JCF Area 3 Church Service Offers Prayer for Police and Jamaica

A JCF Area 3 church service centred on worship, prayer and encouragement for police personnel, with clergy and officers taking part in songs, scripture and the collection of the day's offering. The gathering included prayers for Jamaica, the force's leadership and rank-and-file members as they continue to work under pressure from crime.

The service opened with the congregation singing "Blessed Jesus, Hold My Hand" before host pastor Bishop Kingsley Andrews led the opening prayer. He thanked God for the chance to gather in worship, asked for divine guidance throughout the programme and prayed for Jamaica, saying the country was the place where God had seen fit to plant its people. He also asked for blessing on those already in attendance and on others still travelling to the service.

Andrews prayed specifically for the Jamaica Constabulary Force, saying members often leave home facing stress and uncertainty about what the day may bring. He lifted up the commissioner, deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, senior superintendents, superintendents, deputy superintendents, assistant superintendents, inspectors, sergeants, corporals, constables and those at the training school. He also made special mention of ACP Phillips, asking that the officer be given wisdom, knowledge and understanding to continue leading well, and prayed for the person who would later deliver the day's message.

After the prayer, the congregation sang "It's All in Him." The service then moved to a responsive reading from St John 1:1-18. Corporal Conway Martin was first invited to read, but a substitute identified as Corporal Kirby ultimately led the scripture lesson. Worshippers later joined in the church anthem, "Come Thou Almighty King," identified as number 334 from Best of All, before the offering was taken with an usher, Sergeant Julius Lawson and another substitute assisting.

The choir later ministered with "Hold On," repeating its message of endurance through hardship, temptation and trouble. The item reinforced the service's broader theme of perseverance and dependence on Jesus in difficult times.