Beenie Man is giving back to the community that he called home long before he became a dancehall superstar.
The dancehall legend is building a church and library in Waterhouse, St. Andrew. According to the Doc, he once use to attend the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as a child growing up before it was destroyed by a hurricane in 2012.
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“It is a church that I grew up in and it blow down after hurricane passed through,” Beenie Man said. “The only thing left to go on now is the top, but mi did a plan to put a library on the top because it is a community church and the youth dem need something to do.”
The church is currently being built on Unity Lane off Balcombe Drive, the section of Waterhouse where Beenie Man grew up and is described as the most violent part of the community.
Beenie Man maintained that he is a Rastafarian but that is not stopping him from contributing millions of Jamaican dollars of his own money to build the church.
“Mi love God in every way and mi will praise him in every name,” Beenie said. “It is not about Christianity, and I’m not trying to baptise. Selassie nuh need fi do that. You see true my mother a Christian and everybody know, but my church is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.”
Bout dem a build church! WTF! Mind you the way Rasta has gone, it was indeed inevitable!
Church and State are both two arms of the same body!! Beenie Man promoting Churchianity is entirely what you expect from the Land of Bleach and Ammunition!