IT’S LOVE ACTUALLY…PASTOR TOM SAMSON FETES WIFE, LANRE, ON HER BIRTHDAY IN AMERICA

In terms of flamboyance and penchant for expensive automobiles, even an accustomed American rock star has nothing on Pastor Tom Samson, General Overseer of the Christ Royal Family International Church with branches across Nigeria and beyond. The gangling man of God, known for his bold proselytizing, showed his romantic side recently when he hosted family and friends in Maryland, USA, to celebrate Lanre, his wife of many years. Soft- spoken Lanre and Tom were high school lovers and started from the bottom. Today, the ministry has a chain of hospitals and schools – kindergarten, nursery, primary, secondary and College of Education – and is proposing to build a University. During a church service at the Dominion Church in Upper Malboro, Maryland, United States, owned by the very humble and anointed man of God, Pastor Mike Olawale, Pastor Tom recalled how they have stuck together through the vagaries and vicissitudes of life, even when she was shot and 14 bullets were removed from her nose some 11 years ago. Thus, within the ambit of his faith, Pastor Mike Olawale rolled out the drums to celebrate his beloved friend and wife. After entertaining guests, the couple visited Gaylord National Resort, Oxon Hill in Maryland, holding hands, cooing into each other’s ears and giggling like teenagers in love. However, The Senior Pastor of the Dominion Church, Pastor Olawale, unlike his devious and ungracious peers, does not deceive his flock. Rather than mislead them on the primrose path that leads to eternal doom, he guides them on to the steep and thorny way to heaven.