THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH in Barbados is focusing on educational work and institutions in a special weekend programme from tomorrow until Monday.

The programme begins with a National Education Convention tomorrow at the Mile-And-A-Quarter Church, Hopeland, St Peter, at 9 a.m. Guest speaker will be pastor Dr Bertram Melbourne of Jamaica, interim Dean of the School of Divinity at Howard University in Washington, DC.

Other specially invited overseas guests on the day's programme are Dr Vernon Andrews, director of education of the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists; Dr Orville Woolford, former director of education in the Trans-European Division; Pastor Anthony Hall, and Matthew Greaves and Stephen Pilgrim, vice-presidents of the University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad. All are invited to attend.

People interested in attending the University of the Southern Caribbean should attend the special session at 4:30 p.m. Phyllis Woolford, chair of the Department of Nursing, will also meet with prospective nursing degree students.

On Monday the 14 Seventh-Day Adventist secondary schools across the Caribbean will participate in the Caribbean Union's Secondary School's Talent Parade at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic. (PR)