The National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee, organisers of the annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast, has announced that the 2024 event will focus on a message of hope for Jamaica’s future.
The 44th staging of the Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for Thursday, January 18, and sponsored by the VM Group, will be hosted under the theme, ‘Choose Hope: Arise and Build’. It will again be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, starting at 7:30 a.m.
Rev. Omar Morrison, pastor of the First Missionary Church, will be this year’s main speaker, while representing the youth interest will be Campion’s sixth-form student and a youth leader at the Meadowbrook United Church, Kashief Barton.
The project selected for the 2024 Breakfast is the Educate to Elevate Community Outreach, a back-to-school programme of Hope Gospel Assembly, which has been providing back-to-school resources and scholarships to hundreds of children and their families for the past several years.
Links will be shared with churches and interested institutions to broadcast the breakfast to their congregations, via YouTube and Facebook, in an effort to expand the reach and to engage a broader audience.
Reiterating the significance of the theme, Rev. Sam McCook, chairman of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee, emphasised that the theme serves as a call to maintain faith amid numerous challenges faced by individuals, leaders, and the nation.
McCook expressed that “Choose Hope: Arise and Build” urges us to embrace hope despite recognizing challenges, acknowledging our imperfections and limitations. The call is to believe that, with God’s help, we can overcome these challenges. He further noted that this hope acts as an uplifting force, igniting our spirits and empowering us to arise and build.
VM Group President and CEO Courtney Campbell acknowledged the relevance and sustainability of the event. ” As described, this is an investment, one that we at VM Group are proud to make. Our support of this forum over the past 39 years reflects our recognition of the potency of faith and prayer and the role the Breakfast plays in championing much needed values in the society,” Campbell said.
The event will also be preceded by a Week of Prayer, beginning Thursday, January 11. A National Leadership Prayer Service is set for Sunday, January 14 at 9:00 a.m., at the Waltham Park New Testament Church of God. The focal point of that prayer service will be the Ministry of Education. Rev. Dr. Anthony Oliver, president, Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, will be the main speaker and Education Minister Fayval Williams, as well as ministry officials and principals from surrounding schools are expected to attend.
The Student Christian Fellowship & Scripture Union which, for generations, has helped to foster Christian youth leadership, was the 2023 beneficiary of the breakfast contributions in support of its efforts to improve the values and attitudes of students, particularly through enhancing school devotions.
Since its start in 1981, the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast has facilitated unity and fellowship through prayer among the nation’s leaders.
Source: Our Today – https://our.today/2024-prayer-breakfast-to-share-message-of-hope/#google_vignette
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