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Jamaican Baptists to Review their APPROACH TO MISSION

aptists in Jamaica renewed their historical commitment to mission during a mission conference held in the city of Montego Bay in October 2015. The process of renewal will include reviewing “the relationship between

the Jamaica Baptist Union Mission Agency and the Jamaica Baptist Union” so that the former will have “greater operational independence from the latter.” “Mission must be pursued with urgency,” they asserted. “The church is not the

church without engagement in mission and the church is only the church when she practices mission.” In this singular pursuit, “we will practice mission without yielding” to racial, geographical, cultural, theological, gender or other barriers. “We are developing a more thoroughgoing mission mindset in all our engagements instead of just seeing ourselves as engaging in isolated mission projects,” the Jamaicans announced through the Montego Bay Declaration. Every church affiliated with the Jamaica Baptist Union will have mission coordinators, “so as to ensure the development of a network of mission support which includes all the churches,” the Jamaicans decided.

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Above: Jamaican pastor Dylan Toussaint addresses the Jamaica Baptist Union mission conference in Montego Bay

Right: Youth making a presentation at the mission conference in Jamaica

(Photos courtesy of the JBU)

“We are developing a more thoroughgoing mission mindset in all our engagements instead of just seeing ourselves as engaging in isolated

mission projects.” — Montego BayDeclaration

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