Onyeogu who announced the scholarship award during this year’s annual women’s conference of the church explained that the award is aimed at assisting the widows who have no funds to sponsor their children or wards in schools.
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He noted that out of the six beneficiaries, five would be trained at the secondary school level, including their school fees paid and feeding and accommodation provided while the remaining beneficiary would study any course of his choice in any university in the country.
He directed the CHCI authorities to select two of the beneficiaries from Awka, one from Lagos, one from Amawbia, one from Nteje while the one for the university scholarship could come from any part of the country, provided all of them are ardent members of the church.
Responding, the General Superintendent of CHCI, His Grace, Archbishop Daniel Okoh commended Onyeogu for his action which he described as philanthropic.
He also urged other members of the church to emulate the exemplary gesture of the school proprietor.
Also the archbishop advised Christians to properly understand the meaning of every word they speak to God while saying their prayers so as to enable God answer them.
Okoh who is the vice president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and national/international president of Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) said that as a spirit, God reads the thoughts of men while they are praying, adding that it is only out of emotions and intellect that He can easily apply such prayers in every human condition.
He, therefore, admonished Christians to obey the supreme powers of the Holy Spirit in their lives, stressing that they should not abuse its essence whenever they are provoked.
In his lecture entitled: “Holy Spirit, our guide forever”, which he delivered at a women conference of the Church held at the CHCI camp ground, Nteje in Oyi council area of Anambra State, Archbishop Okoh told Christians to weigh their utterances while praying to God.
He maintained that during prayer sessions, immense power is usually transmitted to God while holding supplication, warning that Christians should not be abusive with the use of “holy-ghost fire” as it amounts to abuse of God Himself and His holy name.
Also in her own paper entitled: “The role of the Holy Spirit in a crisis situation, the Burundi experience,” a Burundian national and Economic Adviser in the office of the Ministry of Good Governance attached to the Burundian Presidency, Mrs. Marie Nzishura, went down memory lane on the protracted civil war ravaging the poverty-stricken country.
She recounted the war situation which brought about rape, hunger and instability in Burundi and how the Holy Spirit used such terrible conditions in the country to accomplish His mission for the people.
Nzishura noted that as a poor country where hatred and suspicion reined supreme from 1972 till 1993 when President Melchoir Ndadeya was assassinated by Tutsi soldiers in the Hutu dominated country, peace eluded the nation, but with the power of the Holy Spirit, reconciliation and peace were restored.
The Burundian national observed that the women of Burundi have learnt to speak for themselves against oppression and violence even as she reiterated the need to allow the Holy Spirit reign in the lives of Christians.
In her address, the Head of Women and Children department of CHCI and wife of the General Superintendent, General Deaconess Ngozi I. Okoh explained that it was in recognition of the vital role played by women in the society that necessitated the conference.
She explained that the occasion was targeted to serve as a forum for coming together of women of various branches of the church to support the needy among them and to empower those who genuinely need assistance.
The deaconess disclosed that not less than 70 privileged widows received relief materials, including bags of rice, wrappers and some amount of money as gesture from the church.
Mrs. Okoh urged the women to use the forum to renew their faith in God in consonance with the agreement reached by the founder, the late Prophetess Agnes Okoh (Odozi-Obodo) with God.
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