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| RCCG Light Of The World Workers Retreat/Graduation Wednesday May 29 2013 - Cross Section of Graduates and Instructors |
Yaaay!! Today is Democracy Day in Nigeria. Typical
Nigerian attitude towards Democracy Day is “there’s
nothing to celebrate about democracy day” It's a public holiday. Some say
we have too many public holidays, I wouldn’t know about that. It originated
when Nigeria transited into democratic government for a third time after
decades of decays of military rule. Some school of thought believe military
rule regime returned more development and growth. This subjective conclusion
will be the premise for argument on another day.
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| Pastor Abraham Annam of RCCG Light of the World |
Today is also our
RCCG Light of the World Workers Retreat
day at Atican beach. Time for assembling at the church was 7:00am and departure
time to the beach 7:30am. I showered and left for church. Imagine my surprise
when I got to church. I was the first person. I thought I went late. ''African
Timing'' or ''Nigerian Time'' is a bitch! I didn't quite take it casually. Seriously
we need to stick to time for God’s sake, time is money. The rest continued to
trickle in till 7:30am. I could've work on my new pet project before coming
here this morning. Anyway it's all good. After killing a considerable amount of
time we left.
I was in the same car, a Nissan Pathfinder with Omolara
and Jide at the back seat. Me and Lara short for Omolara talked all the way to
venue. She happened to be a cartoon lover and a fan of Naruto! It couldn't get
better lol. Where two or three Naruto fans are gathered, endless chakra and
excitement for discussing Naruto is unleashed! The scenery on the road to the
beach nostalgically evokes the images of my village in my head in a soothing
way. You’ll drive past Ajah community, make a right at Abraham Adesanya Estate
road and drive deep into the less developed massive land mass. We got to the
place safely. We were the first set of beach goers to colour and enliven the
vicinity with our presence.
I familiarized myself with the foreign environment. I
haven’t been here before. I wouldn't have been here today if not for RCCG Light Of The World Workers Retreat/Graduation. The beach is not big. Someone bought a piece of real
estate by the shoreline and converted it to personal beach. The person is one
Mr. Atiku from Igbo Efon. It has a sandy courtyard where you can play football.
At one corner is a wonky looking basketball rim, just one. There was a
one-storey raised wooden platform overlooking the courtyard and the beach area.
The lower part of this platform can serve as a stage. Lara said she didn’t
trust the strength of the platform, I agreed. There were three other brick
building and one sizeable tent structure including the raised platform
surrounding the courtyard to form a square shape.
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| Me |
We
kicked off the workers’ retreat/graduation proper by 10:00am. Open Heavens was shared. The
graduating workers, that's us, were admonished and prayed for. We took pictures
with pastor and the facilitators. We had light refreshments and a thirty
minutes break. The burn in my mouth from yesterday was still wreaking havoc in
my mouth. It hurts badly.
After the break we did two team activities involving everybody be ye a graduating worker or not. One was a
three point evaluation of RCCG Light of the World in the past one year and the
other was a game. The evaluation was very insightful and the game was fun.
Lunch followed immediately on the heels of the game. What's for lunch? I dare
say it was delicious gourmet meal of jollof rice with two large pieces of
chicken, lucky me I got two king-sized drumsticks. We all got specially served
like kings and queens. I prayed and did excellent justice to my food. The burnt
roof of my mouth is still shooting painful feedback to my brain. Fortunately
this killjoy can't ruin my feast. I no be
gentleman as I finished my food.
By now other beach goers have trooped in and music is
blasting from every corner of the beach. I moved to a cooler tent cuz ours has
gotten really hot. I cooled off a bit and went to the beach area. Some
daredevil guys were playing football under that scorching sun baking the sand
in the courtyard of the complex. I don’t wanna sweat.
At the beach area I saw Lara sitting alone on bleached wooden
beach deck chair overlooking the ocean as the waves kiss the shores and hurry
back to sea. You can also see other beach goers having fun, playing soccer,
dancing to blasting music, taking photographs, etc. The sight of the bluish
green ocean with the azure sky sitting calmly on the horizon invokes a rare
sense of serenity and closeness to nature that feels therapeutic. It's so
exotic. God I love this view. I joined Lara. We sat on the same deck chair
sitting straight or laying back occasionally. We talked about a lot of stuff. I
confess I totally enjoyed the quality time I spent.
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| Pastor's wife Funto Annam |
Pastor’s wife called everybody back for the final item on
our agenda and subsequently bringing the outing to a resounding close. We went
back as we came in the same car. Me and Lara talked some more. We got back to
the church at exactly 5:06pm. I went home and stayed indoors throughout. I
express my profound deep appreciation to all responsible for successfully
organizing this Workers Retreat/Graduation Event. I had a great time. May God bless you all. May
God bless everyone that attended.
My new neighbour Deborah came by my room. She came to ask
for a favour. Her fridge hasn’t arrived yet, and she wanna share mine. She went
and brought a package, a meal package she intends to go to work with the next
morning. She said she’ll pick it up by 6:00am the next day. I tried to stay
longer on the computer but I couldn’t keep eyes open any longer so I gracefully
and humbly submitted to authority of sleep.
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| RCCG Light Of The World Workers Retreat/Graduation Wednesday May 29 2013 - Cross Section of Graduates and Instructors |
Yaaay!! Today is Democracy Day in Nigeria. Typical
Nigerian attitude towards Democracy Day is “there’s
nothing to celebrate about democracy day” It's a public holiday. Some say
we have too many public holidays, I wouldn’t know about that. It originated
when Nigeria transited into democratic government for a third time after
decades of decays of military rule. Some school of thought believe military
rule regime returned more development and growth. This subjective conclusion
will be the premise for argument on another day.
|
| Pastor Abraham Annam of RCCG Light of the World |
Today is also our
RCCG Light of the World Workers Retreat
day at Atican beach. Time for assembling at the church was 7:00am and departure
time to the beach 7:30am. I showered and left for church. Imagine my surprise
when I got to church. I was the first person. I thought I went late. ''African
Timing'' or ''Nigerian Time'' is a bitch! I didn't quite take it casually. Seriously
we need to stick to time for God’s sake, time is money. The rest continued to
trickle in till 7:30am. I could've work on my new pet project before coming
here this morning. Anyway it's all good. After killing a considerable amount of
time we left.
I was in the same car, a Nissan Pathfinder with Omolara
and Jide at the back seat. Me and Lara short for Omolara talked all the way to
venue. She happened to be a cartoon lover and a fan of Naruto! It couldn't get
better lol. Where two or three Naruto fans are gathered, endless chakra and
excitement for discussing Naruto is unleashed! The scenery on the road to the
beach nostalgically evokes the images of my village in my head in a soothing
way. You’ll drive past Ajah community, make a right at Abraham Adesanya Estate
road and drive deep into the less developed massive land mass. We got to the
place safely. We were the first set of beach goers to colour and enliven the
vicinity with our presence.
I familiarized myself with the foreign environment. I
haven’t been here before. I wouldn't have been here today if not for RCCG Light Of The World Workers Retreat/Graduation. The beach is not big. Someone bought a piece of real
estate by the shoreline and converted it to personal beach. The person is one
Mr. Atiku from Igbo Efon. It has a sandy courtyard where you can play football.
At one corner is a wonky looking basketball rim, just one. There was a
one-storey raised wooden platform overlooking the courtyard and the beach area.
The lower part of this platform can serve as a stage. Lara said she didn’t
trust the strength of the platform, I agreed. There were three other brick
building and one sizeable tent structure including the raised platform
surrounding the courtyard to form a square shape.
|
| Me |
We
kicked off the workers’ retreat/graduation proper by 10:00am. Open Heavens was shared. The
graduating workers, that's us, were admonished and prayed for. We took pictures
with pastor and the facilitators. We had light refreshments and a thirty
minutes break. The burn in my mouth from yesterday was still wreaking havoc in
my mouth. It hurts badly.
After the break we did two team activities involving everybody be ye a graduating worker or not. One was a
three point evaluation of RCCG Light of the World in the past one year and the
other was a game. The evaluation was very insightful and the game was fun.
Lunch followed immediately on the heels of the game. What's for lunch? I dare
say it was delicious gourmet meal of jollof rice with two large pieces of
chicken, lucky me I got two king-sized drumsticks. We all got specially served
like kings and queens. I prayed and did excellent justice to my food. The burnt
roof of my mouth is still shooting painful feedback to my brain. Fortunately
this killjoy can't ruin my feast. I no be
gentleman as I finished my food.
By now other beach goers have trooped in and music is
blasting from every corner of the beach. I moved to a cooler tent cuz ours has
gotten really hot. I cooled off a bit and went to the beach area. Some
daredevil guys were playing football under that scorching sun baking the sand
in the courtyard of the complex. I don’t wanna sweat.
At the beach area I saw Lara sitting alone on bleached wooden
beach deck chair overlooking the ocean as the waves kiss the shores and hurry
back to sea. You can also see other beach goers having fun, playing soccer,
dancing to blasting music, taking photographs, etc. The sight of the bluish
green ocean with the azure sky sitting calmly on the horizon invokes a rare
sense of serenity and closeness to nature that feels therapeutic. It's so
exotic. God I love this view. I joined Lara. We sat on the same deck chair
sitting straight or laying back occasionally. We talked about a lot of stuff. I
confess I totally enjoyed the quality time I spent.
|
| Pastor's wife Funto Annam |
Pastor’s wife called everybody back for the final item on
our agenda and subsequently bringing the outing to a resounding close. We went
back as we came in the same car. Me and Lara talked some more. We got back to
the church at exactly 5:06pm. I went home and stayed indoors throughout. I
express my profound deep appreciation to all responsible for successfully
organizing this Workers Retreat/Graduation Event. I had a great time. May God bless you all. May
God bless everyone that attended.
My new neighbour Deborah came by my room. She came to ask
for a favour. Her fridge hasn’t arrived yet, and she wanna share mine. She went
and brought a package, a meal package she intends to go to work with the next
morning. She said she’ll pick it up by 6:00am the next day. I tried to stay
longer on the computer but I couldn’t keep eyes open any longer so I gracefully
and humbly submitted to authority of sleep.
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