South Leeward Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Days of Elijah Breakthrough Series, Antigua Edition
After a fourteen-year hiatus, Seventh-day Adventists in Antigua held a national evangelistic campaign Oct. 12–Nov. 8, 2025, at the Rising Sun Cricket Ground in St. John’s. The campaign, themed “Days of Elijah: Breakthrough,” was led by evangelist Brent St. Jean and drew nightly in-person attendance of about 1,600, with more than 5,000 viewers joining online on Sabbaths—making it the largest and most impactful campaign ever sponsored by the South Leeward Conference. For five nights each week across four weeks, community guests and members gathered under the large tent to hear messages of hope amid a troubled world.
“The evangelistic campaign is a strategic approach to church growth we are taking with dual function,” said Dr. Carson Greene, president of the South Leeward Conference. “We want to revive the membership and offer hope to those in despair.”
Organizers said the relevance of the Three Angels’ Messages resonated in homes and hearts across the island as anticipation grew. “Expectations were at an all-time high,” said Pastor Frederick Alfred, communication director for the South Leeward Conference. “In the home of every Seventh-day Adventist, the conversation centered around revival and reformation that was soon to hit Antigua. Every congregation prepared the membership and community. The countdown clock began ticking with prayer and fasting, church revivals, and community outreach.”
Campaign manager Dr. Kay White explained the purpose behind the coordinated effort. “The objective is to allow, in these challenging times, people to know the truth and to get members excited about sharing it,” she said. “This is a unified approach involving all workers and all members.”
White, who also serves as personal ministries director, noted that the path to victory was not without obstacles. “We had many,” she said. “About 36 hours before the launch of the well-planned event, the forces of nature threatened to cancel it.”
Evangelist St. Jean compared the experience to the biblical story of Elijah. “In the Elijah narrative, rain was a symbol of blessing and divine favor. In this case, mere hours prior to the start, rain poured, saturating the Rising Sun grounds,” he said. “The main tent sagged, the altar was drenched, the parking areas severely waterlogged. It all seemed humanly impossible to even think about having an evangelistic series under such adverse conditions.”
Some believers viewed the storm as spiritual opposition. “Many felt this was a contest between the forces of good and evil,” said Pastor Sherwin White, assistant to the president for evangelism in Antigua. “But we are Adventists and we would not relent, nor back down.”
Once the meetings began, the Bible was opened nightly as St. Jean drew from deep personal experiences that connected with members and visitors seeking a breakthrough. From the opening sermon, “The Missing Ingredient,” his preaching resonated with conviction, passion, and what many described as “breakthrough anointing.” Energetic praise and worship each evening prepared the congregation for the Holy Spirit–led messages.
By the close of the campaign, 128 people were baptized. One new believer reflected on her life-changing experience. “The topics touched my heart. I felt like they were talking to me, especially the one about spiritualism,” she said. “After my baptism, the feeling of the presence of spirits in my house disappeared. Now I have a great desire to go out and preach about God.”
Leaders emphasized that the work does not end with the final meeting. “We now have to begin the process of discipling the new converts as well as connecting with the many friends we have embraced,” said Dr. White. “God was victorious in this campaign, and we believe that He will remain with us as we move into the next phase of our ministry,” added Dr. Wayne Knowles, executive secretary of the South Leeward Conference.
Conference leaders believe the series marked a milestone for the Adventist community in Antigua, demonstrating the power of unity and mission-focused collaboration.
By Pastor Fredrick Alfred, Communication Director, South Leeward Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
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waste ah F***ng time.
Spread the word. Work while it is day. The time will come when we will all stand before our maker to give account of how we spent our lives
No fear of God
The Adventist church should instead be saying it brought in people to do a technical training course for the youths in say Allison transmission repairs and escalator and elevator repairs and generator installation and electronic diesel engine repairs, a hundred of that graduate will impact society secure families and reduce crime and prostitution, but no, the church instead created 100 new financiers that will boost the economic growth of the Adventist church, that will increase their financial repatriation to their metropolis or church in foreign countries and their continued controlled colonization of people around the world especially of African descent, it’s time our people open their eyes, but colonialism devolve, in the days of slavery the black slave couldn’t go near the white people church services where they a blessed by the pope for production of goods to be shipped to the motherland as it’s called generated from slave labor, and now they leaved, the black man gets into these institution to continue control the people for the politicians to rule over , once our black brethren can enjoy conspicuous consumption and flamboyant lifestyle from the church collection they will.continue to keep our people poor and dispossessed them of their wealth and promise them a piece of real estate in the sky.
As a youth growing up in the Adventist faith and more so a Pathfinder, things like complaining about being excluded from independence celebration or just being apart of any of these, as they called them (worldly celebrations) was completely out. The many track and trails in those dangerous hills and bushes, cook outs, over nights bun fire sleep out under moon, while at the same time learning the Constellations or celestial bodies, the summer camps especially ay Five islands and John Hughes schools and my favorite getting up early on Sunday mornings and am talking about 4day mornings to jag to the fort James beach or sometimes to seapfort beach, while carnival celebrations, labor day celebrations etc was going on, all apart of telling us as Adventist God is the only celebration.
The many a tent meetings revival I went to, when at times rain poured heavily and we just find away to push the water off the tent roof and move on, not news wordy, plus the expected baptism that comes after or during these revival, but in today’s world everything now is apart of our media.
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May your words fall on deaf ears. 100+ souls saved equals 100+ more level heading people in society and that will never be considered a loss.