The incidence of sexual indecency, abuse, suicide, homosexuality and drug addiction in Barbados will be the focus of attention during a Worldwide Mum’s Day Of Prayer next month.
The event, hosted by Cassandra Bowen, director of the Isaiah 55 Centre for Spiritual and Developmental Training, takes place at the Mount of Praise Wesleyan Holiness Church, Tudor Bridge, St Michael.
Acting director of the Child Care Board, Denise Nurse, will be the featured speaker.
Each year there is a day set aside around the world for mothers to come and pray for their children.
Need for prayer
Bowen said that with Sunday school no longer holding the place of importance for most people, it was vital that more mothers understood the need to pray for their children and the importance of bringing them “before the throne of God”.
She described the situation in Barbados as “appalling”, in reference to a March 5 SATURDAY SUN report that a four-year-old boy was molested in the bathroom at his school three times in two weeks.
Bowen said: “Growing up, that was unheard of, or it was confined to the household but to have it in the public domain is a real shock.
“As a grandmother of four-year-old grandchildren, it makes me wonder what is going to happen to them as it is no longer safe sending them to school.”
She added that the church and homes were not doing enough in combating the problems and called for the entire country to work together to get the society back to the way it used to be.
As a continuing effort, the organization, through the Prayer Mums Network, has small prayer groups in all the schools across the island and is inviting parents or teachers who want their schools to be involved to contact the organization to have their schools registered.
