CBACC Newsletter The Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Conference Committee

Brethren Assemblies’ News from around the Caribbean and sometimes beyond

Volume 1, Issue 1 January 2015

Special Mission goals

 To facilitate spiritual and

numerical growth among Stand up and be Recognised: Over Fifty Eight Years of Service
Brethren.
 To enable workers from Perhaps you have heard someone island. The message said that there
would be a celebration but it was to
across the region to say “Give a man his flowers be a surprise. Bro. Gill was not to
seek the Lord together. while he can enjoy them”. Well, know what was being planned for
this quote was probably the motiva- him. All during the United Prayer
 To strengthen network- tion behind the celebration at the Meeting convened for the first full
ing and fellowship. Airy Hill Gospel Hall, St. Joseph, week of the year believers remained
Barbados. tight lipped. It turned out that some-
 To raise awareness of
thing slipped out from one of the
the spiritual challenges It was just about 3 o’clock in the
organisers but according to Bro. Gill,
of current trends and evening, on Saturday 17th January
“It is a good thing that something
cultural developments. 2015 when the ceremony began.
slipped out, because I was planning
Strains of that familiar hymn “Great
 To assist in the coordi- to be somewhere else” You see the
is Thy Faithfulness” could be heard in
nation of disaster re- celebration was also a means of
the district as believers, now packed
sponse activities. saying “Happy Birthday” to Bro. Gill,
into the hall, sang to God in celebra-
who celebrated his 80th birthday
 To encourage younger tion of the life and work (so far) of
that same weekend. He was planning
workers. Brother Albert Cecil Gill. on being away from the work at the
Tribute after tribute brought “Amen” hall. Probably taking a short trip.
and “It is true” from the lips of the
The service of thanksgiving and
believers as they listened and agreed
appreciation came to an end as the
Inside this issue: with all that was said of Bro. Gill. “He
sun was getting low in the evening
Over 58 years in the Lord’s service:
is my mentor”, said one. “He came Bro. Albert Cecil Gill: Elder at
sky. The last tribute from the
through [Hurricane] ‘Tomas’ to my Airy Hill Gospel Hall, St Joseph,
speaker of the evening Bro. Lionel
father’s bedside the night he died”, Barbados receiving his Appreciation
Who is this mis- 2 Weekes, told of Bro Gill as a
said another. “He never had a car, it Plaque from Sister Hoyte, a member
Barnabas, an encourager of the
sionary? was always a van, he always had of the hall, during the ceremony.
brethren. A man who stuck to the
helping people at heart” said a third.
vision with wisdom and determina-
No one could deny the glowing re-
Coming from. . . 2 marks spoken of a hard working
Brother Gill.
tion.
Congratulations and Happy Belated
IBCM6
Birthday to Bro. Albert Cecil Gill Rome
Hotel Selene, Pomezia, near
Weeks prior to the event invitations
church worker extraordinaire.
were sent far and near to the leading June 22-26, 2015
Invitation to 2 men at all the assemblies on the
To God be all the Glory!
See pg 4
Jamaica

The Chairman’s 3 Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Report, 1st January 2015

Report Introduction ture for the future Caribbean confer- Matters discussed were that each
This is a report of the progress of the ences. Some of the members of that country should have one representa-
Caribbean Brethren Assemblies committee were Nestor Campbell, tive; and other reps. could be co-
The Secretary's 3 Conference Committee for July to Neil Summerton, Hadyn Marshall, opted, including women. An execu-
Report (Cont’d) December 2014. A committee was Glen O'Flaherty, Eddie Richardson, tive would be selected to meet
set up during the St. Kitts Caribbean Carl Scharschmidt, and Sylvan monthly and the country representa-
Brethren Conference which was held Catwell. tives would meet less frequently.
God gives it 4 from July 22 – 29, 2014. The pur- Representatives are asked to com-
pose of the committee was to meet It was agreed during those meetings municate with the rest of their coun-
back. to set up the Caribbean Brethren try to improve awareness of the
with representatives from each coun-
try, to assist with matters which may Assemblies Conference Committee CBACC.
arise during the conference, and to (CBACC). Dr. Hadyn Marshall was
begin setting up a leadership struc- selected to chair the committee. (Continued on page 3)
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Who is this missionary?

Who is a full time worker for
our Lord among the brethren in
the Caribbean?
Who is from the Spice Isle,
Grenada and was present at the
St. Kitts Conference July 2014?
Who has a warm Caribbean
smile and loves to sing and play
guitar?
Our missionaries need
your financial support Who has a sharp mind and a
as well as your prayer wonderful sense of humour?
support. Make a
monetary pledge to- Sorry ladies he’s already married.
day to support a mis-
sionary near you.
Give up? The answer is . . . Bro. Daniel Ross, Calivigny Gospel Hall, Calivigny, Grenad
([email protected]). He needs your financial support.

Coming from . . . New Jersey. Invitation to Jamaica

Jamaica Easter
Convention:
“We pray that
the Lord will lay On behalf of the National Easter Convention
Committee and the Caribbean Brethren Assem-
it on your heart blies Conference Committee, you are cor-
dially invited to join us for the Jamaica
to pray with us Easter Convention, 60th Anniversary Cele-
brations, and the Caribbean Leaders
and to join us.” Meeting, April 3 to 6, 2015. We see this as a
wonderful opportunity to further deepen our
Waters Edge Nursing Home in Cinnaminson NJ. Caribbean Brethren unity and growth.
Please be in prayer for the convention theme:
Hello friends, I am Carmen Anderson- Empowered to Engage: Learning from the
Past, Prevailing in the Future; also that all
Harris, Missionary and Secretary. Please Caribbean territories will be represented. We
pray for the upcoming 2015 outreach at pray that the Lord will lay it on your heart to
Willingboro Christian Assembly, here in pray with us and to join us. Kindly advise if you
New Jersey, 175 Somerset Dr, Willingboro, will stay in a hotel or if you wish accommoda-
NJ 08046. The year has turned and we have tion in the home of one of the saints.
much to rejoice about. 1. New building, 2. Yours respectfully, in Christ, in Jamaica and the
New Nursing Home. (Ministry now 1 yr.) 3. Caribbean.
Christian Brethren Assemblies – Jamaica (CBAJ),
Many first time contacts due to Hospital
and
visitation, Tract distributions, Community Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Conference
(Lt) Dinah, a visitor
Lawn Picnic , Thanksgiving Food Basket give- Committee (CBACC)
from Ghana and
ways, and other initiatives. God be praised. Carl Scharschmidt,
(Rt) Carmen Ander-
Please PRAY for me and the work here as Secretary
son-Harris, Mission-
funding is slow. Please continue to Press On For further details contact the brethren at:
ary and Author
for our reward is as sure as the sun rises for
working in NJ. God cannot lie Amen!
1g Hagley Park Plaza, Kingston 10.
Tel: 1 876 926 2330.
(see ad on pg. 3)
Joyfully serving, Carmen Email: [email protected]

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The Chairman’s Report

The last five months or so have been exciting challenges using Skype for meetings but, in spite of
these, significant progress has been made. We are
concern. Finally, I want to
encourage all of us to be
and challenging. It has been our privilege to be well on the way towards producing a directory of strong for the tasks
the Lord’s instruments in the beginning of a Caribbean assemblies and you are reading our first ahead. There is still very
new thing that he is doing among the Brethren newsletter. Countries such as the Bahamas, Belize, much land to be pos-
churches in the Caribbean. Whenever the Lord and Dominica, which did not have participants at sessed and the giants are
sets something new in motion, you can expect the St. Kitts conference, now have representatives very visible. However, we
the enemy to try to derail it. As a result, we on CBACC. The website is still to be developed are confident that the
have had our struggles, failures and setbacks but, in the meantime, you can go to IBCM.net and God who has brought us
but, through it all, we have seen the mighty click on “Regional Conferences” and find informa- to this point will see us
arm of the Lord move on our behalf and we tion on CBACC. Bro. Carl Scharscmidt’s prayer through. Let us keep our
are going forward fully confident that he will letter continues to help us to deepen our fellow- eyes on the prize and
see us through. ship as we pray one for another about the issues move forward into the
The Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Confer- that concern us and give financial help in response land he has given us.
ence Continuation Committee (CBACC) was to identified needs. There is no doubt that we are
established at the end of the conference held in beginning to see the benefits of coming together as
St. Kitts from July 13th to 17th, 2014, with a a regional grouping of churches.
mandate to organize future conferences and In my travels as a minister of the gospel, I have
engage in activities designed to facilitate spiri- sought to promote CBACC. I have had fruitful Dr. Hadyn Marshall
tual and numerical growth among Brethren interactions with brethren in Canada, the U. S. A.,
and, more recently, Dominica. In my home country,
churches in the Caribbean. It includes one
St. Vincent, a committee has been established to “The Caribbean
representative from each English-speaking
promote and support the work of CBACC. I would
country where there is a Brethren witness, like to use this medium to encourage country rep- Brethren Assemblies
one representative from the U. S. A., and two resentatives who have not already done so to seek
co-opted members. Five persons from this to establish similar committees in their respective Conference
committee were chosen to form the executive. countries. Continuation
They were Carl Scharschmidt (Jamaica), Eddie One of our major challenges is to find ways to
Richardson (Bermuda), Glen O’Flaherty (St. meet face-to-face, given the extremely high cost of Committee was
Kitts), Kenneth Millar (Barbados) and Hadyn regional air travel. In view of this, we have taken
Marshall (St. Vincent). the decision to try to schedule meetings of the established at the end
general committee to coincide with major events. of the conference
I am extremely happy with the way things have The next major event on our calendar is IBCM 6,
been going so far. The level of camaraderie to be held in Rome from June 22nd to 26th, 2015. I held in St. Kitts from
among members of the executive is pleasantly want to encourage all country representatives to
high and matters are discussed in an atmos- attend this conference as this will give us an oppor- July 13th to 17th,
phere of mutual respect. We have had our
tunity to sit together and discuss matters of mutual 2014”

Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Report, 1st January 2015 (from page 1)

with a word of Scripture and sharing creasing number of Caribbean
Executive
with one another. territories.
The executive selected by the chair-
man were: Glen O’Flaherty (St. Purpose Finance
Kitts); Edward “Eddie” Richardson The Caribbean Brethren Assemblies The Bermuda Mission trust has
(Bermuda); Carl Scharschmidt, sec- Conference Committee exists to graciously consented to handle the
retary (Jamaica); Kenneth Millar serve and strengthen the Brethren finances of CBACC. A US dollar
(Barbados). The executive has been movement in the Caribbean, thereby account will be opened to do the
Buy Carmen’s books:
meeting monthly on Skype, sched- enabling it to play its part in carrying transactions of CBACC.
(see bottom of pg. 2)
uled for the first Saturdays, though out the mission given to the church
Website
this has not always been the case. by the Lord Jesus Christ more effec-
Arrangements are being made for a "Growing in Christ Jesus,
It is intended that the executive will tively. Its main goal is to facilitate
website to be launched for Enjoying the Process
meet physically once per year, hope- spiritual and numerical growth
CBACC. Perhaps the St. Kitts
fully coinciding with another official among Brethren churches in the "His guiding hands" and
conference website will be modi-
event such as a conference. The Caribbean. A directory of Breth-
fied and used. "Love always Blooms".
meetings have helped our Spiritual ren Assemblies is being developed,
Formation of the executive we begin with input so far from an ever in- Carl Scharschmidt,
Secretary All Available on Amazon

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 Strengthening the things that remain.

The Caribbean Brethren Assemblies Conference Committee (CBACC)

headed by Dr. Hadyn Marshall of St Vincent was born out of the need to
CCB NEWS unite brethren in the Caribbean and to prepare for future Brethren con-
ferences. The committee is made up of brethren from various islands
who attended the St. Kitts Conference in July 2014. This Newsletter is
Dayrells Road Gospel Hall
the committee’s way of linking Brethren in the Caribbean and beyond.
Dayrells Road
Christ Church
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International Brethren Conference on Missions (IBCM6)

The IBCM6 will be held from June 22-26, 2015 near to Rome in Italy. The
theme is “That the World May Know.” Brethren leaders at all levels are
invited. Information is available on the IBCM website or from any member
We’ll soon be of the CBACC. Book during January and February for special discounts.
on the web http://www.ibcm.net/IBCM6+Conference.htm

Bandits steal Christmas, God gives it back.

Thieves have put a damper Kind hearted Bajans came
to the rescue resulting in
on plans by one church the items being replaced
group to spread cheer last beyond what was stolen.
Christmas season. See exert Thanks to good corporate
from Barbados Today online. citizen Flow Barbados, and
tender hearted individuals,
“On Tuesday (16th Decem- the folks at DRGH were
ber 2014) the bandits broke able to resume the Christ-
into the Dayrells Road mas Hamper Drive. Above:The church room after the
Gospel Hall, in Christ break-in
Church, taking with them In the end, the planned Below: The metal door damaged
thousands of dollars worth objectives were met with to gain entry.
of food and personal supply enough left over for a few
items intended for the eld- other needy folks to be
erly and shut-ins. included.
Police are investigating the Bandits meant it for evil
matter, which Felton Ince, but God meant it for
one of the church leaders, good.
told Barbados TODAY ap-
peared to have taken place See Genesis 50:20. You
while members were out intended to harm me, but
caroling and distributing God intended it for good
other hampers.” to accomplish what is now
being done, the saving of
After the incident was pub- many lives. (NIV)
CBACC News lished in the daily news, http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2014/12/18/
there was a public outcry. bandits-steal-christmas-hampers-from-church/