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Chinyere Abiaziem
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Lagos State Chapter, has noted that fighting corruption in Nigeria without spiritual transformation would less likely yield needed results.
The chapter with Pastor Yemi Davids and Rev. Janet Onaolapo as the Chairman and Vice-Chairman, made this known at a briefing to mark the inaugural anniversary, where the strategic and spiritual milestones were highlighted and a thanksgiving service to hold on Sunday, August 31.
Addressing the press, Davids in the company of the executives, said that when the administration came on board, it stressed the need for focus on its spiritual priority in addition to physical concerns.
He asserted that spiritual transformation of the ctizenry would positively impact on the nation and the citizens’ posture in shunning corruption.
Meanwhile, he stated that as part of the ‘New Dawn’ vision of the Chapter, several programmes were held to unite, equip members for excellent leadership, transparency, accountability and to impact lives especially at the grassroot levels even outside the four walls of the church.
Davids, who maintained that churches were doing a lot to better the society contrary to views of naysayers, noted that more efforts would be put into communicating some of the works done.
He revealed that 60 tonnes of relief materials were gathered from donations and recently sent to Benue State with special monitoring by a team from Lagos to ensure even distribution amongst victims of the crisis.
His words:”…Some will ask, why is there so much corruption? Why are young people behaving like this? The only way that this can be mitigated is spiritual impact. When somebody’s heart is transformed, they will behave better at work.They will behave better as husbands.
“That, I think, is a priority as an organisation. Maybe there is no other organisation that can actually do that.If we don’t emphasise that, then we lose our salt and our light.
“That has been addressed, and I’m so grateful that one of our high points in the last one year was in May, when we had what we call Provinces, step out to minister to people. And we had a lot of people who surrendered their hearts to Christ, and they had a follow-up training.”
Davids added:”…Because when a young man’s heart is transformed, you have done a lot. But without that transformation, he can become a criminal. He becomes a problem to his family.
“So that, for me, was perhaps my highest moment in this last one year. The crusade, where every province in Lagos were able to minister to lives, touching them, and we had a lot of feedback from that.”
