General Overseer of Foursquare Church, Reverend Samuel Aboyeji, who took over the mantle of leadership last Sunday, has revealed his programmes as the new leader of the church
Ayoyeji said ministerial administration, evangelism, soul winning, church planting, youth empowerment as well as ministers’ welfare, renewal and development of the church would be his priorities.
The cleric, who took over from Reverend Felix Meduoye, who had been at the helm of affairs of the church since 2010, stressed that he was committed to pursuing and promoting God’s mission.
“The goal of the last administration was mission through the decade of multiplication. We are determined to pursue mission again with greater vigour, building on the success of our predecessors. Thankfully, a good and solid foundation had already been laid in this regard,” he said.
According to him, the mission’s objective will be achieved through the core areas of activities, but not limited to evangelism and soul-winning, which he promised to propagate through the four-fold message of the gospel of Jesus Christ—’Jesus the Saviour; Jesus the baptiser with the Holy Ghost; Jesus the Healer; Jesus the Soon Coming King.’
“We shall partner with the Holy Spirit to bring in more people into the kingdom. We are seriously looking unto the Lord of the harvest to mercifully fix us into His sovereign programme for His Church in this regard. We are seeking new and effective ways of carrying on this assignment. For instance, our current policy of ‘One Man One Soul Every Month’ will be rebranded and strengthened,” he added.
He noted that the church planting remains the most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven, adding, “By the grace of God, we will consolidate the efforts of previous administrations in this area and as well ensure that more churches are planted especially among the unreached people groups in our rural, riverine/coastal as well as hinterland communities using our RHCHES (Riverine/Hinterland Churches Enlargement Scheme) approach”, he said.
Also, with Nigeria having a young and youthful population with the third-largest youth population in the world after India and China, he said he will continue to make the necessary investment in this crop of population using the Youth Encounter and Empowerment Summits (YES).
“We shall leverage on both the existence of our student fellowships in about 100 campuses in Nigeria and the youth, teens and children ministries in our churches to galvanize reaching this segment with the gospel”, he said.
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