Gangsters don’t live long, pastor St Jean warns

A Seventh Day Adventist pastor has echoed a very sound warning to the young people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to hopefully steer them away from gangs and a life of crime.

“Gangsters don’t live long.”

This was the stern warning vocalized by Pastor Brent St Jean recently.

Pastor St Jean echoed the words of caution on Monday October 30, as he delivered a sermonette to students at the Georgetown Secondary School.

This was at a thanksgiving service held in observance of the school’s 25th anniversary.

During the service at the school’s auditorium, Pastor St Jean told the female students “Young ladies, respect yourselves.”

To the young men, he gave the grim reminder that “Gangsterism is fleeting,” and that “Gangsters don’t live long.”

He pointed out that many gangsters are already dead, even those in the music industry.

The service was held under the theme “25 years of excellence: honouring our past, embracing our future.”

The pastor appealed to the leaders of the school, not to ignore the foundation of the past while striving for the future.

In encouraging the young students, he explained that “Every generation should be better than the one before.”

Recalling some of his own upbringing, Pastor St Jean told the students that he grew up eating dry bread and drinking bush tea.

He said if this is still their situation today, they should eat their dry bread and learn, so that their offspring will be in a better situation.

In encouraging the young students, Pastor St Jean told them that they have no excuse for not doing

better than those who went before them.

He also challenged the students to let the chapter that they are writing now, be a success story.