TO ALL SCMERS AT ALL NYSC ORIENTATION CAMPS Beloved, How has it been like? The drills, the parades, the matches, the sports, the robe climbing, the mammy market, the hair dressings etc....Of course not forgetting the NCCF meetings or any other good corper fellowship meetings....Hope the little-little within the camp allowances are being paid. Any where we are with Jesus, is home. We at the SCM National Secretariat here in Abuja are praying for you. It will soon be over and you will be through with the camp. It is not a needless punishment. It is good for you. On the day of the endurance trek, be strong, the LORD will see you through. Learn the lessons at the camp. Learn the lesson of togetherness. You will discover in camp that all the stereotypes that men have cooked into your mind over the years about the Igalas, the Efiki people, Ibibio, Ijaw, Bini, Igbo, Yourba, Hausa, Ikwerre, Kalabari, Idoma etc are in most cases mere pigments of peoples imaginations. Nigerian people are good people. Forget all the hate propelled propaganda.....Mix up well. Stop congregating with only your tribal people....Or only with your denominational people....Being educated at the highest place of education makes you a global citizen...So shed off those suffocating sectional cocoon to allow you fly like the Eagle you are. Learn the lesson that no good lasting success in life comes easy. The essence of the drills is to teach you that honor comes through hard work. Great soldiers are men and women of great sacrifices. It is to teach you the nobility of labor. Who told you that labor is for slaves? No, in England, every member of the English royal family irrespective of gender must go for military service. Why? The royals must be disciplined people. Labor makes life most exciting. What is exciting about the Dead Sea, that stays just one place to get all it wants. The camp is part of your preparations for living the Higher land life. You cannot be living low all through life. Get ready to climb up. The Eagle is not a low land animal. Without height, the honor of the Eagle is hemmed and hampered. Every good preparation wings you up for great flights in life. Get all the wings that your various preparations are giving you. Never play with your preparations. They matter a lot in your life. Most of the things I am doing now are results of preparations of years gone by. Some as a child in my humble village beginning. Please, that camp is preparing you for many things. Get all you need to get there. Remember, every SCMer is primarily a missionary. If an SCMer is working at NNPC and the person thinks he is there primarily to make money for self, good luck to such. But we never learned that of Christ in SCM. The first lesson I learned as an SCMer the moment I joined in 1989 is that of sacrifice. Work. I came into a fellowship of just few brethren. I was not happy with that number. I set myself to work. I targeted fresh students. I will come back to school in time to assist them register and settle in. In the days when the Nigerian school calender has not been abused and tampered with yet, there used to be what was then known as October Rush. For unbelievers, October Rush was the rush for fresh babes and guys as girlfriends and boyfriends. But since I had the command of heaven not to indulge my flesh in such, I turned October Rush to a godly enterprise. To rush new students into SCM. And it paid off. My SCM campus fellowship grew in number. I never looked back until I left the campus. At Uyo as a corp member without anybody urging me, I served as a TS and yet was the Prayer Secretary of Akwa Ibom State NCCF. I had a wonderful time as a corper missionary.....So do not just get lost in the state of your posting. SCMers must have been to your camp. Our staff persons have been to some of the camps. Please, co-operate with them. If not as a full time corper TS, you do as an associate TS. Who knows like Esther you are where you are at such a time like this for a purpose....SCMers do not hide. We are the light. We lighten every place we go. We give necessary visibility to wherever and whatever we are associated with. Please, lets know you and where you are. Once you are posted to your place of primary assignment, let me know where you. Nigeria is no longer a place a corper will just get holed up in one God-forsaken village where nobody will know your where-about except NYSC officials. This is my 2nd mail to you. First, I welcomed you to camp. This is the mid one, just to ask you how you are faring in camp. I will still write the third to urge you on into the place of your primary assignment. Get me on any of my lines 08066068264 or 08051653978, so that I can connect you to the SCMers in your place of posting. Be part of the SCM work anywhere you find yourself. BE A SCHOOL VISITOR. Not being a TS does not stop from being a school visitor. Rev. Olumide Toluwase, immediate past general secretary of Lagos sector and former national Vice President called me last week to get some information. In the course of our discussion on phone, he mentioned that he will be visiting a school. He is a senior friend. He is not a staff of SCM, yet he still visits schools. That is an SCMer to the core. Visiting schools flows in our blood as SCMers. You can be practicing your law profession and create a time to go and share the gospel with students. That is what it means to be an SCMer. Who told you it is just meetings and conferences we do in SCM? Our number one task in SCM Nigeria is to visit schools. An SCM Nigeria that is no longer visiting schools is an SCM Nigeria that is dead. God forbid that. May God continue to bless our Movement SCM. I love you. Your brother & Gods bond Slave, Harold Ozioma, Ikewueze, General Secretary, SCM, Nigeria.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:40:38 +0000
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