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DEACONESS
LEADRE HAMUTAL ILANE HANDFIELD
Hamutal, whose name has the Biblical connotation “asked of the Lord,” is the sixth child of ten children born to the late Oswald and Dorothy Handfield.
The only sister of eight loving brothers who affectionately call her Titter. She is married to Samuel Handfield; together, they have five loving children (one of whom is now deceased) and nine precious grandchildren.
Hamutal attended the now-known Adelaide Oemler
Primary School in Bottle Creek and secondary education
at the Helena James Robinson High School in Grand Turk.
She served the TCIG Education Sector for 37 years as a
teacher, between Kew and Bottle Creek Primary Schools.
Her tertiary studies were completed at Micro Teachers
College Jamaica, and she obtained a Bachelor’s in early
childhood education from the University of the West Indies
in Trinidad and Tobago. She has a certificate in Christian
Ministries in Bible Hermeneutics from Northwestern
Caribbean Baptist Theological Seminary, Grand Cayman,
and a certificate in Sunday School Superintendent Vacation Bible School from Mandeville Church College, Jamaica.
She developed a love for the Lord at the age of 14 years, accepted the Lord as her personal Savior, was baptized, and became a covenant member of Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, where she still carries out her duties faithfully, allowing God to use her for His glory.
Hamutal served in every capacity in the church; presently, she is the leader of the Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, president of the Woman’s Missionary Band, Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School Teacher, General Secretary of the North Caicos Baptist Association, Vacation Bible School Director, a longtime member of the NCBA Choir, and actively involved in church and community services.
In 2015, led by the Spirit, she formed a Sunday school program named North and Middle Caicos Sunday School Best, Empowering Youth for Christ. As an educator by nature, she used every opportunity to encourage and guide those with whom she came into contact to Christ.
Having given outstanding service in critical areas of education and the teaching profession, Hamutal now devotes her time to the service of the Lord. Some of her hobbies are reading, writing, music, sports, swimming, and farming.
It is her humble desire and aspiration to continue preparing for the Lord’s return, molding lives for God’s kingdom, and following in the footsteps of Jesus, who touched lives and changed people.
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