GEORGE HENRY, STAR WRITER
SPALDINGS, CLARENDON:
GEORGE HENRY - Reverend Trevor DaCosta.
REVEREND TREVOR DACOSTA'S walk with God started in 1969. His journey with the Lord came after some amount of struggling and in a funny way.
Like many men who are now saved, Rev. DaCosta was influenced by his wife, Monica, while they were living in England, to become a Christian.
"It was my wife who got saved first. She is a registered nurse and she worked in a hospital in England at the time. Her girlfriend, who was a Christain at the time, invited her to church on many occasions. She went to church, the Lord touched her heart and she got saved," said Rev. DaCosta.
He stated that when Monica started to attend church regularly he got angry, as he was not seeing her as often as he would have liked.
The minister says at first his wife's decision to become a Christian began to pose a problem for him. Despite the good move taken by his wife, Rev. DaCosta said he was, at the time, stubborn.
Despite never wanting to go to church, the duty of having to pick up his wife at church forced him to be there.
While waiting in the car for his wife things started to happen for DaCosta. He started to listen to the church services. First, he said, he was hesitant and disliked the minister of the church.
"I must be truthful to you. I felt as if I would have punched him in the nose if he had ever said anything to me. That was the feeling which went through me. I was like that for over a year, until I came to the understanding that it was not my wife who was the problem, it was I," said DaCosta.
Things started to take a turn thereafter and DaCosta started to attend church with his wife until he converted to Christianity.
After serving God as a brother in the church for years, he decided to return to Jamaica in the early 1980s. DaCosta said Bishop Rowe from the Chapleton Church of God in Christ, Clarendon, encouraged him to become a minister.
Since his ordination, DaCosta has been leading the Fear and Square Church of God in Christ at Fearon in Clarendon.
"Pastoring for me is good in a sense. It is good because I did not ask for the job, I was called. When you are called it is good, but when someone fights to be made a pastor it can pose a problem," said Pastor DaCosta, who said his work, though challenging, is good.
Reverend DaCosta would like the church in Jamaica to be more united, so that they can all speak with the same voice and make the ministry more effective. He stated that he would like to see fewer church buildings and more members united in doing the work which God wants to be done. If this happens, DaCosta says Jamaica and the world will be better off.
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