Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

In surveying the book of Nehemiah and gleaning the nuggets from it, one thing is blatantly apparent. If we are unaware of where we are presently, we will never be able to get to where we need to be. Nehemiah faced many obstacles in his quest to rebuild the wall of his beloved city and secure its gates.

Who am I?

He faced much opposition, but he knew his roots and his family lineage.

For me today, I see my quest as rebuilding the walls broken down by the debilitating effects of structural racism, institutional classism and continued self-hatred among the dispersed Africans. The rebuilding process must start with the family unit. This unit includes and starts with father and mother. Sadly, many from the African Caribbean diaspora, have never been fathered or were ‘brought’ up by a single mother or a grandmother. The destruction of the family unit was a deliberate ploy by the slaver during the 300 years that the slave trade flourished in the Americas. Listen to what Frederick Douglas, an ex-slave said about slavery and life on the sugar, cotton and coffee plantations in the Americas, in 1855.

“Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognise their existence in the social arrangements of the plantations.” (Frederick Douglas, My bondage My Freedom, 1855).

How do we start the rebuilding process? By being in Christ first, then by being delivered by having our minds renewed. In Christ, there is neither Jews nor Greek, slave or free, male or female (Galatians 3:28ff), but in Britain, there is still structural evil to fight and reparations to be made to the descendants of enslaved Africans. See ! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colonial-shame-slaveowners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition-8508358.html

You must attend this seminar to break the chains and start the rebuilding process.