Madge saunders biography
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Madge Saunders
Marjorie Prentice "Madge" Saunders (25 February 1913 – 2 March 2009) was a Jamaican Christian minister and community worker. She was the first woman in the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to serve as a parish minister.
Saunders grew up in Galina, Saint Mary Parish, the sixth of seven children born to Ida (née Myers) and Walter E. Saunders. Her mother died when she was young, while her father worked as a wharfinger. Saunders attended Free Hill School in Port Maria, and began working as pupil-teacher in Galina at the age of 14.
Madge saunders biography
She went on to study teaching at Bethlehem Moravian College, and then worked as a primary school teacher.[1] Saunders was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, and eventually decided to pursue the ministry.
From 1965 to 1968 she studied at St Colm's College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and on her return to Jamaica was made a deaconess and employed as the church's first full-time youth organiser. In that c