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All is set for the burial of the Chairman and Spiritual Leader of Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide (CSMC), (Ayo Ni O), Samuel Adefila Abidoye, who passed on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at the age of 103 years.
Activities commemorating the week-long burial ceremony, which will attract members of C&S Movement Worldwide both at home and in the diaspora, as well as other important dignitaries from all walks of life, will take place at the Galilee Land, International Headquarters of CSMC at Orile-Igbon, Oyo State.
According to the burial arrangements, the remains of Abidoye will be committed to the mother earth at his Mausoleum in Galilee Land on Saturday, April 27, after a burial service at the Galilee Church auditorium by Daniel Okoh, president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), with the topic: “I finished my course,” (2 Timothy 4:7b).
The burial programmes announced by the Baba Aladura burial committee, which is chaired by the Chairman/chief executive officer, Chemstar Group, Remi Awode, the activities will kick off on Monday, April 22 with service of songs at the Galilee Church auditorium, to be anchored by Youths, Women Fellowship and Children Ministry, with the theme: “The Place,” while on Tuesday, April 23, the second service of songs and tributes by the Councils of Pastors, Prophets, Evangelists, Teachers, Model Churches will take place.
On Wednesday, April 24, will be sports and night of tributes featuring football and handball from students of C&S College, Ilorin, Kwara State, as well as tributes by Galilee Land Committee representatives, funeral committee representatives, communities/family representatives, UK diaspora representatives, USA diaspora representatives, Unification Church, OAIC, and CAN churches.
The burial committee said on Thursday, April 25, the corpse will leave the mortuary for Omu-Aran, Kwara State, his home town for Omu-Aran celebration and lying in state service at Ile Nla, Omu-Aran and GSS Field, Omu-Aran, respectively, while the corpse will return to Galilee Land same day.
On Friday, April 26, it will be a twin programme featuring Christian wake keep service and praise night at Galilee land, as well as night of tributes by conference secretariat, management committee, conference advisory committee, family and Board of Trustees (BoT) of the church.
As part of the burial arrangements, the Awode-led burial committee visited various district headquarters of the church in Lagos, Ibadan, Ilorin, and other cities to brief and sensitise members of the church about the burial arrangements and to come out to give the spiritual father of CSMC a befitting burial, as well as to bid him farewell.
Awode, during the visit to some districts in Ibadan said: “Baba Aladura was our father. He did a lot for CSCM in his lifetime. We all realised that without Abidoye, there won’t be Galilee Land today. So, we expect all members to attend his burial as all provisions have been made for all members in that regard.”
