What began six years ago as a small, faith-filled breakfast gathering hosted by children for children, has now evolved into a national movement: Pancakes and Prayers in the Park.

The event is set to take place at Emancipation Park on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, this year’s staging forming part of Jamaica’s official Child Month calendar of events.

The initiative was founded by three brothers, The Wynter Brothers, birthed out of their deep concern for the rising tide of crime, violence, and moral decline affecting Jamaica’s youth, according to a press release.

Combining their love for pancakes, prayer, and purposeful action, the brothers launched a grassroots event in 2019, inviting children to pray, perform, and speak life over their peers and nation.

In 2024, the upsurge in crime and violence among our students, in schools, and on the buses, became the driving force behind the rebirth to Pancakes and Prayers in the Park—hosted in the iconic Emancipation Park in Kingston, the release explained.

The move facilitating an experience into a vibrant, outdoor space, allowing over 500 children from a wide cross section of the corporate area children to come to the park to be treated, prayed for entertained through dance, mime, puppetry and other creative art forms. This transition reflects both the growth of the initiative and a bold step to reach more families and communities in an open environment, according to the release.