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As part of its social responsibility in mitigating the level of unemployment in the country, the youth wing of Church of God Mission Internal (CGMI) says it has trained 6,000 youths across the federation on various skills and acquisitions.
Addressing newsmen at the end of the six-day International Youth Summit with the theme “Transcend” held in Benin, the Internal Director, Christian Youth Fellowship, Pastor Harvey Onephrojire, said the government cannot bear the burden of creating jobs for the citizens alone but that the church has a duty to complement it.
He said having that in mind while fashioning the youth programme, the Fellowship decided to incorporate training that would make them self-employed and self-sufficient.
“Setting up this conference, we had three things in mind to raise a new set of generational leaders, people with godly minds and the second thing is to build capacity into these youths.
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“So, what we did was to organise training like project management, cyber security, digital marketing and so many more. And all of these training were all certified.
“It will amaze you that we had well over 5000 participants at this conference who got various training and capacities for them to take back home and all of these training we offer them for free as a part of our contributions to the national human capital development.
“The third thing we wanted to do is to make sure that we also have people who can defend the faith of Jesus as well so that by the end of that conference, we have men who can go back to their cities and set them ablaze for Christ. This is what this nation needs right now
“We had over 10 advantage sessions and each of these classes had more than six or five hundred persons in each of these classes.
“So, you can multiply that by 10 it will give you the amount of how much persons we have been able to build capacities into in the course of this training”, he said.
While admonishing the youth ahead of the forthcoming general elections, Rev. Tari Hudson, Director of Administration of the church, said they should toe the line of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) who have advised Christians to vote for competency, one who is young and vibrant, one with the fear of God and able to deliver the dividends of democracy to Nigerians.
