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Thousands of youths are poised for repositioning for personal and business excellence at the Region 2 Youth convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Lagos.

The convention holds from July 12-14 at the Milk and Honey Parish of the church in Maryland, Lagos.

The parish pastor, Wale Adeduro, stated that the convention will be a mixture of spiritual, business and sporting event to repackage youths for greater exploits.

He said many youths are losing the battle against unemployment and productivity due to wrong mindset and orientation.

“Many of them think they cannot make it big without compromising and cutting corners. They believe they cannot run business without government contracts,” Adeduro stated.

To convince them these are untrue, the MD/CEO of Interswitch, the nation’s leading ATM service provider, Mr. Michael Eleme, will be speaking at the convention with the theme “repositioning for youths for nation building”.

According to Adeduro: “We are using the interswitch story to inspire youths. The firm has revolutionised how we pay and do business in the nation.

“It has become a multi-billion business despite not winning government contracts. If Eleme can do it in the same Nigeria, every other youth can do the same.”

Stating that youths will be able to ask the entrepreneur how he succeeded and draw strength from it, Adeduro also hinted that a mentoring programme will be inaugurated for those who feel led to start businesses.

This will be followed by access to loan facility facilitated by the church for those with compelling proposal, he added.

“We are proving that there is hope for those who want to use their talents and there are still rooms at the top for those who dare to be godly and productive,” he submitted.

For 30 widows in Lagos province 17 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), it was all smiles last week.

They received economic empowerment courtesy of the women’s fellowship of the church aimed at changing their status in the society.

The empowerment session was the height of the 3-day Sisters’ Convention with the theme “reliable daughters of zion at the end time”.

The widows drawn from the 30 areas in the province were given support items such as grinding machines, deep freezers, hairdressing equipment, clothes and foodstuffs free of charge.

Also, hundreds of residents within the neighbourhood were offered free medical check-up during the convention.

The wife of the provincial pastor, Pastor (Mrs.) Christiana Omunagbe, explained that the schemes were aimed at addressing deep-seated poverty among the beneficiaries.

She lamented that the nation has failed to address acute hunger and unemployment, stating that such omission does not portend well for collective well-being.

Omunagbe said: “There is no more integrity, transparency and accountability. The whole world is looking unto us as women of honesty to influence positive change.”

She assured that the women have been trained for better economic performances, adding that mentors have been assigned to offer them free advice after investment.

According to her, women in the province have built a sanctuary in Olambe area of Ogun State.

She added that two maternity centres have been added in the province through the efforts of the women fellowship.

A speaker at the convention, Pastor (Mrs.) Victoria Obayemi, advised women to be concerned about the spiritual well-being of their families.

Speaking on keeping the fire of our homes burning, Obayemi, who is the wife of the pastor- in- charge of Region 2, said: “Women are the home makers and the responsibility to keep the fire of the homes burning lies with us.”

She advised all women to get busy and start stoking the fire with the fuel of caring, companionship, complete commitment, charitable communication, appreciation, responsibility, forgiveness, romance and active spiritual involvement.

The beneficiaries exuded joy during the presentation.

If things go as planned, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Living Faith Connections, United Kingdom will soon relocate to a more befitting auditorium.

This was disclosed by the pastor-in-charge, Chris Adeoye, during a fund raising dinner and choir album launch last week in Lagos.

Adeoye shared how the church secured the current facility in a restricted industrial area in 2005 after serious battles with government officials.

The facility on 23, Thames Road Barking UK, he stated, has since become too small for the ever-expanding scope and membership of the church.

“It has become difficult for us to have ministry expression. We have outreaches and community projects that cannot be accomplished in our current space,” Adeoye informed.

Making a strong appeal for a bigger space, he said another facility within the same neighbourhood has been offered to the church for purchase.

Negotiations, he stated, are on for the facility where he said an eatery, a studio, a gym and office complexes with a 2,000-seater auditorium and storage facilities would be sited.

Adeoye added that a youth academy and conference rooms would also be part of the facility when completed.

He appealed to Kingdom-minded Christians to support the church’s quest, promising them of divine interventions in returns.

The general overseer of Agape Generation Church Akure, Bishop Felix Adejumo, said such projects offered Christians another opportunity to enjoy divine provisions.

Reeling out his personal testimonies of giving, Adejumo said givers can never lack or be backward in life.

According to him: “God is not looking for your money but channels through which He can supply His blessings.”

He solicited support for the project, assuring that such visions would always become realities.

The church’s choir also presented its new album beyond the noun with delightful renditions from the work.

The evening was spiced up with music by Gbenga Adenuga, Evangelist Toun Soetan and Muyiwa Olarenwaju from the UK.

No fewer than ten talented kids have bagged NI million cash prize at the grand finale of God’s Children Got Talent (GCGT), an initiative of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Lagos Province Four.

Others made away with prizes such as musical instruments and N750,000.

GCGT was birthed in the City of David of the RCCG as a platform to provide an atmosphere for families to celebrate talented children.

One of the programme coordinators, Adedoyin Odunfa, said it’s an initiative designed to identify, promote, encourage and develop the talents that God has endowed the children with in furtherance of the gospel.

She said the programme is assuming a province-wide dimension with about 97 parishes participating for the first time.

It started with audition in March 2013 with 768 children at the Nigerian Law School, she said, adding that the numbers were eventually pruned to 57 after going through various stages of trials

She said five key talents, including dancing, singing, musical instruments, and the non performing arts, – writing and drawing were on display.

Adedoyin said the children featured in the age group of 5 – 6 years; 7-9years; 10-12years; 13-15years and 16-19years.

She said the initiative will culminate in a talent development programme.

On future plans for the initiative, she said: “We are going to enroll some of them in a talent development programme in the areas in which the teens showcased their talents in this competition.

“We are going to find schools that can train the children in their various talents, and we will enroll them there.

“We will pay for one year schooling for them and they will go through that one year and develop their talents further.”

She said with time, the programme would go national and eventually attain international outlook.

Some of the Judges were Joke Sylva, Sir Nwokedi, a well known orchestra-classical music guru, T.Y. Bello and Femi.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has spent N433million on community projects across the nation in the first quarter of 2013.

The General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, disclosed this while presenting report of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities last week.

He said the projects were spread over 353 communities in 255 local governments of the nation.

Adeboye informed the projects included construction of free community schools, provision of free potable water, scholarship for indigent students and patrol vans for police stations, among several others.

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Personnel and Administration, Pastor Johnson Odesola, Adeboye said: “We want to do more as we have a mandate to spend N2billion on various community projects in 2013 that will meet the growing needs and aspiration of the people in all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.”

Restating the commitment of the church to carrying out more developmental projects throughout the country, he said the projects were carried out after comprehensive needs assessment in the benefitting communities.

He assured of the church’s determination to complement efforts of the government in alleviating poverty through provision of health care facilities and other developmental projects for national growth and stability.

The church, Adeboye informed, is committed to providing basic necessities because poverty does not discriminate.

According to him, a real church will impact its immediate environment through the provision of developmental projects in line with the mandate of Christ.