The Afri-mission and Evangelism Network (AMEN) has partnered with the Capital City Knowledge International School Abuja to establish a missionary club in the school for moral rebranding.
The President of AMEN, Evangelist Oscar Amaechina at the inauguration of the Young Missionaries Club (YMC) in Abuja on Friday, said the club was conceptualised to bring young Christians together to be used as instruments in the end time.
Amaechina said the club would nurture the students in the fear of our Lord, train and shape them to be missional and as well carve a niche for them to excel in their academic pursuit and other endeavours.
“The objective of this club is to raise you into young adults who will make the world a better place.
“With God on our side, we will raise among you missionary doctors, missionary nurses, missionary lawyers, missionary engineers, missionary teachers, missionary pharmacists, missionary pastors, missionary civil servants, missionary pilots, missionary musicians, missionary soldiers, missionary police, missionary bankers etc.
“You will be groomed to use your secular professions to touch lives and bring people to the saving knowledge of Christ. To your
generation, you will be role models, to the society, you will be shinning stars and to your parents, you will be blessed children,” he said.
He advised the students to stay away from all forms of youthful lusts and never to do things that does not please God.
“Before now I used to fear that my generation will be the last generation of Christian missionaries in Nigeria but today ushers me into a new hope that a younger generation is coming up to take the mantle from us.
“According to Franz Fanon “Every generation respective of its obscurity, discovers its mission, fulfill it or betray it.We are here to discover the mission of the mandate of the Great Commission and I am optimistic that we will surely fulfill it to the glory of God almighty,” he said.
Also, Mr Christian Idoko, Principal, Capital City of Knowledge International School said the club was necessary to give the student a sense of consciousness for greater responsibility.
Idoko said the club be serve as a platform for moral rebranding especially on morality that is fast eroding our society.
“The Young Missionary Club we are launching today is like a fulfillment of destiny. Most of the time we see children whom we should be accounting as ambassadors, missionaries lack the fundamental knowledge of who a missionary is and who an ambassador is .
“So today is like fortifying this knowledge we’ve been trying to pass to them to see themselves not just who they are that they are representing a larger nation, so with the inauguration of this missionary club today, they will know they are representing people and people assess what the do.
“So today is a mission come through and it’s our prayer that this club that has come to stay will impact until this children have the basic principles that they need to know especially in morality, on current happening in our society, on social vices and others,” he said.
One of the students, David Alabi, expressed his commitment to propagate the message of good moral values to the larger society, while advising young ones to shun violence capable of destroying their lives.
“Bringing this club to our school will change a lot of things especially students in their work with Christ will be established and rooted and this vices will be stopped.
“I advise young ones involved in social vices to desist from it and serve God dedicatedly because one with God as they say is a majority,” he said.
In the same vein, Pastor Josephine Amaechina of the Antioch Christian Centre, promised to run with the vision of the organisation by replicating the gesture to other schools until it goes round the nation.
“We have discovered that the generation of missionaries is gradually passing by and we deem it fit to raise a younger generation who will take it from where the older generation stopped.
“This is not a one-off intervention, we will run with the vision and replicate it in other schools until it goes round the nation,” she said.
Meanwhile, Miss Sylvia Udemezue, the coordinator of the club in the school pledged to sustain the club by nurturing the students to grow in the knowledge of Christ.
