NBCYC Coordinator, IbukunOluwa Congratulates Baptist Youths on Golden Jubilee, Youth Week Celebration

By Jide Afolabi, Lagos

The National Coordinator, Nigerian Baptist Convention Youth Conference (NBCYC) under the Youth Ministry Department of the Nigerian Baptist Convention has congratulated youths of the Convention on the celebration of the Golden Jubilee and 2023 Youth Week.

In a statement personally signed by him and obtained by citymirrornews, IbukunOluwa said that the Youth Week celebration allows youths of the Convention to celebrate the grace of God; identify and explore gifts and talents of the young people.

“Youth week in any local Baptist church is a week of celebrating the grace of God upon the lives of our young people. It is a time for revival, restoration, and fellowship; where and when young people have the opportunity to demonstrate the gifts of God in their lives. In the last fifty years, the Lord had used this season to help identify the gifts and talents in the lives of our youth.”

Speaking further on the significance of the Youth Week, the National Coordinator said that the season helps the church to raise end-time soldiers for the Lord.

“So, last year, we considered, ‘I Am The Bread Of Life’. Many through this theme had a fresh visitation of God and were given the ability to constantly feed on the Bread of life for productivity and destiny fulfillment.”

He said, “As a division, we appreciate the hands of the Lord upon our youth and the grace of daily dining with the Master. But experience shows that anyone who desires bread will need water. Consequently, Jesus says, I Am The Living Water. This simply tells us that Jesus is the ‘balanced diet’. Everything you need to survive is in Him, through and for Him.”

Little wonder, the scripture in 2 Peter 1:2-4 declares; ‘Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.’

He added that the passage gave the clear purpose for which Christ decided to be all in all to us man that will believe in Him. He wants us to dine with Him as the Bread of Life and crown it up with Him as the Living Water, to be partakers of His divine nature.

He prayed that the grace would multiply. “So, my earnest prayer for all our youth is that grace be multiplied to all, in growing in the knowledge of God and of Jesus to daily grow into the Image of His Son, Jesus Christ. I pray that all our churches will be blessed as we seek the face of God to fill us with the Water of life. I am trusting God to make us spring of living water; channels through which ‘The Living Water’ flows to others. May we not disappoint Him, as He fills us anew with Living Water! Congratulation and Happy Golden Jubilee!” he concluded.