For many years, the Church has been a platform for meeting the spiritual needs of worshipers across Nigeria.
Over the years, the Church’s unwavering commitment to strengthening its internal structures and promoting the core values of family life and human dignity across the country have been some of the unifying factors of religious institutions.
The Church, leveraging on educational institutions, provided a melting pot for diverse group of people across the country; thereby bridging needs and taking upon itself functions/activities that naturally should have been met by the government.
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However, with the growing economic realities – the Church no longer have the elasticity to meet the needs of all the worshipers that seek succour from it.
This is so because the Church as an entity does not exist outside the worshipers; hence the Church serve as a congregating spot for people of different backgrounds, and can only do so with the support of the well to do members of the Church.
But, as a majority of the worshipers struggle to make ends meet – the Church is called upon to look inward for solutions without much reliance on external forces to meet the day-to-day needs of the Church.
Lawrence Oladele, who was recently inducted as the 4th president of The Apostolic Church Nigeria (TACN), said the church needs restructuring and overhauling to meet some of its challenges.
According to Oladele, the church has many challenges in many of its Territories across the country, including paucity of funds to run the national secretariat, constitutional negligence among others.
He, however, assured the congregation that the new administration will carry out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of the entire system for inclusive and objective leadership, corporate governance and result-oriented leadership.
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“If we humble ourselves, confess and forsake our sins, get converted from our evil ways, seek God and pray, the Lord will answer and make the Nation great and relevant among the comity of Nations again,” Oladele stated, assuring that the challenges of Nigeria are surmountable by the power of God.
According to him, Nigerians need to unite by loving one another in the interest of the country and resolve to live together in peace and harmony, shunning nepotism, tribalism, political subjugation, and social hegemony, with the fear of God, to rebuild the country.
The new TACN president assured Nigerians that the Church is committed to praying for the nation by leading purposefully and advising the leaders of the nation from time to time. He also called on political leaders to alleviate the suffering of the people. “Allow fairness, justice and equity, tackle the issue of insurgency from the root, for the country to bounce back and recover its lost glory.
