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Wesleyan Church honours stalwart during “Month of the Elderly”
Eighty-seven-year-old Amy Geraldine Layne of 75 Norton Street, Lodge, was yesterday given a memorable experience when she was visited by some of the young children of the Mountain Heights Wesleyan Church who dedicated a song to her “Let the worshippers arise”.
The visitors also presented the senior citizen with a gift hamper.
The children were accompanied by Sisters Pearl Raghnauth and Wandanee Harris who spearheaded the visit on behalf of the Pastor and members of the Mountain Heights Wesleyan Church.
The “Wesleyan Stalwart” being presented with a hamper by some children and members of the Mountain Heights Wesleyan Church yesterday at her home in respect of the “Month of the Elderly”.
According to Sister Wandanee Harris, Ms. Layne has been an ideal, outstanding member of the Wesleyan Church for years; she is the perfect role model for the younger generation especially because at her age, she is still an active member in church conducting bible study and teaching bible classes. She even reads without the aid of spectacles.
When Kaieteur News visited Ms. Layne at her Norton Street residence, the children from the church were already there conversing with the older woman. She was relating her story from the day she “got saved by the Lord”.
Layne, who was born on August 29, 1923, told this newspaper that she grew up at the Christian Brethren Church in Essequibo and became saved in 1945, when she was 22 years of age. She joined the Wesleyan denomination and came to Georgetown in 1947 where she later got married in 1949.
She stated that she graduated from the Bible School in 1980 and went to serve as a pastor at a church in Vergenoegen, at age 57.
She served in this capacity for 20 years and then retired in 2005, after which she dedicated five years towards mentoring at the church.
Kaieteur News understands that Layne also helped build and establish a Wesleyan Church located at Farm, West Bank Essequibo.
“I was never sick one day that prevented me from being there at church on the pulpit,” she said.
The very jolly and ardent church member explained that God worked through her on numerous occasions, of which five of the young individuals at her churches grew into pastors themselves.
One of them pasturing at the church in farm, another took over from her at the church in Vergenoegen and two others who are now pastoring at a Nazarene Church. She explained, “I have not served in vain. People are there to carry on and are doing well”.
Layne’s daughter-in-law stated, “Never one Sunday did I hear she was sick, that she was prevented from going to church. Praise the Lord for that”.
She went on to say that her mother-in-law is not registered in any clinic for regular check-ups and she takes care of herself; even to the extent of washing her own clothes and other chores.
Sister Harris said that the purpose of this “honorary” service was two-fold; that the children (the lambs of the flock) will be inspired by such an outstanding stalwart and will grow spiritually and secondly to “celebrate” a woman who is deserving of such honour, who has been growing old very gracefully and has been very consistent in the work of the Lord.
Layne also expressed her thanks to the Mountain Heights Wesleyan Church.
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