THE Mount Pleasant Green Baptist Church recently hosted its second annual speech competition under the theme “Gods’ Plan for the Family” that allowed young people to exercise their talents in public speaking.
The 2015 Kendra Major Memorial Speech Competition this year had eight competitors in various categories. Over the next few weeks Tribune Religion will publish the speeches of winners in each category.
“We want to say a special congratulations to all of you from Rev Wesley L Thompson (church pastor) and his lovely wife, Minister Marsha Thompson; Rev Garth and Annamae Johnson (Ministry directors). Minister Edison and Donella Mackey (speech competition coordinators). We would like to thank God for being in control of everything that took place,” the church said in a statement.
The judges for this year’s competition were Carolinda Hepburn, Sherryann Johnson Deal and Lakeisha Ferguson (Bachelor in Communication); the time keeper was Toastmaster Franklin Donaldson.
The winners are as follows: Primary School Category
Gabrielle Allen and Anaya Griffin, tied at first place.
Junior Category
Indira Mackey - first place
Patrico Fritz - second place
Destiny Bridgewater - third place
Senior Category
Tamicka McFall - first place
Antonique Johnson - second place
Alexander Rolle - third place
Indira Mackey’s winning speech in the Junior Category
“The question is, do you know your plan for your family?
Chairperson, distinguished judges, my fellow orators, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
God, in the beginning, gave the first family a plan. If a family does not have a plan it will disfunction. There will be disfunction because there will be no order.
Maybe, God’s plan for your family is...wealth, success, or to serve and to honour Him.
God expects us as Christians to keep the commandments, to worship and also to stay in His presence, although sometimes we fall down and blame Him. We should know that, that’s only Him, preparing us for His plan. And it brings us back to the question, what is the plan?
If a family has order, respect, and of course God in it, success is reachable.
If a family has no order at all, respect and God is definitely nowhere to be found in the family; it is destined to reach failure.
That is why we need to keep God in our families by:
Waking up every morning to pray and also to worship Him.
To fast in difficult situations.
And also to stay in His presence.
Don’t forget, we are talking about the family, so we do these things as a family.
All of this planning doesn’t come easily; planning comes along with failure also. Some people take failure hard, but others take failure likely.
Fortunately, I have a suggestion: just keep the faith and hold on. God’s plan is going to come out as He planned. Many are asking, what, why, when is this plan going to do.
Well, I can answer that. Your plan is the destiny God has for you. You cannot expect your plans to work without faith in God. God wants you to keep Him as head in your family. I say this because many families do not believe in the plan that God has for them; so we need to keep the faith and walk into God’s plan for your family.
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