If there is one issue from which the TB Joshua Ministries and the SYNAGOGUE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS cannot be divorced as a result of its implications on the growth and development of the modern society, it is the total commitment to the enhancement of the life of the youths. The church believes in the youth for a number of reasons. One of these is that they are the proverbial leaders of the future; the holders of the destiny of the society which has to be nourished and fully developed on behalf of tomorrow.
The youths are acknowledged experimentalists who have often tested their talents in different ways and especially in the contemporary context, mostly negatively. The truth is that the issue of morality has been pushed off the ideology of most youths because they are engaged in drugs, prostitution, cultism, ritualism, armed robbery, kidnapping and other forms of misbehaviour. The society now breeds moral vampires, experts in destructive tendencies which tell of the low quality of spirituality in the society.
Parents have failed in their duty of moulding the social ethics of the youths; most of them do not ever wish to sacrifice their time to training the children in the way of God. Indeed, poverty and the need to meet up with the dictates of societal expectations have dealt lethal blows to the attitude of these parents. Today, the church is expected to be profoundly involved in opening the minds and hearts of the kids to progressive ideals and frame of morality, which will dictate the tempo and temper of their moral choices.
However, most churches are not paying a good attention to the children, especially with regard to their moral upbringing, education, occupational experiences and peer groupings. The SYNAGOGUE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS has seen the need to re-orientate the youths by developing them spiritually and morally. And this attitude is largely informed by the need to expose them to godly ideals and humane values and virtues which must pull them to a path of progressive testimony.
One way this has been demonstrated is in the church’s youth being actively involved in diverse activities which make the church unique in wholesome spiritual management. The choristers and field workers are mostly youths. The administrative ministrations are elaborately championed by most youths. Most workers are youths who are determined to be groomed along the accepted path of Christ. There is a thriving youth department which sufficiently organises the workers, inspiring them to be actively involved in the management of the strong church.
Prophet TB Joshua, the General Overseer of the Ministry is one spiritual leader, who has always taken a peculiarly unique interest in the affairs of the youth single-handedly. He keeps training most youths at every level of education within and outside Nigeria with his own resources. He feeds thousands of children of the poor and the helpless, offering to pay hospital bills for them when sick, or offering scholarships, which immensely assist the parents.
Students – the blind, the lame, deaf and dumb, the abandoned and orphans – have kept enjoying the generousity of this Man of God for many years. And such children may have come from different ethnic backgrounds in Nigeria, parts of Africa, Europe and America. Thousand of such kids with famished backgrounds had even graduated from higher institutions and are doing well in the society, in their professions. Such help has been extended often to athletes (especially, the physically challenged, most of who are rather abandoned by the society, even after demonstrating their skills in the field). The SYNAGOGUE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS has also been favourably disposed to distributing food stuff to the kids through their parents. An example of this unusual gesture happened in December 2011, when TB Joshua simply sent trucks full of bags of rice as well as money to violence-ravaged states of Nigeria, such as Plateau, Niger, Bornu, Yobe and Kaduna, among others.
The Clinique Emmanuel also exists in the Haiti, attending to the clinical needs of kids, while the church also has schools which are being maintained for children in the earthquake –ravaged country. Through the spiritual SYNAGOGUE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS has done this at a more universal level. This naturally leads us to another aspect of the church’s activities: the acts of deliverance. Youths (including former militants in the troubled Niger Delta region of Nigeria), have been perpetually delivered from spirits of killing, cultism, drunkenness, brutality and ritualism.
Indeed, the spirits of armed robbery, kidnapping, internet fraud, prostitution, drug consumption and general social waywardness, have been continually expelled from these youths. The Man of God not only destroys the fire of such destructive spirits, he equally gives money and the Holy Bible to the delivered souls in order to help them start a new life. Many marriages, involving the youth and elders, had been restored. The Man of God develops the hidden spiritual potentials of most youths in the church, while inspiring them to embrace the culture of morality, faithfulness, truth, openness, sincerity, humility, obedience, simplicity and prayerfulness. The bottom-line is that SYNAGOGUE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS is one of the few churches in the world committed to youth development.
Prophet TB Joshua has an attitude: he always shares the joy of his annual birthday in the midst of the youth, who celebrate with him in the church for merry-making. For such a celebrity to come down to their level gives them a sense of belonging and motivation, justifying why they must work very hard to attract the blessing of God to themselves. Such youths, including the physically challenged and dwarfs, from different parts of the world, often receive memorable gifts.
Children of the disabled also enjoy the benefits of free school uniforms, books and school bus to ease their movement to and from school, while the Ministry in collaboration with Emmanuel TV partners also provide medical care to the inmates of these rehabilitation homes. The Man in the Synagogue and his unique ministry have proved to be a reliable pathway to reaching God and this reality is not lost on the youths.
Hundreds of youths are it the employ of the church, while some are active prayer warriors who serve as sources of inspiration to other youths. The church headquarters and its branches all over the world also care for senior citizens, who are now too old and weak to fend for them. TB Joshua and his ministry stand out to be appreciated by all positive-thinking individuals, daily dreaming of the triumph of good deeds in the service of humanity.
By Isaac Ojo-Eleka, Ezekiel Fajenyo & Sunday Patrick
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