Slavery, indentureship still abounds

Speaking yesterday at the St Joseph Presbyterian Church’s Holy Communion Service and Tree Planting ceremony in commemorating the church 150th year’s anniversary, located on the Eastern Main Road, St Joseph, Teelucksingh implored the audience to be their brother’s keepers and remain true to the teachings of the Bible.

He asked the congregation if they were a grass-roots church or grass-roots Christians, and if they were giving more priority to serving on boards rather than serving God. “Have we strayed from the real lessons of the Bible? Do we generally come to church to worship Christ? Or do we have some hidden agenda? “If you forget this sermon today, remember the spirituality of every church is its dedication.

Why have we allowed this poor community of Bangladesh on Farm Road to exist? Christ wants us to plant trees of hope in every oppressed community of Trinidad and Tobago.” He praised those, especially non Presbyterians who contributed to the church over the decades. “I want us to always remember that on our anniversary, there are many non-Presbyterian Christians who felt that what John Morton and the missionaries were doing was good and something they needed to support.” “Reaching the milestone of 150 years is indeed a great achievement, but the church is a young branch when compared to older branch of Protestantism which is celebrating 500 years. We are connected through the mighty tree of Christianity which has been growing for 2,000 years and is watered with the blood of Christ.” Among those in attendance were Canada’s High Commissioner to TT Carla Hogan Rufelds and India’s High Commission to TT, Aniruddha Das