By Adeola Ogunlade
City Gate International Church has concluded plans to hold its Youth Convention holding on the 1st to 3rd, December at Pyramid Hotel and Suite Highway, Opposite, INEC, Office in Calabar.
Tagged: Digital Youth in the 21st Century will bring together youth from across the country and will feature seminars, business sessions, drama, word rendition, and singspiration.
In a statement issued by the Presiding Bishop of the church, Bishop Robertson Akwazi said that the programme is aimed at empowering Christian youths with the information, boundless opportunities, and other basic services that digital platforms offer today’s youths.
He said that the world has changed. Time has changed – the speed at which we live life has accelerated superbly. We now have interactive teaching and learning, more simulations than ever before, more things to do, to read, to watch, to experience.
He noted that youths in the twenty-first century know more and have access to vastly greater quantities of information than ever before. They have lots more information at their fingertips than those teaching them.
Akwazi posited that if our young people in the church in this present day will live and have the ability to become catalysts for change in the world and also prepare for the next generation, we must encourage them to creatively harness Information technology via the internet, narrative theology, and non-didactic teaching methods for their spiritual growth and overall development
Also, the conference will host Ella Columbus from Igheli Delta State. She is a young amazing vibrant lady with an incredible understanding of the 21st century youth who will share her experience and help to build the youth for the now with God factor and mindset other speakers include Rev Mercy AKWAZI the Chief host of the Youth president Brother Victory brown Edet.