BMS World Mission

Jamaica

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Region: Americas
Capital: Kingston
Area: 10,991 sq km
Population: 2,780,132 (est July 2007)
Languages: English, patois English
Religions: Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, spiritual cults
Life expectancy: 73.12 (est 2007)
Population below poverty line: 14.8% (est 2003)

 

 

Jamaica

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Although BMS no longer supports mission personnel in the Caribbean, BMS has a partnership with the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU), which has involved the financial support of mission programmes, ministerial training and church planting. The JBU is led by General Secretary Karl Johnson and supports small Baptist communities in the region, including pastoral support to Jamaican Christians in Panama.