‘I wanted to become a medical doctor, but God helped me find my purpose’

Twenty-three-year old Kingsley Ale Olung was a science student who wanted to study medicine, but fate had a different plan. He ended up studying Theology at the Immanuel College of Theology (affiliated to the University of Ibadan) and emerged the very best in the 2019/2020 session. He told his story in this interview with TAIWO OLANREWAJU.

 

How do you feel graduating as the Best Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.) student of Immanuel College of Theology and Christian Education?

I feel so happy, and I am grateful to God for this honour.

 

Was this what you wanted right from the start, to study Theology?

I wanted to become a medical doctor or a scholar, and I pursued it vigorously; but here I am today.

 

What happened? Did you change your mind?

I took the Unified Tertiary Joint Matriculation Examination many times but somehow I could not make it to university to study the course. In 2011, I scored 306 at the post-UTME of the University of Calabar, yet I was denied admission again. And the call of God was heavy upon my life at that time. The call was so strong that I could no longer resist it, so I decided to succumb to the call of God, and I applied to Immanuel College of Theology.

 

Were there prophecies that you would become a minister of God, a reverend?

My parents had actually discovered as early as at my birth that I would be a minister of the gospel, but they refused to tell me. There were a lot of prophecies from ministers, colleagues and I had a personal conviction.

 

When and how did you have the personal conviction?

It started when I was younger and lived with my grandfather, Chief Michael Omi Olung, who brought me up in the way of the Lord. He took me to church, to Christ Ascension Church (CAC), Ntesi, where my passion for Christ grew. He taught me how to pray and fast before he died in 1999 at the age of 118. I came across a lot of men of God who inspired me in my secondary school days. And during my senior secondary school at Ogoja (Cross River State), I heard the audible voice of God who told me ‘I have called you. I have given you a mandate for the world to go out and bring souls to me’. I saw revelations where I saw myself ministering to a large crowd and healing them of their various diseases and illnesses.

 

So, how did the journey to Immanuel College begin?

After my senior secondary school, I was praying to God for direction when a reverend who came to serve in our area, Very Revd. Chukwuma Emamose, came to tell me one day at about 2p.m. that the form for admission to Immanuel College was out. About 150 of us participated in that examination at the Methodist Theological Institute (MTI), Sagamu, Ogun State. I was part of the 30 candidates who took part in the final examination at Immanuel College. I was admitted to the college on September 16th, 2016.

 

How did you find the college?

Life at Immanuel College of Theology was different. It was a new lifestyle entirely. I was a science student who had never offered Christian Religious Knowledge as a subject nor studied Theology before. I had to sit down to learn from my fathers in the Lord.

 

How did you study?

The programmes at Immanuel College were clustered. You hardly had time to read. It was from the chapel to the classroom to the refectory to labour to one type of programme or the other. If care is not taken, one would not be able to read. But ‘where there is a will, there is a way’ goes the saying. So, I still squeezed out about one hour to read during the day and at midnight too.

 

Which schools did you attend?

I attended Central Primary School, Ntezi; Community Secondary School, Ntezi for my Junior Secondary School education and Federal Science College, Ogoja for my Senior Secondary School education.

 

Tell us about your family.

I was born to the family of Chief Anthony Olung and Mrs Eucharia Ezinne Afor Olung on July 7th, 1993. I am the fifth of 10 children from my mother, who is the first of my father’s two wives. We are members of the Abakaliki Diocese of the Methodist Church of Nigeria.

 

Apparently, you have found your purpose in life. What would be your advice to your other colleagues who probably haven’t?

I wish to advise my colleagues to learn to trust God in all their endeavours. The strength of man would have failed me if I did not totally depend on God. I did not read more than others but grace found me.

 

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