Seventh Day Adventists help students prepare for 11-Plus

By Shamar Blunt

The Workman’s Seventh Day Adventist Church is committed to assisting students in its community in a big way.

This was the message shared by Winston Walcott, associate elder at the SDA church, who spoke to Barbados TODAY during Saturday’s presentation of much needed school supplies to 18 students gearing up to set their Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination (BSSEE) also known as the 11-Plus, next week.

The presentation, which has been a yearly undertaking for over 20 years, typically sees children from the Workman’s Primary and the community, joining the church for fellowship before the 11-Plus exam, to receive stationary and words of encouragement from the congregation.

Walcott told Barbados TODAY that the church sees it as an important activity each year to give back to the students.

“For the past 25 years, the Workman’s Seventh Day Adventist Church has been impacting the community around us. We see it as very important for the young people as they make that step forward into their secondary school life, that we give them a word of inspiration [and] encouragement to carry them along this pathway because they are going to be going into a new environment and new setting.”

He added: “We believe that the spiritual component is very important to these young people, [to] let them know that God has a purpose and plan for their life. We can see the results of the students that have passed through this programme, the steps they have taken and the roles they have played also, [so] we believe that this programme has been extremely impactful.”