Pastor: Stop crime with prayers

If there is hope for the country to turn around, change must start in the church. Yesterday, at the well-attended start of the Seventh-day - Adventist Church satellite crusade, resident pastor Roger Morris of the San Fernando chapter chastised the church for its lack of involvement within society.

Pastor Morris, in his spirited sermon at the church,  made reference to the ‘‘Fix me first’’ Crime Stoppers ad aired on the radio and television. “If you have to deal with crime fix me first. It has truth in it. We must realise that we are contributors to the problem.” He attributed self-centred living to be the driving force of what is happening today (societal breakdown). “Persons have become too self centred. It is a problem of sin. Prayer is heard the least on television and radio. If it were not for praying people we would have been in a worse state today.”

A call was also made for the leaders of the country to humble themselves and rely on a greater power not of themselves, but of God. “The answers for the ills in society is prayer. Too many persons are living in the present. When you pray, you are humbling yourself. Prayer says, ‘I do not know what to do, but God does.’ Humble yourself and pray. I pray that the leaders can work in union with the church.”

The first ever satellite crusade will be broadcast worldwide and is scheduled to end on October 30. In attendance at the opening day of prayer were community leaders, including Snr Supt Dawson Victor, San Fernando Mayor Ian Atherly, and South West Regional Health Authority CEO, Michael Harris.