YOUR BODY is an altar so be careful what and who you connect with.
That warning came from Pastor Sandra Holford as she addressed a room packed primarily with women at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on Saturday night, during the final of a seven-month period of erecting altars of prayers for the country, families, children and the church generally.
This mandate, carried out by women from combined churches across the island, climaxed on Saturday in joyous praise, dance, flag-waving, worship, teaching and sharing.
Holford, one of seven women who spoke, explained that an altar was a place of obedience, sacrifice, worship and communion with God.
“All the men of God built altars after they had experienced victories in their lives,” she said, adding that these altars were places where they remembered God or left something for the generations to come.
Holford said with so many cultures infiltrating the island and offering sacrifice to their gods, it was necessary to tear down some altars, including ungodly ones set by forefathers.
She urged the congregation to be vigilant and establish and “water” those altars which had been set up during the seven-month period.
While especially pleading with women not to connect their bodies to ungodly people, spirits, mediums of anything contrary to God, Holford said it was her belief that “ungodly altars were uprooted and dismantled” during the past seven months and righteous altars had been established to take the country forward. 
She said the Bible showed that not every altar erected was accepted by God. He was calling His people “as a holy bride” to prepare for His coming, she declared, and therefore godly altars must be erected at this time.
“There are ungodly altars and there are godly altars, such as the one built by Noah when God promised not to destroy the earth again by a flood.”
She also mentioned the godly altars which were erected by Abraham and Jacob after their respective encounters with God.
Holford stressed it was her desire to see men, women and young people inside and outside of the church delivered from lust, sexual sins and to see Barbados healed.
“We are praying that Heaven will visit Barbados and the Caribbean.”
In a brief interview with Altar Call during the evening, Elder Harriette Small said that as the country prepared to celebrate its jubilee year of Independence next year, women of God wanted to celebrate and establish altars of prayer so God would free the country of the things which had kept it down over the years.
“Our 50th anniversary will be a year of jubilee. We are not waiting until November 2016 to celebrate. We have been establishing altars of prayer and believing God that in our jubilee year we will reap benefits.
“We have been fertilising the ground with prayer during the past seven months and have sought God to heal our land,” she added.
Together with Holford and Small, other speakers on Saturday night were Prophetess Caroline Coulthurst, Pastor Suzette Husbands and Ministers Heather Bynoe, Sonia Johnson and Esther Arthur.
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