Prayer Breakfast: Those who preached

For the past 34 years the Annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast has brought together the nation’s political and civic leaders to pray for peace and guidance and hear the messages of some of Jamaica’s foremost spiritual leaders.

But it has also been the source criticism for some Jamaicans.

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See the list of those who preached at the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast over the years:

2014

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Bishop Dr. Delford Davis

Bishop/Overseer

The Power of Faith Ministries International

2013

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Rev. Dr. Maitland Evans

President, International University of the Caribbean

2012

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Rev. Dr. Lenworth Anglin

Church of God in Jamaica

2011

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

The Rev. Dr. Yvette Noble

New Kingston Bloomfield, United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

2010

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Dr. Lascelles Newman

St. Andrew Parish Church

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2009

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

The Rev. Dr. Roderick Hewitt,

Pastor, Hope United Church

2008

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

The Rev. Dr. Roy Notice,

Pastor, Mandeville New Testament Church Of God

2007

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Rev. Karl Johnson,

President, Jamaica Council

2006

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Bishop Dr. Stevenson Samuels,

General Secretary, Student Christian Fellowship & Scripture Union

2005

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Rev. Rennard White,

Pastor, Tower Hill Missionary Church, St. Andrew.

2004

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Dr. Herbert Thompson

President, Northern Caribbean University,

Mandeville, Manchester

2003

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, The Most Rev. Charles Dufour,

Bishop of the Roman Catholic

Diocese of Montego Bay

2002

Le Meridien, Jamaica

Bishop Ronald Blair,

Administrative Bishop,

The New Testament Church of God in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

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2001

Le Meridien, Jamaica Pegasus

Rev. Neville Callam,

President, Jamaica Baptist Union

Pastor, Tarrant Baptist Church

2000

Le Meridien, Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Golf View Hotel, The Holiday Inn,

Rev. Oliver Daley,

Pastor, Ridgemount United Church

Past President Jamaica Council of Churches

1999

Le Meridien, Pegasus Hotel,

Rev. Gerry Gallimore,

Past President, Youth for Christ International

1998

Le Meridien, Jamaica Pegasus

Rev. C.S. Reid,

Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church,

1997

Le Meridien, Jamaica Pegasus

Rev. Samuel Carl Vassel,

Pastor, Bethune Ave Holiness Christian Church

1996

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Rev. Everad Allen,

Pastor, Brown’s Town Circuit of Baptist Churches.

1995

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

The Rev. Dr. Peter G.W. Garth

Associated Gospel Assemblies

1994

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

The Rev. Dr. George Simpson,

Jamaica Baptist Union

1993

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Rev. The Hon. Carmen Stewart,

Jamaica Pentecostal Union Apostolic,

Custos of St. Andrew

1992

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

The Rev. Dr. Alston Henry,

Pastor, Boulevard Open Bible Standard Church

1991

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Rev. Lennox Humphrey Powell

Pastor, Assemblies of God, Full Gospel Group of Churches

1990

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Rt. Rev. Herman Spence,

Suffragan Bishop of Kingston

1989 Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Rev. Orville Neil,

President of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals/Pastor,

Grace Missionary Church

1988

The Rev. Dr. Herbert Swaby,

Pastor Emmanuel United Church, Ocho Rios

Principal, Iona High School

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1987

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

Mr. Gerry Gallimore,

Area Director,

Youth for Christ International

1986

Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,

His Grace, Archbishop Samuel Carter,

S.J. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston

1985

Oceana Hotel,

Pastor Carmen Stewart,

Downtown Kingston Jamaica Pentecostal Union

(Apostolic)

1984

Kingston Hotel

Rev. Earl Thames, United Church in Jamaica and the

Cayman Islands

1983

Oceana Hotel

Rev. C. Evans Bailey,

Pastor, Coke Methodist Church

1982 Inter-Continental Hotel

Rev. Cleve Grant, Pastor,

Constant Spring Church of God,

1981

Inter-Continental Hotel

The Rev. Dr. Burchell Taylor,

Pastor, Bethel Baptist Church

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