GEORGE HENRY, STAR Writer

It has been three years since Suzan Martin-Clarke began serving as youth president at the International Faith Christian Fellowship Church at Rectory Road in May Pen, Clarendon.

"Working as a youth president for the past three years, I have found out that it is not an easy road; but with Christ in the vessel, I am smiling at the storm," said Martin-Clarke.

Martin-Clarke, who bragged that she has a passion for young people, stressed that she loves to work with them as she leads them to Christ.

"As a youth minister at this point in time working with the youths now and in the future, with God's help, I would like to see the young people getting more involved in the activities of the church, including Daily Vocation Bible School (DVBS), which is for the young people who are now on holidays and do not have anywhere to go," said the youth president.

Martin-Clarke said that she loves working with young people because while she was growing up, as the first child for her parents, she was always attending to children, and it was during that time that her life to God.

Never too young

"The feeling I had while attending to children during that time, I have grown to have the same feeling towards the young people in the church today, still, as I lead them to Christ and show them the way while reminding them that one is never too young to serve God," said Martin-Clarke.

The youth president, who was baptised at the age of 10, wants young people to understand that it is not only old people who are dying; and that they need to come to the reality that one is never too young to die.

Martin-Clarke is begging young people and other persons who are without Christ to be aware that when one dies without Christ, one will have no hope. She added that when one dies with Jesus Christ, there is hope of eternal life.

She confessed that when she was 10 years old she got saved in the Seventh-day Church of God, but faltered when she was 18. She pointed out that it has been four years since she has been reunited with Christ - she picked up broken pieces and gave them to the Lord.

She stressed that at the time she got saved, she did not consider herself to be too young because it is said in the Bible that God calls on young people because they are strong.

"I said all the time that it is not an easy road; it is a rough road. However, it takes a made-up mind to serve the Lord. But with Christ in the vessel, you can smile at every storm," said Martin-Clarke.

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