Family of
God Church

In June 1990, the Family of God began not as a church but as a Sabbath School company. Fifty-eight souls had just been baptised at a Family Life Crusade on the grounds beside the Astor Theatre, and rather than scatter into the closest existing congregations, they chose to keep together. Willowdene High School's auditorium, at 58 Brunswick Avenue, became the first gathering place.

By 1993 the company had become an established church — the 203rd to be organised in the Central Jamaica Conference — with Dr. Patrick Allen as its first pastor. Through the 1990s the congregation steadily grew, and in June 2000 the church celebrated ten years of ministry under Pastor Levi Johnson, its shepherd at the time.

In 2001 the Family of God was placed in District 7 alongside the Crescent, Villmore, and Irish Pen Seventh-day Adventist churches. A year later, in 2002, ground was broken on a Maranatha-design sanctuary, and in January 2003 the members finally moved into a building of their own — a home.

June 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the church's existence, with Pastor Howard Grant at the helm. The decades since have been full of baptisms, weddings, funerals, Vacation Bible Schools, Pathfinder investitures, evangelistic campaigns, and ordinary Sabbaths — the kind that quietly stitch a family together over the long haul.

Today the Family of God remains committed to the Great Commission given by Jesus: to go, to teach, and to baptise. The work that began with fifty-eight is still being carried forward, one Sabbath at a time.