Several indigents and communities in Lagos State and its environs have benefited from Daystar Christian Center Church’s food bank.
Head, Corporate Communications, Daystar Christian Centre, Gabriel Kolawole, revealed this in a statement on Thursday.
Kolawole said the exercise, tagged: “Love at Christmas,” was part of the church’s 2022 annual activities.
Speaking on the initiative, DCC Senior Pastors, Sam and Nike Adeyemi, said the annual event is part of the purposeful mandate of the church to ensure that “no member goes to bed hungry”.
Pastor Nike Adeyemi declared: “Our core hallmark is love, and we go all out to express it, in season and out of season.
“Jesus Christ modeled true love for us by giving Himself, and we also love others by giving at all times.”
The statement confirmed that every month, the benevolence unit of Daystar Christian Center coordinates the distribution of food items and medical support to indigent persons in the church and different communities, adding that The Love-at-Christmas caps the church’s love outreach for the year to make sure that no member of the church community goes hungry during the yuletide season.
Kolawole stated that the Christmas outreach took place across all the worship centers of the church at Oregun, Lekki, Ikorodu, Alimosho and Badagry.
The youth arm of the Church, called the Starhub, also had its version of the outreach, re-affirming that the gesture reached hundreds of people across Lagos and its environs.
The Head, Benevolence Unit of Daystar Christian Centre, Biodun Jagun, said: “We had to comply with the crowd control rules of the Lagos State Government and do the food items distributions to specific beneficiaries through the districts, zones, and units of our church .
“In each gift pack, we have various food items that will ensure that all less privileged members have sufficient food to eat this season.”
Meanwhile, the theatre/film unit of Daystar Christian Centre, also known as: “The Reflexions,” held its annual spectacular Christmas outreach, tagged: “Breakfast. With Bros J.”
The unit members come together to reach out and celebrate Christmas with the needy across all races, ethnic backgrounds and religions.
The center disclosed that this year, the unit reached out to about 3,500 people with gift items such as clothes, shoes, raw foodstuff, cooked food, toys, school bags and educational materials for kids.
In her remarks about her, one of the leaders of the small groups of the church, Eunice Amoo, said: “The difficult situation in the country makes this intervention of higher impact than can be imagined.
“This Love-at-Christmas is more organized and the crowd management tactics this year is highly commendable.”
One of the beneficiaries, Oladeji Olaniyi, said: “As a person with visual impairment, I am most grateful for the excess love always expressed by the church to our community.
“I pray that the church will continue to grow in leaps and bounds.”
Daystar Christian Center has continued to spread the gospel through giving and meeting the needs of people across various communities.
As the year gradually comes to an end, the Church is set to crossover into the new year 2023 with a remarkable praise and prophetic worship service.
In a special invitation message, one of the associate Pastors, Boye Oloyede, noted that this year’s crossover service of the Church will hold from 6pm to 9pm on December 31, 2022.
“Our New Year’s Eve service is a time we come together as a church family to thank and praise God, we share amazing testimonies, and our Senior Pastors, Sam and Nike Adeyemi, will release the prophetic word for the new year and pray over our goals,” Pastor Oloyede stressed.
The statement announced that the New Year’s Eve service will be held at all the worship centers of the church across Lagos.
It added that it would be streamed live on the church’s official website and all its social media handles.
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