The leadership of Warri Zone of Believers Love World Ministry (aka Christ Embassy Church) yesterday handed over two Toyota Hilux vans and other materials, estimated at N100 million, to the Management Board of Warri Prisons on Okere Road in Delta State.
The other donations included a skills acquisition centre on the prison’s premises, recreational tools, free prescription drugs and books, such as 1,500 copies of the church’s daily devotional guide, Rhapsody of Realities.
Delta State Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro, who is a deacon of the church, said the outreach programme, tagged: Reach Out Nigeria Prison Project, was an effort by the Believers Love World Ministry (Christ Embassy) to get the prison community to be part of Nigeria’s Independence anniversary.
He said the church, through the programme, hoped to see prisons in Nigeria become corrective as well as impact on the society.
Otuaro said: “The Reach Out Nigeria Prison Project is an endeavour to get the prison community to be a part of this great bandwagon of hope and to join in the celebration of a greater, better and prosperous Nigeria.
“Our utmost desire is to reach and penetrate every Nigerian with the gospel as contained in the Rhapsody of Realities daily devotional by ‘spreading to every man’s world, spreading to every man’s device’. This way, we believe it will bring peace and light to Nigeria, making an indelible mark in the soul of the nation, especially at a time like this…”
The State Controller of Prisons, Samuel Iyakoregha, noted that only God’s message transforms a man’s heart.