BRIAN FLOWER | | A VIM team survey the wreckage of Constantine Methodist Chapel, destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in Grenada. |
HAMPSTEAD ? It was a homecoming for the Rev. Richard Brown-Whale when he returned to Grenada with a VIM team to do reconstruction work following Hurricane Ivan. The group of nine volunteers from his and the Rev. Kimberly Brown-Whale's three churches, St. John's and Shiloh UMCs in Hampstead, and Mt. Zion UMC in Upperco, spent a week in March helping to rebuild. The Brown-Whales were missionaries to Grenada from 1988 to 1991. A project the group worked on was the manse in which the Brown-Whales had lived. It can now be occupied by a deaconess who serves that side of the island. The team repaired the roof, windows and tiled bathrooms and worked on a church. Nearly 80 percent of the buildings on the island were severely damaged after the 140 mile-per-hour winds struck Sept. 7, 2004. 'The Grenada Methodist Circuit did not have a single property undamaged,' Brown-Whale said. | 
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