The Church speaks out in the media

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Bwoy, the Church can't do anything right by some people eeh? If people don't hear or see the Church doing things or speaking out in the media, they think the Church isn't doing enough. When the Church is visible, they say "why now?" or "they never cared all along".

Why can't people just take things as they are. There's an opportunity to do something positive and reach many people with a positive message. Is there really anything wrong with that? Never mind the fact that the Church has been doing positive things and reaching out to communities for a very very long time ... Don't believe me? Read this whole thread again.

[Virus]

The church doing their thing is fine, the govt doing their thing (the Pier and couple other places)

I thought portia said the $28, was an "islandwide cleanup" now its just a kingston cleanup? Im pretty sure she said the waterfront would be "transformed".. only thing i see happening on that front.. is the pier, everything else looks the same

Last time i went mobay (church street) i couldnt even wind down my window.. just hoping trelawny isnt like that

[acidblade]

christians love dem cricket man

[root_gal]

Wow, christian ppl cleaning, sounds like fun. What will those crazy kids do next?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

"How can you take off the blinkers and realise that HIV/AIDS is a problem that is affecting everybody ... the Church needs to become more involved in the issue of HIV/AIDS, how to prevent it and how to provide support," she emphasised.

As such, the ministry has been training church leaders in some denominations with a hope to reinvigorate the message of abstinence. In September of last year, it started training leaders from the Catholic, Methodist and New Testament churches, as well as providing funding for the Baptist Pentecostal Churches for training.

One church that has taken up the mantle is the Bethel Baptist Church in Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew. The church is currently training 60 persons with a $2 million fund it received from the Ministry of Health.

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[BlackCryptoKnight]

Bishop chides abusive parents

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Abusive parents and New Age ideologists, whose relationship with the Almighty lack the personal touch, were chief among those targeted in a stirring homily on the true concept of love delivered by Bishop Howard Gregory yesterday.

Church-going homosexuals and sloppy dressers were also chided and put before the Almighty by retired Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, Lester Thomas, who prayed for mercy and forgiveness.

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Pastors, SDC launch job bank in Spanish Town

The Spanish Town Ministers' Fraternal, in association with the Social Development Commission, yesterday launched a job bank in Spanish Town in what they said was an effort to address the harsh social conditions in the old capital that has been plagued by intermittent episodes of violence.

"We have realised that a community wracked with crime and violence cannot be a prosperous community," said Spanish Town Ministers' Fraternal chairman, Bishop Rohan Edwards. "We want to make sure that we implement a sustainable programme that will ensure that things will remain peaceful and calm."

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[rodalembs]

Bwoy, the Church can't do anything right by some people eeh? If people don't hear or see the Church doing things or speaking out in the media, they think the Church isn't doing enough. When the Church is visible, they say "why now?" or "they never cared all along".

Why can't people just take things as they are. There's an opportunity to do something positive and reach many people with a positive message. Is there really anything wrong with that? Never mind the fact that the Church has been doing positive things and reaching out to communities for a very very long time ... Don't believe me? Read this whole thread again.

I can never understand too my friend, Is it because we dont come out and do a spin job. I remeber in the last hurricane, down in portland cottage. How the church down there in the HURRICANE a evacuate person, and helping providing food and transport, days before PJ reach there, yet still person in Clarendon complain the chruch nuh help the person at all.

Notice something, Jesus, thought the disciples how to fish, he never put fish on their tables. I notice that in our country unless you putting fish on the table as a church, you dont have alot of friends.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Educator Hyacinth Bennett yesterday chastised the group of Christians who have volunteered to clean up Kingston and sections of western Jamaica in time for the ICC Cricket World Cup, calling them hypocrites and Pharisees who have brought disgrace and dishonour to the name of Jesus Christ.

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"I am ashamed of the church. To be cleaning up today when for years and for decades this country is filthy and dirty. Where were they? I call them hypocrites. I call them Pharisees," she said.

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But yesterday, Bennett, who is herself a professed Christian, remained resolute that efforts to clean up the country could have been made long before now.

"Of course we want our country to be cleaned up, but what about the dirt that has been in the inner-city for months? What about the mess in Spanish Town? Where were they before World Cup was coming?" she asked.

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According to Bennett, Christians have failed to be consistent in speaking out about immorality, to portray the true character of Jesus, to integrate into their daily lives what they declare to be their beliefs about God, to organise and lead a successful band of warriors against crime and violence.

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[ramesh]

That is unfair of Bennett. Like other persons, Christians need motivation to go out in the community and do things. They need a cause to get behind, like making our Country (Kingston) look good for the World Cup. Pre-made slogans like "Cleanliness is Godliness" will be useful in this regard.

[Gillion]

what happens when cricket done ?