Shadow Companion: A Life Journey Navigating The Mire of Racism

Hymers Wilson (MDiv, MSW) was born in Hanover, Jamaica and, with his mother, came to the United Kingdom when he was one year old to join his father who had gone ahead to prepare the way for the young family. Hymers is an ordained minister who trained for the ministry at Newbold College and Andrews University. Hymers served the Seventh-day Adventist church as a pastor in both the UK and Canada for a total of 15 years. He received his Master of Social Work degree in 1997 from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and worked as a mental health therapist and counsellor in Muskoka and Peterborough in Ontario and God's Lake Narrows in Manitoba for 17 years. He has previously written and had published work in Ministry Magazine, a publication of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists' Ministerial Association and the Communicator, the newsletter of the South England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Now retired, Hymers enjoys travelling, cycling, writing, teaching Bible class and assisting his local church's New Life Neighbourhood Centre in feeding people in collaboration with the Feed the Need Durham initiative in Oshawa, Canada.