Group Targets Microfinance Bank, Tasks Youths on Positive Mindset

A clergy, Pastor Emeka Okoye, has linked Nigeria’s desired greatness to how independent the young people are with positive mindset to represent the country in the contemporary society, even as the group sets target to launch a micro finance bank to sponsor its projects.

Okoye who was speaking at Priests and Kings International summit in at RCCG camp, Ogun State, recently, said that the desire to set the youths on the right path of government informed the setting up of Tomorrow Initiative (GTI).

He said that GTI will empower youths among them to unleash their potentials for the growth of the nation, adding the course felt that youths have not been given enough room to prove themselves.

“Nigeria’s greatest assets are the youths not resource on the ground. Human beings make the difference not the assets of the country. Because of these things, we have set up the Greater Tomorrow Initiative (GTI). The purpose is to give the young men a voice in the nation. And to give them economic empowerment through agriculture, training, service to the economy and partnerships.

“Why are we called the Priests & Kings? We constitute of a group of people that God himself has selected to lead; special elite men, for the end time mission in Nigeria. Nigeria is the greatest country as far as God is concerned and he sent us home from America to build the greatest country the world has ever seen.

“Therefore, this leadership training was an attempt to change our mentality that only the Europeans and Americans can build a better society. We believe that Nigerians can build a better society too, even for the Europeans and Americans to emulate. And this is a step in re-orienting our people”, he said.

The Group is also targeting a microfinance bank to assist members in executing their plans.

The Cleric, who is the International Coordinator, Priests & Kings Fellowship Worldwide, added that reorienting the citizens require a change in the mindset, including spiritually, economically, politically and socially.

“Our mindsets have been that everything ‘white’ is superior. That is social complex done by brainwashing. We may not have anybody doing the brainwashing at the moment, but what was done over one hundred years is still going on. So, we need to show people a different way and the ‘how’. When we do things in such manner as ‘only in Europe and America you can get,’ if we can replicate it here, the people can touch it or feel it, we do not need to talk mush, the mind will change.

“It is important to note there are seven mountains or spheres upon a society can be influenced. If you are going to change Nigeria, you have to change the people. Nigeria is not a space or location, rather the people occupying the space. In order to change the people, you have to influence them. These seven mountains which Johny Enlow taught on his visit to Nigeria are what we have adopted, but as a young organisation, we are not able to cope with all the seven at a go. So, we chose three- media, economy and government. We have education also, but the former three are moving forward. We have started doing conference since 2015, but this year, we decided for quarterly trainings for more accountability.

“During the first meeting this year, we came up with an agenda to set up a microfinance bank to empower grassroot pastors, Christians and young people. That grassroot microfinance bank is at the point of launching,” he said.

Pst. Emeka disclosed that, aside the gospel been under-funded in the country, “Christians suffer the most, because to be a Christian and have money you have to go through purification. Most Christians today, just become members of a church, not have regard for discipleship, the first thing they want is prosperity.

“Actually, the Bible promised a lot of prosperity, but no body is teaching them the conditions to prosper which is obedience and before you can master obedience you have to master submission. You can’t submit unless you are born again, then you start learning to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ. When you are regenerated and empowered you can become faithful for without faithfulness you can’t be a matured Christian. A matured Christian is a son; a son has inheritance. A servant can be given rewards. Most Nigerian pastors have been ‘servants of God’. As a result they have no inheritance, that is why you see Christians and Pastors live in penury and struggling live. Priest & Kings teaches discipleship”, the Cleric said.

He added that the Microfinance bank is to support or sponsor “any child of God who has a kingdom mandate that needs to be supported. We are already in some local governments in some States, as it is usually easy to have a group of seven clustered all over than building a church everywhere. What they need is build a business plan, get it registered, raise seed-fund, and we partner with them. We do not give money or donation or an interest bearing loan, rather, we partner. It is like an Angel fund”.   

He added that the Forum has also created a website which is supposed to give some pieces of information about them, while serving as the central coordinating point for the members.

“The Website is imperative because the highest number of a cell is only seven. So, when you have seven people scattered all over Lagos, it will be difficult to coordinate them without technology. And there are seven people all through the nations; you can only coordinate through a portal which is the Priest & Kings website. Trainings are going to be coded through the platform that will be delivered to members on business plans, trainings- entrepreneurship, social, ethics & values, among others.

The membership is not open; rather for genuine and sincere ‘men’, who have decided to make heaven”, he said.

He added that the Forum expected impact for the country and the citizens will last a life time “if the call is heard by those to whom the Lord is speaking to the country is at a cross road right now with all different interest groups pulling the country in different directions mainly, inspired by their selfish and blind pursuit of ill conceived agenda to loot the treasury of the land, our collective heritege.

“I want to warn anyone who reads this and still want to be in stupor, that it is either you are a part   solution or you’r part of the problem. There is no more space in the Nigerian sphere for observers and those who want to straddle the fence are going to be victims of Happenstance”.