This is to take place on every second Sunday in the month. The monthly Family Sunday observance is first and foremost a time when we encourage families to come to worship together. It is a good commitment to make for 2008 – that on every second Sunday everyone in the home will attend worship together.

The monthly Family Sunday is also a time when the Parish Church through its programmes and emphases reminds everyone that family togetherness is an important ingredient in building strong and stable families. Families that worship together find that they get much needed assistance to build deep and strong bonds of love and fellowship. When families worship and pray together they experience greatly improved relationships within and among family members. By providing the opportunity once per month for families to come to worship and be blessed as one unit the Parish church is offering our families the chance to strengthen relationships and deepen family ties.

It is very common these days to hear people lamenting the fact that so many of our young people are getting involved in gang culture and criminal behaviour. What they are not paying attention to is the fact that so many of our families are so dysfunctional that they are producing young men in particular who are searching for love, support and affirmation in the wrong places and among the wrong company. If we wish to live in peaceful and harmonious communities where people respect themselves and each other then we have to do all we can to build stable and strong families. Strong communities and nations are dependent on families where children and young people grow up rooted in love and grounded in faith with positive self-esteem; in such families children and young people are taught discipline and learn to respect themselves, others and to be law abiding citizens. Our nation needs these types of families. Our church through its family Sunday is making a very special effort to encourage the building of strong families. It is now left for the members to make full use of the opportunity presented by the Parish.


Rev. Isaiah Phillip