'We're praying for you Brother Paul'

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Evangelist Lester Lewis to support disgraced US counterpart

BY HORACE HINES, Observer West reporter

Thursday, June 25, 2009

MONTEGO BAY, St James-Evangelist and popular gospel singer, Lester Lewis says that the recent carnal abuse and indecent assault charges levelled against internationally reknown evangelist Dr Paul Lewis has shamed the Christian church.

"It reflects on us the body of Christ because whatever one man does it affects the whole body. That is why the Bible warns that we are many members in one body and Paul is a member of the body," Lewis stated.

"...We don't laugh at him because there is another scripture that says if your brother is taken in a fault you must restore him with the spirit of meekness and you must be careful lest the same thing happen to you. On the other hand, we are human beings and we can make mistakes."

Lewis is accused of having sexual intercourse
with a 15-year-old girl and fondling her
14-year-old friend.

He is currently in custody pending an appearance in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrates' court scheduled for July 7.

In the meantime Lewis, whose sensational hit Every Time I Read the Bible, is still enjoying heavy rotation on the air waves, disclosed his intent to pray for him in his cell this week.

" We are praying for Brother Paul Lewis and I am going to visit him personally and stretch my hands to him because he is a kind brother, a very nice brother. It is a mistake I think. If he did it we can forgive him. Because everybody fall and everybody makes mistakes so you can't point a finger. Allow God to be the judge," Lewis argued.

Lewis was speaking to the Observer West ahead of his performance at a concert in the historic Sam Sharpe Square on Saturday. The concert was a part of a rally which climaxed the first western Jamaica boys conference put on by the Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association in partnership with churches in western Jamaica for the benefit of males in the violence-torn inner-city communities in St James.

"He (Errol Rattray) is operating in Kingston already but because of what is happening here in Montego Bay in terms of crime and violence. This ministry carries more of an outskirts intervention going into volatile communities," Reverend Glendon Powell, vice-chairman of the Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association western board, told the Observer West.

He added: "We are planning to have some crusades in our volatile communities. These include Canterbury, Norwood, Salt Spring, Flankers and Granville".

The concert was preceded by a 1,000-man march which ended up in Sam Sharpe Square after Mount Salem Open Bible Church beat the Faith Temple Assembly of God Church in the finals of a six-a-side football competition put on by the at the West Gate Hills community playing field.

The concert saw acts from only male performers including Lewis, Unity Hall Men's Choir, New Testament Church of God Men's Choir, Edwin Myers, Acapella Flames and more.

Rattray made presentations to the winners and runners-up of the six-side football competition in a night where 63 persons made decisions to
follow the Lord.

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