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A skills acquisition centre established by the Fountain of Life Church, Lagos, Grace Springs Business and Vocational School (GSBVS), has been rebranded.

The school was founded by the church in 2009.

Speaking at the unveiling of a new logo for the school, Director of the training centre, Mrs. Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun, said the school’s new identity would impact on its performance and future exploits.

‘’Today, we rebranding Grace Springs Business and Vocational School’s logo and brand with a vibrant new logo.

“I believe we all love it and to also speak about who we are, what we do and where we see ourselves in the future.

‘’GSBVS started off in 2009 to empower challenged members of the Fountain of Life Church, but in 2016, we became a business (oriented entity) not just teaching vocational skills but entrepreneurship skills.

“We realised that most of our students acquired skills but need thorough understanding of how to make money.

“Currently, we are running 14 courses on the vocational side of our school covering food, beauty, bags, shoe-making and fashion designing among others.

“For the business and entrepreneurship part, we run 19 courses, which covers ideation, management, leadership, innovation and psychology of business.”

Chairman of the school’s Governing Board, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, said the rebranding exercise would further project the centre for excellent performance and qualitative training of its trainees.

He said: ‘’What we are doing today is a kind of restructuring of this skills acquisition school for better training and excellent performance through rebranding.

“As a pastor one comes across a lot of people with various spiritual needs, but what about the physical needs of people?

“So, the idea behind establishing a school like this is to be able to give the people what we cannot offer them in terms of money, so they can also be empowered to be self-reliant through skills and entrepreneurship, so they can also be blessings to others in the society.’’

International ministers’ family conference holds

General overseers, founders, bishops, church leaders and marriage counsellors would converge on Lagos in July to deliberate and reignite the sparks in their homes.

The theme of the meeting tagged international ministers’ family conference is solid family, solid church.

Slated for July 18-20, the conference is organised by Family booster ministry international.

A statement by the convener, Pastor Bisi Adewale, explained the conference is packaged to offer an avenue for gospel ministers to refresh for better marital experiences.

“The plan is to expose them to teachings, techniques and practices capable of enhancing marital bliss since their ministerial success is strongly tied to their marriages,” he stated.

He added there would also be sessions on family health, finances, investment and parenting.

Other sessions, according to him, would focus on running thriving youth, children, women and marriage ministries in local churches for stronger homes.

Invited speakers include Apostle Wole Oladiyun, Rev Tony Akinyemi and Pastor Segun Olatunde, among others.

Venue is The Shepherd Flock International, off Mobolaji Bank Anthony way, Ikeja Lagos.

Men took time off their busy schedules recently to study the word and interact at the well-attended Discovery for Men rally organised by Fountain of Life Church Ilupeju Lagos.

The ecstatic atmosphere was characterised by a robust praise and worship session, inspiring testimonies and a soul-lifting ministration by the president of the organisation, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya.

Kehinde Akinbode, also known as Kenny K’ore, one of the nation’s finest gospel artistes and former member of the musical group Infinity, added further fervour to the already exciting atmosphere.

He ministered gospel songs in his trademark contemporary style and had the congregation dancing and singing along to familiar tunes like “Because you believe”; “Olorioko,” “Yanibo” and “So mo ore?” among others.

Pastor Taiwo Odukoya spoke on “time for exploits.”

He pointed out that attainment of exploits is predicated on knowledge.

According to him: “The kind of knowledge the scripture refers to is knowledge that produces works because strength in the kingdom of God is measured by the word of God.”

Odukoya emphasised that it takes the strong to do exploits, stating, “our desire to accomplish exploits as human beings is part of the way we are wired.”

He said, “When people don’t handle their mid-life issues with understanding, it becomes a crisis that is generally referred to as mid-life crisis.”

He stressed that mid-life and its attendant crises in the life of an individual is not the end but a period that should be handled with caution, knowledge and deeper understanding of the Word of God.

Ayo Oluwaseyi testified of supernatural childbirth despite negative reports from doctors while Peter Okoloh spoke of new job and unprecedented promotion.

Tunde Peters spoke of how God brought him from the streets of Oshodi into digital security and surveillance as well as developing his own award-winning surveillance cameras with branches of his company in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.

The acquisition of vocational skills is the shortest route to financial independence, the Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church Lagos, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, has stated.

He said Nigerians with entrepreneurial training cannot be stranded and remain eminently qualified to achieve financial greatness.

Odukoya spoke during the ninth graduation of Grace Springs Vocational Centre at the church’s auditorium.

He said that the current realities in the country demand that vocational skills should be added to degrees acquired in universities as white collar jobs are no longer readily available.

According to him: “It has been proven that those with additional vocational and entrepreneurial skills are having an edge in the marketplace and they are the ones exhibiting financial freedom and impacting lives on a daily basis.”

He disclosed that the church was quite mindful of the importance of this aspect of the economy, explaining the needs to arm the youths with alternative job skills necessitated the setting up of the centre five years ago as a non-profit making outfit.

While charging the graduates numbering over 100 to utilise whatever training they had acquired from the centre to influence others, Odukoya urged them to cultivate an entrepreneurship mindset and put God first in everything they do.

The principal of the centre, Mrs. Yetunde Holloway, charged the graduating students to make judicious use of the skills they had acquired, urging them to be good ambassadors of the centre.

Speaking on behalf of the graduates, the best graduating students, Olayinka Akinbanji, said what the centre has impacted on him is invaluable.

“The skills no doubt will make us employers of labour and we are grateful to the Fountain of Life church for coming up with such a laudable centre.”

The graduates after months of extensive training were certified competent in different vocations such as tailoring and styling, soap and cream making, soft furnishing, shoe making, plumbing, bead-craft, accessories making and catering.

Technical know-how, not capital, has been said to be responsible for the failure of many businesses in the country.

This was revealed by a survey conducted among thousands of small and medium scale business owners across the country by the Business Fellowship Department of the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos.

The head of the department, Pastor Mojisola Odukoya made this known, Wednesday during a networking workshop organised to enhance the capacity of selected growing business people across the country.

She said: ” Our senior pastor,Taiwo Odukoya gave us the task of empowering as many members and non members of the church that are into small and medium scale businesses using global best practices. In trying to do this, we conducted a survey at the beginning of the year asking hundreds of business people to tell us the problems they face in doing their businesses. After we analysed the whole thing, we discovered that most of them lack the technical know-how. Surprisingly, finance wasn’t the biggest problem but know-how. It was an insightful research that made us to understand that priority should be placed on technical know how and not necessarily on finance. When a business has the capital but lacks the know-how

it has a higher propensity to fail.

The networking workshop according to her equiped the participants with the technical skills they needed to excel in their businesses.

“The networking workshop empowers the close to 200 participants within and outside the church on how to network in the business world. The programme is open to everybody in any part of the country. We announced it and even made flyers that we distributed far and wide to inform people about it.It is highly affordable because Pastor Odukoya subsidised it emormously.