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Editor:
Carol Herge t,
Jamaica
Chris t ian Mission
Half-Way Tree P, 0. Jamaica, B. W
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THE GOOD
SHIP
i;
MERCO
After paying for our
t ickets
the
ship
ag^nt to ld
us a t which dock we would
f ind
the Merco . You can
imagine
oui excite
ment when we drove down to th e r iv e r to
find the good ship Merco .
I ^
was a small
shi p w ith several hig port-holes around
the
cabins
and a
nice large
upper deck on
which
to s i t and
r ide.
The captain, a t a l l
sea faring
looking man
greeted us kindly
and t o l d
us we cou ld come aboard .
Our
ca
bin
had
two bunks in it
vdth
port-holes
a t
each end
where we
cou ld look
ou t a t
th e
se
The dining room had a large tab le
with
ra i l s around i t so tha t
when
the
ship
rose
up and down in the sea tl.ie plates would
not
f a l l
on
the
f loor .
On
the top
of
the
Merco
were
some l i fe
boats tha t
we
hoped
we
would
not have to
use. We
th ink you
would
have
l iked
the Merco
except for ONE
thing. I t made us very,
very,
very.
OUR
FIRST SEA
VOYAGE
Captain
Benson told us to s tay on the
ship a l l nig^t fo r it would leave before
dayl ight in the morning. We think
you
would
have
been a s e xc ite d
a s
we were .
A ll
night the ship was
s t i l l
and quiet , but a t
f i v e
o ' c l o ck
a
whi s t l e
blew.
We
rushed ou t
ju s t in time to
see the
men pu ll in
the
ropes while the captain shouted
orders .
WATER-WATER EVERYWHERE.
After
th ree
days out in
the
wide blue
sea we
still had s een nothing
bu t w ater
in
every direct ion; Lat^ tha t night
the cap
ta in
sa id if we would watch closely we
would see
a
l ight from the light-tjiouse in
Cajnman
Is land,
And we did
see
i t
continued
on
next
column)
No.
1
DEAR JUNIORS
Greetings
from
Jamaica.
We
welcome
you
as a f r iend
and reader
o f the Jamaica
Junior paper.
In
our
FIRST ISSUE we
want
to
say a few
th ings
to you. F i r s t
of
a l l
we want to
thank
the boys and gi r l s v^om
we met in Amer ica
f o r
their i n t e r e s t
i n
Jamaica mi s s i o n s . You a sked f o r th e con
t inuat ion
of
our
paper and
we
are happy
to
write
it fo r
we v/ant
you to love
the
chi ldren here and
the i r
love ly i s land .
SECOwD - And th is
i s
about
the
papers
name. The word
J un i o r
i n Jama i c a
is
no t
used a s it is i n Amcr i ca . Jun io r
boys
and
gi r l s include chi ldren
of
a l l
ages
up to middle
teen
age.
And
so, t h i s
paper i s
fo r
you even
i f
you are
younger
or older than
the American
Junior age,
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C YM N ISLAND
During the night
a f t e r
we h^d
landed
in
Cayman
Island, a bad storm csbne up and
by morning
the waves
were
about 30
fee t
high and
were v;ashing up
into t he s tr ee ts
o f th e
little sea-coast - town. And
t h e
Merco
had
disappeared]
For
three days
the
s to rm raged and the palm
t rees
swayed
low toward the gromid. When the storm,
f ina l ly calmed the Merco came
back
from
i t s hiding place to unload cargo.
Cayman
I s l a nd
is one o f th re e sma l l
i s l a nd s some
300
miles north
of Jamaica. W^
were
glad
to
ge t back on the
Merco
fo r the l a s t
two
days of
the
jovirneyi
JAMAICA
AT
LAST
.
The
bay
was
s t i l l
and gl i t t e r ing
in
the
warm t rop ical sun
as the
Merco made
i t s
way s tead i ly
toward
the
shore.
The
grea t blue mountains
stood
out in splen
dor against
the
sof t blue
sky.
We were
home again
and
would see
once
more
the
little b l ack ch i l d r en
we
had
lea i*ned
to
love
and
we
were
happy.
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TOBK STREET CHURCH
OP CHRIST
13ier6 aro
four
Churches of Christ in
the big city
of
Kingston.
One
of
them is
on York Street, The nice l i t t l e btzilding
has lots of
small houses crowded
in
the
neighbrhood around i t
When
the peot>le
sing in church all the folks
for
around
can
hea r t hem.
In th e fron t of the
building
are two
doors - not
l ike
our
doors but only
half
doors that wil l
le t
cool a ir in but keep
folks
from gazing
in during
pra^r
or the
conamanion
service. There
is a sign on
the
one door that says,Push in Jesus Name
Eiveryone
is
invited to come in
and hear
the
message
and there
is
iilways
a
crowd
that
do
come in.
Bub,
many
people
just
stand around outside and watch and
l isten
through the
windows,
York Street Church
is very
similar to the
country churches
and the menibers l ike
to
sing and clap the
handd just
as
they do in
the country.
n pa t t y
There are
five
l i t t l e missionaries who
bame with their parents to Jamaica. Wo ^d
you to know them? This month
we
will
te l l
you about
Patty
Phillips/
Patty
is
just eight
years old and
is
in the
second grade
in
school. She
is
haviiig a little
trouble
loosing
her
teeth
jttst
now but is hopefully watching
th ^
to
grow back. Patty
is already
Chiristlan
and
loves
to go to church
sing with the other boys and
girls.
Is
a good
l i t t le
missionary and a
l i t t l e mother to her
two younger brothers.
Patty
has
brown hair
and wears
pig-tails
l o t s o f the t ime. Per
haps
she
will
write a letter to you next
month.
We like Patty
and
know
you would.
LITTLEDAVID SCHOOL
On March
23rd the
Jiiniors
at Bottom
Church in Port Maria asseinbled
f or c la ss .
Isn ' t that a funny name? There are two
churches in town, one of them on a steep
Ml-) and the other
a t
the bottom of the
hil l . And so the members called i t Bot
tom Church. There were 81
Juniors
at
the
class and they chose Little
David
School
fo r t h e i r name.
I
P U ^
H
ivo ^<
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SPECIAL PROBLEMS
The f a c t o r s
which
make t h i s work so necessary
and
d i f f i c u l t a re
entrenched denominational ism,
supers t i t ion , immorali ty,
low educa t iona l
l eve i ,
and
poor
economic
Condi t ions . The Cathol ic church
has
been
on
the island since
1^9^,
and by
66
the Anglicans had seven churchesSH
Seve ra l o f
the
denomina t iona l
groups
have
been
i n
Jamaica fo r we l l
over
a century,
and to
date
there are
approximately
16^
different
church grou
reg is te red
with th e
Jamaica
Government, among th e youngest o f which i s
th
Church
of
Chris t yea r s .
In
addit ion
to
these
regis tered
groups,
there
i s
a
hodge-podge
of
supers t i t ious
leaders ,
Pocomania groups with t he i r fancy, s ign i f ica
head wrap
and drums, and
various
forms of
demon worshippers
Obeaism),
pos s i b l y
r e l a t e d
to th e Afr i can Voodoo o r w i tc h- do cto r. Even
though
denominational ism
i s so f i rmly entrenched, it seems
to
little dampen
the
sp i r i t of
these
se l f -appoin ted
mini st er s, l ea d re ss es ,
and warners* Ofte
the
superstition
of the
cults,
the
demon
worship
of the
Obed^
the
spir i t
manifes ta t ions of the Pocomania, the drum
and
dance
of
the John Canue,
and
the s p i r i t and t ru th o f
Chri s t i an i ty
a re a l l
mixed
up together ,
and
lled
a
D i v i n e S e r v i c e ,
Immoral i ty i s
r ampant . Concubin ag e and
common-law
f am il ie s a re
f ound eve rywhe re . Three out o f every four
ch i ld ren
bocEH are born out
o f
wedlock. Th4
v io l a t i on o f
th e
sanc t i t y o f th e home i s ha rd ly even
frowned
upon
by
the
KiaBiKiHH
people, and immora li ty cha rges
aga ins t church
le ders a r e comiQon.
These
a re
fac tors
to
be
overcome,
but it i s poss ib le .
Many
have
ome out from among
them,
and severa l churches can be found with
the
s p i r i t and t r u t h o f
th e Mew-Testament
worsh ip .
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James Herget , son of Mr,
and
Mrs. Henry Herget of Buffalo, N. Y.,
i s a graduate of Atlanta Christian
College,
Atlanta, Ga. B.A. 19^8 .
He
h eld stu de nt pas tora te s
a t
the Church o f C hris t Palmetto, Ga.
fo r
approximately
two years ,
and a t
the Church of Chris t a t Ludvi l le , Ga.
fo r two years^
Fol lowing
gradua t ion he was
assoc ia ted with th e
Jamaica
Christ ian
Mission and
was on
the f ie ld
fo r
the year of 19^9.
In
1950 and 1951 he
held
ministries in Piney Flats, Tenns, Poplar Ridg
Chris t ian Church,
and a t
Shulls Mills ,
North Carol ina.
In 1952
he
r turn
to
J ama i c a
Carol
D. Herget i s also a
graduate of
Atlanta
Chris t ian
College
B. A.
19^8 and had
undergraduate
work
at
the
Georgia
University, Atlanta,
Ga. Mrs. Herge t worked a s sec re ta ry and youth worker fo r th e F i r s t
Christian
Church,
Johnson City,
Tennessee,
J H. Dampier, minister ,
f o r two
yea r s a f t e r r e t u r n i ng from
th e
Jamaica
miss i on f i e l d
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James Herget,
son
of Mr and Mrs Henry Herget of Buffalo, N Y
is a gradiiate of
Atlanta Christian
College, Atlanta, Ga B A
19^8 .
He
h eld stu de nt
pastorates
a t the Church of Chris t ,
Palmetto,
Ga
and a t the
Church of
Christ,
Ludville, Ga
for
approximately two years. Following
graduation
he was associated
wi th th e Jamaica Chr i s t i an
Miss ion
and was
on th e f i e l d
fo r th e
year 19^9. In 1950 to 1951
he
held ministr ies a t Piney Fla ts
Tenn. and a t
Shulls Mills N C During
t h i s
time
he
also
rev iv ed th e work of the Christian
Church,
colored in Johnson
City,
Tenn
remodeling
the
building.
In
1952
he
returned-to
amaica
Carol D Herget i s
also
a graduate of
Atlanta
Chris t ian College
B.A. 19^8 and had undergraduate work
a t
the Georgia Univers i ty
Atlanta, Ga Mrs Herget worked as secretary and youth worker f
the
Fi r s t
Chris t ian
Church,
Johnson
City,
Tenn.,
J
H
Dampier,
minister ,
for
two years af te r returning
from
the Jamaica f ie ld
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Sometimes
the
fo re s t cannot
be seen fo r the
t r e e s .
The
missionary
of ten may f e e l
a load
o f despondency
-when
burdened with
a
mult i tude o f
pe t ty
problems, denominationalized
Chris t ians , and
supers t i t ious
worshippers
But
when the
work i s summarized and viewed as
a
whole, he
i s
encouraged by \ ^ a t he sees:
fo r
the
Gospel
i s
not
preached
in
vaini
Since the beginning of the work some
f^ftcwm
years
ago
by Brother
Hal l eee seve ra l tho usand have been bapt ized .
T^en
the
present
miss ionar ies
a r r ived on
th e
f i e ld in ea r ly 1951 there were about 1300
Christians working and cooperating
together .
Another
group,
having
formerly sp l i t away, contained
over
700 Chris t ians . Since
1951
unity
has
been ef fec ted between these groups,
making
the t o t a l cooperating and
working together over the 2,000 mark. In 1951
alone,
there were adde
to
the number
of
Christians through
fellowship,
and
50^
added through
baptism. The t o t a l membership in
the
year beginning 19 ^2 approximated
2,500. This number i s divided-swwpagrthree doacen churches and as many
preaching
p o i n t s .
After many months
of
di l igent search, several acres of
ground
locate
well
within
the Kingston
area waS^purchased as the
location for the futur
Bible
Seminary. A large, moflern
building
ofi
the
ranch
s tyle
so popular
and
p ra ct ic al in tro pica l cl imates i s now in the
process
of
cons t ruc t ion .
Several
bui ld ings
have
been constructed to rep lace
those
blown down
by
the
black
storm
of
1951}
each
new
one
being
bet ter
thaA
the
one
r e p l a c e d .
The
Jamaica
Bible
Seminary has been enlarged from
four
full..4s3:m>s
s tudents to twelve
now
in
attendance
fu l l t ime .
The
greates t hope fo r
^
Jamaica wil l be in
trained
na tive leade rship, and
to th i s
end the
present
missionar ies have pr imar i ly dedicated themselves .
Training
of
workers already on the
field
has been accomplished throu
Tracks, locally published
paper
the Jamaica Christian , quarterly teachi
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Jin) and
Carol
Herge :-, Half-VJay Tre 3 P.
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Jamaica, B.
W
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No.
9
A
CHRI smS
MESSAGE
?C>R
YOU
There
arc
a l l kinds
of th ings
tha t make
people
happy a t Christmas time.
Somt^times
it
i s
tho joy
of
making
l i t t l e
children
happy with lovely toys and clothes. Some
times i t is
helping tho se who are
old and
greet ing
them
with
a
thoughtful
g i f t .
There
is joy in
giving
food to children in
hunger and sick folka who are poor. And
one
of the nicest things a t Christmas i s
jus t singing the
lovely
Christnia-s songs
about the sweet
baby
Jesus
vjhom God
sent
i n t o t h o wor l d ,
Chris tmas
vd l l
no t be ce lebr a t ed
in
Ja
maica as it i s in
Am erica , There
w i l l be
some
people
in
the
ci ty
who
can
afford
to
buy lovely
things
for the i r children
but
for the most
of the people
there wil l
be
jus t
the custom of eatj.ng
Bun
and
drinlcing
Sorrell
a
sweet
fru i t drink. I t
i s sad
to
see some of
the
th ings t h a t
our
Jamaican people do on
Christmas.
They have
orontests for dancing heathen dances and
give prized f o r who~c i in~Tna ia i~ the
most
t er r ib le
dance. They beat
dri:uTis
and
t ry to
act
l ike
the i r forefathers did
in
Af r i c a .
Chr i s tmas fo r th e Ch r i s t i a n s
i n
J ama i c a
i s a
lovely
t ime.
There v^ill be services
in
the
churches
with
joyful
singing
and
praise to the
Lord.
Som.e of the children
wil l
have programs
with
rec i ta t ions and
songs.
Oh
boys and
gir l s , i t
i s
a wonder
fu l
day
for
the
ones v/ho knovr Jesus. This
past year many of our Jamaican boys and
gir ls have learned
about
Jesus and 2 iovrfchat
Christmas
i s
coming again
they
are
happy
for they
know
what
i t
real ly
means. We
know tha t you are happy to hear tha t many
o f these
Jamaican
ch i ld r en have l e a rned
about Jesus through your help to them. I t
vfill be
a happy Christmas
for them and
for
us, too,
won t
i t?
Let us thank our
heavenly Father for His bless ings .
The
TEEN COHl^ISR
News
No te s
As we s i t
here v/riting to
you th i s
even
ing the rain is just
pouring down...And of
al3.
night
si
I t
would have
to
be
the
night
the LFJ had planned a picnic a t ou r house .
I t
looks as though i t
will
be postponed.
You see,
our young people
don t
have
nice
rain coats
to
wear and they c atc h cold
in
th e l e a s t b i t of dampness.
By tho way, the rally tm ned out well.
Tho littl ones were sw eet and th e young
people did
a
grand job
with
the i r negro
spiri tuals. The offering was almost
s ix
dollars
and
you
reiAember i t was taken
for
the
organ.
We vis i t ed th e
LFJ in Beecher
Town
l a s t
week and had a good
meeting.
They have 8
young
people
who have had perfect atten
dance fo r three
months .
And they are very
proud
of
thei r meetings, A nev: LFJ was
begun
in
Mandeville and
they
are
wanting
to
Live for Jesus too. I s n t it
good to
know they.are interested
in the Lord?
OUR-GHRISTMAS^IN
-JAMAICA^-
~
Perhaps
your
Christmas will be spent at
home while f luffy v/hite snow fa l l s and
Jack Frost
paints
the windows. ie can just
imagine the pretty Christmas trees
in
a l l
your homes.
In
Jamaica the sun
will
be
sining and lovely flowers
will
be in
bloom. We
do
not
have
winter
here fo r
th e
weather i s
alvrays warm.
V/e
have a b us hy p alm
t ree
in
our yard
and
are hoping to
t r im
V7ith c o l o r e d
paper bal ls and
popcorn fo r a
Christmas
tree for
a l l
the
l i t t l e
missionaries.
Each
Holiday
is to
be
spent at one missionarie s home.
VJe ll
went
to
th e
Fream s home fo r ou r
Thanksgiving day and
are
planning to go
to
the Phillips home
for
New Year s day. I t
wi l l
be our
tu rn
to
enter t a in
the littl
.m i s s i o n a r i e s on Chr i s tmas ,
A NEW LITTLE CAROL
On
Nov embe r 2 1 littl
Caro l
was -born to
Brother
and Sis te r
Phi l l i p s ,
You
can im
agine how proud v/e
are
to have
her
for
a
namesake.
This should
be
a
happy
Chris t
mas f o r ll
o f u s .
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God s blessings
be
with you at Christmas
And may He grant you, too ,
A day just
f i l led
v/ith
a l l
good things
That mean
th e
most t o
you.
From the
depths
of
our
hearts comes a
vdsh
for
your Christmas
and
for the New
Ysar t h a t
God
v. l l l
bless
you. We are so
very
thankful
fo r you and fo r .a ll th at you
have done in the past year
to
help
us
take
the Gospel
to
these needy
people.
You wil l
r e c e i v e a littl
remembrance a t
Chr i s tmas
tha t wil l remind
you
to pray for us. This
was made
possible
by some
of our
friends
at home and we hope
you
wil l
l ike
i t .
CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS
The Po in s e t t i a i s one o f J ama i c a s most
lovely
flowers.
I ts bright
rod petals
are
In full
bloom
t h i s month
and
remind
us
t h a t Chr i s tmas t i j i ie i s
ne a r .
Somet imes th e
A
lants grovr as high as
f i f t een f ee t . They grow
plen t i fu l ly and eas i ly
ind
a lmos t >,dld in
the, .
country
places. There
are
red and
yellow poinsettias but
\he
red
a re the most
abundant and l ove ly .
THE
JAMAICAN
JUNIOR
This l i t t l e
paper
is edited monthly
for
our
young
friends in
America.
We also
send it to a few
a du lt f r ie nd s
vho
have
shown
an i n t e r e s t i n
us
so t h a t they can
Icnow more abou t ou r work
here in
J am i c a .
I f
you do not
receive i t regularly and
/ould like to have i t , please
write
and
te l i us. I f you know of a group of boys
-:ind
gi r l s v;ho
would
l ike to have
i t
for
the i r
meetings
wo would be happy to know
of them. I f you would
l ike to
make an
offering
for
our
work
vdth
the
children,
Dur vrork
with
the
churches, or for the new
Jamaica Bible Seminary building you may do
so and
we
knov;
th e
Lord
v^dll
b l e s s
ycu
fo r
it A ir mail
l e t t e r s
are 10^,
boat m ail
is
5^:,
boxes
of
used clothing
and
Bible
School
l i t o ra t u ro
arc about fo r 22
poxinds. December is Jamaica Bible Scm -
inary month the month for
oui^ drive
to
complete
the building.
Wo
are
Build.ing
? o r The Fu t u r e .
IDDRESS ALL
M IL
TO :
Mr. ar.d I irs. James Herget
Half
V:ay
Tree
P.
0.
TO /a i l .
M iERICAIJ MAILBAG
Central Junior Church, Tampa, Fla.
Boys and Girls, Paxton, 111.
Janet
Kirk, Corvallis^
Oregon
Juniors, Vifaynesboro, Va.
Carol Jones, Bristol , Tenn,
Boys and Girls, V/aggoner, 111.
Jr . C.E, 1st Church,Bakersfield, Cal.
Intermediate Class , P iney Flats,
Tenn
Paul Fredericks, Eldorado, 111.
Junior C.E.,
Chaffee,
Mo.
15.00
7.25
5.00
6 ,
V+
1 .00
25.00
3.00
, 5.00
5.00
5.00
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. We
enjoy the
Jamaican
Junior
and
are
glad to
learn
about
the boys
and
girls. Ester
Luther
(Thanks)
WAGGONER
ILL.
We
read in the
J.J.
you were taking an offering
for
an or
gan. The boys and girls wanted to help you.
Mrs. W.Waldeck, Sup t. (You have helped and
it
should not be long
before they have it.)
WAYNESBORO VA.
The children
continue to like your messages and they
were quite delighted when ^ showed them the
basket. Dr. Hopkins (We want them to love
ou r
l i t t le dark children.)
PAXTON
ILL. The
children
here
have
a special missionary
Sunday. i t
is a new worlc. .we hope
to
teach
them
to
love those from o th er l ands . E. Peterson.
(Christmas will be a blessed time for those
who have heard and accepted Christ in Jam.j
TA>IPA FLA.
Our little
Jr.
Church
is
now-
takine missionary offerings
every Lord s Day. Tho childron love using
their Donkey
Basket. Mrs. A.
_Kol^>rgan,
(They are getting good training.)
ELDORADO ILL. I enjoy your
Gospel papers very
much. With
love,
Paul
A.
Fredericks.(We
liked
that
picture
you drew
us
of the
camp.)
CHAFFEE
MISSOURI
We
of the Jr.
C.E.
are sending
you
, 5.00 for your
mission
work.
Please send
us
the Donlcey Basket
for
our missionary money, ^irs, T.Bushard. (Your
D.B.
is
on the v;ay and we hope you like it .^
CONYERS,
GA. Nancy
is crazy
about the Jamaican Junior and told
me
l a s t
week
sh e wants
to
send the Maican children
some of
her money.
J.Farmer (A
real helper.
PINEY
FLATS
,
TENN.
You
have
our