Leader of the Love March movement (LMM), Dr. Daniel Thomas, expressed excitement and hope for Jamaica’s youth as the date for the second staging of the G. William Gordon Academy approaches.
The two-day event, which will mainly entail seminars from various speakers, is scheduled to take place in October of this year and is designed for young leaders and ministers in the Jamaican church. The initiative is aimed at being a spark that eventually spreads like a wildfire and then leads to a revival. According to Dr. Thomas, the goal is to educate the youths as they carry out their different roles in the church.
“I believe that there’s a cohort of young people who are zealous for the Lord, who carry the fire of the Holy Spirit, and who are willing to contend for this nation in ways that we have not seen before. But sometimes it’s a little fire, you know, but what they just need is to come close to somebody who has a bigger fire, and then the fire just spreads.”
He stated that the LMM hopes to bring these young leaders into a space where the “heart of the Lord will be expressed concerning the nations.” He also mentioned that some topics to be discussed at these seminars will be about the nation of Israel, gods that must fall, the wickedness on the land that must be confronted, and the rise and impact of Islam on the world.
Dr. Thomas also added that the name of the event, G. William Gordon Academy, was especially chosen, as it ties in with the goal of the initiative, which is to encourage boldness, faith, and courage in the hearts of young people.
“George William Gordon was such an amazing man, a passionate leader, a Christian reformer, a martyr, a parliamentarian who really brought to bear the biblical worldview in his workplace, which would have essentially been parliament,” Dr. Thomas said.
“All that he did embodied the Kingdom of God in a secular space, and he suffered the ultimate consequence for that. And we have the evidence of that last letter that he wrote to his wife when he found out that he was going to be killed. But essentially, we’re grasping at that legacy, and we want to see Jamaica hold to that legacy. We want to see the prophetic destiny of Jamaica realised.” he added
In addition, he is hopeful that at the end of the event, the attendees will be mobilised into action, with more enthusiasm for bringing about change and revival in their country.
“Our dream is that once they hear, once the word of the Lord gets to their ears, that they will respond, be quickened by the Holy Spirit to join in the battle. And so we’re really looking forward to that, and we will see what the Lord does. Our hopes are high, because we are sensing in our spirits that an army of young professionals and young ministers will arise in these nations,” said the Christian advocate.