CLC Trinidad & Tobago

Weekend (February 15-16) Prayer Focus for CLC Trinidad & Tobago

At the CLC Americas and Caribbean Regional Conference last year, there were a lot of ideas, some of which we are implementing here. For example, we are using Skype for a weekly staff prayer meeting across all the bookshops, using social media more effectively to promote CLC, and we want to share information about CLC in more places.

Friday (February 14) Prayer Focus for CLC Trinidad & Tobago

Please pray for the CLC bookshop in Point Fortin. Sales in this store were affected negatively when Trinidad’s only oil company was closed down and, as a result, many people lost their jobs.

Friday (January 10) Prayer Focus for CLC Trinidad & Tobago

A manager of a large grocery shop in Trinidad picked up a copy of Prayers that Bring Change by Kimberly Daniels from CLC in Arima. Having purchased a copy for herself, she came back again later that day for three more copies.

In January, 2016, Gerardo Scalante and Dave Almack came to view the work at the stores. For me this was a very timely and strategic visit – a time of preparation to set us on course for the season ahead, particularly as, at the end of 2015, our Prime Minister had declared that Trinidad and Tobago was officially in recession.

CLC operated a small outlet here in the early 1980s, but it closed as it did not prove economically viable. It had always been Marlene Ramroop’s dream to re-open in Tobago and, more recently, we were searching for a suitable location ...