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Our Territorial Leaders
PROFILE OF THE TERRITORIAL LEADERS
CARIBBEAN TERRITORY
BIOGRAPHY Colonels Onal and Edmane Castor
Colonel Onal Castor was commissioned to the rank of Lieutenant on 10 June, 1979. After his commissioning, he was appointed in charge of Cave Mountain Corps in Western Jamaica Division. Colonel Edmane Castor née Montoban was commissioned on 19 June 1980, after which she served as Assistant Corps Officer at Montego Bay Temple Corps in Western Jamaica Division. They were married in December 1980. After two months of combined service at Cave Mountain, they were appointed to the Vieux Bourg Corps in the Haiti Division.
In July 1985, Captain Onal Castor was appointed as Divisional Youth Secretary and his wife served as Divisional Corps Cadet Counselor, and Divisional League of Mercy Secretary, in the Haiti Division. In 1989, they were transferred to the Trinidad and Tobago Division, as the Commanding Officers for Port of Spain Central Corps, and Managers of the Men’s Hostel. Captain Edmane Castor held an additional responsibility as the Divisional League of Mercy Secretary.
In 1991, Captain & Mrs. Onal Castor were transferred to the U.S.A Southern Territory, where they were appointed as Commanding Officers of the Miami Edison Corps and Community Centre, in the Florida Division. After four years of service in the U.S.A, they returned to the Caribbean Territory. Captain Onal Castor was appointed Divisional Secretary for the Barbados and St. Lucia Division, and his wife served as Commanding Officer of Wellington Street Corps and Day Care Centre. In 1997, they returned to serve in their home Division (Haiti), as Divisional Secretary and Divisional Home League Secretary respectively.
In 1987, Colonel Onal Castor was a delegate to The Salvation Army Caribbean Leadership Conference, held in Kingston Jamaica. He attended the 126th session of The Salvation Army International College for Officers in London England in 1990. In 1994, as a delegate, along with his wife, he attended the U.S.A. Southern Territory Holy Land Educational Tour. In June 1995, he attended the USA National Brengle Institute in Chicago Illinois. In September 1998, he was a delegate to The Salvation Army International Integrated Mission in London, England. He is the holder of an Associate of Arts degree in Business Administration and Management from Miami-Dade College, Florida, USA
Colonel Edmane Castor attended the U.S.A. National Holiness Convention in 1993 and the U.S.A. National Association of Evangelicals Convention in 1994.
In July 1999, the Castors were promoted to Majors, and appointed as Divisional Leaders for the Barbados and St. Lucia Division: Major Onal Castor as Divisional Commander and Major Edmane Castor as Divisional Director of Women’s Ministries. After four and half years of leadership and ministry in that Division, they were appointed on 1 November 2003, as Chief Secretary and Territorial Secretary for Women’s Ministries for the Congo (Kinshasa) and Angola Territory respectively: They were promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. Having served in Africa for four years and nine months, they returned to their home Territory on 1 August 2008, to assume the roles of Chief Secretary and Territorial Secretary of Women’s Ministries respectively.
On 1 May 2009, Lieut –Colonels Onal and Edmane Castor were promoted to the rank of Colonel, and appointed as Territorial Commander, and Territorial President of Women’s Ministries respectively.
Colonels Castor are the parents of Tanisha Bernadel, Max Donald and Edonine: Also the proud Grand-Parents of Nastassya Vanita Lael Bernadel. |