Trinidad Baptists, with approximately 10,000 members in some 100 churches, trace their history back to 1816 with the arrival of a group of former enslaved persons who were Marines and soldiers who fought on the side of the British during the American War of 1812-1814. Featured Speaker at the Grand Thanksgiving Service was

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Victor Anthony “Ken” Cadette, former president and general secretary of the Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago (BUTT), past president of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship (CBF) and a former member of various committees and commissions of the Baptist World Alliance.

200 Years of Baptist Witness IN TRINIDAD

n Sunday, March 13, 2016, six Baptist groups gathered under the umbrella of the Gospel Baptists Association of Trinidad and Tobago (GBATT) to celebrate 200 years of Baptist presence and witness on the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago.

Cadette both inspired and informed the packed auditorium by comparing the journey of the former slaves who had become soldiers and saints to the biblical journey of the Israelites who were slaves in Egypt. Just as the Israelites were set free and “crossed the Red Sea” to the Promised Land, so too the Baptists had been set free and “crossed the Caribbean Sea” to their promised land. He exhorted the large Baptist gathering that, just as the early pioneers brought their faith and planted churches, so too should present day Baptists be faithful in spreading the Gospel wherever they are. BWA General Secretary Neville Callam, in sending greetings, celebrated “all that God has enabled among the Baptists of Trinidad

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