PASTOR, MEMBERS EAT KEYBOARD AS PASTOR CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY

It was another wonderful Sunday, after a church service in Calabar, when a student-pastor and his members cut and ate a keyboard which was presented by the Pastor to the church as a birthday gift.

“There is no difference between this keyboard here and the keyboard you use in this church”, says Afia Ndah, the Chief Executive Officer of Chi Chi Spiece who is the designer of the cake that looks like a keyboard.

The keyboard-cake has an octave made up red and white keys. Miss Chi Chi a student of University of Calabar (Unical) said “the white keys signify the word of God while the black red keys signify the blood of Christ.

Rankin Ndipmong is a marketing student in University of Calabar and the Pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Overflowing Parish. Ndipmong, former Financial Secretary of the Students Union Government, on his birthday, did a huge hosting for all May-Born students in his church, inviting students to come and cheer out with him.

The day was the first Sunday of the month of May and also a thanksgiving service. Ndipmong, organized a special service for students born in may to his church and invited special guests like the Joint Campus Committee Chairman of National Association of Nigeria Student, Comr. Patrick Andem and former President of the National Association of Cross River State Students, Comr. Eyo Bassey, who are all May-born students.

Other personalities include former Director of Welfare, SUG Unical Comr. Imeh Iyakene

Pst. Ndipmong cut the cake along with all ‘May-Born Babes’ as they were called out to the Alter and also prayed for.

In his remark, Ndipmong noted that there is no better place to celebrate his birthday than in the presence of God’s people.

While reiterating on the essence of Thankgiving, Pst. Ndipmmong advised the members of the church to always give thanks to God for what He has done and get ready to receive more from Him.

One of the participants, Eyo Bassey thanked the Pastor for organizing such an event to mark the birthday of May-born students. He said: “in most cases, we fail to recognize and thank God for keeping us alive. We may not know how many May-born who may not have been able to make it up till this point but God has kept us alive”.

The church also organized a prayer session for the north crisis and the Boko Haram insurgency. 

They prayed that God should bring peace in the land and protect those who do his will according to His promise.

The participants went home with packages and take-away refreshments.