Courtney Campbell, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the VM Group has said that prayer and targeted action are key to achieving desired changes in society today. 

Campbell said that Jamaica’s leaders’ willingness to attend the annual prayer breakfast showed commendable understanding of the power of faith and urged them to couple this understanding with purposeful action.  

“We are pleased that our nation’s leaders have committed to remain constant in prayer and we call on them to go about the work of this great nation with greater effort, passion, and commitment than ever before,” he said at the media launch of the 44th annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) at the VM Group corporate offices in Half-Way Tree on Thursday (January 11).

Campbell praised the NLPB committee for the theme of this year’s breakfast – ‘Choose Hope, Arise & Build’. 

“(The theme) is both timely and powerful, capturing, as it does, what is needed in Jamaica and the world right now, as we work towards creating a better tomorrow – relentless hope and the will to do the work that is required to achieve meaningful change,” said Campbell. 

VM Group is a longtime sponsor of the NLPB and Campbell noted that the organisation continues to support the breakfast, which sees Jamaica’s government and business leaders gathering at the start of each year at a faith-led breakfast event, because of VM’s own experience of the power of faith.   

“We are in the business of transforming lives, but we cannot do it alone. We have been led by God throughout our history, and He has been faithful in good times and bad. We are driven to uplift our Jamaican and Caribbean people and we choose hope, as we execute the work needed to change lives, businesses and communities for the better,” he said.

“At VM, we have been close partners with the people of Jamaica for 145 years, so we understand well the great fears, challenges and constraints that many of them are facing even as we welcome a new year. It is our wish, that, as the theme of this year’s breakfast urges, they will choose hope and do what they can to be a source of light in any way that they can, in this world,” said Campbell.

“As we gather on January 18, may all our hearts be open and our will be strong to follow His guidance in whatever form it may come, and may we be empowered to be His agents of transformation this year and always,” he added.