Methodist Church urges increased youth involvement in church management for sustainability
Methodist Church urges increased youth involvement in church management for sustainability
Mr Emmanuel Mboho, the Chairman, 64th Synod, Methodist Church of Nigeria Diocese of Lagos, on Sunday urges increased participation of its youth in the activities and management of the church to prepare them for leadership.
Mboho made the appeal during his address on the last day of the three-day Methodist Church of Nigeria Diocese of Lagos 64th Synod, held at the Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo, Lagos State.
The session, which had the theme, “I Will Fight for You,” began on Friday and ended on Sunday with a thanksgiving service.
Voice Media Trust (VMTNEWS) reports that the Synod is a general session of the church that takes account of the church’s management and measures to achieve its projections.
The just-concluded 64th Edition was attended by members from across the world.
Mboho decried the absence of youths at the session, saying the growing neglect of church and missionary works by youths should be of concern to all.
The chairman said: “The subsisting lukewarm attitude of youths toward church activities has become extremely worrisome.
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“A reversal will save youths from deviant and unworthy behaviours that disqualifies them from shouldering responsibility,” he said.
Mboho blamed parents and caregivers for the nonchalant attitude of youths toward the gospel and tasked parents to infuse the tradition of gospel stewardship through perseverance, faithfulness, diginity in service and civil conducts in younger persons to make them responsible.
According to him, youths have abandoned the church’s teachings and have taken to get-rich-quick syndrome that exposes one to eternal destruction.
“If, we must sustain the good works of the church the younger generation should be schooled in the runnings, norms and management of the church.
“It is our obligation as today’s leaders to ensure we instil discipline and virtuous value in the younger ones to enable them take the great commission after us.
“As a church, we should remember that Jesus Christ carried out His earthly ministry within 30 years and the impact is still sustaining humanity to date.
“Therefore as parents and as a church, we are called to speak to the inner conscience of youths to imbibe the church’s traditions and refrain from conducts and associations unworthy of Christians and potential leaders,” Mboho added.
In her remark at the event, Guest Preacher to the synod, Very Rev. Titilayo Aladekomo, said that youths re-orientation had become necessary for the church to remain relevant.
Aladekomo, of the Wesley Lekki Lagos Chapel, urged parents to be friendly with their children to make the young ones confide in the elderly and emulate godly behaviours from them.
Also speaking at the event, the Methodist Archbishop of Lagos, Most. Rev. Isaac Ayo-Olawuyi, said that no matter the storm, God would ensure victory for His people.
He said that Nigeria and its people should pray and beseech God for a turn around of its fortune for the common good.
Ayo-Olawuyi described the church’s mandate to the society as work in progress, saying a lot still needed to be done to ascertain the church’s relevance to humanity.
The archbishop said that the insecurity that befell the country was a phase whose end had come.
He called for adequate equipping for the military to enable them overrun insurgents and bandits.
On the church’s projects, Ayo-Olawuyi presented the Archbishop’s House and the Wesley House at Agege as projects that must be accomplished.
He appealed for donations to aid the church in carrying out its projects and also to execute humanitarian services to the society.
The archbishop encouraged youths to imbibe the tradition of stewardship and evangelism, which he said that the church was known for, to sustain the tempo of civil re-engineering.
