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9 Beacon Hill Road
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MA 03 • 441-234-2979 |
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Somerset Seventh-day Adventist Church
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Our History
History of Somerset Seventh-day Adventist Church
The first official meeting of the Somerset Company, later to become the Somerset Church, was held on December 12, 1970 at the Sandys Secondary School Assembly Hall. After two sessions there, the meeting place was moved to a more permanent base at the Masonic Lodge in Mangrove Bay, Somerset.
The challenge given to the company of believers who committed themselves to establishing a church in Somerset, came in a seed thought taken from Selected Messages Vo. II p., 381 & 382 and presented by Elder Carl Currie, the then president of the Bermuda Mission. Every soul united to Christ will be a living missionary to all around him. He will labour for those near and those afar offÂ….All will work with interest to make every branch strong. There will be no self-love, no selfish interest. That seed of thought was sown deeply in the hearts and minds of the company and through their conscious and persistent effort was later to bring forth fruit.
Prior to the forming of this company however, the Odd fellows Hall on Portland Square became the general meeting place for the Somerset Community in the late thirties and early forties and it was at this point in history when Adventism found its roots in the Somerset community.
The outcome of a series of meetings held by laymen from the Hamilton Church brought forth the first fruits in Somerset when Mrs. Rosadora Smith Wilson, Mrs. Elsa Jones and Mrs. Ella Rose Simmons were baptized on June 20th 1943. After a year of conducting a Branch Sabbath School, it was disbanded and these individuals officially joined the Southampton Church.
It was not until the autumn of 1970 when Byron S. Spears ran a crusade in Hamilton and at the end of thereof was asked to continue the meetings at the Sandys Secondary School in Somerset and it was out of this the Somerset Company was born.
Pastor R. A. James, then the pastor of the Southampton church was assigned to the Somerset area and had to divide his time equally between the two churches. Toward the end of the leadership of Pastor James, Somerset laymen Brothers Maxwell Thompson and Cockburn Rayner began negotiating for the piece of property the church now stands on. It was on August 20th 1977 that a groundbreaking ceremony was performed and thus began the construction of a fine edifice to the honour and glory of God.
The mountain that had in 1970 seemed insurmountable is now but a grain of sand under foot. With the challenge of spreading the word in the Somerset community, our prayer daily is that the Father provide us the strength necessary to press onward and upward. We thank you Lord.
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