Our History
The
Englerston Seventh-day Adventist Church was organized in 1954 out of a
branch Sabbath School that Jack Dean, Hadassah Hall and others from the
Grant’s Town Church began in 1952.
It was the
third Adventist Church on the Island of New Providence. Now there are
twenty-one churches on the island. Alfred Brennen, who was then a member of
the Grant's Town Church, drew the plans for the church.
Some of
the charter members from Grant’s Town included the late Jack Dean, Luella
Rolle, Evangelina Rolle, Jane Hall-Higgs, Jane Brown, Daniel Varence, Madge
Guillaume, Hamfert Rahming; and others such as Nora McCalla, Mae Ward, Cecil
Cartwright, Arnold Burrows, Hadassah Hall, Hugh Rollins, and Pearl
McMillan.
Englerston
became a vibrant, fast-growing church, until it outgrew its facilities. The
members decided to buy a new property and build a much larger edifice. With
more than eight hundred members trying to fit in a church designed for just
two hundred, the Englerston Church, twenty-years ago, moved to its new
building on Harold Road. However, a few of the members decided to stay.
Thus, the New Englerston Church was started. Today there are more than 300
members.
