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Rector of the St. David’s Church and Chairman of the Barbados Christian Council (BXC), the Reverend Canon Noel Burke, speaking with Thelma Berry Nursery students yesterday.

National Day of Prayer held

Young people were the focus yesterday as leaders of various governmental, private and community organisations and churches gathered together to pray for the future of this nation.

Speaking on the significance of the day, Rector of the St. David’s Church and Chairman of the Barbados Christian Council (BXC), the Reverend Canon Noel Burke, told The Barbados Advocate that it was a time to lift the young people before the Lord.

“Today, the Barbados Christian Council has called for a National Day of Prayer across Barbados. So we want to remember all of our schools, we want to lift before our Lord and God all of our schools and for colleges and universities across the island, across the Caribbean and indeed across the world.”

He stated that this was important, given the increasing amount of issues that the young people growing up in today’s society are confronted with and as a result, they must be lifted up in prayer on a daily basis.

“When we look at the world, we know that many young people are facing the contradictions and so on that there are in life and many of them are seeking to resolve so many of the challenges that they face day by day and we believe that indeed we can locate the answers to the challenges and that those challenges lie in our faith in God Almighty.”

He continued, “And so we think that today’s observance is extremely important. Today is particularly strategic. It comes just about a day before end of the school term; it comes within Holy Week – in between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; it comes within the contemplation of those final words of our Lord and He prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for us, when He is praying for peace, when He was urging the disciples to continue to hold together, and where He was encouraging them to have an understanding that His sacred presence is among us, even to the close of the age.”

He stated that this National Day of Prayer was conducted with their partner organisations such as the Barbados Evangelical Association, the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI), other churches and the Ministry of Education to pray for the various schools as a number of clergy made themselves available during the day should they be called upon by principals of any of the schools.

At the time, Canon Burke was speaking to The Barbados Advocate on the sidelines of the National Day of Prayer that was held across the various nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary-level institutions in Barbados.

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