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Diocese of Lagos, Anglican Communion, in her strategic spiritual and physical roles to carter for her congregation and society, has unveiled plans to give something greater back to the next generation.
Rt. Rev. Humphrey B.
Olumakaiye (Ph.D), the Bishop of the Diocese, made the disclosure during a Press
Briefing at Bishop Palace, Marina; Lagos on Wednesday, to announce the
commencement of 100 Anniversary celebration of the Lagos Anglican Communion.
Olumakaiye said the
church, as part of its Centenary celebration has also concluded arrangement to
commence construction of a centenary City on the Lekki-Ibeju-Epe axis of Lagos
State.
While acknowledging
the T.Y. Danjuma as the Grand Patron of the celebration, Olumakaiye said the city
estimated to gulp N5 billion for the first phase will accommodate world class
facilities such as Empowerment and Youth Development Centre; Rehabilitation
Centre; Games Village and Sporting Centre; Convention Ground, Garden of Gethsemane;
Retreat Centre; Luke's Global Hospital; Women Empowerment Centre, Resorts,
Amusement Park and a Low Income Housing Estate.
The centenary
programme which kicked off on January 2, 2019 was designed to make the 100
anniversary Celebration memorable. They include Power for the New Year
comprising of fasting and praying; Unveiling of Centenary Logo; Centenary
Rally; Centenary Diet which is a 40 days special journey in the word of God;
Collection of Centenary Signature; Children’s camp, the memorial 21-day fasting
and prayer, Mega Prayer Convocation, Choir Festival/Competition; Bishop’s
Cup/Football Competition, Centenary Health Week.
Others include
Centenary Walk Week; Lagos City Wide Crusade; Centenary Thanksgiving will come
up on December 10, 2019 and will mark the grand finale of the centenary event.
Olumakaiye
acknowledged the wonderful work of his predecessors and pledged to sustain the
legacy handed to over to him and his team. “We have decided to give something
greater back to the next generation that will forever be cherished as we
cherish the diocese given to us 100 years ago”
Speaking on the five
mandates of his administration which include Priestly, Pastoral, Prophetic,
Prayer and Praise ministries which he declared with his team upon enthronement
as Bishop of the Diocese, Olumakaiye said “Our five pastoral mandates priestly,
to conduct faithfully divine services, performing acts of blessing of members; Pastoral,
we shall tenderly feed the flock of God according to 1 Peter5: 2-6; Prophetic,
to faithfully together discharge the Lords message in terms of prophecy for the
encouragement, guidance, direction, correction, admonition, warning and
edification; Prayer, we shall all stand together in prayer.
“We shall teach and
model the acts of effective spiritual life by all. By the grace of God, we
shall have our diocese convention ground. Inside the convention ground, a place
will be carved out as 'garden of Gethsemane; Praise Ministry: we shall all
stand together by reinforcing the acts of praise in the diocese, we shall use
praise to surmount the insurmountable and do the impossible.”
He went further to
spoke on the Episcopal Visitations of the dioceses saying “On October 8, 2019
we started episcopal visitation to all the churches in the dioceses and we visited
all the 121 churches in the dioceses. We went across the Lagoon to visit the
struggling churches there. We did this to be able
to have first-hand information of all the churches to know their strength and
weaknesses. We also did that in order to meet the members one-on-one.
During our ministry
our visit to all these churches, we made donations to churches whose buildings
had been dilapidated and some of them have started building new structures now.
We also made donations
to some members who were in dire need. This is part of our pastoral ministry.
Some people need money for major operations and we came to their aid and such
members are back to their feet.
We were also able to settle
accommodation problems for some members as well.
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