Pictures of Church before & after the Fire

Craighead Church before the fire!

Brother Stan Stringer assisted by brother Hunton

& Jamaican Brethren tiled floor & Brother Stan

installed the tongue & groove all destroyed in the fire! 

                                         Church Ablaze

Craighead's 911- 2008

The church building the Missionary Baptist built

& the devil destroyed in matter of an hour!

Original church then Dwens home

 

Brother Dwen survey's damage

Aftermath

The morning of our 911 experience the sun had risen and was shining "ever so" brightly on the holy hill in Jamaica. That awful morning I wished my tears could have put out the fire ten years in the making the beautiful building the many sister churches of like faith helped their fellow sister church build, so many acts of kindness by so many US brethren instilled by God  in a matter of few hours destroyed. That dreary morn my Anglican neighbor saw me in my distress standing; staring in awe! He & I embraced and Mr. Dixon replied "Brother Rick, take courage your church has not died it is alive and well; standing in awe with you at your backside!"

Dwen lost his household belongings. The house burnt to the ground. In this plyboard frame here many members found the Lord while seeking after Jesus on the mourners bench when it housed the membership in the early years of the Church.

Clean-up after the fire

Church services one week after fire 

Brethren from Alabama & Sw Tn

Craig Church Brothers Dwen, Steve

Warsop Brothers Patrick, Simon & Lennox 

Before the new roof

                                                          Before the new roof

                                                           Building scaffle

                                                                 Church new rafters

Beginning church new steel roof

                                                                       New Roof

New roof Crew

Carpenters & plummers



In spite of the devil setting the church ablaze, Gods Amazing Grace  fell on the church & crew on Sunday morning. Brother Jeffery from over at Warsop fell in the altar a mourner and rose up with a bright smile and a testimony sharing how the Lord saved his soul.

Perhaps had the fire not happened that service where Warsop came over to visit its sister church of like faith would have never materialized under the divine providence of Gods will and Jeffery might still be lost.

Jeffery baptized in the Hector River