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Boxing coach partners with US Bishop to support local communities
By Sean Devers
Boxing Coach and Pastor Clive Atwell makes one of presentations while American, Bishop Williams (left) share the moment.
Patricia Chase Green presents the 2nd placed Jared Corrica with his cheque.
The 3 prize winners. First place is Joshua Edwards (right).
Kaieteur News – Former Guyanese World Boxing title contender and Boxing Coach Clive Atwell, who is also a Pastor, collaborated with Bishop Murvel Williams from Cover the Children Ministries of California to resume the ‘Pastor Amanda Williams Scholarship fund’ in the East Bank Village of Agricola.
The requirements for eligibility entailed sending an essay of your life’s struggles and what you are doing to overcome them. The authors of the top three Essays were rewarded with lap top computers and $700, $500 and $200 USD respectively.
First prize winner was St Lucian born Joshua Edwards who resides in Grove on the East Bank of Demerara, the second prize Essay was written by Jared Corrica, while Jamila Blair placed third.
Pastor Amanda Williams Scholarship fund was established in 2018 in Georgetown, Guyana with six recipients of which three received financial rewards of $500, $300 and $200us dollars respectively.
After a year absence due to the passing of Pastor Amanda, the programme resumed this year.
The Aim of the programme, which has evolved from just Agricola into a National project, regardless of religion or race is to encourage youths and others to pursue academic enhancement. The vision is open to individuals in and out of the Church. The Villages of Grove and Meadow Bank were added this year.“As a local Church we believe that we should contribute not only to the spiritual but also to the social and academic development of those in our community,” informed Atwell.
This Year, the Youth conference was held under the theme ‘Going beyond the norm, don’t miss God’ from November 5-7, 2020.
The conference took the form of two nights of biblical teachings and question and answer segment.
The supporting scripture text was taken from Isaiah 65:17. The opening night, the Awardees and guests were educated on the theme by Atwell who highlighted that the theme was the present continuous that holds conflicts but a rewarding future if they do not give up.
Minister Atwell elaborated that the theme was timely given that everyone is stuck due to the pandemic and various elements of life and we are now called to push beyond the norm. He concluded that if we are to push beyond the norm we must possess a renewed mind in how we think and operate within the issues of life.
The second night was addressed by 67-year-old Jamaican born American Bishop Murvel Williams from Cover the Children Ministries of California.
In his charge, he highlighted the history surrounding the scripture and the cause God had to declare a new heaven and a new earth.
He reminded all that they cannot want the grace and blessings of God and walk in their own ways since this often affects our development.
Bishop Williams give his life to God at age 15 after being inspired by his eldest brother Keith Williams, who has been a Pastor in Jamaica for the last 55 years.
Bishop Williams explained that the late Bishop Ivan John of the Bible Way fellowship in Agricola initiated the relationship between the two religious bodies in 2015 on a trip to the USA.
An After School programme in Agricola was born that year when Bishop Williams first visited Guyana and in 2018 the Cover the Children Ministries was launched in Agricola after Pastor Amanda had started the programme two years earlier in California.
Bishop Williams explained that he was moved to help when he saw the needs of the Children in Agricola adding that in the USA free food and clothing is provided for the less privileged children.
Senior Pastor Natasha Taylor of the Cover the Children Ministries (Agricola) noted that the scholarship is a part of the Churches’ mandate to cater for the’ whole man’ as they seek to empower young people as they pursue education which is vital for community and National development.
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