On Sunday, February 1, the TBC/FCMI satellite on the UWI Mona campus celebrated its first-year anniversary. Services are convened at Chancellor Hall every Sunday, commencing at 10 a.m.
Team lead Evangelist Carol Williams took the Freedom Come Rain newspaper on a colourful journey as she reflected on the early days of the ministry and even years prior to its establishment, detailing events that now seem to have been catalysts for the harvest being reaped today.
THE GENESIS
In October 2024, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies was planning its faculty week celebration, which would commence with a church service. Evangelist Carol said a staff member she knew asked if she could find a speaker, and she approached Apostle Jeffrey Shuttleworth with the request. It was a kairos moment for the Tarrant Baptist/Freedom Come Ministries International movement, which is led by Apostle Shuttleworth, as the ministry had long been interceding for the citadel of the nation’s future leaders.
Having planted the seed, the LORD watched over it as the ministry watered it faithfully, Sunday after Sunday, tilling the soil first at the Faculty of Humanities, then Taylor Hall, the Norman Manley Law School, Rex Nettleford Hall, and Mary Seacole Hall. They were ploughing and scattering seeds all over the university campus, not certain which field would yield the greatest harvest, but confident that God would eventually grant them rest.
The Evangelist said, “That day came when the block rep at Chancellor Hall asked us to speak at their Block Week celebration. He had heard of us, as we had not only been having Sunday services on the campus, but we had collaborated with other ministries there, too, including the Engineering Society and the University and Colleges Christian Fellowship (with which we eventually partnered for an all-night prayer meeting in March 2025). That prayer meeting included UCCF presidents and students from other universities, so that was an even more momentous occasion for us. But it was really the Block invitation that opened the door to Chancellor Hall for us, and that’s where we’ve been ever since, helping to establish a righteous altar right at the leading university of the Caribbean.”
Having worked at the UWI Mona for over 30 years, the evangelist shared how grateful she was for the opportunity to lead, along with her husband, Pastor Warren Williams, the satellite at Chancellor Hall. Servants of the LORD, they had long been involved in leadership but this location required a different set of skills and measure of grace. She cited an incident that had occurred two weeks prior.
‘CHARLENE’ LOST AND FOUND A GREATER TREASURE
While her husband was preaching, a young lady, skimpily dressed, bolted into the sanctuary and walked the long aisle down to the altar! What was her story?
Let’s call her Charlene. Charlene had misplaced her phone charger the day before and could recall only two possible places she might have left it: at Mary Seacole Hall or at Chancellor. She had left her dorm at Rex Nettleford in what some might describe as “itsy bitsy, teeny weeny” clothes, never expecting that as she traversed to Chancellor Hall, she would hear the word of God and the Holy Spirit bidding her to come. She was very hesitant, as she knew she was not appropriately dressed, but it was like a magnet pulling her to the altar. And that was how she gave her life to the LORD.
“Then there have been instances where students were suicidal, and they were picked up in the spirit and prayed for, and that altar was demolished in the name of Jesus. Sometimes, when you hold the hands of some young persons to pray for them, and their sleeves shift, you see cut marks, and the moment you notice them, the student begins to cry, and you have to take them through deliverance, counselling, be a parent for them… it’s a lot of work,” the Team Lead admits. “Little did I know years ago when a bunch of us would meet every Wednesday to intercede for the university that this would be the fruit of our labour. We are thankful to be servants of the Most High God.”
NIGHT EVANGELISM TEAM
Evangelist Carol gives kudos to her core team, without which, she admits, the ministry would have been very difficult to manage. She had special commendation for every team member who was specially recognised at the first-year anniversary service, in addition to other key partners. She expressed heartfelt thanks to her husband and the night evangelism team members from August Town that walk the campus on Saturday nights to pray and invite students to come to the service the following day; and for the group of mostly university staff members who meet to intercede every morning under the big tree at the Humanities faculty, her words were taken from 1 Corinthians 3:6. Paul said, “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”