Prayer

Hurricane Melissa destroyed a 145-year-old Methodist church and a 125-year-old Baptist church in Duanvale, Trelawny. Church leaders want to keep the Methodist ruins as heritage, but engineers say they must be demolished and rebuilt.

A Raytown, Missouri, church is trying to raise $2 million to buy the Grandview campus of the scandal-hit International House of Prayer Kansas City, including a 1,400-seat sanctuary and a 28-acre children’s centre.

A short devotional on the object of Christian faith, and what it means to trust a God who sees further than we can.

Make an appointment (30 minutes should be just about right, but feel free to take longer!), grab your Bible, pour a brew and take some time out with God.

The Lord’s Prayer is not allowed in most  U.S. Public schools any more.  A kid in Minnesota, wrote the following.

In some places, land is bought and sold with the cold click of a mouse. But in Jamaica, something deeper…

Beaufort Moravian Church in Westmoreland marked 190 years in 2024. Its foundation was moved stone by stone from Woodstock, the 1907 earthquake damaged it, and a 1923 thunderstorm demolished it before it was rebuilt.

The 30th National Prayer Vigil, hosted at Annotto Bay Baptist Church in St Mary, planned to use its donations to refurbish the computer lab and resource centre at Baxter’s Mountain Primary School and present new computers.

Pastor Javaughn Taylor of Central Gospel Chapel in St Mary told the Gleaner that churches pushing collections during the pandemic had their priorities wrong, and that giving should be voluntary while churches find other sources of income.

Jamaica Baptist Union president Rev Norva Rodney warned in 2021 that church and society seem to value material goods as an expression of righteousness, linking the pursuit of wealth to freedom without responsibility.

A fire in downtown Kingston destroyed the Missionaries of the Poor’s Good Shepherd Home, leaving at least 60 wards and more than two dozen tenement residents homeless, and prompting Father Richard Ho Lung to ask where they would live.

St John’s Anglican Cathedral in Antigua reopened for Easter 2018 after an eight-year restoration, with the congregation processing back from St Andrew’s Anglican Church, where it had worshipped since the closure.

A short reflection on Psalm 8, and what it means that a God large enough to ordain the stars is also attentive to one person.

Suffer the little children was not a sentimental aside, it placed children at the centre of Jesus most repeated teaching theme. What the kingdom of God language actually reveals about how Jesus valued children.

A short devotional on the object of Christian faith, and what it means to trust a God who sees further than we can.