by veryll doorasamy-bowe
the centennial
Join us in the Bahamas to celebrate 100 years of missions advance.
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n New Year’s Eve of 1909, R.M. and Ida Evans
and Carl Padgett left Florida and set sail for the
World Missions
Bahamas. They arrived in Nassau on January 4,
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1910, and immediately began preaching. The Evanses spent
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three years in the Bahamas. Street meetings were conducted,
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along with cottage prayer meetings and eventually services in
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Centennial Celebration
The Evanses worked hard and the fruits of their labor are
still evident today. A church that was started in Green Turtle
Cay is the oldest continually existing Church of God outside
the United States. Today among the relatively small population
To mark this great achievement and to
of about 300,000 in the Bahamas, the Church of God boasts
commemorate the centennial of missions
some 70 congregations.
in the Church of God, a celebration will be
held in Nassau January 5-7, 2010. This will
Establishment of the church in the Bahamas heralded
be the ofg197 cial denominational observance of
the beginning of an expansion movement around the world.
the centennial.
Church extension was slow in the beginning but churches
were planted in Canada in 1919 and in Romania in 1922.
Travelers to the Nassau meeting will
Mission work exploded in the 30s and 40s. Twenty-seven
typically arrive on Tuesday, take part in
new countries entered the church in that two-decade period.
services that night; attend morning and
Growth has continued and today the Church of God is present
evening events on Wednesday (with the
in 171 countries outside North America with nearly 6 million
afternoon free); and participate in a giant
members.
rally on Thursday morning, before an
afternoon departure.
Wyndham Resort, the host hotel, offers
an unbelievable $99 nightly rate plus local
12 percent taxes and a $17 government-
save the
required fee. Those who want to add days
before and after the event qualify for the
same rate. Normal daily charges are $179, so
date
the $99 charge is an excellent arrangement.
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The principal event of the Centennial
A passport is required for all travelers to
celebration will be a three-day gathering in
the Bahamas.
Nassau, Bahamas, January 5-7, 2010, at the
Wyndham Hotel. Use the form on the facing
Use the form on page nine to reserve your
page to reserve your participation in the
space for the Centennial Celebration and go
Centennial Celebration.
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to www.cogwm.org to make hotel reservations.
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