How
I resisted the call for years – Okoli, founder, Mobile
Ministry
By SAM ANOKAM
Tuesday,
December 18, 2007
Pastor Cytnthia Okoli is a woman of boundless energy, grace
and style. Getting to speak with this woman of God is not
easy as she is constantly on the move, ministering to the
needs of people whether physically, spiritually, materially
and otherwise. She’s a woman of many parts; author,
pastor, mother, evangelist, leader. In fact, she means different
things to different people.
Okoli can be seen in hospitals ministering not only to the
spirituals needs of patients but also their physical needs.
Ditto to other places, such as hotels, prison houses, or market
places.
This woman who heads a mobile ministry known as Awesome God
Ministries, came into existence a year ago has positively
impacted the lives of people. The graduate of Mass Communication
of the Delta State University and Word of Life Bible School,
told Daily Sun that she has a new book that
dwells on relationship and other issues.
On how she received the call, Okobi said: “ I did not
get the call on any one day. What I got was the realisation
that God had created an assignment for me. Before then, I
saw several visions spaning many years, even before I got
born again. In 1995, I got born again at the House-hold of
God Church under the leadership of Pastor Chris Okotie, but
I kept denying the call until I attended Winners Chapel where
Bishop David Oyedepo announced that the forms of the Bible
school was out for sale. He appeared to speak on my situation,
when he insisted that all those who had been running away
from God’s call must now heed it.”
The dedicated woman of God also seem to be passionate about
her book entitled The Roof Must Not Leak, which she said is
basically a manual on relationships.
“The book is about relationships. Everywhere we go,
we deal with the struggles of relationships, yet all these
were masked in the pretence of bliss. The family is the smallest
unit of the society, but it is only a good relationship that
creates a cohesive and united family and by extension, a stronger
society. That is my driving force.”
She added that the book also guides on how to be fruitful,
whether in or out of a relationship. It is written as an admixture
of fact and fiction in a way that is interactive and compelling.
Now you want to know when she came up with the mobile ministry
and if the book was written out of any past experience and
she replied: “It is a mixed bag. The ministry was given
to me. It was not my making. The book is a mixture of my past
experiences and other people’s experiences. Most of
it is a creation of synergies. I have many God fearing, dedicated
men and women, not limited by denominational dichotomies.
I have partners in all the churches I have attended and many
more. We call them Kingdom Partners.
Happily married, Pastor Cynthia as she is fondly called, is
also a stylish woman with special taste for quality dresses.
She spoke on her fashion sense too. “ As a woman of
God, my life is expected to be exemplary. I do choose what
I wear. I always dress responsibly and I am aware of the likely
effects of dressing provocatively or shabbily.
Cleanliness, as we all know, is next to godliness, they say.
So, one has to be clean and modest in appearance.”
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