Church Of God

Broadleaf Church of God’s Bishop Calbert Spence says gang warfare and weekend curfews from 6pm have stopped his church holding night services since March, as police list Manchester communities still under curfew.

Constant Spring Road Church of God marks 70 years at 93B Constant Spring Road, where since 1956 it has added a basic school, a computer training centre and a food pantry to its ministry.

The New Testament Church of God in Barbados is converting its Fairchild Street headquarters into a community refuge centre, estimating about $500,000 in infrastructure costs and applying for a matching grant from a government fund for faith-based organisations.

The New Testament Church of God in Barbados is converting its Fairchild Street headquarters into a community refuge centre, estimating about $500,000 in infrastructure costs and applying for a matching grant from a government fund for faith-based organisations.

Mason Temple in Memphis, world headquarters of the Church of God in Christ and the site of Martin Luther King Jr’s final speech, is to receive a $1.2 million federal grant for technology, foundation and structural work.

Bishop Maurice Clarke of Central Light Grace Chapel in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, shipped more than 34 generators and other supplies to Trelawny after Hurricane Melissa, using the New Testament Church of God on Market Street, Falmouth, as the distribution hub.

A mostly Jamaican congregation in Davie, Florida gave US$6,000 to the New Testament Church of God in Jamaica for churches damaged by Hurricane Melissa, with part set aside for congregations its bishop once pastored in Lacovia and Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth.

Members of the New Testament Church of God repaired three hurricane-damaged homes in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, under Mission Rise 3.0, including those of a woman who lives alone and a 69-year-old pensioner surviving on $14,000 a month.

Fresno’s Westside Church of God is working with a local development group to build 21 senior cottages on an acre of church land, with rents expected at $500 to $750 a month.

The New Testament Church of God marked a century in Jamaica with its national convention in Old Harbour, reporting more than 119,000 members in over 360 churches, one of the largest congregational property networks on the island.

A Redeemed Christian Church of God parish in Somolu, Lagos, was ordered to demolish its worship centre within seven days after a neighbouring building under construction collapsed onto it and officials declared it distressed.

A planned demolition at 35 Gordon Town Road, where the Papine New Testament Church of God worships beside small businesses on NWC-owned land valued at $132 million, was suspended so occupants could be consulted first.

Clarendon’s Free Town Foundation, outreach arm of a Church of God of Prophecy congregation, planned a health fair and back-to-school event on its church grounds, aiming for 300 backpacks and 10 scholarships with diaspora support from Toronto and Brooklyn.

Ardenne Prep, a Church of God school on Hope Road, broke ground on a $56 million two-storey administration block to replace the one destroyed by fire in 2019, with classrooms, labs and a sick bay included.

A fire shortly after 2am destroyed a Denbigh, Clarendon church 16 days into a 40-day fast. About $2 million in equipment was lost, including an unopened stove, and the pastor appealed for help to rebuild.