It was all music and praises to God as members of Iwo Road Baptist Church, Monatan, Ibadan, Oyo celebrate its 29th joint choir anniversary and songs ministration of the church music ministry tagged “Kingdom Praise: Bringing down his glory” last week Sunday.
The service was filled with different songs ministration from the different choir group of the church such as the faith voices, Praise team, the WMU choir, Christ Melody singers, Sanctuary choir and the Christ melody singers.
In his message taken from the book of 2 Chronicles 5:11-14 based on the theme of the anniversary Reverend Busoye Adigun of the Global Mission Board said that for God’s glory to show in our life we must live our lives according to the will of God.
“What we should be doing regularly must be according to the commandments of God. We must be holy to see the glory of God and must be separated and ordained for that to happen,” he said.
Speaking further he said, for us to see the glory of God now as it was in the time of Moses we must consecrate ourselves before God to see the glory a peculiar people.
The success of the programme was evident in the turn out of people that grace the anniversary where the church auditorium was filed to capacity. The different rendition by the choir group shows how talented the groups are.
Speaking on the preparation that was put in place to make the anniversary that successful the Music minister of the Church, Revd. Kayode Jolayemi explained that time was the biggest challenge they faced in preparing for the programme as they have to reschedule the different rehearsal time of the choir group.
The preparation which he said started in October led to some of the members rescheduling their academic programme to make time out for practice some coming from different part of Oyo State.
The anniversary which lasted for five hours shows the magnitude of support the music ministry of the church is enjoying form the church members as they all wait till late in the afternoon before gong home.