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 attended the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as a child growing up before it was destroyed by a hurricane in 2012.
“It is a church that I grew up in, and it blow down after hurricane passed through,” Beenie said.
“The only thing left to go on now is the top, but mih did a plan to put a library on the top, because it is a community church, and the youth dem need something to do,” he added.
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.
Though Beenie maintains that he is a Rastafarian, that does not stop him from contributing millions of Jamaican dollars of his own money to building the church.
“Mih love God in every way, and mih will praise him in every name,” Beenie said, adding:
“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.” (urbanislandz.com)