ZONE WORK ORGANIZED

In 1939 the zone work was organized. The island was divided into four zones. Brothers were appointed as zone servants and were instructed to spend a week with each congregation to strengthen it and to aid it in its field witnessing activity. Brother Charles Laurent was sent to the east zone, Brother Conrad Anderson to the west, Brother Headley Graham to the north and Brother Edgar Carter to the south.

Brother Carter used to recall the days when he was a young, zealous pioneer of almost inexhaustible energy. He did a fine work of organizing congregations in the parishes of Clarendon, Saint Catherine and Manchester. His means of transportation for zone work was a bicycle equipped with a carriage for his belongings. Distance and hills were no obstacle for him. Later, when the zone work ceased, he traveled the length and breadth of the island on his bicycle, serving the congregations as servant to the brethren (circuit overseer). In 1945 he became the first Jamaican to receive training at the Watch Tower Bible School of Gilead. He continued to serve the Jamaican congregations after his graduation in January 1946 but soon became very ill and had to leave the full-time service. Although incapacitated, he remained active in Jehovah’s service until his death in August 1983.

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Edgar Carter with the bicycle that he used in the circuit work