Members of the Apostolic Faith Church in the West and Central African region gathered today at Igbesa Faith City Camp Ground in Ogun State to commence the 2023 Camp Meeting of the West and Central Africa (WECA).
The WECA Camp Meeting will be held between Sunday, August 13 and 27, 2023. Earlier, the church held the Ministers and Workers Meeting on Friday, August 11, 2023.
Speaking on the theme of this year’s Camp Meeting, “I will Do Marvels”, the WECA District Superintendent, Rev. Isaac Adigun, guided by the book of Psalms 77: 13-19, assured the congregants that God would do marvels in their lives and for Nigeria, as a nation and such marvels have not been done on earth.
He said the impressive, wholesome, terrific, wonderful, remarkable, great and extraordinary marvels that God is about to do would not be hidden, stressing that God would roll away people’s reproach.
“God says, “I will do marvels in this camp meeting, among my children that are here, among my children that are listening to me over the virtual devices. It is a decree; it is a covenant and God will bring that to pass in Jesus’ mighty name”, he stated.
Earlier, at the English Sunday School titled, “Paul’s Defence of His Apostleship and Ministry”, the teacher, Brother Ololade Ayoola bemoaned the commercialization of the gospel.
Reiterating that the commercialization of the gospel would never be allowed in The Apostolic Faith Church, he expressed sadness over the way many church leaders fleece their followers.
Guided by Apostle Paul’s Christian’s standard, he said that Paul the Apostle never extorted or fleece his converts like many Christians’ leaders in Nigeria.
He said many of the Nigerian church leaders are only serving their bellies rather than serving their God, the reason why different kinds of contributions are being made in many churches.
Ayoola buttressed his anger against the corrupt church leaders through a conversation he had on an airplane saying, “About three months ago, I was on a flight, from Abuja to Port Harcourt. As the aircraft was taxing, the passenger next to me looked at the hangers with the fleet of private jets and said most of them are owned by general overseers of different churches. Then I told him, not my church. And he asked me, which church is that? I said The Apostolic Faith. He said, oh, we know you people. You are conservatives.”
“Do we see our District Superintendent with a big entourage of security? No. our Superintendent General is a brother when he comes here. He wants to interact with us. We fellowship together. That is the simplicity of the gospel. Let us not allow anybody to bring us under bondage”, he added.
