A Consecrated People – Keeping A Promise

(by Rosemary Scott)
 

Household members (from left): Ian Camacho, Monique Rostant, Jennifer Jennings and
Elizabeth King renewing their vows of Consecration.  Rose is at right.

I was born in 1961, the third child of five to John and Doreen.  Certainly, a great deal of my faith was born in my family, but my vocation was nourished and encouraged within Living Water Community.

I was a part of the youth group from its earliest days in 1979, and it is coming out of one of our youth retreats that I felt the Lord calling me to the Consecrated Life.  It took four years of struggling with that initial call before I would respond more fully and be welcomed into the “household” community.

However, even living within the “environment’ of the household, I continued to have my struggles.  It is only after going to the States in 1987 to do a course, that I was truly convicted that this was God’s choice for me, and it was the choice that I wanted to be committed to.  It is at this stage that I began to grow in my relationship with the Lord and the Community, and be open to whatever and wherever I was asked.

My ministry in the Community over these years has varied from working with the drug addicts at our New Life Ministries Rehab Centre, to assisting with the administration at our Fountain of Hope project.  I have worked with our children, youth and young adult ministries, and in our coffee shop and catering departments.  I have spent time on mission in Saba and Russia and also in the administration at our “head office’ where, as someone told me, “you are available to do and be everything to everyone.”

I once told the Lord that whatever He asked of me I would never refuse, and I trust that in spite of my human weakness and shortcomings, that to the best of my ability, I have been faithful to that promise.

Rosemary now heads our Mission in Barbados.