One Love Feast
that really lived up to its bidding was the recent one organized by Faith
Tabernacle Crowd Control Unit. Indeed there was Love in the Feast that took
place at the Faith Academy multipurpose Hall on Sunday 28 June, 2015. The
well-attended event had the Faith Tabernacle Resident Pastor, Ubong Ntia in attendance as well as other great stewards in the
commission. The other side of the always stern-looking, hand-tying,
‘use-the-walkway-commanding’ CCU members was generously displayed as there was drama,
comedy, choir ministration, exchange of gifts, a lot to eat and drink, and of
course, apostolic blessing from the Resident Pastor who also unveiled the new
ID Cards of the unit. Dr. Timothy Anake,
the chairman of the Unit had a brief chat with FT News at the event. Excerpts:
What is your
impression about today’s event?
I am very glad,
I think that God manifested Himself in today’s event and I believe that the
philosophy and the vision behind this year’s love feast have been achieved.
How were you able
to achieve this?
Well, it started
with planning. We decided to have a love feast that would really reflect what
we are doing at CCU and so I called my team and I said, look let us get our
members to touch one another’s life and so we set up the committee and we sold
the vision to them and they ran with it and to the glory of God, today, that
has been achieved.
What does it
take to head a group of this magnitude?
God. God has
been really helping me in the running of this great group. To add to this also,
I think it is about the membership having trust in what you are doing which of
course means that you are transparent and you have a vision that you would sell
to them and they would accept and I think we are very blessed.
Since you became
the chairman of CCU, what difference have you made?
Quite a number.
First of all, we felt it was necessary to begin to impact lives with whatever
money God has blessed the group with. Secondly, we thought that it was necessary
for us to recognize Jesus’ Wives – these are the widows in the group. During
someone’s birthday party one day, we used that occasion to reach out to these
widows and then of course like the Resident Pastor dedicated, we have the new
ID cards for the unit. Before now, we had the breast tags but you can see
everyone is hanging an ID card and we thought that we should do something that
would fit into the entire flow. And several other things I can’t recall right
now.
How do you
handle situations where there are frictions between CCU and other service
groups like the Security and Ushering Department?
Well this is
God’s kingdom and is one house. Usually there will be some friction. I have
been in CCU for quite a while now, incidentally I started serving in the
security unit of CCU and that created a lot of interaction with the security
unit and we have a surveillance group in CCU; we don’t wear the usual CCU
uniform but somehow by God’s grace, I was the leader of that unit for some time
and by so doing, I had to broker some kind of relationship between the security
unit. For the ushers, I think it is ongoing. It is all about the individuals
who intercept at a time, not really about the group. I think we’ve been
resolving it and we are going on very well.
Some people are
of the opinion that some CCU members, out of over-zealousness, harass members.
What’s your take on that?
I think what you
might see as over-zealousness is actually efficiency. We have our own parameters
to measure whether we are doing our job or not. However, that’s not to say you
can’t have one or two overzealous members. Sometimes, worshippers can get very difficult and you
need to apply some measure of firmness to get the job done.
Where do you see
this unit in the next one year?
Well, in the
next one year, I see a very strong CCU that aligns with the five core values
that we have initiated and is now an integral part of our training modules.
They are spirituality, integrity, responsibility, accountability and sacrifice.
With all of these and the structure that we are putting in place by God’s
grace, I see CCU flying very high.
How do you train
people and what are the stages?
Before now, our
training section was just for one Sunday but when we came on board, we thought
it was not really enough so these days, we have designed a one-month training
and we have about fifteen modules that we must do in a month each Sunday until
the final Sunday when the members are inducted.
Tope Olukole, Funmilola Omolola and Lucky Ihanza
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