Hundreds of Spiritual Baptists took to the streets of Moruga on Monday, filling the air with chants, drums, and celebration as they marked 75 years of liberation from oppression.
Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin led the Spiritual Baptist Liberation Thanksgiving Service at the Moruga Multi-Purpose Youth and Sports Facility, praising the community’s resilience and enduring faith.
“We had to hide to worship. We just walk on the Moruga Road, free in all of our glory, fully adorned in our spiritual attire. And who could look more beautiful than a Baptist woman? And a Baptist pastor? All you see we colours? And we walk. The police walk amongst us and not one laid hand on us because we are what? Free. Free to call on His name.”
She said it is for this freedom that praise must be given where it is due.
“So we are gathered here this morning, and I want us to use our voice to do nothing else but to give God that honour that he so rightfully deserves. And Baptists, we all know when the hour for our worship comes, we must, we must call upon his holy and righteous name and He said when we call upon his name, He will come.”
The Spiritual Baptist Liberation Thanksgiving Service was held at the Moruga Multi-Purpose Youth and Sport Facility.