Dame Okowa leads Delta women on annual prayer session

IT was yet another annual gathering of women in Delta State, under the aegis of Mothers Arise, to intercede for humanity, especially family, where mothers are key to the upbringing of children.

This year’s fellowship of the women, the 10th edition on January 24, 2017 in Asaba, at the instance of her Excellency, Dame Edith Okowa, with the theme “Can God Depend On You” was to x-ray the role of women in the home in bringing up children and their positive impact on the society.

Present at the ceremony were women of substance in key government positions, political amazons including those at the National and State assemblies, wives of National and State assembly men, wives of local government chairmen, self employed, traditional rulers and clergy men among others.

At the end of the sermons, talks, prayers and supplications, the women themselves came to terms that the gaps were getting wider in the realisation to make women a role models as many had reneged in their God given responsibilities while others had truly succeeded like Deborah, the judge of old.

Mrs Okowa who expressed satisfaction with attendance at the event in Government House Asaba, was of the opinion that whatever the participants gained at the ceremony would be replicated in churches and other places towards making the society a better place.

Earlier, Mrs. Rose Abraham, an environmentalist and a non-governmental facilitator, examined the pros and cons of information and computer technology in modern day society and the need for mothers to be abreast of the new trend and “know what the little children are doing with their phones especially on pornography.”

“We have to be careful so that phones, even computers don’t control use”.

She charged women not to undermine their roles as mentors, be mindful the way their children dress, teach them to work hard and shun all vices even as she counseled children not to use any logo they don’t understand.

In her sermon drawn mainly from Jeremiah 9:17-18 and other references, a renowned female preacher, Patience Ewhoro noted it was time for women to take action on some issues bedeviling the nation and humanity and reexamine themselves whether indeed they are covenant keepers.

“Can God depend on you”, the preacher threw it back on the women considering the way women generally have sold themselves out to the devil, eroded themselves of the virtues God had deposited on them in accordance with Proverb 31.

As women, you are suppose to be enemy to everything that promotes the devil she said, just as she wanted to know what they do with the talents deposited in them by God.