Children's Outreach Emmerton

The Mount Zion Ministries kicked off their Impacting Our Communities Programme with a children’s rally at the Emmerton Community Centre.
Approximately 100 children from the Chapman Lane St Michael environs received books and gifts from charitable donors, namely Samaritans First and 24-hour FMH and Sandy Lane Charitable Trust.
Also present at the proceedings was children’s advocate Faith Marshall-Harris representing the 24-hour FMH and the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust Helpline. Marshall-Harris identified that the Impacting Our Communities programme fulfilled the calls for faith intervention and value education amongst the youth.
“Our first need for our children is raising them up, not only bringing up but raising them up with morale . . . is to get involved in faith-based and values education. We keep complaining that they are not in church and they are not in Sunday school but I don’t think they can get there unless we adults get them there,” she said.

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