Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says the na­tion must em­u­late the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty with their re­silience, per­se­ver­ance and com­mit­ment to a com­mon cause.

In her Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Day mes­sage, Kan­ga­loo said the strug­gle of the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty for recog­ni­tion, jus­tice, dig­ni­ty and free­dom is, at one and the same time, a source of jus­ti­fi­able na­tion­al pride as it is of tremen­dous in­spi­ra­tion.

Kan­ga­loo said, “As our coun­try faces our own strug­gles and chal­lenges, the mod­el of the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists move­ment is avail­able to us to draw from the wells of our in­ner strength and to stare down, as they did, the per­ils and the dan­gers that con­front us.” The Pres­i­dent added, “The chal­lenges we face to­day may not be the same as those faced by the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists, but their ex­am­ple of re­silience re­mains rel­e­vant, per­haps more now than ever be­fore.”

She called on cit­i­zens to ho­n­our the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist faith by em­brac­ing and em­body­ing their ex­am­ple of re­silience, adding, “Let us com­mit to stand­ing to­geth­er and sur­mount­ing every ob­sta­cle in our path.”