HUNDREDS OF BARBADIANS paid their respects to prominent evangelist Reverend Holmes Williams yesterday.
People from all walks of life and of all ages queued at the People’s Cathedral on Bishop’s Court Hill, St Michael, to view the body of the founder and retired senior pastor of the church. Williams died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital last month at the age of 75.
More than 200 people, including church members, as well as worshippers at other Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI) member churches, turned up to view the body.
Reverend Ophneil Forde, assistant general bishop of PAWI; senior pastor at the House of Freedom, Ferdinand Nicholls and Deacon Donald Stanton, one of the founding members of the People’s Cathedral, were among those viewing the body.
Son Peter Williams and several stewards in red jackets were on hand to greet mourners viewing the body clad in a grey business suit and lying in a shiny steel-grey metal casket.
Holmes Williams died December 19 after being hospitalised for a few days. He would have been 76 on December 27.
His funeral takes place at the Wildey Gymnasium at 1 p.m. today.
Williams started his church in 1960 in a home that grew into the People’s Cathedral, which now has about 4 500 members.
Bishop Gerry Seale, who heads the local district of PAWI, said Williams was “an incredibly gifted minister of the Gospel”. (TY)
