De­spite the dark cloud that con­tin­ues to loom over the globe due to COVID-19 and more so the Omi­cron vari­ant, a bright star shone at Flam­ing Word Cathe­dral bring­ing in the sweet spir­it of Christ­mas.

Rev­erend Eden Ros­al, who has been co­or­di­nat­ing the min­istry’s an­nu­al Christ­mas on the Prom­e­nade for the last 12 years, felt that even though re­stric­tions and lim­i­ta­tions are a much need­ed and nec­es­sary ap­proach to fight­ing this pan­dem­ic, as a peo­ple we must find cre­ative, safe and healthy work­able ways to bring hope, hap­pi­ness, joy and laugh­ter to our fel­low­men so as to mo­ti­vate and nav­i­gate the hu­man spir­it through­out this chal­leng­ing pe­ri­od.

Ob­serv­ing all COVID-19 pro­to­cols, the min­istry part­nered with the Li­ons Club of Ch­agua­nas to host a small-scaled ver­sion of the event so as to keep the spir­it of Christ­mas alive among the chil­dren.

Leanne Mo­hammed, one of the lead vo­cal­ists of Flam­ing Word Cathe­dral and sev­en-year-old Kay­don Hart en­ter­tained the chil­dren with Christ­mas car­ols. The chil­dren’s faces were filled with de­light and joy as San­ta Claus ar­rived with their gifts. San­ta’s beau­ti­ful elves dis­trib­uted good­ie bags and oth­er won­der­ful treats to the ex­cit­ed chil­dren.

Dr Dave Al­leyne, Bish­op, Pres­i­dent and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Flam­ing Word Cathe­dral, ex­pressed his be­lief that the hu­man spir­it is more re­silient than COVID-19 and its vari­ants and will even­tu­al­ly de­feat and get rid of this pan­dem­ic in the short­est time pos­si­ble.

Par­ents praised or­ga­niz­ers Rev­erend Eden Ros­al, Project Co­or­di­na­tor of Flam­ing Word Cathe­dral, In­tekab Ali, Pres­i­dent of Li­ons Club, Ch­agua­nas and spon­sors Bre­desh Nanan, own­er of Bre­desh Best Price Su­per­mar­kets (with out­lets na­tion­wide) and KFC in bring­ing a ray of hope to our chil­dren.