New Kingston Fellowship, Newest Organized Church in EJC: Poised for Mission in the Business District

The New Kingston Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is the newest organised church in the East Jamaica Conference (EJC) following a special organization service on Saturday, January 22, 2022. The move from company to church status, increases the number of organized churches in the Conference from 97 to  98, while the total number of churches and companies in the Conference remains at 105. 

 

The service, which was held in the Auditorium of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) in Kingston where the church worships, was attended by Jamaica Union (JAMU) and EJC leaders as well as church members and well wishers.

 

“We are very proud of what is happening here today and the Union and Division can bask in the fact that we can now say one more church organized, one more battalion for Jesus,” said Pastor Meric Walker, Executive Secretary of JAMU, who congratulated the church on achieving its new status. “The church is planted by the will of God and is moving according to prophecy,”  Walker added.

The journey from conception to full church status spanned four years and was made possible through the collaborative support of many individuals including a group of members from the Andrews Memorial SDA Church that conceptualized the evangelistic initiative that gave rise to the new company.

 

Elder Keith Nugent, First Elder of the Andrews Memorial SDA Church, while extending his greetings, highlighted the importance of prayer to the birth and existence of the church. 

 

“Every one of you that came initially were handpicked after careful prayer,” he reminded. “The conception was through prayer,  the birth was through prayer  and your growth and the rest of your journey must be based on prayer,” Nugent added.   

 

He recalled that the New Kingston Fellowship Church was formed with a specific mission in mind.

“Your mission is to minister to business people, students and young professionals. There are other churches doing all kinds of things but you have a specific ministry,”  he said emphatically.  “Your program was tailor made,” he continued. “The concept was that you would not be a next megachurch but that you would be a small intimate congregation where every member knows each other and every member cares about each other. That’s why you were called a fellowship,” he added.

 

Dr. Winston & Geraldine Adams, members of the Andrews Memorial SDA Church and founders of UCC were thanked for their kindness in allowing the fledgling group to meet in the University’s Auditorium.

 

Elder Nugent recalled that their initial plan was to begin the church in a classroom and overtime launch out into somewhere bigger but God had other plans that had never crossed their mind.

 

“When we approached them, we had a vision to plant a church in the heart of the business community but we were thinking of just meeting in a classroom and growing organically, “ Nugent  said, “but Dr. Adams said no, I can do better than that, I will let you have the state of the art auditorium that is being built,”  he recalled.

 

Today the church continues to meet in the auditorium  and it has been the home of the church since its inception.  

 

The list of thirty five officers and foundation members forming the church were read and presented by Pastor Adrian Johnson, pastor of the Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist District of churches   and was accepted by Dr. Eric Nathan, president of the East Jamaica Conference on behalf of its administration.

 

The words of Sis. Treveen Little, speaks to the way forward for ministry in the context of Total Member Involvement; “Young people, I want  to encourage  you  to take up  your position  on the field of play.  Membership in God’s church is not a spectator sport. It requires engagement and involvement. It requires  that you should be doers of the word and not merely hearers of the word.” 

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