By Chinyere Aruogu, with Agency Report
Residents on the popular Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, particularly those living along Arepo, Ibafon, Mowe etc are getting apprehensive as the 65th Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) begins on Monday. The event lasts for a week, starting from August 7 and ending on Sunday, August 13.
They are not afraid of anything else than the temporary hardship which arises from traffic each year the RCCG holds the programme despite preparations by the church to make movement easy for those residing there.
Armadanews.com learnt at the weekend that most of the residents are planning to relocate temporarily to places nearer to their places of work in Lagos for the one week the event would last.
“We don’t know how to deal with the situation, but we may have to relocate temporarily till the event is over. Ordinarily the programme should be good for our spiritual elevation, but it comes with traffic madness that is more or less, a nightmare,” one of the residents at Ibafon said.
However, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has assured of physical and spiritual healing at the 65th Annual Convention of the church which begins on Monday.
The Convention with the theme “Halleluyah,” holds at the Redemption Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and is expected to be attended by delegates from about 195 countries where the Church has branches.
During the Convention, there will be the ordination of new Ministers while new sets of students from the Mission’s Bible College and Mission School will graduate. Already a four-day Ministers Conference, which precedes the Convention, has begun.
Speaking on the Convention, Pastor Adeboye said the theme of the Convention should be a pointer to the fact that there will be intense praise of God, and diligent prayers.
“The heavy presence of the One who inhabits praises will so saturate everywhere on the Camp ground there will be physical and spiritual healing for all who participate.”
“Everyone of us will experience a touch of revival in the mighty name of Jesus,” he said.
He also assured that the Mission has put everything in place to ensure a free flow of human and vehicular traffic along the Expressway and around the Redemption Camp, just as security arrangements have also been made to ensure the safety and security of participants at the Convention.
RCCG Convention is an annual week-long event at the church’s headquarters in Lagos.