WHILE the rest of Christendom is celebrating Good Friday, Embrace Assembly, Ikorodu in Lagos, has perfected plans to host its yearly programme tagged: ‘Embrace’ with heavyweights like Evangelist Ebenezer Obey, Evang. Tope Alabi, Cobhams, Tim Godfrey and Boys Olorun on parade for an all night musical crusade, reports SAM EYOBOKA.

Speaking on activities earmarked for the 10th edition of the programme, Senior Pastor of the church, Rev. Isaac Adeyemi said “we are using the occasion to launch Isaac Adeyemi World Evangelistic Outreach.”

According to him, “God just gave us the vision to reach out to the world and we believe that Embrace would be the vehicle to accomplish that purpose. In addition to what we have been doing every year, we intend to reach out to people with free drugs, free eye glasses and a lot of other things including feeding about 20,000 participants.

“We are believing God to make the event scheduled to begin at 8.00 a.m. with a medical outreach at the Ikorodu Town Hall, a time of breakthrough for soul winning, signs and wonders. That first session will end at 4.00 p.m. while the musical crusade starts from 8.00 p.m. till dawn,” Adeyemi stated.

Evangelist Ebenezer Obey …It may be difficult to see someone who understands me.

Continuing, he said the theme of Embrace Season 10 is: “Rejoicing In Our Kingyeaer th inspiration from Psalm 149:2, explaining “we rejoice in this King because He allowed Himself to be killed, so we can have salvation and without Him we are nothing. If there is anyone to be praised, it is this King. So, this year, we are approaching it from the angle of praise, to open people’s eyes to see what this Man has done for them.

“This is the first year I will be ministering at Embrace since we started, and the reason is to explain more clearly the vision God gave to us concerning Isaac Adeyemi World Evangelistic Outreach. Before now, we have been reaching out to communities here, but with the new vision, we realised we need to go beyond here.

“Jesus said when we receive the gift of Holy Spirit; we shall be witnesses unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea, and in Samaria. Jerusalem is our locality, where we have been witnessing in Judea. Now, we have done Jerusalem and Judea, and we believe it is time to go to Samaria and the outer part of the world.

“And I know that God Who has brought the vision has monitored it from afar. I believe He knows we are due to leave the mountain, where we have operated for so long. We’ve stayed too long on this mountain and God is saying we should move to the next mountain. We believe Embrace Season 10 is the auspicious time for us to launch out,” he further explained.

Asked to speak on the current political situation in the country, the cleric who will mark his 60th birthday this year, said: “I have witnessed successive governments promising electricity, potable water, good roads, good healthcare, but they have never delivered on their promises. How would I now think that in two years, President Muhammadu Buhari would do the magic of what has not been done in the past 40 years?

“We are just in a hurry and maybe politicians are the ones hiking our expectations. Change doesn’t come over night. Change is gradual and I think those in government also need to demonstrate that they are serious about the change they are talking about,” he said.