Minister Marion Hall Prays With Ocho Rios Cops
Minister Marion Hall’s video of herself praying and ministering to officers assigned to the Ocho Rios police station in St. Ann, has delighted her Christian-minded followers.
In two videos that she posted on her Instagram page, Hall is seen in the midst of a group of police officers on the station compound, praying profusely for them and for the Jamaican nation.
As Hall prays “in the name of Jesus”, for the Almighty to “touch, heal and deliver”, and speaks in tongues, the officers in her presence, join in with chants of Hallelujah and Amen, as they clapped and urged her along.
“We call upon you to protect our children; we call on you to protect our police… Let peace reign in this land; hear us from heaven.. too much blood, too much taking if innocent lives,” she prayed. “Send the demon to the pit of hell…”
She captioned the first video: “When the Holy Ghost move on our hearts to pray, at the Ocho Rios police station” and the other “Let’s pray”.
The video post of her visit to the police station comes months after a mocking Dancehall music producer Skatta Burrell, after listening to one of her prayers which was re-shared on Instagram, declared that Hall ought to refrain from chanting what he described as ‘nonsensical prayers’, and instead pray for God to reduce Jamaica’s crime rate.
At the time, while pointing out that he was unimpressed, Skatta had referred to Hall using her old, secular Dancehall stage name “Lady Saw” and pointed out that she had “prayed an entire prayer and totally forgot to address Jamaica’s biggest problem, crime”, while spending her worship moments “praying and cussing people and calling them devils”.
The former Queen of Dancehall, who converted to Christianity seven years ago, launched her ‘Holy Ghost Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ’ online in March 2020 and has been preaching primarily to her more than 600,000 Facebook followers and another 140,000 on Instagram.
Hall, who is currently working on a Dancehall Gospel album, has, since her baptism, released two Reggae gospel albums: When God Speaks in 2016, which included the tracks I had Jesus and I Won’t Worry; and the His Grace album in 2018, which included Pay You Back and That Cross.
In response to the Ocho Rios video, the majority of Halls’ followers responded with a series of Hallelujahs and amens.
“A lot of people included policemen and women must’ve gotten save since the inception of this video,” one man noted.
However, there were some who expressed misgivings about the policemen closing their eyes for prayers, pointing out that criminals might use the opportunity to harm them.
“I hope someone has their eyes open-bcas dem boy only wants to see the police eyes close to start something🤦🏽♀️,” palmermaragh said.
“😮 Real Yard man police 👮♂️ naw shut him eyes 😂😂😂😂,” another man said in describing an officer who kept opening his eyes at intervals.
There were also others who took aim at some of the police officers, declaring them ungodly for appearing aloof and not giving Hall their undivided attention.
“But look at those few officers no God inna dem can see di prayer nah do ntg fi dem,” one woman said.
“That one u hold him hand really need a special touch him looking so ungodly,” another woman added, referring to an officer who had been standing behind Hall, looking disinterested.
Another officer who was using his cellphone to record the service also came in for criticism.
“Before that police officers praise in God him a video to God be the glory bless you miss hall,” one woman said, while another added: “Dah fool dey don’t even know to conduct himself in prayers wid him phone him don’t even understand sey a goodly a shield she a wrap around him and de others right deyso”.