24/03/2020
COVID-19, A CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL CCC WORLDWIDE
Written by Babatunde Bouazizi
Dear Celestial Church of Christ Leaders,
This is my constituency and the exact reason I am writing directly to CCC, I do hope other churches and denominational leaders will also take a cue from this.
I deeply thank the Church leadership for complying with the government directives and also issuing a statements to guide our conduct as a church at this crucial time. Your swift response is encouraging and soul lifting. May God continue to bless and keep watch over His Church.
We all are seeing and reading of all the effort of the government. However, if the Federal/State government is not getting enough testing kits and other items at this time maybe owing to financial constraints, it is not out of place for our leaders in the church to buy one for the church(parish), buy test kits, test all your members, buy face masks, hand gloves, sanitizers etc and distribute freely to your members, pull together health professionals in your parishes to handle this, these are some of the roles the church too can play at this trying times.
The church can not afford to leave covid19 to government alone. Our church leaders must arise now and do more, there is hunger in the land, lend a hand, buy and share food stuffs to some less privileged church members that you know, the church will not die.
The fear of covid19 is killing people already, Church leaders too can help people to know their status., be a source of refuge and hope to your members, we need you to do more for the church.
Yes, encourage our members not to panic, remind us to stay at home as much as we can, tell us to keep social distance, maintain simply hygiene etc yet,we still need to do more as a Church, While we continue to pray that God Almighty will heal our land, this phase will surely pass and we shall all sing a new song of glory in Jesus name. Amen!