The Impact of The GLS in Nigeria

While final numbers are forthcoming, all told, there will be around 5,000 - 6,000 people at 7 various GLS sites in Nigeria. To learn more about the state of the church in Nigeria and how The GLS is working to effect change there, click here. We wanted to offer a quick testimony of a couple Nigerian leaders' GLS stories.

"For some time now we have agonized over lack of growth, why the Pentecostal/Evangelicals are growing faster than the main line churches in Nigeria. For one thing, this summit has confirmed to me that the vitality of the church must be at the parish [church] level. We need to overcome what Gary Hamel called allocational rigidities, among other ills. Some of us leaders, appear not to realize that a new reality has come upon us.

"As one of the leaders I am going to share the substance of this Summit at our next synod [regional] meeting and challenge us to start the rethinking process from our own synod, then to the general assembly [denomination].

"I was the Founding Director of Research Nigeria Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, 1979-1980. Before then I was the Director of the National Policy Development Centre (Think Tank)1976-1979. Consultant to UNPD, I had a misadventure into politics as a presidential candidate but God used the opportunity to let me see the rot in Nigeria political life.Through all this years I never had a challenging and powerful conference like this one, indeed this is great and inspired by the Holy Spirit.

"As a result of this conference, one of my burdens now is to find ways of influencing political leaders to let their Christianity show in their conduct of public affairs. Thank you so much for the great impacts that this conference has had on me and my wife"

~Elder Uma Eleazu, Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (pictured above left with the Nigerian GLS country leader, Francis Olubambi)