Cayman Islands’ Adventist churches gathered last Saturday (29 July) to begin planning for a regional summit to be held on Grand Cayman in March 2019. Saturday’s joint planning meeting of churches took place at the Walkers Road Kings Church.

The summit is in support of the region-wide Lord Transform Me (LTM) initiative launched locally in January 2016. The LTM, organised in phases spanning five years, aims to inspire and motivate church members to forge and to strengthen personal relationships with God and to develop their talents in the service of God, their church and the wider communities.

The combined churches’ Saturday afternoon planning drive was jointly led by Pastor Jeff Jefferson, local LTM and Personal and Pastoral Ministries Director, and Elder Joshua Lawrence, Retention Leader, Assistant Personal Ministries Director, and Bible Counsellor.

The LTM programme was introduced region-wide by the Adventist Inter-American Division (IAD) that is responsible for the administration of the churches in the nearly 50 territories spread across the Caribbean and Latin America.

For the 2019 Cayman summit a contingent of nine IAD LTM leaders, along with delegates from churches in this area of the Caribbean (inclusive of Cayman, the Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas) are expected on Grand Cayman March 24 to 31, 2019. The summit, with the aim of consolidating and expanding the locally tailored LTM initiative, will be organised in nine centres on Grand Cayman.

Similar LTM summits will be arranged in selected countries within groupings of the other territories administered by the IAD.

Local preparations for the summit will be formally launched in September, 2017, when members of local churches will subdivide into small groups who will be trained and resourced in readiness. Progress assessments will be conducted at various points.