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The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands Conference of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas
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Rejoicing in God's Unlimited Possibilities
About the B.T.C.I.
"For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in, naked and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me." "In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
Mission Statement

The mission of the B.T.C.I. Conference is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ by furthering the practice and teaching of Methodism in the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands and elsewhere, pursuant to the constitution, rules, standing orders, discipline, practices and principles of the M.C.C.A.

More specifically, it is challenged to:
(a) establish and maintain churches, societies, congregations, institutions of learning, manses, playgrounds, mission houses, cemeteries, church buildings and premises, day care centers, facilities for the relief of poverty and the healing of the sick, and the care of the aged, homeless and disadvantaged
(b) train ministers and lay persons for mission
(c) acquire and manage civil and personal property for the work of the Conference
(d) secure financing for the management, administration, activities, programs and operations of the conference
Rev. Dr. Raymond Neilly
 The Rev. Dr. Raymond Neilly, President of the B.T.C.I. Conference in referring to preparedness for challenges to a New Millennium said that "The Church must remember that it is called to social religion. That means not just remaining within the (church) building, but being involved in the community. . . ." The eradication of poverty in its broadest meaning must be the goal.

Rev. Alan Walker of the World Methodist Council, in his pamphlet entitled "What is the Meaning of Life?" refers to the great struggle to overcome the poverty which is making a truly human life impossible for many people. He describes the challenge of poverty in this way:
* Poverty is seeing babies, children die young.
* Poverty is overcrowded living where privacy is unknown.
* Poverty is illiteracy, with masses of people unable to reach full development.
* Poverty is hunger; pitiable hunger with starvation a haunting, ever present peril.
* Poverty is weariness through unbalanced diets and crippling malnutrition.
* Poverty is the terrible idleness of unemployment.
* Poverty is being emotionally and culturally deprived.
* Poverty is spiritual deadness; it is hard to hear the voice of God with an empty stomach.

Reaching out to those in need usually requires us to step outside our comfort zone to help the least of God's children. The poor, alone or vulnerable have a special place in God's heart. When we feed the hungry, clothe those in need, and offer hospitality to strangers, we are fighting the war to relieve poverty.
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