Small business owner Kenesha Williams is incorporating the banner of Christ into her business through the peaceful prayer protest, which has been blooming across the island of Jamaica.
Williams, possesses many skills and utilizes them to take advantage of various business ventures. As she spoke with Freedom Come Rain Newspaper, she explained that her first business started 17 years ago, despite scrutiny from onlookers.
“I was up one night, sometime after two, and He (God) gave me the idea of making bags out of fur,” Williams explained. “When I started, I was ridiculed…that was about 2009, and they were asking me, what am I going to do with these things?”
Williams noted that since the start of her business, several other businesses have started making fur slippers, mats, curtains and and other items.
The Christian entrepreneur said that her creations fluctuate, depending on the time of year. In January, when business is slower for her, she sells meals instead. “So I’m giving God thanks for the download of businesses that I’m never, never, never out not doing anything,” she stated.
Williams, who is also the only person participating in the peaceful, purposeful, persistent, prayer protest in the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Transport Center in Half way Tree, explained that the call to stand for righteousness came one day after she missed her own local protest. She said that as she left the area, she received divine revelation.
“So, while I was walking from that location, the Lord led my heart and said, you are going to be the one now to go to the transportation center with the ministry card. So, that same day, I went across the Chinese wholesale and got a cardboard, and I wrote on it, ‘Jamaica belongs to Jesus’, and that was my first ministry card. So, from that point in time, I made several other ministry cards based on what I was led to write.”
The peaceful, purposeful, persistent, prayer protest has been in operation for over 200 days, with Christians at over 80 locations across Jamaica denouncing pressing issues relating to NIDS, governance, constitutional reform, crime, and violence.
Williams detailed how she balances business and evangelism and the different challenges that accompany such tasks. She generally carries her products on her person, while her ministry cards act as an apron, with each message before and behind her.
She noted that in incorporating her business with the prayer protest, potential customers sometimes shy away from making purchases. Even so, she continues to promote God’s Words.
“I don’t know if they’re unable to see what is written,” she said, “But, when they get close to me, and they start reading, they just turn away and they decide not to buy.”
Despite this negative feedback from some persons, others say that her stand for Christ, along with her testimony has helped to reinforce their faith in God.
She highlighted a recent encounter after sharing a testimony at the Tarrant Baptist Church. She was pleasantly surprised when a lady came to her and shared how it impacted her life.
“A lady came to me and she said, you know, that testimony you gave that day, I had a specific dream the night and I thought I was going insane and based on what you said, you know, that brought me back to reality and I was grounded and she spent up to two hours there talking to me. So, I’m saying to God be the glory, and that’s obedience because if I wasn’t obedient that time, who knows?”
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