Pastor motivates male students

IT is possible.

This was the word that the Director of the Drug Education & Counselling Services, Pastor Roger Husbands, gave to the young students of Bay Primary School, as he spoke with them on Monday during the Boys’ Week morning assembly at the school.

“I had to speak to you and heard that your theme for this season is ‘Mission Possible’. I want to talk about that word ‘possible’, and I think that it is a really good word, and let me tell you why it is a good word... because in our lives, sometimes we don’t believe that we can accomplish anything.”

He told the young students that in order for things to be possible for them, however, firstly, they need to have a belief that they have the capacity to accomplish anything that they want to, and he spoke about the perils of not believing in yourself, and how this can lead you down the wrong path.

“At a young age, I started to smoke drugs with guys; I started to give a lot of trouble at home; I started to give a lot of trouble at school, and sooner or later, I believed that I could not achieve nothing at all in this life. Actually, people used to call me ‘foolish and ignorant’, and I felt as though I could not do anything at all in life. I was thinking that things were impossible for me.”

He said a part of the problem was that he grew up in a home which was of a lesser socio-economic status, and he felt that this was all that he was destined to be as well.

“Because I grew up in a poor home, per say, I felt as though I would always be poor. I grew up in a home where nobody in my house was really educated, and I thought that that would have happened to me as well, because I believed that things that seemed possible for other people could not be possible for me.”

He said that it was at this point that he started to do drugs, and later on, he was arrested by the police for trespassing on private property and theft, and his drug habit continued because of his belief that there was “nothing in life that I could achieve.”
Husbands said that things started out quite well for him, where in primary school, he had a goal: He wanted to be a teacher, but as a result of the friends that he was around, he was led down the “wrong road,” but he made an effort to turn his life around and then set on a course to make things right again.

On the personal level, he went back to his family and apologised for everything that he did wrong, while on the professional level, he decided that he could achieve anything that he wanted to achieve, and as a result, he owns his own business and pastors his own church, among other things, and all because he changed his mindset from impossible to achieve to possible to succeed.