PAM's Honourable Ian "Patches" Liburd 89 Year Old Father Blessed By Elderly Matter Project Today

24th February, 2015

By: Brother Khrystus V. K. Wallace, President of Dare 2 Be Different International - www.daretobedifferentskn.com since June, 2008

Mr. Oliver Glasford

Dare 2 Be Different International - www.daretobedifferentskn.com, the ministry that I founded on 1st June, 2008 at age 21, has always had an ongoing elderly ministry program since our inception. It's called ELDERLY MATTER!

Whether we dispatch a team to help a senior citizen clean their home or yard, or whether we deliver baked bread or buns made by my mother, Sister Yvette Wallace, M.Ed or show up with some fruits or a gift on their birthday, or stop by just to sing songs, read the scriptures and pray, OUR ELDERLY MATTER PROJECT remembers senior citizens around the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis and it's sponsored by YOU and persons are of course nominated to be served or ministered to by this project by YOU!

YOU have the power at Dare 2 Be Different International. YOU know that right? Thank you for GIVING TO THE LORD and remembering the YOUTH and the SENIOR CITIZENS.

So, to those who claim that we are selfishly caring for one generation - THE YOUTH because of what you read and the pictures you see and claim that we are neglecting others, that is not true. Far from the truth indeed.

My talk and investigative questions today caused Mr. Oliver Glasford, father of the recently sworn in People's Action Movement Constituency # 1 Candidate and New Minister of Government, Honourable Ian "Patches" Liburd to ask, "Are you a reporter? Which newspaper do you work for?" I told him that I am a freelance blogger and I write my reports and send them all over the world and he gave me permission to write about our experience today and bring him a copy or drop it off by my Lawyer, Sir Nassibou Butler for him to collect. He's actually married to one of Mr. Butler's sisters I learned today.

Let me tell you the honest truth. Over the years, I've never been too intricately involved in this part of my ministry. Somethings I come up with the ideas and vision and let others execute it. Therefore, in the past, I would quickly drop off homemade bread or buns at the homes of the elderly that we serve, say a prayer and disappear or of course, show up with a team to sing some songs and play my guitar and disappear quickly again.

Today was different though, when I met Mr. Oliver Glasford during our ministry today, he put me on the spot. How could I have ever declined such a ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY? After our little talk and ministry, he said, if you're not in any rush, can we go for a short drive? If you are in a rush, just tell me and that'll be fine, but I'd love to go for a DRIVE.

I juggled in my head if the client I had some printed shirts to complete at KVK ENTERPRISES - www.kvklives.com would break my neck or not and decided to take Mr. Glasford for a drive and honestly, I felt at peace knowing that I WAS DOING MORE GOOD!

Maybe too, that was a way of GOD telling me, "Khrystus Wallace, stop being SMART and dropping off things for the elderly quickly to bless them and not spending time like your other ministry members." God does speak to people in different ways. I've promised from today, that I will spend more time working with THE ELDERLY MATTER PROJECT under my ministry, because sometime in the future, I won't have enough energy for the youth and I too would also long for some younger person to give me some of their precious time. YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THAT TOO! KARMA. KARMA. KARMA.

Honourable Liburd's father, Mr. Oliver Glasford served at Delilse Walwyn for many, many, many years. It was because of his managerial position at this company, why his son, Mr. Ian "Patches" Liburd got his first job at this company. Mr. Glasford, who was fortunate enough to attend the Grammar School, recognized the importance of a good education and although his son lived with his grandparents, he worked extra hard to ensure that he too got a great education.

I like talking with the Senior Citizens. You get a lot of knowledge, history and wisdom that you rarely find in any history book. Therefore, interestingly enough, I now know Honourable Ian "Patches' Liburd life inside - out with regards to his upbringing, but I won't share it here. His story as told by his dad, has inspired me to NEVER GIVE UP AND PUSH UNTIL I AM ELECTED TOO SOMEDAY!

As an aspiring Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mr. Oliver Glasford punished me verbally for not knowing St. Kitts - Nevis inside out. He traveled into St. Kitts, from Barbados where he currently lives and is spending time with his wife, just to VOTE FOR HIS SON. He and two other relatives. When he told me that, I had to conclude that ONE VOTE REALLY COUNTS because had Daddy Oliver and two or three other relatives not traveled from overseas to VOTE, Honourable Liburd would have NEVER WON CONSTITUENCY # 1. #TRUTH#TRUTH#TRUTH

Daddy Oliver, who will be turning 90 in May, 2015 once God tarries and he lives, told me, "Let's go to Frigate Bay. I'll show you our family house where I once lived when I was younger. When he showed me, I had to stop to take a picture of part of the mansion, as the entire thing couldn't fit in my phone.

Daddy Oliver took me around Frigate Bay and showed me many houses and also how I could drive from Frigate Bay and exit in Conaree. He laughed and laughed and laughed and said, "YOU SEE I TAUGHT YOU SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW?" #ELDERLY FUN!

While driving through, he showed me much of the development happening in St. Kitts and Nevis that I didn't even know about and told me what life was for him growing up as a little boy. He is like thirty years older than my mother, so you could imagine.

Having had a wonderful drive and talk and sightseeing experience together at our Dare 2 Be Different International - www.daretobedifferentskn.com Elderly Matter Project, I took him to a nearby grocery and bought a juice and some fruits ALL FUNDED BY YOU.

When I dropped him to where he was staying at Wigley Avenue, before using his cane to start getting out of the vehicle, he turned to me and said, "YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB AND YOU'RE REMEMBERING THE SENIOR CITIZENS. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. AS FOR YOU'RE POLITICAL CAREER, JUST KEEP DOING GOOD AND DO THINGS IN AND OUT OF OFFICE SO THAT YOU WILL LEAVE POLITICS WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. That has always been my goal."

What powerful advice I thought. As he departed, his last words to me were, "You know son, I'll be around here for the next couple of weeks and it's very bored at home. So, if ever you want company again to go for a drive. JUST PICK ME UP."

In the subconscious, I answered "Oh Certainly!" We all have a way of answering to requests before thinking them through and sometimes regret later. Certainly is a VERBAL CONTRACT and I got myself in some trouble. I have to go take him for a drive again before he leaves The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

All in all, today's Dare 2 Be Different International ELDERLY MATTER PROJECT was AWESOME - AWESOME - AWESOME ministry again!