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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 .


4/8

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


6/8

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


7/8

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c f

Vo l . 2

Jin) and

Carol

Herge :-, Half-VJay Tre 3 P.

0.,

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 vîll 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 COHlÎSR

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-GHRISTMASÎN

-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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i fi> : ]

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y \y>

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.

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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 ,

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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

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