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.
Hawthorn Methodist Church
located on Rendezvous Main Road, founded
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
