Rev. Bradley Handfield leads National Heroes Day Memorial Service

Providenciales, TCI, June 2, 2016 – The nation heard a bold charge at the National Heroes Day memorial service, when speaker Rev Bradley Handfield hit head on the problems partisan politics, economic imbalance, corruption, prejudice and ungodliness present in a growing nation.

Handfield said division is a concept God grandly demonstrated in the story of the Tower of Babel, found in the Bible book of Genesis.   “Someone had a vision of a city,  and in that city a tower would rise up to the sky as a place where the gods would come down, and the people would go up to meet with the gods.  How that vision was cast, was what galvanized the interest and support of all the people.  Believe me my friends, a national vision that galvanizes the support of the various fractions in our society is the key to national unity.”  

When the understanding was gone among the people, so was their ability to accomplish their great goal.  “In order for us to reach the point of speaking the same language, we must first open a dialog, a national dialog.  This is what happened in Babel, they began a dialog in which they began saying to each other, let us make bricks and harden them with fire, then they said, let us build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky.  They had a national conversation, and out of that conversation, they  cast a vision.  The mistake that they made, they did not include God in that conversation.  We do not have to make that mistake.”

Rev Handfield said JAGS was not advocating this dis-unity and challenged leaders to have a national, non partisan consult on what the vision of the country is; he was firm that national vision does not belong to any political organization, that it belongs to the nation for now and for the future.   “When we are unified, our political leaders will be able to look anyone, who wishes to conduct business in this territory in the eyes, and say to them, we have a vision for our country, and nothing that falls outside our vision will be entertained or debated.  When we are united, we will be able to do more for ourselves, and create a stronger, better and more beautiful Turks and Caicos Islands.”