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THE DAY THE GENERATOR REFUSED TO START

The generator at home began to show interesting signs- it became so hard to pull. It respects only the man of the house. It also began to consume oil aggressively. We have to constantly refill the oil so we can get it running. One evening, it refused to come on despite all the aggressive pull. It struck me and I […]

“WHEN WILL I STOP SPEAKING TO TEENAGERS?”

I have been speaking to teenagers for the past fourteen years. This year when invitations to speak to Teenagers began to come, I was wondering when I would outgrow speaking to teenagers. Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of a real-life story: An old preacher returned from a preaching engagement and his friend asked him how things went. The preacher […]

“DARLING, DON’T WASTE MY FOOD”

Irewamiri gave me an amazing meal of pounded yam (the refined version called “poundo”) and vegetables. At a point, I knew that I had enough already. I said to her, “Darling, thanks for the meal. I am satisfied”. She responded that “Darling, don’t waste my food”. I had to explain to her that she made an amazing meal about 48 […]

CHILDREN ARE NOT SECOND-CLASS CHRISTIANS

In one of our decision-making meetings in the church council, we made a policy that our Children’s Church would not use things that the adult church is replacing. For instance, we would not pass on old drums; we will buy them new ones- that what exactly what we did. It is so easy to abandon children. In a lot of […]

SCORPION ON THE WINDOW

I was away from home for a season when Irewamiri’s shared a testimony of divine protection. She had opened the window of the house for some breeze to come in. She later went to close the windows. Some moments later, she went to open the windows again and realised that when she was closing the window, she had crushed a […]

HOW MANY OF YOU ARE IN CHILDREN’S MINISTRY?

We were at a Pastor’s Conference. One of the guest speakers asked us a question: “How many of you are in Children’s Ministry?” Very few hands went up. She smiled and asked other questions: How many parents are here?How many uncles and aunts are here?How many of you have a child that is connected to you one way or the […]

“I TAUGHT MY CLASS THE SONG”

As Danielle got out of the car, she ran back again and said to Irewamiri, “Mummy, my friends are singing”. The mum listened closely and heard them singing. She asked Danielle about the song. Danielle sang it to her mum. It was a song from a Christian Movie about Jesus stopping the storms of life and that Jesus can do […]

THE TASTY GOAT MEAT AND THE “NO” OF THE HOLY GHOST

We had a plate of rice with some nicely peppered goat meat. I wanted some more goat meat so I told Irewamiri. I convinced her to give me one more especially that I would be away from home for a while. She raised her eye-brow but could not resist my persuasive skills. As she left the dining table to pick […]

THE LITTLE CHILD AT THE WELL

As we drove to the home where I was having a writing retreat, I saw a little child leaning by a well with a fetcher and he was drawing water from the well. As I stood in awe considering the safety of the child, the Spirit of the Lord said to me, “Son, it is never too early to train […]

THE FIRST SONG OLIVE SANG

As Olive stepped into the Bathroom that Sunday Morning, as though to put an icing on the cake that nothing would stop her from making it to church, not even sleep. She got into the bathtub and began to sing: “I love Jesus. I love Jesus. He’s my friend” First, your love for God will always cost you something. Second, […]