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2023 Girls’ Brigade Week Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
	Girls’ Brigade Companies from across the Cayman Islands gathered on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Webster Memorial United Church (Bodden Town) to participate in the opening service, launching the Annual Girls’ Brigade Week. The Worship Service brought into focus the theme of the 2023 Girls’ Brigade International, ‘Rise in Strength…for Such a Time as This.’ Rev. Euthman Wray, host Minister of the Service framed his sermon, entitled ‘Stand Strong for such a time as this’, based on the story of Esther, to reflect the theme. please click here for more information (PDF file)

#EmbraceEquity Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
	Wednesday, March 8, 2023, marked International Women's Day (IWD), a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s campaign theme is #EmbraceEquity. But what is equity? Equity can be easily confused with equality. Sometimes they are even used interchangeably. But these two similar words cover two inherently different concepts. Equality means having access to the same resources or opportunities. Equity means having access to resources or opportunities necessary to reach an equal outcome. The concept of equality is based on the principle of ‘fairness’. Fairness, however, works only (and is truly fair) when the initial conditions or circumstances are the same. Equity, on the other hand, takes into consideration the fact that people start from different places. Some may require more resources or opportunities than others to achieve the same goals. please click here for more information (PDF file)

Guarding Your Speech by Rev Donovan Myers Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
	Please read James 3:1-12 As we begin this year’s journey in Lent, that forty-day period that Jesus spent in the wilderness, in fasting and prayer – ahead of being tempted by Satan – we note how prominently speech or speaking takes centre stage in that Gospel story. Both the absence of audible speech on the part of Jesus, as He separated Himself from people in solitude, fasting and prayer; to the belligerent hounding of Jesus by Satan who tests Him time after time, after time! You can’t miss the three times the tempter came to Him and “said” (he speaks or communicates). And then in response, Jesus replies “it is written”. Both use language and speech, but while the tempter uses it to beguile and deceive, Jesus uses His speech to point to God. It leaves us to evaluate and ask ourselves, how do we use our gift of speech? please click here for more information (PDF file)

The Season of Lent Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
	As part of the Church’s annual liturgical journey, we have transitioned from the Season of Epiphany into the Season of Lent. During the six weeks (and five Sundays) of Lent, we engage in meaningful spiritual preparation for Easter, the greatest Feast of the holy days in the Christian calendar. The very first step of this preparation, Ash Wednesday, sets the tone for our spiritual journey to the Cross and the Empty Tomb of our Lord. The symbolic meaning of ashes indicating mourning and sadness is a stark expression of our sinful nature. It is also a solemn reminder of our mortality and desperate need to find forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with God. On our own we are hopeless, but through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, there is the promise of cleansing and new life that extends beyond the grave! Let us then journey on in faith, hope, and love! please click here for more information (PDF file)

60th Wedding Anniversary- Rev Godfrey and Mrs Lynette Meghoo Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
	They met 64 years ago at a Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, while they both were leading separate groups of children nearby. Their marriage took place four years later at another church in Kingston on the 28th of December, 1962. This was just after the groom was ordained as a minister of Word and Sacraments. Ministry in Jamaica officially took twelve years, with some time spent at KNOX College. A few days after the wedding, they arrived in Grand Cayman on New Year’s Eve---just in time for a Watchnight Service, with a special welcome festivity held the same night for the newly married couple. They have spent a total of fifty years in Grand Cayman, most of this at Bodden Town, North Side, Gun Bay and East End Churches—all at the same time, with an additional preaching point at Old Man Bay. “I believe in pastoral work,” he says, and his wife believes in youth and Women’s ministry. please click here for more information (PDF file)

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
	As the death toll approaches 20,500, in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Northern-Syria on 6 February 2023, the international community, Churches, humanitarian organizations and charities around the world hurry to assist with teams of experts, financial aids, supplies and prayer. The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) with their partner agencies are already working on the scene to provide life-saving supplies, i.e. food, winterization materials, ambulances, and medical aid in the affected communities. Please pray daily for the tens of thousands of grief-stricken people, the injured and those who lost everything and without food and shelter in the middle of a harsh winter! please click here for more information (PDF file)

Return to Your Roots Mr. Herman Wilson Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
	The call to return to the Christian roots is a call for believers to fervently seek to know our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ better each day. He is our life, the author and perfector of our faith, and with whom we enjoy a mystical union, He is the one who enables us to become deeply aware of the glory, mystery, holiness, perfection, wisdom and goodness of God the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is what we were created for. The call is for us by faith to maintain an eternal perspective on life, and to frequently remind ourselves of who we are in Christ Jesus. We are a new creation in Christ, a new humanity created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (See John 1:12-13; Eph. 4:24.) We are the Church, partakers of the divine nature in Christ, to be an expression of the light of Christ in the world, and the temple in which God lives by His Spirit. All believers in Christ have been chosen by God before the creation of the world. (See Ephesians 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13-14; 1 Peter 1:2) We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ in the heavenly places, the realm of an invisible reality. (Ephesians 1:3) There must be a change in our worldview, a new way of life inspired by God who gives us the ability to have a deeper awareness of the eternal compared with the temporal. Our union with Christ Jesus is by virtue of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and is the essence of what it means to be a Christian. It is a spiritual reality that transcends our finite minds. It is supernatural and mysterious. (See 1 Cor. 6:17; 12:13; Eph. 5:31-32.) This union was revealed by Christ Jesus in His high priestly prayer shortly before His crucifixion. He prayed as follows for all believers. please click here for more information (PDF file)

UCJCI Women’s Fellowship Week January 22-28, 2023 Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
	MODERATOR’S MESSAGE Sisters of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, I greet you warmly on behalf of the Synod. Even though we are drawing close to the end of the first month in the year, I wish for you a Happy New Year and pray God’s blessings upon your Ministry throughout the rest of 2023. As a church, we thank God for you; for your service and the various ways through which you contribute to Christ’s Ministry and Mission in your local congregations, and at the Regional and Synodical level of the church. We cannot begin to imagine what the state of the church would be in Cayman and Jamaica, were it not for our women. This is true for many other denominations as well. May God continue to bless you, even as we pray and work towards having more of our men coming on board, because the partnership is critical. Careful note has been taken of your Theme: “Women Rooted in Christ: Bearing Fruit.” It’s a given that any physical tree that is so purposed to bear fruit, must be rooted; properly anchored in soil and receiving the required nutrients. Except for when it is manipulated by human beings, in its natural state, the fruit that is borne on a tree, is consistent with the type of tree. As Christians; as Christian women, Christ Jesus has purposed you to bear fruit. You then must remain anchored in Christ; rooted in Him and drawing from His Spirit in order to bear fruit. It is a given, if you are rooted in Christ; drawing sustenance from Christ, then your fruit must reflect your connectedness; your rootedness; your Christlike nature. You can therefore appreciate why Jesus in Matthew 7: 16-20would say, “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.” please click here for more information (PDF file)

Everything New! by Ms. Katherine Jackson (Cert. Hon.) Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
	Please read Isaiah 43:15-16 and 19-21 When I was a little girl growing up on Elizabeth Street in West Bay, I would be so delighted if, when I was getting ready for school, my mother would say, “see, I’ve made you a new pair of garters”. My mother was an excellent seamstress and when the tops of my socks would get all stretched up, and Daddy hadn’t returned home from his turtling voyages to Key West, Florida when he would bring new clothes, socks, shoes, small bicycles, and some of everything for us, Mommy would make me a pair of garters so that my socks could stay up on my spindly little legs. Garters were simply a length of elastic with its two ends sewn together, and then you’d slip them over the socks and then turn down the tops of your socks so that no one could see how really stretched up they were! New garters were a hot item and you felt like a princess when you wore them to school. It was the same when you got a new school uniform at the start of the term, or a new dress, frilly socks and patent leather shoes to wear to the Christmas programme! All things new … In these Bible verses from Isaiah 43, “the LORD, the Holy One” is saying, “Forget the former things … do not dwell on the past” – in other words, don’t park yourself there … See, I am doing a new thing! now it springs up; do you not recognize it? Don’t you understand? I am making a way in the wilderness (a place that no one wants to get lost) … and streams in the wasteland – a hot and harsh desert !” please click here for more information (PDF file)

Let the Redeemed Return by Mr Mike Bowerman Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
	It was December 8th, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. was relaxing and enjoying an evening with a friend in a Lake Tahoe hotel in Nevada prior to going on tour as he was, like his father, a musician. There was a knock on the door and, on opening it, two men pushed their way in, one aiming a gun at Frankie while the other tied up his friend. Barry Keenan and Joe Amsler then drove Frankie, blindfolded, to an apartment in the suburbs of Los Angeles where a third man, John Irwin, called Frank Sinatra Sr. demanding a ransom of $240,000. Frankie’s friend had meanwhile managed to free himself and call the police who were already on the search. They, however, advised Sinatra Sr. to pay the ransom and they would then follow up. It took only a few days for the three men to be caught, Frankie to be freed and the majority of the ransom money retrieved. The key to young Frankie being freed was the payment of a ransom. A ransom, by definition, is something paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity. In his case it was $240,000. We might describe it as the redemption price. In the Greek language used in the New Testament, the words ransom, and redemption have the same root. It is ‘lutron.’ ‘Lutron’ has to do with deliverance and freedom won and purchased at a price. please click here for more information (PDF file)