Assistant Commissioner of Police John Ferguson and President of Freedom Farm Baseball League Greg Burrows will be honored at the 12th annual One Night Family Conference under the theme "The Fall of Man ... The Mystery Revealed."
Burrows is being honored for his enthusiasm for the game of baseball that has affected thousands of Bahamian children and adults, and for developing an organization that caters to more than 700 children playing the game from January through June yearly.
"Because Greg believes that anything can happen if you put your mind to it, he has never let the lack of money stop anything," said conference organizer Quinton Bethell of Burrows who started the Freedom Farm Baseball League at a field on Joe Farrington Road, when he asked permission of the owner to use the field to teach baseball.  The league now plays from a site in Yamacraw Beach Estates.  "He [Burrows] has never let the lack of money stop anything.  If he can't raise it through donations or sponsorship, he gives it himself, [and] he's not a man of means by any stretch of the imagination, but the lack of money will not be the reason for stopping any project at Freedom Farm" says Bethell.
The host of the one night conference says Burrows is being honored because he's a firm believer in intervention, and believes that there is no such thing as a "lost" child, and that every child can be productive if given guidance.
"Greg has been instrumental in getting many young men into schools abroad through baseball.  Many of them are now doctors, lawyers, engineers, bankers, and in return are now giving of their time and working with Bahamian youngsters at Freedom Farm.
Ferguson, a minister at the Church of God of Prophecy, is the founder of Big Harvest Community Sunday School, a non-profit, non-denominational community-based entity situated on Woods Alley, off Market Street, that caters specifically to underprivileged children and at-risk youth in the inner city.  The program has an enrollment of more than 400 children.
Burrows and Ferguson will be honored on Friday, June 17 at Worker's House on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway at 7:30 p.m.
Bethell's goal through his Save The Fathers Ministries program is to bring the honor of the father back to the homes, churches and society, while at the same time giving support to widows in distress and speaking out on the importance of a two-parent home with an aim of restoring the family with a father and a mother according to biblical truth.
In an effort to save the fathers, Minister Quinton Bethell hopes to establish a place from which the ministry conducts it's administrative affairs as well as provide counselling for fathers, mothers and children with a view to bringing them to the knowledge of their purpose for existence and receiving their destiny, and educate society to the importance of fathers.
"Our Vision is to see that fathers regain their position of authority and honor in their homes, churches and society," says Bethell. "We want to see fathers in a position to give their spouses and children the love and security that godly husband/fathers should give.  We want to see fathers provide financial, moral and spiritual support for their families, and we want to see families restored with fathers and mothers living according to biblical truth."
Bethell says God, the Creator of the first family, has a clear standard for the family: The head of the woman is the man (1Cor 11:3).  Man is the image of God and the woman is the glory of the man. (1Cor 11:7). Woman was made for man. (1 Cor 11:8,9. Wives must submit unto their husbands, as head unto the Lord, for the husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church. (Eph. 5:22,23). Husbands were commanded to love their wives as Christ loves the church. (Eph 5:25). Fathers are to train, discipline and teach their children. (Eph 6:4, Prov 22:6, Eph 5:23). Children are to obey their parents (Eph 6:1-2).
 
 
 

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