By Ayoyinka Jegede

Members of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Onitsha Mega Regional axis have donated food items to vulnerable persons, widows, and less privileged in a bid to ameliorate sufferings in the face of growing hunger in the country.

The church likewise fixed the Isiokwe Bus Stop Street Road junction potholes as part of her Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes.

The free food donation is designed to support the poor and vulnerable with food items among other humanitarian materials.

According to the Mega Regional Overseer (MRO) MFM Onitsha Mega Regional axis, Pastor Christopher Kolawole, the church believes in God’s command to feed the poor, provide for the widows, and take care of the less privileged.

Kolawole stressed that the kind gesture is also part of the Explosive Evangelism Initiative (EEI) and added that the General Overseer, Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, had instructed that all MFM churches should touch people’s lives positively and spiritually through different evangelism programmes and physically through different Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.

The MRO explained that the church gave 500 bags of (10 kg) rice and 100 cartons of spaghetti to about 100 widows and 350 less privileged, each going home with a minimum of 30 kg of rice and spaghetti.

He added that earlier in the year, 600 bags of 10 kg rice were equally shared with widows and the less privileged, while ten thousand naira each was given to fifty families to put food on their tables.

His words: “This is an annual event/activities of the church to ameliorate the economic situation.”

Kolawole revealed that the existence of MFM in Onitsha and its environs has brought drastic change physically and spiritually through its deliverance prayers, biblical teachings, entrepreneurial seminars, skills acquisition, and empowerment programmes to mention a few.

He added that the church has helped in bridging the unemployment gap in the country by training several youths, young adults, men, and women on small-scale importation without stress in the comfort of their homes, how to produce paint, soap, and other skills that can make them financially independent, as well as employers of labour.

Beneficiaries testified that the rice, spaghetti, yams, and other food items they received would go a long way for their families this Yuletide.

“We thank MFM for what they have done for us. They have done so well; we appreciate them, and may God bless them. It’s not easy for the poor; look at the crowd here. If not for MFM, what will be our hope? What we have received can take us for weeks,” a beneficiary said.