The Tribune

By Denise Maycock

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

WOMEN of all religious denominations on Grand Bahama will come together for the annual “World Day of Prayer” today, joining some three million people around the world in a celebration of worship and prayer.

The event is being held at the New Hope Methodist Church at 7pm. This year’s service is written by the women of Suriname.

Patricia Dickenson, a member of the WDOP Committee of the Bahamas and the Grand Bahama Committee, said WDOP is an interdenominational movement supported by women all over the world.

“We will be joined with an estimated three million around the world that day in a service that starts from sunrise to sunset, and within 24 hours this service will be held throughout the world, and we encourage women of all denominations to attend the service,” she said.

Rev Kenneth Lewis, superintendent of the Grand Bahama Circuit of the Methodist Church, said that Methodist women in the Bahamas have been a part of the WDOP for many years.

He noted that three years ago the women of the Methodist Church in The Bahamas wrote the entire service for World Day of Prayer and that Bahamian Annette Poitier had led the international movement in 2007 and 2015.

“This year it is being done by the women of Suriname, and we are pleased that our women have been at the forefront of this spiritual endeavour,” he said. 

Jackie Pinder, vice-president of the Bahamas Methodist Conference, and senior lay preacher at New Hope Methodist Church will be the guest speaker for the service.

“This event connects us with sisters over the world and we are all women of God sharing our concerns and praying for each other. We encourage women of all denominations to share in the power of prayer,” said Ms Pinder.