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The
Adventist Church is called to pray for Pastor Egnal Grant, pastor of
the Granville Circuit of Churches in West Jamaica Conference, who
was shot and injured by gunmen at his home in Irwindale, St. James,
on Thursday May 10, 2007.
According to Pastor Glen Samuels, President of the Adventist Church
in West Jamaica who spoke to Pastor Grant shortly after his surgery,
at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening, Pastor Grant arrived at home
and was pounced upon by three gunmen who shot him in the abdomen and
demanded money. After searching Pastor Grant and being advised by
him that he is an Adventist pastor, the gunmen retreated. He was
taken to hospital by neighbours.
After four hours of surgery in the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St.
James, Pastor Grant is recovering from damage to his small
intestines.
The staff of West Jamaica Conference and Central Jamaica Conference
met on Friday morning May 11, 2007 at their usual office worship and
prayed for Pastor Grant, giving God thanks for sparing his life and
for his family. Two of the administrators from Central Jamaica
Conference (the President, Pastor Everett Brown and Secretary Pastor
Levi Johnson) cleared their itinerary on Saturday May 12, 2007 to
visit and pray with Pastor Grant letting both him and his family
know that they are in our prayers.
“We thank God for sparing his life and we also express thanks to the
neighbours of our dear pastor who took him to hospital” said pastor
Glen Samuels. “We continue to be concerned about the multiple use of
guns in this particular part of our Island. As a church we pledge to
continue our support to this nation to restore and salvage our young
men who have fallen in the unfortunate trap of vicious violence,” he
lamented.
Pastor Grant is a senior pastor in the Adventist Church. He
previously served as Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Director
of the West Jamaica Conference from 1998 to 2006.
-Nigel Coke and Kemar Douglas
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