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Jamaica, the first country assisted by Food For The Poor, today includes more than 1,800 churches as partners in the distribution of food, medicine, educational supplies, and other needed items. Since 1989, the charity's street feeding program in Kingston, Jamaica has been operated in partnership with the Salvation Army. [12]
After leaving Hampton, she found work in Kingston as a volunteer social worker and used the secretarial skills, such as stenography, she had learned in school, her first job being with the Salvation Army. [5] [6] In 1926, Marson was appointed assistant editor of the Jamaican political journal Jamaica Critic.
For the first ten years of her service as a Salvation Army officer, Betty, together with her husband, served as a corps officer at Godalming, Reading, Hove and Chester-le-Street. In 1987 the Matears moved to Yorkshire where they served as Divisional Youth Secretaries and, from 1990 to 1994, as Church Growth Consultants. In 1994 Betty became the ...
Noel Da Costa was born on 24 December 1929 Lagos, Nigeria to parents from Kingston, Jamaica, who were Salvation Army missionaries. [1] After returning to Jamaica while Da Costa was young, they emigrated to New York City, living in Harlem. [2] It was here that he started violin lessons with Barnabas Istok at the age of 11. [3]
Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 June 1993. [1] [2] He was born prematurely and at three months was sent to the state-run orphanage in Kingston, where he suffered from neglect and malnutrition. [1] At the age of five, he was transferred to the Salvation Army orphanage The Nest. [1]
The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, [3] consisting of soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as ...
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Ainsworth Roy Rushton Shirley (18 July 1944 – July 2008), better known simply as Roy Shirley, and also known as King Roy Shirley and The High Priest, was a Jamaican singer whose career spanned the ska, rocksteady and reggae eras, and whose "Hold Them" is regarded by some as the first ever rocksteady song.