PHOTOS: Osun Public Servants, Retirees Storm Winners Chapel Today For Food

 

Hundreds of public servants, retirees and other categories of residents of Osun State trooped to the Winners Chapel, Osogbo,Ile-ife, on Sunday to partake of the food aid sent to the state by the Presiding Bishop of the church, Bishop David

Oyedepo.

 

The State Pastor of the church, Pastor Olumuyiwa Emmanuel, had on Wednesday announced,during the mid week service, that the truck loads of the food donation had arrived for distribution.

 

He directed them to invite their friends and neighbours, irrespective of their religious

affiliations.

 

He said the food stuffs were sent to assist workers and others cope with the hardship

caused by non-payment of salaries.

 

The pastor said, “The church has been blessed to be a blessing to others. Irrespective of their

religious affiliations, we are blessed to affect the lives of others positively.

 

“That is the reason why the church has been giving to the less privileged ones. We have been

distributing food items to members and non members. The church also distributed food stuffs

last month.

 

“God does not bless people so that they can be a container, he blesses people so that they can bless others and all of us must be doing that.

 

“Rather than acquisition of wealth, we should cultivate the habit of giving to those around us,

and in return we would receive more blessings from God.”

 

Emmanuel announced after the second service that anyone interested in being a partaker of the largesse should wait.

 

The pastor also announced that there would be free medical treatment for all manner of ailments

and diseases next Sunday, while urging church members to invite anyone they knew that needed

medical attention to come and benefit from the free services.

 

Few minutes after that announcement, there was a long queue of intending beneficiaries waiting

patiently for the distribution of the food.

 

Those on the queues were given rice, packets of tomato paste and vegetable oil and some parents

and their children.