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Thursday, 22 September 2016

NATIONAL PRAISE

National Praise 2016
 Theme: The Set Change
 Venue : PCN Big Qua town Parish. No 3 Ekong Esu Road
Time : 4 pm. 


Come let's set the praise through change.




Wednesday, 14 September 2016



BENIN-CITY-Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has reacted to pundits of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, saying the President is as of now conveying on his constituent guarantees and the APC Change motivation. Talking at the National Executive Committee Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Affiliation where President of the Association, Mr. Augustine Alegeh asked the Niger Delta Avengers to sheathe their sword and grasp discourse, Oshiomhole said
"I realize that right now, everyone is talking in the nation. Is this the change we requested? What's more, my answer is Yes. It is the change we requested. For every one of us in this corridor, you realize that the test of settling a house that has been devastated is much more awkward than building a totally new house in light of the fact that for the one that has been demolished, you need to begin by evacuating the garbage.

You need to check whether the establishments are feeble with the goal that you expel them. You should first do a great deal of purging and removal. "That is what President Muhammadu Buhari is doing. Furthermore, individuals expect that in twelve months, you would have settled what was pulverized in sixteen years. It is essentially unrealistic.

what's more, regardless, you should likewise perceive that even the weight on the naira is the aftereffect of the so much dollars that were taken out and it will require a ton of endeavors at a period of broken down costs and the test of oil fare to alter what was totally blundered.

"Along these lines, I asked us as tip top, we have an obligation to disclose to the Nigerian individuals: Changes will come, yet they won't drop by attempting to expel a house with smoke under. You must smother the flame and ensure the establishments are solid, and begin the procedure of remaking progressively."

"It is safe to say that this is the Change we requested? Yes. It's the Change we requested. There is no way supernatural occurrences can happen in the life of a country. The test of re-altering the house that has been crushed is considerably more lumbering."

"Individuals expect that in twelve months, the President would have altered what was annihilated in 16 years. Indeed, even the weight on the naira is on account of so much dolllll was taken out."

He approached the NBA to join the legislature in the battle against defilement, saying "the NBA has a critical part to play in the national push to battle and rout debasement. Be that as it may, I asked my Lord the Chief Judge, when the President of the NBA said the Bar has been battling the war, and I said to my master, are you mindful of any loss in the war the NBA has been battling against defilement? Is it conceivable to battle a war without losses? I think now we are starting to see losses in light of the fact that there is a recharged assurance by the government under the capable administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to exhibit that in the event that it is genuine that debasement is as wild as everyone cases, and in the event that the reality of the matter is that we have set up establishments to battle it, it can't likewise be genuine that we are battling and no one is falling.

"I think at this moment individuals are starting to fall, and with your help, they can fall quicker. Defilement is battling back and I lament to need to say this in your nearness, I ought to let's assume this after you have left, that it gives the idea that debasement is battling back, and a area of the Bar is supporting this exertion, since we have seen unnecessary deferments, unnecessary revisions to charges and unnecessary preparatory protests, prompting unlimited suspensions. I feel that the Bar in your business area concurs on a code that if as Buhari said, in the event that we don't execute debasement, it will murder us, and we don't need to kick the bucket, then we should permit equity to have its way without postponing it."

He charged individuals from the Bar to guarantee that the law is constantly tilted to the side of equity, saying that individuals will keep on depending on courts just in the event that they trust they will get equity, not judgment from the law courts.

He said: "I ask you as officers in the sanctuary of equity to attempt to tilt the law, the routine of the law more to the side of equity instead of judgment. All the time, we see genuine pressure amongst equity and judgment. Mr. President, you have quite recently exhorted, also, I trust it is an extremely judgment skills guidance that as we approach the decisions in Edo State and Ondo State not long from now, that we ought to play by the guidelines.

"Those standards must be guidelines of equity and reasonableness, not details. The point I need to make is that individuals will keep on depending on courts for whatever length of time that they can see that there will be equity toward the day's end, not judgment. Whenever more furthermore, more individuals trust that there is pressure amongst equity and judgment, the

allurement to depend on different structures will acquire cash." Oshiomhole proceeded, "When equity is subverted, there is threat to vote based system. Along these lines, I need to beg the Bar that you are in a position by the nature of your contention to induce judges to determine issues more on the premise of realities, as opposed to details. At the point when Donald Trump, we are all acquainted with him, said that equity ought not just be done, it ought to be seen to have been done, the eyes with which it is seen are not lawful eyes, they are the eyes of extremely customary individuals, counting engine mechanics, sweepers, hooligans, cooks and even companions. On the off chance that all of these individuals feel that equity has been killed, and you commend that you got a judgment, genuinely the weight is yours on the grounds that conventional individuals trust equity was yielded, and when more individuals likewise trust it, then our framework will be under extreme weight."

On affirmations that the counter debasement war is uneven, Oshiomhole said: "in all actuality in the event that you hoard power for a long time, and you corner the sharing of the national treasury for a long time, if you not hoard the weight of being arraigned for a long time? Is it the casualties of the sharing that ought to be arraigned? You overwhelmed power for a long time, you have worked in the name of Boko Haram and you spent the cash and shared the cash. Who else ought to be indicted? In this way, I think the Bar should be striking in rejecting the individuals who are trying to trivialize the counter Corruption war. A little while ago, we are starting to see all sorts of gatherings coming up under the pretense of one challenge or the other. They need to irritate and scare the framework."

Talking prior, President, Nigerian Bar Association Mr. Augustine Alegeh praised Senator Oshiomhole for the friendliness concurred individuals from the affiliation and communicated appreciation to him for all the backing.


Tuesday, 13 September 2016

CERN

Revelations 9:1-11 And the fifth blessed messenger sounded, and I saw a star tumble from paradise unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the unlimited pit. 2And he opened the endless pit; and there emerged a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of an awesome heater; and the sun and the air were obscured by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there left the smoke insects upon the earth: and unto them was given force, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was ordered them that they ought not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; yet just those men which have not the seal of God in their temples. 5 And to them it was given that they ought not kill them, but rather that they ought to be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days should men look for death, and might not discover it; and might craving to kick the bucket, and passing should escape from them. 7 And the states of the grasshoppers resembled unto stallions arranged unto fight; and on their heads were in a manner of speaking crowns like gold, and their appearances were as the characteristics of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of ladies, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, in a manner of speaking breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of numerous stallions rushing to fight. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their energy was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had a ruler over them, which is the heavenly attendant of the no-limit pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, yet in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

What is happening in CERN that have such a large number of individuals trusting that entryways and measurements are opening up? Is CERN fit for opening a soul world that researchers can't comprehend due to their perspectives and dismissal of God? In the event that gateways and measurements are opening up, is there any evidence that evil spirits are getting through a profound stargate? Is CERN a stargate that will discharge firmly watched insider facts? Will Gods that are not known by our fathers break through an obstruction in a race to comprehend a false creation based on suppositions and speculations? CERN could be the way to the void talked about in Revelation Chapter 9. False Gods could rise from the Earth and what anticipates us could be a double dealing not at all like the world has never known. Shiva the God of annihilation and power might hold the keys to the Gates of Hell and he may simply unleash it on a clueless world! In the event that you don't trust that Shiva could hold the keys to the endless pit, let me abandon you with something to consider. The Bible specifies that Apollyon/Abaddon implies Destruction/Destroyer! Shiva is otherwise called the God of Destruction! You Have Been Warned……..

Monday, 12 September 2016

Quiz


Beloved,

SPECIAL INVITATION

Greetings to you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

This notice is to invite all youths of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Calabar Synod to an online free Quiz designed by a team of concerned PYPAN members determined to advance the course of PYPAN meeting the trend of global age. The Quiz holds in Rounds as follows:

1.      First Round/ Individual Basis:
First Round of the Quiz holds on Saturday, November 5, 2016 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm featuring All Presbyterian youths in Congregations/ Parishes; in this Round, all Presbyterian youths within Calabar Synod shall partake based on the different questions per individual that would be served them online. First five participants with highest score per Congregation/ Parish shall be selected to represent their Parish at the next Round.

2.      Second Round/ Parish Basis:
After the Conclusion of First Round, the names of first five (5) selected participants at the first round per Parish would be published/ announced online and these five participants per Parish PYPAN would be qualified to partake in this Second Round of the Quiz based on different questions per Parish in each Presbytery that would be served which would hold on Saturday, November 19, 2016 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm featuring only the five participants per Parish; in this Round, the five participants per Parish shall partake as a team/ Parish within each Presbytery. First three Parishes with highest score per Presbytery would be selected to represent their respective Presbytery at the next Round. In each team/ Parish, the five names must be maintained per the three Parishes.

3.      Third Round/ Presbytery Basis:
After the conclusion of the Second Round, the Third Round would commence on Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm; in this Third Round, the first three winning Parishes (five participants per Parish) would partake online representing their Presbytery as slated. Three Presbyteries with highest score would be selected to face the next Round.

4.      Fourth Round/ Synod Basis:
Here, after conclusion of third Round, the Fourth Round would commence on Saturday, December 17, 2016 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm; the first three selected Presbyteries (with the five participants per Parish in each Presbytery) would partake via different questions per Presbytery after which one Presbytery with least score would be dropped from the race leaving two Presbyteries for the next Round.
  
5.      Fifth Round/ Synod Basis:
The two Presbyteries left would partake on Friday, December 23, 2016 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. At the end of this Round, the Presbytery with highest score would be selected for the next level! Remember, each Presbytery is represented by three Parishes in it with five participants per the Parishes.

6.      Sixth Round/ Synod Basis:
This Round shall commence on Saturday, January 7, 2017 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. The selected Presbytery from Fifth Round shall have all its three represented Parishes to partake after which the Parish with least score would be dropped from the race leaving two Parishes in the Presbytery for the next Round.

7.       Seventh Round/ Synod Basis:
This Round shall commence on Saturday, January 14, 2017 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. The two Parishes in the Winning Presbytery would partake; the Parish with least score would be dropped from the race leaving one Parish in the winning Presbytery for the next Round.

8.      Eight Round/ Synod Basis:
This Round shall commence on Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. The five participants in the winning Parish of the winning Presbytery would partake; two participants with least score would be dropped from the race leaving three participants for the next Round.

9.      Ninth Round/ Synod Basis:
This Round shall commence on Saturday, January 28, 2017 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. One participant with least score would be dropped from the race leaving two participants for the last Round!

10.  Tenth/ Final Round:
This Round shall commence on Saturday, February 4, 2017 from 6:00pm to 6:20pm. A participant with least score would be dropped from the race as the Runner-up leaving the participant with highest score as Winner!

QUIZ RULES:
1.      Registration is FREE and open to all Presbyterian youths within Calabar Synod!
2.      Areas of Concentration all through the various Rounds includes:
i.                    The 1989 Practice and Procedure Part-G of the PCN
ii.                  The 1989 PYPAN Constitution
iii.                The Book of Judges and the Book of Romans
iv.                History of the PCN and the PYPAN
v.                  General Knowledge of Presbyterian
vi.        The Revised Church Hymnary

3. Registration commences from Saturday, September 17 to Monday, October 31, 2016 via http://presbylive.blogspot.com.ng
4.      All intending participants must own a gmail account with which to participate with (names in the gmail must be the correct names of the participants)
5.      Steps to register:
i.                    log unto this blog http://presbylive.blogspot.com.ng
ii.                  Click on “Quiz”
iii.                Click on “Comment”
iv.     On the comment box displayed, enter your Full Name, Congregation, Parish, Presbytery, Phone Number and gmail used all in that order
v.                  Click on the Drop-down icon tagged “Comment as:” and select “Google Account”
vi.        Click “Preview” and wait for any loading and then enter the details of your gmail account as required, log in and wait for any loading
vii.              With your full registered name displayed on the Comment as box, click on “Publish” and that is all. The comment would be carried as your registration.
viii.            For any participant wishing to register using a device that was initially used to register, do the following:
a.       Still on the blog, click on “Quiz”
b.      Below the Comment box, click Sign out (to sign out the other participant);
c.       Click Add comment and then follow the instructions as given from (iv) to (vii) above.
6.At each Round of the Quiz, participants would be given different questions with similar weight of questions and for any tie in score, tests questions would be given to the parties involved until order of distinct score is obtained; results of each Round would be published within two days after the respective Round.
7.      For any complain/ questions, simply submit it as Comment on this post following the steps given in (4) above.
8.      Participants are at liberty to delete their Answers but note, once the Quiz Time terminates, deletion of Answers shall not be possible/ permissible! upon expiration of Quiz time, the Answers shall be carried by the blog Admin
9.      Participants are expected to be online at the stipulated Quiz time.
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.  The Tenth Round Quiz Winner goes home with N 10,000 (ten thousand naira) only and the Runner-up goes home with N 5,000 (five thousand naira) only payable not later than 48 hours after conclusion of the Tenth Round directly to the individuals!
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.  Notwithstanding, Team PresbyLive Updates and Documentaries shall appreciate Winning Presbytery, Parish and Congregation accordingly as a memorial.

PURPOSE OF THE QUIZ:
1.To train and raise Presbyterian youths fit into the Church and Society, rightly dividing the truth in wisdom of the Word and Church practice/ doctrine
2. Helping PYPAN to meet the fast growing global age/ technology through ICT.
3.Connecting all PYPAN members into one online forum with a view to interact and share ideas, advancing the course of PYPAN.

QUIZ SPONSORS:
The Quiz is proudly sponsored by a group of PYPAN members under PresbyLive Updates and Documentaries poised to be agents of Change and Innovations, creating a forum for PYPAN to interact.

   Thank you.

Secret of Wealth

Money rewards activity. It generally has. There is most likely about that. On the other hand, the street to disappointment is cleared with the inertia of the individuals who do nothing with their lives.

You can stare off into space all that you like however in the event that you don't go down your cravings with strong activity then NOTHING will happen for you. In any case, when something that we fancy turns into a fixation then our brains start to evoke a wide range of thoughts for us to achieve whatever it is that we need.

Unsuccessful individuals do everything in converse. For example, numerous have the craving to end up well off. A typical dream is to need to end up a mogul. All things considered, that is OK however by what means will it be accomplished? What are you going to do to accomplish your objective?

What is the SECRET of the Universal Law of Wealth?

Riches comes to people as a by-result of serving others. It's scriptural. It is a UNIVERSAL law. Put essentially, on the off chance that you convey esteem into the lives of other individuals, then the vast majority of them will be cheerful to pay cash to you to get that administration. Not all will do this, obviously. Some will cheat you and some will take from you.

On the off chance that you need to end up a tycoon then focus FIRST on the METHOD that you will use to accomplish it. When you have settled on that technique then you can apply the activity to convey your item or administration.

This is the all inclusive law of cash and riches - serve others.

Attempting to do it some other way will conflict with this general law. Good fortunes on the off chance that you imagine that you can vanquish the general law of riches. You will be the FIRST individual in history to do it. Is it accurate to say that you are that smart?

In this way, judgment skills ought to let you know that there is a boundlessly more prominent shot of progress by taking after the demonstrated Universal Law of Wealth. Take the center off yourself, serve others with something that they need and you will have all the riches that you can want.

"Anybody can accomplish money related opportunity," this shrewd man said to me. "Neediness and riches are yet perspectives. Both are decisions we make," he went on.

"Perspectives?" "Decisions?" I said to myself. "Who might pick destitution?" Every feeling inside me needed to test him.

He grinned, appearing to sense my test and said, "Needy individuals, my young companion, are the individuals who have neglected to hone the laws that oversee the amassing of cash. These laws are straightforward, and are inside everybody's revelation."

Since the get-go just a couple of astute individuals have learned and honed the privileged insights of collecting cash. Appallingly, numerous individuals lead lives of budgetary dissatisfaction. Obligation, loan bosses, and tension bother at them. Numerous can't monetarily make due more than a few months without a paycheck. Indeed, even those sufficiently blessed to transcend these difficulties live well underneath their abilities.

Anybody can appreciate expanded life reason, individual influence, and thriving in the event that they know and practice the Laws of Wealth and Abundance.

As the Scripture puts it:

[Wealth maketh many friends; But the poor is separated from his neighbour. (Proverbs 19:4)]

Inferno In Sokoto - Kills A 42years Old Mother & 2 Sons

42-year-old mother, Mrs Blessing Arigi-Osakwe , absent her activity on Sunday to injuries abiding while attempting to save her two accouchement from an blaze in Sokoto . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) letters that the two accouchement aswell absent their lives afterwards the bid to save them by their adventuresome mother failed. While the two accouchement were recovered asleep from the adventure which happened at the aboriginal hours of Saturday at their abode forth Trade Fair, Old Airport breadth of Sokoto, their mother after died on Sunday. The blaze was said to accept been acquired by an electrical accountability that emanated aural the accommodation while powering their breeding set. According to an bearding source, the asleep mother, alongside her bedmate and two earlier children, had initially able from the blaze unhurt. She was, however, said to accept after fabricated a adventurous and atrocious attack to save the adolescent accouchement who were still trapped central the afire house. The two accouchement were articular as her nine years old son and nephew. According to eyewitnesses, the afire roof al of a sudden burst on the asleep woman as she attempted demography the accouchement to a safer place. The charcoal of the three asleep bodies had back been deposited at the antipathy of the Usman Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, while the two added accouchement were accepting treatment When contacted, the Director-General of the Accompaniment Blaze Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Dingyadi, told NAN that the adventure was not appear to the department. ” Our cadre alone abounding to a blaze adventure forth Offa road, Sokoto on Friday and there was no blow ,” he said. Similarly, Mr Elmustapha Sani, the badge agent in the state, told NAN that the adventure was not appear to the police. However, the agent of the Teaching Hospital, Mr Tijjani Saddique, accepted the story. He said, “the two accouchement were brought into the Trauma Centre of the hospital on Saturday dead.’ ’ ” However, their mother died at thehospital on Sunday, ” he said.

Army kills seven abductors in Bauchi

Abuja - Nigerian troops accept dead seven declared kidnappers during operations to eradicate agitated crimes in the country. The seven declared abductors accept been dead during operations in the arctic Bauchi State. A abundant barter of battery ensued, afterwards which the arrive troops recovered armament from the collapsed suspects.Army spokesperson, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said troops were still combing the accepted breadth to added clue down added beat associates of the declared bentgang. Nigeria is aggressive agitated abomination in the north, airish by the Islamic active Boko Haram alarm accumulation and kidnappers. Resurgent militants accept as well been affianced in abuse in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

BOKO HARAM REBUKED FOR AN ASSAULT ON DRIVERS

Kano - Boko Haram was on Sunday rebuked for an assault on drivers which left one individual dead and underlined the Islamist gathering's proceeding with security danger to regular people.

Shooters on Saturday opened discharge on a guard of vehicles flying out to Maiduguri, from Monguno, 140 kilometers toward the upper east.

"They gave dead a driver and harmed two ladies and a tyke going with him," said transport driver Kabir Hassan, who landed at the scene soon after the assault.

The casualties were going to Maiduguri to commend the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha on Monday and the vehicles included brokers in a get truck pressed with rams for the yearly custom penance.

The brokers relinquished their creatures when the shooting began and the rams were seized by the dissidents, said driver Abba Gana, who gave a comparative toll of death and wounds.

An auto relinquished by escaping explorers was burnt in the assault and the injured taken to a healing facility in Maiduguri for treatment, Hassan and Gana said.

- Military escorts -

The scene of the assault - Kulukawuya town, 50 kilometers from Maiduguri - is on a key exchange course connecting the city to Gamboru on the fringe with Cameroon.

In the previous two years Boko Haram has completed close day by day savage assaults on drivers on the interstate, making the street dangerous for voyagers and constraining the military to later close the street.

Yet, it was announced open again in July and hailed as a sign of military achievement in pushing the guerillas into the semi-desert wild of the Borno field.

By the by, traveler vehicles and trucks loaded down with merchandise still normally drive with a military escort in the event of sporadic assaults.

- Regional operations -

Nigeria and a territorial military coalition including its neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger has put weight on the Islamic State bunch associate.

Supply lines for fuel, nourishment and weapons have been cut, constraining residual contenders to dispatch assaults on unaccompanied vehicles out and about and remote towns from their alcoves in the hedge.

Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) representative Colonel Muhammad Dole said in an announcement on Saturday that late air strikes had hit 12 known Boko Haram camps, which had "extraordinarily smashed their attachment".

There was no free check of the case however Dole said bar of supply courses and captures of suspected Boko Haram officers had brought about the gathering "genuine hardships".

Four Boko Haram warriors associated with having assaulted an inside dislodged people (IDP) camp in the Diffa zone of eastern Niger were executed and two others captured, he included.

In any case, two officers were slaughtered and six others injured in a "clearing operation" after air strikes at Baroua town. The harmed were taken to Niger's capital, Niamey, for treatment, he said.

- AFP

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Meet the World's richest man

The world’s richest man, Amancio Ortega

Zara’s mysterious founder, Amancio Ortega, just exceeded invoice Gates to grow to be the richest man within the world.
shares of the Spanish retailer’s parent organization, Inditex, rose 2.5%. That boosted Ortega’s fortune to $79.five billion,
in step with Forbes .
bill Gates’ internet worth is $78.five billion.
regardless of Ortega’s staggering net well worth, many people have in no way heard of him.
The 80-12 months-vintage Spaniard fiercely guards his privateness and gives few interviews to the click.
Ortega based speedy-fashion massive Zara with his then-spouse Rosalia in 1975. these days, his retail organisation Inditex SA – which owns Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Pull&bear – has over 6,600 outposts round the world.
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega is the richest man inside the global, with a internet well worth envisioned at $79.5 billion.
Ortega is thought for being personal. In 2012, Bloomberg noted that he had best granted interviews to a few journalists.
He also clothes modestly. He generally wears a simple uniform of a blue blazer, white shirt, and grey pants — none of which might be Zara products.
He is going to the identical coffee store every day and eats lunch together with his employees in the organization cafeteria. here’s a photograph of Zara’s headquarters:
In his unfastened time, Ortega enjoys horseback using and owns an equestrian center in Finisterre in Galicia, Spain.
He also offered the tallest skyscraper in Spain, the Torre Picasso in Madrid. The constructing stands 515 toes and cost $536 million.
He owns The Epic houses and motel in Miami, taken into consideration to be one of the great luxury accommodations within the US.
Ortega drives an Audi A8 luxury sedan that is said to be more approximately comfort than luxurious.
He also owns the worldwide explicit BD-seven-hundred, a private jet designed via Bombardier, one of the main manufacturers of luxury personal jets. The aircraft carries a fee tag of $45 million.
but he not often jets off on excursion. He says he loves working an excessive amount of to take break day.

Friday, 9 September 2016

LIVE INTERVIEW

Comrade Charity Ekanem, Acting President of the PYPAN,
Northern Calabar Presbytery

THIRD QUARTER GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE PRESBYTERIAN YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (PYPAN), NORTHERN CALABAR PRESBYTERY 

In the early night hours of today, ninth September, 2016, the PresbyLive Crew met with the Acting President of the Northern Calabar Presbytery PYPAN (NOCAPP), Comrade Charity Ekanem of Odukpani Road Parish. In the meeting, Comrade Charity Ekanem told PresbyLive Crew that the Northern Calabar Presbytery PYPAN (Pace-Setter Presbytery) would at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, George Memorial Parish on tenth September, 2016 being Saturday by 9am (Nigeria Time) be having its third Quarter Business Meeting; in like manner, in the Meeting, an aggregate of 32 Accredited Delegates and around 12 Resource Delegates and in addition various observers would be relied upon to be sitted for the meeting. Further, she told PresbyLive that top on Agenada for the Meeting would be the accompanying: 

1. Presentation of NOCAPP 2016 Project Items 

2. Annual Conference 

Briefing PresbyLive, Comrade Charity Ekanem clarified that as a component of NOCAPP twentieth Anniversary Celebration that held June 26th, 2016 at Odukpani Road Parish, the Executive Committee of NOCAPP would at the floor of the meeting present an arrangement of DeskTop Computer bought by the administration of NOCAPP as a stage 1 arrangement of setting up a standard office for the Presbytery PYPAN... She however implied that NOCAPP is balanced in completing its budgetary commitments without fall flat. About the Annual Conference, the Acting President of NOCAPP went further to tell PresbyLive Crew that in November 2016, NOCAPP Annual Conference would hold to highlight Evangelism Weekend and Business Meeting/Annual Election of officers for year 2017; she commented that the venue of the Conference would be at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Akansoko Congregation with a gigantic evangelism, calling on all members and friends to attend. In her words, she said: 

"I am hopeful that all young people inside the Northern Calabar Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and all faithfuls would profit themselves of this chance to serve God as per Matthew 28: "...Go ye into the world and make desciples of all nations..." the Business Meeting guarantees incredible the same number of matters excessively various, making it impossible to specify would be wrangled upon and choices came to as needs be. I charge all young people to benefit themselves tomorrow at George Memorial Parish both Delegates, Resource and Observers. Much obliged to you." 

This, despite truly guarantees extraordinary. PresbyLive Crew would be at the Business Meeting for more overhauls. 

This is contacting you live from the PresbyLive Crew.

Thursday, 8 September 2016

The Great Hymn Writer

with great patience and enthusiasm to learn, be informed and Worship God, please stay glued to this article carefully developed to not just inform the world but to teach us the unsearchable mysteries enveloped within the hands of the Almighty God, within the cave of divine nature. God bless you as you let this piece to have a meaning in your life in Jesus' name. Amen.


  1. THE REVISED CHURCH HYMNARY 21

  2. 1
  3. Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven;
    To His feet thy tribute bring.
    Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
    Who like me His praise should sing:
    Praise Him, praise Him, Praise Him, praise Him!
    Praise the everlasting King.
  4. 2. 
  5. Praise Him for His grace and favor
    To our fathers in distress;
    Praise Him still the same for ever,
    Slow to chide, and swift to bless.
    Praise Him, praise Him, Praise Him, praise Him!
    Glorious in His faithfulness.
  6. 3.
  7. Father-like He tends and spares us,
    Well our feeble frame He knows;
    In His hands He gently bears us,
    Rescues us from all our foes.
    Praise Him, praise Him, Praise Him, praise Him!
    Widely yet His mercy flows.
  8. 4.
  9. Frail as summer’s flow’r we flourish,
    Blows the wind and it is gone;
    But while mortals rise and perish,
    God endures unchanging on.
    Praise Him, praise Him, Praise Him, praise Him!
    Praise the high Eternal One!
  10. 5.
  11. Angels, help us to adore Him,
    Ye behold Him face to face;
    Sun and moon, bow down before Him;
    Dwellers all in time and space,
    Praise Him, praise Him, Praise Him, praise Him!
    Praise with us the God of grace.
  12. [Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)]

Henry Francis Lyte:
Henry Francis Lyte was birthed in Ednam, Scotland on June 1, 1793. He got a Bachelor of Arts degree at TrinityCollege, Dublin, in 1814. While there, he also won affirmation for his verse forming aptitudes, tolerating the prize for best English verse three times. 

Regardless of the way that he at first proposed to look for after medication, Lyte later found that the administration was "a valuable calling." However, it carried a visit with a wilting minister to move his own certainty. Seeing the peace in his friend's soul as they read Scripture and asked, Lyte wished to develop a relationship with God. Lyte served in a couple of little ranges and after that served in Lower Brixham, an English calculating town, for twenty-three years. Despite falling level prosperity, he amassed the Sunday school to more than eight hundred youths and added to remarkable significant and great change in his gathering. 

In the midst of his administration, Lyte created a couple of melodies. These were appropriated predominately in two books, Poems, Chiefly Religious (1833) and The Spirit of the Psalms (1834). Unmistakably, his most all around acclaimed tune is Abide with Me. 

Encountering asthma and tuberculosis, Lyte was urged to go to the landmass for more sizzling climates in 1847. He made it just to the degree Nice, France, where he kicked the basin just two months sometime later. 

To say further, Henry Francis Lyte was desperately wiped out with tuberculosis. He didn't want to live. He was so crippled, really, that he had organized a farewell sermon to address later on toward the start of September 4, 1847. In the meantime he drew a paper toward him on which he had begun to stay in contact with a couple verses: 

  1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
    The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
    When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
    Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
  2. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
    Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
    Change and decay in all around I see—
    O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
  3. I need Thy presence every passing hour;
    What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?
    Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
    Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
  4. I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
    Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
    Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
    I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
  5. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
    Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;
    Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
    In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

His mind dismissed back his life as he touched up the stanzas; and he formed, "Thou on my head in early youth did smile..." Henry's loving mother had indicated him Bible stories and God's love. Regardless, his father surrendered the family. Henry's mother soon gone on. Nine-year-old Henry was permitted to sit unbothered on the planet. A liberally Irish cleric named Dr. Robert Burrows, with five posterity of his own, took Henry in and put him through school. (Later Henry paid the Rev. Burrow back all that he owed him.) 

Henry needed to study arrangement however frail prosperity obliged him to swing to the administration. He won prizes at Trinity College, Dublin for anthems - three years in progression - and an award. In 1814 he graduated, and was delegated as a cleric of the Church of England the next year. 

The young cleric tended Abraham Swanne, a shriveling pastor. Swanne's significant certainty and dauntlessness despite death had a strong effect on Henry. He helped Swanne's significant other and family arrange their endeavors while conveying isolated tranquil commitments. As a result of his fumes, his prosperity isolated. He expected to go to more smoking France to recuperate his prosperity. 

Henry pastored English spots of love the straggling leftovers of his life. Twenty-three of those years were at Brixham, a Devonshire calculating town. His kinfolk worshiped him, for he took a strong excitement for their work and passed by the watercrafts at whatever point they returned from sea. Anna Maxwell, his life partner, went to the wiped out and assisted in the town's exercises. Through attentive organization of family costs, she sufficiently saved money to send Henry to more sultry France and Italy free from any other person every winter. 

Fifty-four-year-old Henry was usual to living with one foot in the grave when he addressed his last sermon. He reminded his audience members that if we die and that the people who have gotten a handle on the death of Christ in their lives are best masterminded to face the body's destruction. "I stay here among you today, as alive from the dead, in case I may might want to advance it for you, and impel you to get ready for that grave hour which must go to all, by a helpful partner with the downfall of Christ." 

He needed to go to Italy where he trusted light and warmth would restore him. He made it just to the degree Nice, France. There he ended up being so wiped out he expected to rest. Again God stayed with him as an English priest who bosom encouraged him. Ten weeks consequent to addressing his farewell sermon, Henry passed on.

It is well...

Humility

"Humility consolidates knowing your cutoff centers, and having gratefulness for the goals, qualities and viewpoints of others." — Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier, The Encyclopedia of Systemic Neuro-Linguistic Programming and NLP New Coding

"Humility can essentially begin from the general population who really have something about which to be inconspicuous. The humble are the general population who could crow, however kept their mouths close. Quietude is besides a nearby assistant of gratefulness, and it's a trademark that fundamentally surges class." — All Pro Dads, allprodads.com

"Inconspicuousness is the establishment of this individual force which rests in the way that we are not putting on a show to be anything or anybody we are irrefutably not. It is a peaceful force, an unwavering force. A serene power. A dynamic force. No sheer outside power can, or ever has, conquer the force of lowliness. Never-ending chronicled cases have demonstrated this standard." — John David Hoag, a Professional NLP Trainer, Coach and Therapist

Quietude, valor and dignity are enormously fundamental character qualities paying little regard to your age. Where does lowliness fit into educating or raising young people when sense of pride and certainty are respected so remarkably in our general populace? What does lowliness need to do with inventive sureness and creative energy?

Quietude, to some degree, is about staying prepared and careful, two qualities each component imaginative individual has. When I consider lowliness I consider being thankful, having a grateful heart, having the ability to perceive and see respect in anything that some individual has accomplished for you paying little personality to how monstrous or little. An unassuming individual can see the weighty procedure, the parts of everybody, and the significance of everybody. These are qualities that a specialist has or tries to have – a breaking point and yearning to obviously elucidate stunningly their association with their general surroundings. Sentiment pride and regard for others are moreover especially a part of being modest.

I expect that with a specific genuine goal to have lowliness you should have a peculiar state of certainty. These are qualities we attempt to bolster in the Art Studio. So in what capacity may we prepare lowliness to youngsters, to every one of the kids we interface with? I have discovered some really reasonable case from heaps of various individuals. Here are a couple:

Specifically: Adults ought to show lowliness themselves.

Help some individual locate some new information, and audit that kids are common educators. Some a player in instructing is sharing. Offer insights moreover information.

Instruct young people to be profitable. To notice when some individual needs to some degree offer assistance. Show them to offer their assistance. This might be something as vital as holding open a gateway for somebody, snatching a napkin on the off chance that some individual spills something, or going on something on the off chance that some individual has an impressive measure in their grasp.

Train appreciation. Say "thank you" when some individual has reinforced you.

Slant and help youths to be the absolute best they can pay—little regard to what they do. Inconspicuousness works best when your tyke has genuinely satisfied something! Help your young people perform with sureness.

Open kids to the critical educators and their stories.

Instruct kids to respect everybody. A truly humble individual fathoms that everybody should be regarded. Acclimate and uncover your teenagers with children from different nations and unmistakable neighborhoods in your own specific city or town.

Show to kids legitimate philosophies to apologize when they present a mix-up. Apologizing makes you put your pride aside, and it is a champion amongst the most cutting down things you can do. Despite the way that you are just genuinely wrong, apologize rapidly without expecting anything in this way.

Educate your youngsters how to know themselves from the back to front, instead of attempting to make who they are by emerging who they are from others. On the off chance that we can know ourselves from inside, we are liberated to be. We are liberated to be extraordinary and excellent. What's without extra to permit others their own particular critical qualities that can be perceived in isolation, and from which we may be able to learn and indicate new learning and limits.

The Art of Prayer

Jesus, as a rabbi, picked supporters into whom He would pour His life. Show them information, and in addition uncover His heart. These supporters watched Him in every setting. They had backstage goes to His most close minutes. They were welcomed into His private dealings. Jesus' students—with this nearby get to—made a relationship between His life of prayer and His life of power, and they asking for that he demonstrate them to pray.

It was standard for a rabbi to demonstrate his supporters to pray. It was typical. It was a bit of the instructive modules. They had various formularized prayers that were said in particular settings at particular times of day, however every rabbi would teach a more individual kind of the standard prayers to his understudies. Perceive how Jesus' adherents consolidated into their requesting that He indicate them to pray, "… basically as John demonstrated his understudies" (Luke 11:1). It was a rabbi's business to demonstrate his enthusiasts to pray like he prayed. They indicated list prayers, or visual signal prayers, decisively like the kind of Jesus' model prayer. These rabbi-demonstrated prayers got to the heart of what the rabbi trusted basic, and they encapsulated the focuses he felt to be urgent. How a rabbi demonstrated his supporters to pray said much with respect to the heart of the rabbi.

Understanding that, it gets my thought that Jesus' enthusiasts expected to demand that he indicate them to pray. Why wasn't that lesson number one? We have starting now looked central part that prayer played in Jesus' life, so why wasn't prayer the vital lesson? Why wasn't prayer the essential thing He filled them?

Would it have the capacity to be that He required them to be voracious to know how to pray? He required them to have seen the effect of prayer and to have watched prayer's part in His life and administration, so that when they asking for that he demonstrate them to pray, they were not drawing closer just to be taught, or growing their knowledge, or impelling their staying as students. He expected to show them to pray when the longing to pray like their rabbi had created in them to wind up a thirst that must be quenched. He required them to have developed an insatiable crave prayer.

By being with Him adequately long and through various and contrasted circumstances, they had opportunity to watch a prompt association amongst's prayer and power; a quick association from the time experienced alone with the Father to the unflappable peace that passed on Him; the nexus of prayer and the enjoyment that was the indication of His life. (See John 15:11.)

When they asked for that Him especially demonstrate them to pray, they were arranged correctly as Jesus required them to be. They couldn't hold up any more. They couldn't be tolerant until their rabbi got around to indicating them to pray. It transformed into a seething desiring that couldn't be held in. It was more than expecting to know how to say awesome prayers. They expected to know how to live with prayer as the backing of their lives. It was the kind of living that spilled out of praying that they yearned to experience. Like their rabbi.

In case Jesus was willing and on edge to demonstrate His students to pray like He prays while He was in His common administration, then He is comparably enthusiastic to show us to pray as of now. Frankly, He can demonstrate us from inside better than anything He could teach the supporters who could hear Him with physical ears and see Him with physical eyes. The Spirit of Truth, whose occupation it is to demonstrate every one of us things, lives in us with direct access to our minds and hearts. (John 14:26; 16:13) Jesus, through His Spirit in us, will merrily demonstrate us to pray. Just ask.

The Prayer Teacher

When you have to learn something, you have to pick up from the best. If you can pick up from the master, the individual who instigated and set up the request you have to see, all the better. Who knows the perplexing subtle elements of any ability better than the individual who at first settled it? You and I have the extensive advantage of picking up from the Master Pray-er, the One who impelled prayer from the soonest beginning stage, and arranged it with the objective that it goes about as He means for it to work. He knows the intricacies and the potential temporary routes. He set up prayer and initiated prayer. He should be our Rabbi and to demonstrate to all of us that He ponders prayer.

Does He completely comprehend prayer, and also He altogether comprehends us. He knows everything about each one of us. He knows how we learn, and what our turned is, and what it will take to train any of us exactly what we need to know not the plenteous life He ensured. He perceives what lies behind that has tinted our perspective of prayer and of Him, and He understands what lies ahead that will challenge our certainty past its present points of confinement. He is the perfect educator. Totally versed in His subject and totally aware of His understudy.

He esteems His theme. Have you ever had a teacher who essentially venerated the material they were training? Jesus values prayer. When He indicates you to pray, He will demonstrate to you His own specific heart. His reverence for prayer will be compelling. He will imaginatively plot modules for your finding that will interface with you totally and will be arranged with just you're learning style and personality and contribution as an essential concern. He'll be your private guide, while furthermore bringing you into prayer experiences in gathering of followers.

Learning Prayer:
You have passage to the perfect Teacher in Rabbi Jesus. What will it take to be the best understudy—supporter—you can be with the objective that you can take in all that He needs to allow?

To begin with, acknowledge. Trust Him. Trust that He is available to you and worships you and longs for you to encounter each and every piece of Him that you can.

Remember that He said, "Everything that I picked up from my Father I have made known not" (John 15:15). He will continue making the Father known. He will keep indicating you. He for the most part has more to uncover to you and it delights Him to continue showing you a greater amount of the Father.

The more we know the Father, the more we value the Son. The more we venerate the Son, the more His closeness in us is made honest to goodness to us. This is the extremely focal point of a praying life.— the flood of love between your heart and His.

To begin with, trust Him. Second, regard Him. Allow Him to run the show up. Trust that He knows how to accomplish in you and for you unequivocally what He has as a top need, and that He has at the highest point of the need list only your incredible. Your movement. Your peace.

You can simply regard one you trust. Else, you should be set up to control yourself if things go misguided. You should search for a wrong move. You should be attentive and cautious of your own course if some individual tries to head you in the wrong bearing. Will you totally regard Him, understanding that Jesus treasures you absurd, with an obsessive veneration that buoys over you and supervises even the most diminutive pieces of your life?

To begin with, acknowledge. Second, yield. Third, take after. The call to prayer is not a charge, but instead a welcome. He is calling you to an outing. He is calling you to tail Him (Mark 1:17). The call is changing and risky. The giant awe in a praying life is that you find your little life cleared up into the impressive inspirations driving God. Prayer is not uninvolved or idle. It will get you up in the current of His activity, and you will never be the same. Perilous gets the chance to be protected when it is in light of the primary of Jesus.

Quiz

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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Great History of Calabar

Calabar history gives a knowledge into one of Nigeria's most dynamic urban areas. Calabar is additionally alluded to as Canaan City. It is a noteworthy business focus in Nigeria and has worldwide airplane terminals and harbors.

Early Calabar History:
Most authentic records demonstrate towards Calabar picking up noticeable quality amid the early part of the seventeenth century. This was to a great extent because of the expanding exchanging relations between the African tribes like the Efik and Ibibio individuals. Calabar transformed into a noteworthy port with fish, bananas and cassava being exchanged among the encompassing groups. Notwithstanding, the expanding exchange in the end got the consideration of the pioneer powers which were forcefully expanding their nearness in Africa amid this time.

Following Colonial Rule in Calabar History:
Calabar's most punctual provincial rulers were the Portuguese who instituted the name "Old Calabar." The name existed until 1904. The Portuguese were pulled in by the rich supply of nourishment assets. Amid this time, Calabar likewise rose as one of busiest slave-exchanging terminals in Africa.

Nineteenth and twentieth Century Events in Calabar History:
The center of nineteenth century saw Calabar losing its position in the African slave exchange. Amid this stage, it advanced into being a noteworthy exchanging port for palm-based items, for example, palm oil and bits. Some place around 1883, the Portuguese control over Nigerian states debilitated because of the expanded militarization by the British powers. Calabar turned into a part of the British administration and served as the capital city for a portion of the encompassing territories from 1885 to 1893. Amid the early piece of twentieth century, Calabar lost some of its business centrality because of the strong improvement at the close-by Port Harcourt end.

Calabar has been referred to European mariners as far back as the fifteenth century. It has a universal ocean port known not world from the sixteenth century. Calabar was a noteworthy slave exchange port from the late seventeenth to nineteenth century. Around thirty percent of the evaluated 2.5 million slaves from Africa to the around 30% of the assessed 2.5 million slaves taken from Africa to the new world, went through the Calabar ocean port. Calabar once served as the seat of Government of Niger coast Protectorate, Southern Protectorate and Oil Protectorate. Calabar has one of the most punctual Military dormitory in Nigeria.

Calabar the capital of Cross River State has an awesome potential in cordiality and tourism. Its relative peace and serenity, combined with low wrongdoing rate, perfect and regular habitat, decision vacation destinations and second to none accommodation nature of the general population has made it a tourism safe house with endless possibilities and open doors.

Ethnic Composition and Culture:
There are three noteworthy ethnic gatherings spoke to by three chief phonetic gatherings in Cross River State. These are the Efik, the Ejagham and the Bekwarra. The Efik dialect is broadly talked in Cross River State, even similarly as Arochukwu in neigh bouring Abia state.

The Efik talking individuals live mostly in the Calabar Municipality, and in parts of Akamkpa and Odukpani LGAs. There is additionally the Qua people group in Calabar, which speaks Ejagham. In any case, the Ejagham bunch possesses for the most part the northern segments of the State. Alternate gatherings north of Calabar are known as the Ekois. The Ekois gathering are the general population of Biase in Biase LGA the Bahumono in Abi LGA.

The Yakurr/Agoi in Yakurr LGA, while the Mbembe are transcendently found in Obubra LGA. Assist north, are a few sub-argumentative gatherings, among which are Etung, Olulumo, Ofutop, Nkim/Nkum, Abanajum, Nseke and Boki in both Ikom and Boki LGAs.

The Yalla/Yache, Ukelle, Ekajuka, Mbube, Bette, Bekwarra and Utugwanga are found in Ogoja, Yalla, Obudu and Obanliku LGA's. Cross River State encapsulates

the country's etymological and social majority. In any case, it is critical to note that, regardless of the assorted qualities of vernaculars, all the ethnic gatherings have a typical

Etymological root Bantu:
Their societies bear striking similitudes as well. Likewise comparable are their music, drumming, moves, method of dressing, and in addition their customary religion. Conventional celebrations in northern Cross River State are principally identified with cultivating exercises, the dominating occupation in the state. Such celebrations are polished in Yakurr, Obubra, Ikom, Ogoja, Yalla, Obudu and Obanliku LGAs.

Socially, the Efiks, as a result of their seaside area, have been most prominent globally, broadly, and inside Cross River State. This is somewhat on record of the power of Calabar in Nigerian history, and mostly because of the exceptional rich and elaborate social collection of the Efiks. Efik, a dialect of learning, trade and discretion, was among the first to be composed and authoritatively educated in Nigeria. Among the expansive social stock of the Efiks are: "Ekombi", the Efik established music; "Ukwa" the main fencing match in sub Saharan Africa; "Mbuk" an accumulation of Efik old stories (myths, legends, stories); the "Ekpe" clique; obviously the acclaimed neighborhood food "Edikangikong," and a large group of customary move shapes. Populace and Settlement Patterns: According to the 1991 populace statistics, Cross River State has a populace of 1,911,297, the dispersion of which is appeared in Table 9.1 An examination of the spatial conveyance of settlements in Cross River State uncovers that the State, to a vast degree, is yet to develop an utilitarian and very much coordinated territorial arrangement of settlements.

There are around 620 unmistakable human settlements, 89.36 percent of which contain under 5,000 occupants. Calabar has the biggest populace of 320,862. Other significant towns with awesome possibilities for future development and utilitarian mix are Ogoja, Ikom, Obudu, Ugep, Obubra, Akamkpa and Odukpani. The strength of Calabar as the authoritative, social and port modern focus has kept on drawing in new migrants and speculations to the state capital.

Calabar has, in this manner, as of late developed as a primate city in a condition of humble urban focuses. By far most of the populace live in country territories, in little nucleated settlements. Along the rivulets and bogs of the lower Cross River valley, a large portion of the little settlements comprise of angling camps which are involved for just a couple of months in the year.

Lace kind of road settlements are regular along motorable provincial streets and trails in Akamkpa, Ugep, Ikorn and Ogoja LGAs. With a normal populace thickness of around sixty-five people for every sq. km, Cross River State is about the most scantily settled state in southern Nigeria.


-Nka Nkori Ye Nsongonda, 
Efik, Efut ye Abakpa