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The church in Lagos<\/a>, Nigeria, celebrated a thanksgiving service at the end of January. Jude Uzoma Ordu of the Oshodi-Isolo Region was appointed elder, witnessed by over 2,000 in attendance. This appointment brings the total number of elders currently in Lagos to five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jide Ojo, the lead evangelist in Lagos, encouraged the church with a message entitled, The Certainty of Heaven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church enjoyed more celebrations, as four students graduated from the NEOSOM School of Missions, West Africa. And two new sisters were welcomed after their baptisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch highlights from the service here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The church in Lagos, Nigeria, celebrated the certainty of heaven in a special thanksgiving service. They also witnessed the appointment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[51],"post_folder":[151],"class_list":["post-22872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Elder-appointed-in-Lagos.jpg?fit=1280%2C955&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Vida Li Sik","author_link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/author\/vlsik\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phsvEw-5WU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3361,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/the-appointment-of-three-teachers-in-lagos-nigeria\/","url_meta":{"origin":22872,"position":0},"title":"Three Teachers Appointed in Lagos, Nigeria","author":"dtadmin","date":"August 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The church in Lagos appointed Fred George, Emmanuel Emeh, and Gilbert Kimeng as teachers to their ministry on Sunday, August 19.","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/three_teachers_africa-560x357-1.jpg?fit=560%2C357&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/three_teachers_africa-560x357-1.jpg?fit=560%2C357&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/three_teachers_africa-560x357-1.jpg?fit=560%2C357&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3827,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/togo-conference-and-weekend-of-baptisms\/","url_meta":{"origin":22872,"position":1},"title":"Togo Conference and Weekend of Baptisms","author":"dtadmin","date":"December 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"December\u00a013th to 15th 2019 will go down as important dates in the history of Eglise du Christ Internationale de Lom\u00e9. 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