A religious organisation, Faith care Christian Ministry International has partnered with Talent Specialist Hospital to offer free medical services for the less-privileged in Magodo, Lagos State.
The outreach was carried out as part of the activities to mark the third year anniversary of the organisation and also a means to provide succour for the less-privileged during the festive season.
The outreach involved free medical checks, donation of drugs, health talks and evangelism.
According to the founder, Felix Akintola, the purpose of the programme is to take care of less-privileged people.
The programme which was executed in Hephzibah House, Magodo, where no fewer than 600 persons were fed and administered medical treatment.
“I graduated from Baptist College of Theology, Lagos in 2019. At that age, I was already well above 60 to 70, I was not a pastor of any church at that age. But besides that, right from the time I was still working, I retired in 2015.
“When I was working it was already in my heart that I want to serve God in a particular way where I can use my resources to benefit people who are considered under-privileged in the society.
“God has been very faithful to me, I see God’s hand in my life, I rose to the position of Executive Director when I was working and I knew that it was the providence of God and I said God if you have done this for me, also make me an instrument that will impact people’s lives, so it is not a matter of whether I was of age or not, in terms of pastoring the church, God put this Care Ministry in my heart because God cared for me all along, cared for my family, cared for the way my children were trained, they were all miracles of God and I can see God’s hand and I can say God, I want an avenue with which I can also serve you and God made this revelation and said okay, go up to where we call Care Ministry Interdenominational.
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“It is not Baptist, it is not Catholic, it is not Anglican, anybody that professes Jesus Christ as his Lord and saviour, we partner together and that has been very helpful.
“In fact in the administration where we have services, 7:30-9:30a.m every Thursday and every week, a different minister of God ministers to us and they come from different denominations and that has been a very marvellous thing that people come under their worship, I have seen that this is a unique thing, it’s not that it’s the same doctrine of any particular church, it’s the doctrine of Jesus Christ and people have been coming from different angles and our faith has been growing. First, it is a matter of faith when I told God Care Ministry is very expensive, God said I will make you strong in your weakness, you think you are weak but I will make you strong and God has been very faithful.
“We assembled some specialists, medical doctors to attend to people’s needs and before then we made preparations, we bought drugs and they came with all their personnel, they are doing blood test, they brought it here, their medical laboratory. So, it’s a complete package, people that cannot go to private hospital, you have to wait and wait.
Felix highlighted some previous projects of the ministry since it’s inception three years ago.
“During the last outreach, there was skill acquisition training. People learnt bag making, shoe making among other skills and today, the participants are using the skills to feed themselves.”
“Last year outreach, we went to a place called Ohori, it is a part of Ogun state but as you are leaving the place, you step into the Republic of Benin.
“That place is like an arid region, there is no water, the only pool of water the people have is what they defecate in, is what they bathe in, is what they also drink. It is so muddy that because they cannot distill the water, they prefer to be mopping themselves instead of taking a bath.
“So, when we heard about this, we engaged a geologist to help us find out where we cod sink a borehole.
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“Because many boreholes have been sunk, we were told that they couldn’t get water. So, in this particular instance, they mapped out an area, sanded it and started filling it over 200m below and while it was going, they encountered a rock, they broke the rock and continued.
“I said God, I don’t have money to repeat this exercise, you must make something happen. All of a sudden, they entered what they called a large pool of water that if it is not caged, it can even become like a lagoon that would have filled the whole place in terms of over-flooding. “So, they put the pipes to cage the water. And by the force of the water the spring was coming out from that depth on its own without pumping and even till today, there is a place there where some people are just fetching water. We installed an over-head tank in case there is a need to do some other work and we put up a solar panel to power the project. We didn’t know that diesel will become what it is today.
“When I say it is God, He gave us that insight and we put a solar panel, so today whether there is NEPA or no NEPA, as long as God has sustained sun to shine, they are having water. They can pump water.
“So, about a month ago when we went there, we all rejoiced that this is just God’s handwork. If they had put a generator there, what would be the cost of maintaining it?
“So, the entire area the place called Agbede community but the entire area far and wide is more than 10km apart. They bring motorcycles and fill their jerry cans free of charge so it has brought light to that place through the power of God not man so it’s a miracle.”
Speaking on the funding of the programme, he said, ” Care ministry is very demanding both in terms of financial resources and human resources.
“I must tell you that we have challenges in terms of these two resources- human and financial but God Almighty who called us has solved the problem by making people to partner with us and by also opening doors of financial stability by our own selves.
“I am a lawyer by profession so I have a practice that is going along with what God called us to do and to the glory of God, God opened channels where through my professional calling, I have resources coming in which I also simultaneously deploy to fund this one. My wife is a self-employed person, she runs a cleaning outfit called ‘Shebron Ajikeke Nigeria Limited’.
“Because of her conviction in what we are doing, out of her own meagre resources, she put it down and by the grace of God, friends, associates who believe in what we are doing, because they have seen it that it is not that we are running a church, in order to make income.
“What they are seeing is that we are making impact on the society and the mandate of this commission actually is to go to the lower wrung of the society, impact those people who you can call the under-privileged members of the society and because of this, people who also share that same vision, they have been helping in one way or the other. In terms of human resources, God has deployed to us many well acclaimed pastors who render services without asking for any renumeration.
“So, in terms of human resources, God has taken care of that very perfectly even more than what we expected.
“We are calling on people of like minds to partner with us, don’t let your possession possess you. We want more people to join us so that we can impact more lives and God will bless everyone that puts a hand in this.”
