Establish special needs ministries in churches, pastor urges

Pastor Laundale Munroe, the Sabbath school and personal ministries director of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), is urging members of the congregation in Hanover to establish special-needs ministries within their respective churches.

Munroe was speaking at the Hanover SDA churches’ parish convention at the Bioprist Knowledge Park in Haughton Court, Lucea, recently. According to Munroe, the special-needs ministry is part of the mission ACTS (Adventist Churches Transforming Society) programme.

“We cannot allow for the Government to be doing things for special needs and we are not doing anything,” the pastor said. “Recently, the Disability Act was passed. If you are disabled, you won’t pay income tax. The point I am making is that others are doing stuff for special needs, but what about us?”

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