A 35-year-old Seventh-day Adventist Church member in Bahamas received the country’s top award for teachers October 6. Roderick R. Rolle, of the New Providence Adventist Church in Nassau, was named National Teacher of the Year at a special banquet hosted by the Ministry of Education.

Rolle has been described as “spontaneous, passionate, and dedicated.” He is the first Adventist in the Bahamas to be selected for this award, which he has dedicated “to all the hard working and passionate teachers who consistently give of themselves for the benefit of their students.”

Rolle is currently a language and literature teacher at the C. R. Walker Public High School in Nassau, and has been a teacher for 14 years.