Barbados Advocate News Report

During a special service at its Rock Dundo, St. James home, a condensed history of the house of worship was given by Board Member, Reverend Gail Price, where she highlighted some of the challenges faced in the establishment of the church and some of the missionary work and achievements completed over the years. Despite being grounded in St. James, the ministry had missions to areas such as Deacons, Eden Lodge, Gall Hill and New Orleans, as well as across the Caribbean, the United States and as far as Nigeria.

Starting out as a Sunday School superintendent in the area in 1980, CEO and Founder, Apostle Dr. Lucille Baird, delivered the sermon in which she told the story of the many obstacles that stood in the way of the establishment of the church. She, however, stated that a way was made for her.

“I am glad to be able to stand before you after 25 years of ministry. Going through the ‘Red Sea’, going through the darkness and the hard times to tell you that God is a great God. I can testify about the Lord. I can talk about him because I have met him.”

With Governor General, Dame Sandra Mason, sending congratulatory greeting and Parliamentary Representative for St. James North, Edmund Hinkson, in attendance, Dr. Baird spoke about the blessings and joyous events that abounded in the early part of the year before COVID-19 had reached Barbados, and the jarring reality that the pandemic brought with it. Whipping up members of the congregation with her stirring sermon, she added that although the attack of the viral infection disrupted the way of life as we all knew it, there were some things that were able to survive.

“I can say that we have all of the members coming back out and I thank God because we were able to connect with them and keep ministering to them. We’ve had our feeding programme for the last 27 years. We were still able to feed the people during the pandemic and shutdown period and I thank God for that. God knew what he was doing and God did what he said he was going to do,” she said. (MP)