Cancer charity stresses no discrimination in services

Cancer Support Services is marking 30 years of service with a reminder that it supports all individuals diagnosed with the disease, regardless of gender.

Chairman Carlyle Best said the organisation responds to anyone who seeks its assistance.

“We do not discriminate. We do not restrict our services to females. We do not restrict our services to males. We reach out to all. Once you have been diagnosed with the disease and you come to your attention, we will respond,” he assured.

He was speaking during the organisation’s 30th anniversary service at St James Parish Church, Holetown, St James, on Sunday.

Best attributed the organisation’s continued success and achievements to the long-term support of its members and urged others to get involved financially and in other ways.

“Some of you, if you have any relatives or if you yourself have walked this road, will know of the work that we have done. In fact, your canon wonderfully summed it up when she said that recovery would not be really complete without the assistance that this charity offers,” he added.

Best also encouraged diagnosed persons to find strength in God during that journey.

“We invite you to trust what God is doing with you, what your medics say as they advise and what they instruct you to do, and, God being God, leave Him to do what only He can do in the lives and minds of others,” he stated.

Touching on the list of upcoming celebration activities, he stated that there will be a concert entitled Inspire on May 3 at the Frank Collymore Hall and on Mother’s Day on May 10. At the latter event, people would be encouraged to share “things your mother taught you to say” at Covenant Life Teaching Centre.

In his sermon, Reverend Stevenson Sobers reminded the congregation that loving the Lord means recognising that He is God and in control of all things, while reflecting on the human tendency to want to be in control.

“Often, we want to ask God to just move out of the way and let me be God sometimes, but our love for God flows from an understanding of His absolute holiness, infinite power and perfect wisdom, and that is a love rooted in awe and reverence,” he said, adding that this love must be shown by obedience and devotion.