ADEBOYE CHARGES RCCG MEMBERS TO OBTAIN PERMANENT VOTER CARDS

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Ahead of the 2015 general election, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has, again, charged members of the church to ensure they obtain their voter cards.
The renowned cleric also sounded a note of warning, perhaps, jocularly, that an evidence of having obtained the card would be the prerequisite for members of the church to obtain the New Year blessings from their pastors during the 2015 annual thanksgiving service coming up first Sunday of January.
Pastor Adeboye, popularly called Daddy G.O., gave these charges late Friday night while addressing the mammoth worshippers that gathered at the Congress Arena, Redemption Camp, kilometer 46, Lagos - Ibadan expressway, Ogun State, for the annual Holy Ghost Congress.
The man of God, who displayed his copy of the permanent voter card (PVC) and that of his wife, Folu, admonished members of the church to go extra mile to obtain the voting instrument from the headquarters of their local government areas before the crucial 2015 election.
He said come first Sunday of January, which is usually the mission’s annual thanksgiving day worldwide, members must come to church with their PVCs before “we pronounce blessing of the New Year on you.”
Adeboye, who preached on the theme of the congress, “The Great Shepherd,” described the PVC and voting as the people’s power to effect the change they desire in the political landscape of the country.
He recalled that his earlier instruction handed members of the church to display their PVCs to their pastors during the last December monthly thanksgiving was not strictly adhered to, inferring that many may not have obtained the cards.
Meanwhile, Pastor Adeboye has urged worshippers gathered at the Holy Ghost Congress to make donations to ameliorate the sufferings of victims of insurgency in the northern part of the country.
While acknowledging that thousands of Nigerians have been displaced from their homes with accompanying shortage of food, shelter and clothing, the cleric enjoined the gathering to make the donations in cash and kind for onward disbursement to the victims.
He also announced that as of Friday evening, no fewer than 32 babies of 19 boys and 12 girls had been born since the 2014 Annual Holy Ghost Congress began last Monday.
Source: Tribune