Deacon calls for a change of heart
LONGVILLE PARK, CLARENDON:
DEACON PHENALEE Wong of the Longville Park Baptist Church and chief financial officer of the RJRGleaner Communications Group Andrea Messam have urged Jamaicans to unite and love each other.
“We believe that a united Jamaica is a powerful weapon in our efforts to fight the monster of crime. We believe that a united Jamaica is a great tool in building and maintaining our communities across Jamaica,” Messam said on Sunday during a Cross Country Invasion church service, held at Longville Park Baptist Church, Clarendon.
Messam added that Cross Country Invasion will be used as the vehicle for the next two months to visit the parishes across the island and interact with residents.
“Crime levels are not indicative of what we truly are as a people. We are a loving, caring, kind, and compassionate people. As Jamaicans, we must resist with every fibre of our being the settling in of a new wave of criminalisation in our country,” she said.
Meanwhile, Wong echoed Messam’s sentiments in his message to the church, noting that Jamaica does not have a crime problem, but rather a ‘heart’ issue.
“I believe what we really have is a problem of the heart. Heart of man has grown desperately wicked. When we fail to love one another, to care for each other, the result is evidenced daily, the killing, the mayhem daily, the level of aggression in our society,” he said.
Wong also made the call for the leaders of the country to offer a level playing field for all.
“We cannot have a society where [there is] one set of rules for one set of people and there is another one for another set ... for all of us, the ground is level at the foot of the Cross,” he said.