2016
NEW YEAR SPEECH PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION BY REV S. ADE AYOOLA AT
PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST CHURCH, APETE, IBADAN, OYO STATE,
ON
1OTH JANUARY 2016
I
bring greetings to you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and
on behalf of my family. We give thanks to God for this grace that made us crossed
over from 2015 to 2016 in peace and whole.
If we look back in retrospect, several socio-political, economic and
spiritual related issues consumed people while others are still entangled in various
untold hardship occasioned by the year 2015. For us, we are not unfortunate,
we are among
the apples of God’s eyes, we benefited from God’s mercies and favors and in
all, here we are today, beautiful and radiant in His presence. It is not our
doing but God’s wonders and benefits to his children. It is my prayer that we
shall not depart from the presence and mercies of God in Jesus Name.
we are among
the apples of God’s eyes, we benefited from God’s mercies and favors and in
all, here we are today, beautiful and radiant in His presence. It is not our
doing but God’s wonders and benefits to his children. It is my prayer that we
shall not depart from the presence and mercies of God in Jesus Name.
For
us as a Church, we have multiple reasons to give thanks to God. Our
transformation from the smaller and uncomfortable worship auditorium is enough
reasons to continue to thank God. In most Churches, an edifice of this
magnitude has become a memorial building which out-lived those who started it, but
in our own case, we thank God for granting us the grace to achieve this
unprecedented height in the course of our labor in His Vine yard. To God be the
glory and honour now and forever more.
