Contemporary problems are unemployment, poverty, and overcrowded school systems and drugs. It is encouraging to see the growth of industrial plazas that house assembly lines and the producing of clothing and other goods. Tourism continues to grow rapidly, as do other industries such as assembling of electronic components. Local farmers also supply the general population with various produce via the local markets and grocery outlets. The island economy is linked with banana farming, with exports to Britain. It became an associated state in 1967, and on February 22, 1979, a fully independent Member of the Commonwealth. In 1838, it was annexed to the government of the Windward Islands. In 1814, the island was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris. The island changed hands some fourteen times from 1650-1803. The French arrived in the mid-seventeenth century, followed by the British, and a multitude of battles ensued. The original inhabitants of the island were the Arawak Indians who were eventually driven out by the fierce Carib Indian. The island’s valleys have a fertile soil that supports a strong agricultural economy that employs forty-three percent of the labor force. There are many roads that twist and turn along narrow ridges connecting villages on top of these high hills. Lucia, topographically is rugged, characterized by a central spine of wooded mountains, numerous short rivers that intersect conical peaks, and gentler rolling grassland towards the north and flat areas at the southern tip. The island’s population is about 160,000 and the capital city is Castries.
The island is part of the Windward Islands, located about two hundred miles north of the northeast shoulder of South America and between the French island of Martinique and British St. In this present writing we will give added information about the island’s development, its peoples, and current assembly activity. In previous articles written in Truth and Tidings, we sought to give the history of assembly development since its beginning in the early 1920’s. Lucia with an emphasis on present assembly activity.
Saints please read each prayer aloud and pray in the spirit as long as your time schedule permits daily.An account of the work in St. You have not given us the spirit of fear about Coronavirus and other plagues, but of love, power, and a sound mind (Second Timothy 1:7). (Psalms 91:9-10).īecause we have set our love upon You, therefore, will You deliver us from Coronavirus and other plagues (Psalms 91:14). We, Your people have made You, who is our refuge even the most high, our habitation, there shall no evil befall us, neither shall any plague come nigh our dwelling. Let us pray against the Spread of Coronavirus.įather, in the Name o Jesus, we bind the spread of Coronavirus in the bi-state area, the United States and the world (Matthew 18:18). Lord God, we seek after You during this intercession and ask that You watch over and perform Your Word (Jeremiah 1:12) as we pray it You have said that the residue of men seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles upon whom Your Name is called (Acts 15:17). You have declared that we should seek the Lord, to feel after You and find You, though You are not far from everyone of us (Acts 17:24-29).
You give life and breath to all things and determine the times before appointed and the bounds of every man’s habitation. In the Name of Jesus, Abba Father, You are the God who made the world and all things therein.
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