CHURCH OF NIGERIA VOWS NOT TO DEVIATE FROM ITS VISION DESPITE THE CHALLENGES BEING FACED
13th September, 2007

The Primate of Church of Nigeria , the Most Revd. Peter Jasper Akinola says the Church will not deviate from its vision programme of mission and evangelism, spirituality, self-reliance, caring and ecumenism despite the challenges being faced.

Archbishop Akinola in his opening remarks at the 2007 bi-annual Standing Committee holding in Osogbo, the Osun State Capital said all those accusing the Church of Nigeria for concentrating only on championing the crusade against homosexuality in the United States of America have forgotten to acknowledge how regular converts are being won, the strategies in church planting and evangelism through the creation of 19 missionary dioceses and five full-fledged dioceses alone in 2007.

The Anglican Archbishop however challenged the 121 dioceses in the Church of Nigeria to intensify efforts on winning souls, embark on projects that will have direct bearing for the increase of the present members of the Anglican church in Nigeria from the present 20 million to 50 million out of the present 150 million of the Nigeria Population.
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