Rev Carmel Jones by Marcia Dixon

Rev Carmel Jones founded the Pentecostal Credit Union (PCU) in 1979. It is now the second largest credit union in the country. Now aged 80, Rev Jones, a COGIC minister, is a member of the Windrush Generation who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean between the late 1940s and 1960s.

Over the years, the PCU has provided loans for pastors to buy churches as well as make essential high-priced purchases, and for individuals to start businesses. Now under new leadership, the PCU is on a mission to support entrepreneurship and wealth-building in the Black community.

Rev Jones is still heavily connected to the PCU, and talks about its origins, his life and his hopes for the PCU’s future.

Read the full article on the Keep the Faith website here.