Mangal urges family, church, and community to combat Fiji’s drug crisis

Family values; the family, friends, mentors and the church play an important role to reverse the drug crisis our nation is facing today and most forms of addictions are treatable and can be cured.

This has been highlighted by Adult and Teen Challenge Fiji Executive Director Reverend Hemraj Mangal while speaking on the theme “Breaking the waves of addiction” during the Coral Coast Carnival.

Rev. Mangal says addiction is a chronic disorder, not a personal failure.

He says the Bible says teach a child the ways of God, ethical and moral values while they are small and when they grow up, they will not depart from them.

He is encouraging everyone to instill high moral, ethical and biblical values in our families.

Mangal is also urging drugs addicts to seek help as addiction is painful, it is life controlling, overtakes the lives of countless men, women, boys and girls and children are robbed of their innocence, families are torn apart and lives are taken while prisons are overcrowded, homelessness is increasing and social and welfare systems are overwhelmed and hope fades.

He says the Adult & Teen Challenge is ready to help as they seek to transform lives with the power from the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.

Mangal adds that breakthrough may seem far away but with the power that comes in the name of Jesus, it is closer than they realize.