THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN THE '50s, as a teenager, Nicky Cruz became the gang leader of New York's most notorious criminal gang (the 'Mau Maus'). However, because of the intervention of evangelist David Wilkerson in his life, this gang leader turned away from his wicked ways and has followed Christ ever since. Today, Nicky Cruz is himself an evangelist who has shared God's love and salvation with millions of persons worldwide. Likewise, evangelism can go a long towards saving Jamaica's youth, and even gang leaders.
Evangelists can do what politicians, businessmen, and other leaders within society cannot do. Jamaica is in dire need of evangelists like David Wilkerson who will not shy away from going into even the most-feared parts of the city to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. The lives of criminals are often transformed behind bars because of their exposure to Christian teachings - many of them for the first time in their lives.
This is the sort of transformation which needs to take place before young men and young women in our society end up behind prison walls. Too many of society's young people instinctively reach for the knife or the gun in order to solve their disputes or to gain material wealth - oftentimes because no one intervened to point them in the right direction.
I challenge the local evangelists in our society to begin to make the sort of impact throughout Jamaica that they ought to be making.
I am, etc.,
PATRICK A. GALLIMORE
pagalley@hotmail.com
Kingston
Via Go-Jamaica
