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Hawthorn Memorial Methodist Church, Hawthorn Memorial Methodist Church, Christ Church, Barbados.
Hawthorn Memorial Methodist Church Sunday School presenting Jenny Tryhane, Founder of United Caribbean Trust with a Christmas card and the Make Jesus Smile shoeboxes for the Methodist children of Haiti.
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The Methodists arrived in Barbados in 1789, intent on Christianising the slave population. However, their early efforts were unsuccessful and 20 years later they had only 30 converts.
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The plantocracy regarded the Methodists as anti-slavery and constantly persecuted the church.

Methodist meeting houses were pelted with stones and their meetings were often interrupted.

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The planters' hatred was such that in 1823 an angry mob tore down the Methodist chapel in James Street, Bridgetown. In addition there were several (unsuccessful) attempts to outlaw Methodism in Barbados.
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Hawthorn Memorial Methodist Church Sunday School
The burning of the James Street Church may have been the turning point however, since by 1848 their congregation had swelled to over five thousand and there were eight chapels and four meeting places.
A Methodist child in Haiti receiving a Make Jesus Smile shoebox wrapped and packed by a child at Hawthorne Methodist Church.

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A child in Haiti receiving a Make Jesus Smile shoebox wrapped and packed by a child at Hawthorne Methodist Church.
Thanks to the children of the Hawthorn Methodist church in Barbados that beautifully wrapped and packed these boxes for the Methodist children in Haiti. Thanks to the children of the Hawthorn Memorial Methodist church in Barbados that beautifully wrapped and packed these boxes for the Methodist children in Haiti.

Thanks to the Sunday School children of the Hawthorn Memorial Methodist church in Barbados.

Thanks to the children of the Hawthorn Methodist church in Barbados that beautifully wrapped and packed these boxes for the Methodist children in Haiti.
 
 
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