2020 a lesson in obedience, says elder

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2020 a lesson in obedience, says elder

Obedience was the greatest lesson for the Hagley Park Road Seventh-Day Adventist Church in St Andrew and the wider Jamaica for 2020, First Elder Alpheous Bailey said at a watchnight service last night. Adding that obedience for the common good was...

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