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If pilgrimage is not spiritual, there is no use for it —Rev Uja

Reverend Tor Uja, NCPC boss

The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev Tor Uja has said that if pilgrimage is not spiritual there is no use for it. He disclosed this recently during a strategic meeting with some group of pastors in Abuja.

He explained that its spiritual content is most important while other contents such as agriculture, technology, and sight-seeing are also part of the experience. He informed the clerics that he invited them for the meeting to strategize on the forthcoming Greater Women Pilgrimage Convocation slated for 21stSeptember, 2017 at the National Women Development Centre, Abuja.

Rev Uja thanked them for their support so far especially for the success of the Pastors Convocation in Abuja. He charged them to be fully involved in the pilgrimage process at all levels of mobilization. His words “I want us be involved and reshape pilgrimage”.

He stressed that the church is an organic body and thus it is a movement”. He urged them to come up with suggestions that would help to drive the pilgrimage process. According to the NCPC boss, he said there was need to meet with the church to share his pilgrimage thought with them.

He tasked them on the need to build a team amongst themselves. He equally added “We want to meet and share with a larger group of women”. He further stated “Let’s be a team, we should maintain a periodic meeting”.

Rev. Uja intimated the pastors that the Commission technically agreed to have the Women Pilgrimage for May next year.ho

He charged them to support and sponsor their wives for the trip. He further urged them to help the Commission to mobilize women leaders for 21st September Greater Women Pilgrimage Convocation holding in Abuja.

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