Global Outreach Day Targets 50 Million Souls Across Africa
The Global Outreach Day, a non-denominational global soul winning organisation has revealed that this year's edition of its one day evangelism exercise scheduled for Saturday, May 27, has its focus on Africa.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos recently, the national coordinator, Evangelist, Oguazi Onyemobi disclosed that while the vision is to reach 50 million souls across Africa in one day, the Nigerian chapter has the target to reach 20 million souls with the love of Jesus Christ.
According to the national coordinator, the group's vision is to raise an army believers that will bring people into personal relationship with Christ Jesus. "The Global Outreach Day is a worldwide initiative that has taken root in over 150 countries. The vision is to raise the entire believers in Jesus Christ as a massive army to preach the gospel in one day and adopt soul winning as a lifestyle.
“To achieve that purpose, we organise programmes geared towards training, equipping and mobilising each believer to share the good news of God’s salvation simply, boldly and passionately, to bring people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Calling on Christians to adopt soul winning as a lifestyle, Onyemobi said that it has become pertinent as the world is in era where many are spreading messages of hate, killings, destruction and deception in the name of God. And that "we believe that as we all do this together, it will generate a synergy that can shake the world and bring about a global revival,” he said.
Speaking further, the national coordinator noted that one of the programmes in preparation for the one day global outreach was an Evangelism and Fire Conference which held at Presbyterian Church, Yaba-Lagos. Adding that the purpose of the conference was to train and equip believers to be effective soul winners. "It is also to mobilise believers to be involved in the soul winning exercise of the Global Outreach Day. And that participants and individual churches can adopt diverse soul winning strategies that suit them best during the exercise.
Speaking, also a member of the G.O.D, Board of Trustee, Rev. Peace Goodey said that the event was not about church but to let people around the world know the love of God. According to her, it is going to be a kind of revival for the lost souls. "We are coming out to say make soul winning a lifestyle, reach out to souls and let them know the love of God. We are coming to make people know it is no longer about church, it is coming together to share God's word,” she said.
Calling on Christians to join the train of evangelism as it tours the world on May 27 with a focus on Africa, Mr. Emeka Ejims advised that participants should adopt diverse methods they deem suitable for every environment in declaring the love of Jesus Christ to the people. Ejims who enjoined Christians to join the train said, "Everybody should come on board to spread the love of Christ Jesus and God will surely show up in a mighty way.”