Minister Marion Hall walks away - Jermaine Edwards says she should return to the dancehall

After several weeks of condemnation from some Jamaican artistes and social media users, Minister Marion Hall dropped a bombshell on Tuesday evening that she will no longer do online sermons.

In a video posted to her social media platforms, the gospel singjay, formerly known as dancehall artiste Lady Saw, wrote, "To all Christians and none Christians who's been coming up against me and my ministry. Congratulations on your mission to take me down. You've successfully done so. I've decided to walk away from my calling, and will no longer be doing any preaching on any social media platform. May the Lord forgive me."

Reacting to the earth-shattering development, gospel artiste Jermaine Edwards says she should return to the dancehall.

"It may sound weird but I'm praying for God to send her to the dancehall (Not ) back to dancehall and there is a clear difference. Going to the dancehall to use the voice of influence she had, not for the raunchy, skin-out lyrics she use to sing, but for potent, holistic lyrics, skillfully penned to counteract damaging music that is messing up the minds of our next generation," Edwards said in a Facebook post.

Hall has been facing severe backlash following a series of sermons and other videos where she criticised the lyrics and visuals of dancehall artistes including Spice and Shenseea. The recurring criticism from the online space was that Hall, who got baptised in 2015, should not judge the women based on her previous catalogue and deportment. Several critics flooded her subsequent sermons with comments, which Hall said was disruptive.

Hall's bombshell comes less than two weeks after she infamously told detractors, in a social media post, to "Come kiss out me Bible".

"I'm not going downstairs so the devils can laugh all the way to hell. Him and all of you who work for him. Come kiss out me Bible, so you can all get deliverance," she said.

But last night she posted on social media, "Yes, you got it right. I'm walking away from the ministry."

Contacted for comment last night, her publicist, Marie 'Driven' Theodore, shared how her client has been feeling lately.

"Every time she said something, it's like they turn it around on her, so it's like she'd rather not say [anything] any more," Theodore told THE STAR. "She feels like she tried to stick up for herself and people were not believing her. There's so many things that she didn't say cause she doesn't want to really put stuff out there since she became a Christian, but she's still telling her truth about what happened with her... It comes off as she's wrong and everybody wants to attack her so she is kinda laying low."

Hall has hosted her Sunday sermons on Instagram, Facebook and most recently, YouTube, for her Holy Ghost Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ, which was established in 2020.