Author: Deji Okegbile

Sir Keir Starmer, the New Prime Minister, United Kingdom: Prayer and Call for National Renewal.

Sir Keir Starmer, the New Prime Minister, United Kingdom: Prayer and Call for National Renewal.

Posted by | Jul 5, 2024 | |

In his speech at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London today, Sir Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, declared that ‘service is the precondition for hope.’ According to him, ‘Change begins now. And it feels good, I have to be honest. Four-and-a-half years of work changing the party. This is what it is for. A changed Labour party ready to serve our country. Ready to restore Britain to the service of working people. The Prime Minister agreed that a mandate like this comes with great responsibility. Our task is nothing less than renewing...

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FORWARD TO THE PAST, ASABA RETREAT @50: Centre for Bolaji Idowu Studies!

FORWARD TO THE PAST, ASABA RETREAT @50: Centre for Bolaji Idowu Studies!

Posted by | Jun 15, 2024 | |

The election of the Reverend Professor Bolaji Idowu, a former head of the Department of Religion, University of Ibadan, on October 4 1972, as the President of Methodist Church Nigeria was a call to restore ‘the years that the locust has eaten.’[1] Talented with an unprecedented foresight and missional imaginations of things to come, during his service of investiture and consecration on January 20, 1973, he expressed the need for the ordering of the ministry, structure, and the image of the church. [2] He called for the review of the inherited constitution with emphasis on indigenisation of Nigerian Methodism....

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Peter Kerridge: The ‘Mid-wife’ of Premier Radio in a ‘Spiritually Hungry Nation.’

Peter Kerridge: The ‘Mid-wife’ of Premier Radio in a ‘Spiritually Hungry Nation.’

Posted by | Jun 14, 2024 | |

The transition of the Premier Chief Executive Officer Peter John Kerridge, a radio pioneer committed to Jesus Christ on Saturday 8th June 2024, left a legacy of a struggling radio station into Europe’s most prominent Christian media organisation. Six months after Premier Radio was launched to great fanfare on June 10, 1995 ‘the station was in deep financial trouble. David Heron, a former stockbroker, stepped in to help the young station back on its feet. One of the first things he did in his role as Premier’s new chairperson was to invite Peter to come on board as managing...

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Mama Hannah Folorunso Famurewa, a Virtuous Woman Entrepreneur: Mama Niyi.

Mama Hannah Folorunso Famurewa, a Virtuous Woman Entrepreneur: Mama Niyi.

Posted by | Jun 6, 2024 | |

The final chapter of Proverbs opens with a young prince learning from his mother the qualities that should define his reign as a godly king (Prov. 31). This wise and godly mother describes the kind of wife the young prince should seek. She asks, ‘Who can find a virtuous wife?’ This mother points out that such a woman is rare. Such a woman was Mama Hannah Folorunso Famurewa, a woman of exceptional virtue. Like Hannah in the Bible, Mama Famurewa had the faith to trust God with all her family. Mama Famurewa knew God and knew His character. She...

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Deaconess Aniette Akpan @60: Recovery of Deaconess Order.

Deaconess Aniette Akpan @60: Recovery of Deaconess Order.

Posted by | May 28, 2024 | , |

“. . .Abasi m’ikp”daha y’ami ikp’imeme inno.” On her 60th birthday, Deaconess Aniette Augustus Akpan remains grateful to God for the opportunity she was given through the Deaconess Order/Women’s work platform provided by the Methodist Church Nigeria to serve God majorly among the women. The platform also provided her windows of opportunities, including giving hope and voice to the hopeless and the voiceless, especially in a seemingly man’s world, impacting the lives of young women (the Ladies/Girls Fellowship, now Daughters of Wesley). Sadly, Deaconess Akpan is burdened that the Deaconess Order need urgent restoration before it goes into extinction. According to her, ‘currently,...

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