When
new students come into school, they are the fresh inputs and hence a lot of
spheres make efforts to bring them to the knowledge of their beliefs. The Keggites do meetings to indoctrinate them
into the life of the palm wine. The Man
O war make their impact known (I.e. displaying the opportunities available
if you are part of them) right from the clearance exercise at the Akin DEKO
main Auditorium. The Red Cross show how helpful they can be and even some banks
display kindness of different sorts; the lists of “welcomes” by different
belief systems are endless.
However,
I concern myself with the efforts of the Christians to bring freshers to the
fold of believers on campus. Programmes ranging from the CTY (Catch Them Young)
to the fresher’s Welcome are organised to share messages of the riches of his
grace and love. Saving the lost, steadying those that are shaking and
encouraging those that are firm in Christ like Iron sharpens iron. Hence, in the spirit of OKoku Grandani, I
express my feelings on the beauty of the Freshers welcome organised by the
house of CU-NIFES (Christian Union – Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical
students) for the new intakes of the 2013/ 2014 session.
In
2010/2011 session, I was “Atote Percektuara” – the determined
ones, the next year came; I had to be part of those to welcome the “Monadikous
Thisavrous” – Unique Treasures to campus. And then as an exco, I
participated fully in the unveiling of the “SuuKapale” – Mouthpiece
of the 2012/2013 session. And then, this year came and they called it “OKOKU
Gradani”...and I waited patiently for the unveiling of the theme by the
evangelism secretaries.
The
choir scatter my head with their presentation, Praises and worship was from the
planet called “wow”. The MCs Jide and Onyinye made sure, boring moments were
lacking. I could feel the kicks of passions on the drums through the subwoofers
on the front panels and grace soaked the atmosphere. Back to the choir jare,
their dressing make sense to the core and NICUDU ( NiFES –CU Drama Unit) did
not dull in their own presentation.
Jesus Generation Singers built on their excellent performance of last
year to thrill us with beautiful dance steps that pleased our eyes and touched
our souls.
“We
think say e don finish oh”... little did we know that the sweetness of the
programme was just changing gears. Dr.Ken Katas, mounted the pulpit to share
Gods word and the service entered into another realm. Although, the clocked
ticked tirelessly as the time counted, I think the time was worth it. Live were
changed, transformed and saved. The Holy Spirit expressed himself in the beauty
of his awesomeness, inhabiting the praises of his people and touching lifes...Moving
like the wind, where we see the impact but not really the visual person.
Okoku
Grandani, freshers welcome for the 2013/ 2014 session means “Kingdom
Citizens”...and the kingdom of God invaded the earth in lives and I know this
is a start of something beautiful and great. They are the kingdom Citizens (me
sef join oh) , to function from the perspective of the
kingdom and express Gods will on earth. Hmmm...na so we see am, some things we
cannot just explain except you were there...all glory to God
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