Grenada Revisited

"We've all seen these anniversary celebrations; and if you're like me, you dread the long recitations of "how it all began," with lists of dates a mile long. But in this case, rather than rehearsing interminable historical particulars about the inception of the Adventist work on the island, the organizers chose instead to dramatize it—which made all the difference in the world. With abundant energy and belly-pumping humor couched in the colorful local vernacular, participants depicted the arrival in 1892 of American missionaries Dexter A. Ball and William Arnold to distribute Adventist literature. And as they acted out how Warren G. Kneeland and W. A. Sweany would follow them in 1904 to establish Grenada's first Adventist church at Mount Rose (on the island's northern end), they carried the entire audience with them. It was from Mount Rose that the Adventist work spread to the rest of the territory..."

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