Adventists to award oldest baptised member during 125th celebrations

One-hundred-and-three-year-old Adassa Henry Johnson is among the list of special awardees to be recognised by the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during an awards ceremony, which forms part of its celebration of 125 years of Adventism in Jamaica this year.

Johnson, who resides in Oracabessa, St Mary, is the oldest baptised member of  the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica having done so 93 years ago.

She will be among a group of 125 awardees and eight special awardees who will be recognised in the categories of publishing, evangelism, education, community outreach and health (PEECH) as part of an overall 131 awards that will be handed out.

The ceremony takes place tomorrow at the Seventh-day Adventist Conference Centre in Mount Salem, St James.

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