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.

A breakaway Adventist group is setting up a commune on leased land in St Mary, while Catholic deacon Ronald Thwaites says money and property drive many Jamaican church splits and fundamentalist groups’ real estate should be examined.

An Adventist breakaway group, Following the Blueprint Ministries, has built more than 13 buildings including homes, a school and a sanatorium on leased land at Bell Hill, St Mary, with no road access or running water, raising questions from local officials.

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.

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Holy Trinity Church in Retreat, St Mary, the parish’s oldest Anglican church, marked 180 years on land a plantation owner donated in 1828. It has survived a fire and still anchors four daughter congregations.