THE EXOUSIA
PLACE REVIEW AND PREVIEW
Our mission is to raise a people of positive
influence and for this year in CGMi,
the divine mandate is to do exploit. Exploits in every aspect of life;
spiritually, economically, socially, physically and really all round. And
that’s what we have started already so far this year.
Though the year is still young, but as a church we
have taken off on the right foot. Today’s post intends to highlight all we’ve
done so far and all we intend to do in the next two months as part of our
efforts in reaching heights of exploits.
Our key events started with the Love Alive service and it was an
amazing time in His presence. The 12th
of February was the Sunday that preceded Valentine’s Day and love was in the air. As a Church, we were never
going to be left out of the frenzy. Our Lord Jesus is love personified and even
St. Valentine himself was a true believer in our Lord and his sacrifice on the
cross, and that was why he could give is life just for others to enjoy theirs.
So on that Sunday, the service was cool. Church was full and we had a talk show
with Ps Goodness Emuren as the host and Precious Eda and Doris as the resource
persons. God’s love and its power to effectively transform our lives and
relationships was the highlight of the talk and with lots of questions from the
audience, and the applause given after the talk ended, you could be sure that
everyone had learnt something and everyone was blessed.
Thursdays are usually for our Capacity Building Seminar and we always have a wonderful time when
we study God’s word and challenge conventional wisdom with the truth. But Thursday the 16th of Februaury
would prove to be more than just special for us as we held an outreach and
evangelism session tagged “Surface for Christ”. The idea was to go to a major
traffic centre in the city and hold up posters carrying short messages of
salvation and the unimaginable love of God, and as people looked on trying to
read our poster, we slipped to them some tracts. It was a whole lotofun as we
converged at the ever busy Berger
Round-About in the Azikoro Area of
Yenagoa, and at 4pm, exactly the time when the rush hour starts, we
surrounded the Round-about doing exactly what we had planned to do. You can be
rest assured that lots of people were inspired by our message and hearts were
drawn to Christ. Of course, a good number of persons walked up to some of us
and asked what was going on, we responded with the Gospel and so we
evangelised. Special thanks must really go out to our big brother Ps Wariebiowei
Zee for the wonderful concept and idea.
As if that wasn’t enough, Friday the 24th February saw us filing out once again to
put God’s Word on the streets. And this time our choice location was the ever
bustling Opolo Market which always
comes more alive than ever every Friday. So we jumped out there, had great
music being played and we held up the posters and gave out the tracts as usual.
We felt God doing wonderful things already and we were all proud to be “…not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for
it is the power of God unto salvation…” And yes, salvation was our message
all day.
The photos and picture details can be seen right
here…
So the weeks to come promise to be more exciting
as we have our Men’s Sunday coming
up this Sunday the 5th of
March, the Women’s Sunday is the 12th
, the Teenagers have the 19th, and the Singles prepare to host this year’s Church in the Park on the 26th
of March.
Please keep a date with us and find a way to visit
if you are in town, and if you are far away, just keep tabs with us here and
you’ll surely get all the details of all the events and programs as they
unfold.
For now, it’s a big God bless you from us at CGMi The Exousia Place.
Shalom!!
