Pastor William Kumuyi
The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has said there was a need for youths in the country to be repositioned to become change agents.
Kumuyi said this could only be achieved if there was attitudinal and behavioural transformation and value re-orientation of the young population.
He made the remarks through the church’s National Youth Coordinator, Pastor Peter Elias, who spoke to journalists in the run-up to an empowerment summit of the DCLM.
Over 100,000 youths from public and private schools and young school leavers in Lagos State are expected to gather at the Deeper Life Conference Centre, at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday, March 22, 2014 for the one-day empowerment programme.
Kumuyi said, “The goal (of the summit) is to reposition our teeming young population towards taking their proper place as change agents. This is only possible if youths have inner change, attitudinal and behavioural transformation and value re-orientation.
“We have been looking forward to this event, praying that God will revolutionise the lives of youths in Nigeria and across Africa. There will be a live transmission and streaming of the pastor’s sessions of the event to all venues across Africa.”
Elias later explained that Kumuyi inaugurated the summit in 2012 as a platform for identifying, harnessing and propelling youths as strategic partners in the quest for realising national aspirations.
He added that the man of God had continually harped on the need to do something to urgently provide a solution to the leadership crisis in Africa.
“To do this he desires that we explore and deploy our existing resources and platforms in the ministry to organise a regular programme that will help the youths to take their rightful place and affect society positively.
“Thus, Youth Empowerment Summit has been slated to hold in Lagos, in Nigerian cities and all over Africa quarterly, henceforth,” he added.
It was gathered that among those to speak at the programme is the former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili.
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