The young men in today’s society need to come back to “purpose and take up the responsibility for the future generation,” according to Apostle Adrian Wade who feels so strongly about the issue that he has put pen to paper and written a book expressing these sentiments.
The book, appropriately titled A Good Man Leaves an Inheritance for his Children was launched yesterday at the Hotel Tower and according to Apostle Wade the book is written in an area that is often neglected in life. This is the area of parents leaving an inheritance for their children and family generations to follow, since according to him the Bible says that leaving an inheritance is the “ultimate sign of goodness.” As a result one of the primary purposes of the book is to change mindsets and traditions in this sphere.
He told The Scene that the book’s ultimate goal is to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. The apostle, who heads the Body of Christ Worship and Perfection Ministries which has branches in Mahaicony, Eldorado, West Coast Berbice, New Amsterdam and Georgetown, said his inspiration for the work came from his concern with what is happening to men. He noted that many of them are getting shot in the streets and ending up in jail, and only a few of them are becoming teachers or university students. “Good men are becoming an endangered species,” Apostle Wade said. He pointed out that what the present day youth sees as a good man is probably a pimp on the street, a man who owns more than one car, a drug pusher or the man who changes money on the street corner. He also noted that most of the teachers today are females so the male students do not have enough males in school to mentor them.
According to the book’s foreword, the scriptural admonition which forms the title of the book has been one of the great maxims of the church, and the apostle has allowed the Holy Spirit to “pull the truth out of the biblical page and prepare a palatable meal for the body of Christ.” It was noted that one of the things the apostle did in the book was to open his readers’ understanding as to who really is a good man. “He broadens our horizon and allows his readers to do identity and reality checks as he or she reads,” it was stated. It is felt that the book has the potential to help the youth, specially the young men to plan for the future.
Giving a little background about himself, Apostle Wade said he originally hailed from the West Coast, but spent much of his life in Norton Street, Wortmanville. He was not always a Christian and revealed that it was in the 1980s the he changed from Rastafarianism to Christianity. He revealed that it was soon after he left the South Georgetown Secondary School that he joined the Rastafarian culture, as that was the thing of the day. “It was an opportunity to identify with our culture as youths during that time, as there was nothing positive that we youths could have identified with. You had all those singers like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh who were all Rastafarian and they were singing about black culture so we joined them,” the apostle said. He went on to say that unfortunately a lot of his friends became junkies and some are now mentally unstable on the streets because the smoking of marijuana went hand in hand with Rastafarianism. Apostle Wade said he would not want the youths of today to end up on the same path, although the trend has continued over the years.
He says it is the prayer of his mother who was a Christian that saw him turning from the path of destruction to Christianity. And also he met a young lady who gave birth to his first child and that had a significant impact on the path his life took. Today that young lady, Prophetess Pauline Wade, is his wife and she has mothered five other children for him.
Since he converted to Christianity Apostle Wade has not only ministered in Guyana but also in North America, Brazil, Suriname, the British Virgin Islands and the West Indies. He is described as the man who has “mastered the technique of mass deliverance,” since he saw scores of persons being delivered because of his ministry.
He has been working with churches in Trinidad and Tobago.
