Chaplin (Dr) Martins Mike, commanding general in chief, Patriotic Gallant Chaplain Corps & Rescue Mission, Lagos, is moving forward with his dream of serving God and humanity.
The truth is that service is the salary that we all must pay for our existence here on earth.
You have every right, dear reader, to agree or disagree with me here.
It is about visiting the prisoners in the prisons with a lot of love, visiting the sick in the hospitals, going to the police cells to see, preaching and sharing your love with the suspects.
Visiting orphanages, pre-trial detention homes, rehabilitation centers and meeting those who have mental, spiritual and emotional problems.
It is also about going to the camps where people displaced from their natural and ancestral homes are kept, again with lots of love and gifts.
These people may have been victims of terrorist groups, communal clashes, kidnappings, floods, etc.
Using your talent, ability, knowledge and experience to serve others is also commendable and acceptable to God and man in both developed and developing countries.
Chaplain Dr. Mike, a retired senior military officer, born-again Christian, and holder of two doctorates, dreams of building a hospital and orphanage for the weak, poor, and abandoned.
But he explained that all his worldly achievements are nothing compared to his burning desire to serve God and humanity, with Jesus as the foundation and the Holy Spirit as guardian.
He dropped this clue at the induction/decoration ceremony for Amata Julius Isaac, as Deputy Commanding General in Chief of the Patriotic Gallant Chaplin Corps & Rescue Mission.
Amata will assume the position of director of the international and foreign mission of the body.
Keep in mind that in the United States of America with a population of 622 million people, 65 million of them are chaplains.
Each of these chaplains earns $30 per hour of service.
The new director of the foreign mission, an indigenous man from Isoko in present-day Delta State in mid-western Nigeria, was born in the 1970s and is blessed with his wife Mrs. Victoria Amata and five children.
He attended primary and secondary schools in Lagos as well as a tertiary institution before he was arrested, for which he said Jesus Christ and asked to preach His gospel throughout the world.
In his thank you speech, the director told the ceremony participants that in obedience to Jesus’ call, “I have preached the gospel in Ghana, Botswana, South Africa, Sierra Leone, India and Pakistan.”
These are certainly the bright sides of Isoko’s slim, handsome, ebony-black mantis.
Also he said. “I have been tended many times to be killed, I have endured many persecutions, but the blood of Jesus has seen us in the valley of the dead.”
Pastor Roland Okechukwu, obviously a speaker, presided over the ceremony, with Apostle Chris Ikechukwu as guest speaker, while Chaplain Dr. Mike, supervised as body chair.