Hear Scott speak about "Gang violence, the cause and the solution!"

Hear Scott speak about Gang violence, the cause and the solution!

Wednesday 17th April 2013  7:00 PM

Hear Scott speak about
"Gang violence, the cause and the solution!"
Walkers Hall Bethel Ave., Stapledon
Gardens Monday-Friday April 15th-19th (7pm)

During the past few weeks, Preacher Scott Smith has reached out to many people, young and old in The Bahamas who have hit rock bottom and need some encouragement and/or solutions for their problems. In Bermuda, he is a community activist who went after families grieving after gang shootings.


Scott is a born again Christian and he feels as if churches should close their doors for a month and take to the streets. ?Our message as a body of believers is to spread love. How can you spread love? The church needs to go out in the highways and byways.?

Mr Smith is not an ordained Minister, but is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the gang-blighted neighbourhood of Glebe Road, Pembroke in Bermuda.

He is a reformed drug user who found salvation when he found Christ, after becoming an addict at the age of 12, starting with marijuana and moving on to alcohol, cocaine and crack.

?I eventually cried out to God for help. I never went to any rehab,? explained Mr Smith. He quit drugs on New Year?s Eve 1994 and has been clean ever since.

He is active as a preacher in the Island?s schools, prisons and rehabilitation programmes and also runs his own business as a painter and decorator.

?This generation coming up now, I used to hang with their fathers. I like to be a father figure to them,? he explained.

Although he found his own way to the church, he acknowledged that most people living on the wrong side of the tracks are not going to make the first move towards spiritual healing.

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