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By Sunday Ani
ALL is set for the 33rd Kingdom Life
World Conference (KLWC) of The
Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM)
scheduled to hold next month, Novem-
ber.
The event, which will last eight days ev-
ery year, is the biggest annual conference
of the church, bringing together everyone,
irrespective of location, to worship and
celebrate the goodness of God.
The conference, which started in 1990,
has always attracted anointed servants
of God from around the world, and is
attended not only by the members of the
church, but also prominent and proven
men and women of God from various
ministries in Nigeria, other African
countries, the United States of America,
the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Philip-
pines and Germany.
Chairman of the 2023 KLWC planning
committee, Rev Chinedu Nkere, said
delegates from various parts of the world
attend the yearly event to encounter God,
adding that the year’s event would not be
different. “Testimonies from people have
been encouraging, as the programme has
recorded life changing testimonies and
landmark achievements,” he said.
Rev Nkere is known to have, over the
years, described the KLWC as the ‘mother
of all conferences,’ a description that has
kept many wondering what he actually
meant by that.
Throwing light on that, he said: “The word, mother, generally describes one
that gives birth to, produces, or raises
another. So, when we say the KLWC is
the mother of all conferences, we simply
mean that it has come of age and has
produced or given birth to several other
conferences, locally and globally, not only
in TREM, but also in other ministries. As
you are aware, several other pastors, heads
of churches and ministries submit to the
Presiding Bishop. So when we come for
Kingdom Life, we have opportunities to
learn; and when we go back to our loca- tions, we reproduce what we have learnt.
“Again, the Kingdom Life World
Conference is a leading global and live-
changing conference that has been there
consistently for 33 years and still count-
ing. It just keeps getting bigger, better and
stronger, by the grace of God. Let me also
say that the phrase, ‘mother of all confer-
ences,’ did not originate from me. I think
I heard it frst from the Presiding Bishop many years ago, even before I became the
planning committee chairman, and it just
got stuck with me since then. However,
we have another conference in TREM,
which I named the father of all confer-
ences, but that is a story for another day.”
So, what differentiates the 2023 KLWC
from others, and why is there so much
noise about it? Rev Nkere said this year’s
theme, ‘JESUS,’ is the master stroke. “This
year, we have a very exciting theme like
never before, JESUS. Personally, I have
not attended any programme with such a
theme. Yes, in most conferences, we talk
about Jesus, but being the theme is what I
have not seen before. So, here we have the
most infuential name that has ever lived,
as the theme of this year’s conference;
that is so powerful. Incidentally, it’s the
33rd anniversary of KLWC and the theme
is the man who lived for 33 years and His
impacts are still being felt.
