GENERATION 2000 (G2K), the young professional arm of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), yesterday pledged its support to strengthen the lobbying arm of the organisation, even as it put in a few prayer requests for guidance at a church service in Kingston yesterday.

The group, which celebrated its seventh anniversary with a church service at Fellowship Tabernacle, requested prayers to enable it to make decisions in the nation’s best interest.

“In this our seventh year, we are focused on redefining the organisation to not only provide support to the JLP but to position ourselves as serious lobbyists for volunteerism and environmental activism as well as international outreach,” G2K president Warren Newby told the Observer, adding “We want to provide a foundation for the emergence of new leadership in the governance of our country.”

Newby said the G2K members were using the anniversary service to refocus and rededicate the organisation to the service of the higher calling.

“We are really happy to have had seven wonderful years and we will now continue to work hard to change the way that the business of our nation is administered,” he said, adding “we ask for prayers that the decisions we make will be in the nation’s interest and not just a matter of spiritual experience.”

In the meantime, Reverend Dr Al Miller charged the group to follow the principles outlined in the word of God.

“You cannot effect real lasting change in the nation, in your life, or in your companies unless the word of God lives in you,” he told the G2K members.

Miller urged them not to allow themselves to get caught up in the evil of their forefathers in the party. “It is your fathers in the same organisation and those in the other one (People’s National Party) help to mess up what we have now,” the minister remarked.

He urged the G2K members to not make the same mistakes as those before them.

“You have to conquer evil because you can’t begin to speak to the evil of your forefathers if you have not overcome the evil in yourself because you would be criticising the same thing you are participating in.”