Video About The History Of Jamaica's Revival Church & A Video Of Zion Sacred Heart Christian Church, A Jamaican Revival Church

ACIJJMB, Nov 4, 2020

This is a short video produced by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB). It explains the tenets of the Revival Church in Jamaica as a Christian denomination - from its emergence in 1860 to present day.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a three part pancocojams series about Revival churches in Jamaica.

This post showcases two videos about the Revival church in Jamaica. The first video presents information about the history of that Christian denomination and the second video showcases Zion Sacred Heart Christian Church, a Jamaican Revival church. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/10/two-videos-of-jamaicas-kumina.html for Part II of this series.Part II showcases two YouTube videos of Kumina Revivalist music and dancing. Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are included in that post.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/10/2010-video-about-watt-town-revival.html  for Part III of this pancocojams series. Part III showcases a YouTube video of Jamaica's Kumina churches. Part II also provides a complete reprint of Part II of a 2015 Jamaican Gleaners' three part series on Kumina.

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and religious purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks to the producers of these embedded videos, and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on Jamaican Revival churches. Click the "Jamaican Revivalist Religion" tag for more posts in this series, including "General Information About Jamaica's Revivalists Religious Denominations (with YouTube video: "Who are Zion Revival people ?") http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/general-information-about-jamaicas.html   and "Seven Videos Of Jamaican Revivalists Thanksgiving Tables (with information & comments)" http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/seven-videos-of-jamaican-revivalists.html .

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BRIEF NOTES ABOUT JAMAICA'S REVIVAL CHURCHES
From http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/the-rise-of-revivalism-in-jamaica_122140?profile=1470 "The rise of Revivalism in Jamaica" by Shalman Scott, January 21, 2018
 "Revivalists are known widely as Revival Zion, Zionist, Revival, and Pocomania — [These churches are] a blend of Baptist, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Pentecostal beliefs and practices with modified African beliefs and practices added." 

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumina#:~:text=7%20External%20links-,Definition,a%20form%20of%20Jamaican%20Revivalism.
"Kumina is also known as Pukkumina or Pocomania, although the latter term is largely pejorative.^[4] It is a form of Jamaican Revivalism.^[4]

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR VIDEO #1
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
1. Queenie Bee, 2018
"Spiritual Baptist JA version."

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2. Ro in the cut, 2018
"Jemelia Miller i love jamaican revival & spiritual  Baptist  my parents  are Jamaican but i grew up in spiritual Baptist church  in Canada"

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3. Love Endless, 2019
"Baptist has nothing to do with revivalist totally different sects hun"

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4. Jerene Smith, 2019
"What are those candles for only the Blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth works"

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5. Shelly-Ann John, 2020
"Candles is for puriry meaning if you live in sin he can break whatever cureses are on you.Especially if you dealung up with unclean stuff in your life.Trust me he can expose you and clean dont play with the lord he is very powerful."

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6. Shelly-Ann John, 2020
"I am from trinudad wow baptist is really powerful wow love it.It surely cleanse your spirit and deliver you.

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7. Delicious Occasions, 2020
"Good to know that revival is still alive in Jamaica. I remember going to one of these churches as a child when I went on holidays to my aunt in St. Thomas. I remember being scared senseless when ladies in white from head to toe marched into the church and started spinning persons around. When they got to me I quickly sat down. It was all very suspicious and scary.   Thank you for preserving this in video form."

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8. Kerry teegs, 2021
"Ironically so did I. Scary for a child indeed"

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9. Luna Lea, 2021
"I smile from ear to ear when viewing this, deny or accept it, so good to see, Africa in Jamaica, I used to follow them and loved the "trumpeting" and later discovered it was to call the Ancestral spirits!🥳💚🙏🏾👏🏼

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10. miss j Rich, 2021
"All this kind of worship is from Africa ase"

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11. Christine Reynolds, 2021
"My father Kapo was instrumental in pushing for THIS religion to be recognized as such.  “61” as you would  be more my father’s thing.. celestial bodies.. invoking spirits.. African based.. you might think it started in ja... it was brought over!"
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Here's an explanation of "6i" as it is used in the context of this comment:
From https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150613/spirit-revival-part-one  "In the spirit of Revival - Part One"  by Paul Williams, June 10, 2015 
..."Revivalism didn't emerge as one cohesive force. There are two branches, the 60 Order or Revival Zion, and the 61 Order or Pocomania. Zion tends to have many elements of orthodox European religions, while Pocomania represents mainly elements of African spiritual worship and practices."
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12. Nico E, 2021
"Your father is a national treasure, a plan should be put in place to preserve and teach these traditions. Otherwise the mysteries of revival die with the elders .

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13. Damion Wallen, 2021
"I am a proud Rivival youth living in new York Rivival all the way big up my Rivival family in jamaica"

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14. Jenny Kaye, 2021
"Blessed be,am a 60 revivalist and all I can say,If a person doesn’t understand it , don’t criticize it . One spirit but different calling .blessed up my brothers and sisters in jesus name."

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15. Celestial Tarot Readings with Sam Jo, 2021
"I am from St Thomas Revival tradition."

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16. KingJDMI, 2020
"Great! If more would get involved and share their faith of Revivalism, Spiritual Church and the Spiritual Baptist, there could be greater respect and understanding. Thank you for sharing. Now, if someone will take time to explain the use of the cords, talcum power etc., that would help even more."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2: Zion Sacred Heart Christian Church

Rupert Bourne, Apr 15, 2014

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR VIDEO #2 
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only

1. dellee smith dellee smith, 2014
"glory!!!"

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2. Oneil Gordon, 2018
"Glory to God dancing for the almighty God."

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3. Oquive Morgan, 2015
"I love Jamaican revival so much u'll making dance all the time"

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4. John Miller, 2018
"Real talk"

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5. Angela Reid, 2016
"I wish you all were in New York or Pennsylvania, USA. I'm  from Jamaica, and I was raised in a Revival Zion church just like this one. So, I'm accustom to worshiping  like this. It touches every part of me and reminds me of going to church with my grandmother. No other church can worship like Zoin church. When you're done for the day, you already lost ten pounds. Revival church gives you a work out!! No gym is required when you attend a Revival church lol!! God Bless my homeland JAMAICA!!"

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6. Life wid Sammi, 2017
"good movements ...zion ave the key to open may lands"

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7. Shaquan Orlando, 2018
"Revival feel the vibrations watching from my beautiful country Guyana."

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8. Kayson Jones, 2018
"Zion love 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

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9. Patra MorningStar, 2019
"Greetings does anyone know the name of the plant that they're carrying over their heads? Thank you so much & God bless. 🇯🇲❤💛💚"

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10. Teddy Boo, 2020
"Jeremiah plant"

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11. Mellicent Slowley, 2018
"Come on revival people"

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12. Luna Lea, 2020
"U can tek de people outa Africa, but u can neva tek Africa outa de people!🥳💚"

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13. Safia Seivwright, 2019
"True Revival Time...AMEN, Glory to God."

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14. SIMMAUD, 2020
"What is he spraying around the table (about 5 minutes into the video)?"

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15. Vera Wallace, 2020
"I think it is some kind of water.   "Kananga water""

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16. SIMMAUD, 2020
" @Vera Wallace  I seem to remember Grandma in England sprinkling Rose Water, but somehow "Kananga Water" rings a faint bell."

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17. Claudette James, 2019 
"I love my Zionists"

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18. June Blackwood, 2019
"Yes Zion awake...."

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19. Cynthia Smith, 2020
"I realylove this revival band this is the real Old time."

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20. Sharron Thompson Mcfarlane, 2020
"I LOVE REVIVAL CHURCH...OH WHAT A BLESSING 💃💃💃💃💃✊✊✊✊💃💃💃💃"

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This concludes Part I of this three part pancocojams series on Jamaica's Revival churches.
 
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