{"id":3357,"date":"2018-09-09T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/2018\/09\/09\/paul-okolo-goes-home-to-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:09:13","slug":"paul-okolo-goes-home-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/paul-okolo-goes-home-to-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Okolo Goes Home to the Lord\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Our beloved brother in the Lord, evangelist Paul Okolo, peacefully passed away Thursday, September 6, 2018, after a long battle with renal failure. Paul was converted in his native Nigeria in 1992 and quickly grew in his passion to serve and sacrifice for the work of advancing the kingdom of God. In 1996, he was chosen to go to the Liberian refugee camp in Ghana and form a mission team to plant a church in Monrovia, Liberia, a country that was just coming out of a horrific 14-year civil war. Under his leadership, the Monrovia Church<\/a> grew quickly and today is a mature church of over 500 members. In 2002, Paul went to the neighboring Ivory Coast for further training. There he met and married Sabine and they continue serving, working in the full-time ministry and HOPE worldwide<\/i> respectively.

For the last nine years, Paul’s health steadily declined, yet he never wavered in his commitment to Christ, especially the preaching and teaching ministry. It was during this time that Paul was instrumental in the creation of Abidjan’s Bible and Ministry School, and he was appointed an evangelist in 2016.<\/p>

Sadly, after a long health battle with many complications, Paul’s suffering was such that the Lord decided to call him to rest. We would like to thank the entire family of the churches of Christ for your fasting, prayers, sacrifice, moral and financial support during Paul’s illness. Ecclesiastes 8:8 teaches us, “ There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death<\/i>.”<\/p>

For further information, please contact: Michael Koutouan at +225 22 42 11 00; +225 07 89 97 52; koutouan_michael@yahoo.fr or Julien Toyo at +225 06 16 86 33; julientoyo@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our beloved brother in the Lord, Evangelist Paul Okolo, peacefully passed away Thursday, September 6, 2018, after a long battle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3358,"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-3357","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\/2018\/09\/8a8c3ed4-9866-4939-9fe3-82d21606ca0f.dm_.edit_b7NQls-314x233-1.png?fit=314%2C233&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"dtadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/author\/dtadmin\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phsvEw-S9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5710,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/africa-item-8769-hero-in-the-faith-goes-to-the-lord\/","url_meta":{"origin":3357,"position":0},"title":"Hero in the Faith Goes to the Lord","author":"dtadmin","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Our beloved sister in the Lord, Odile Meviye, peacefully passed away Saturday, November 4th after a long battle with cancer.","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\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/82bed3e0-c9a5-4860-a87a-6a81ad4616b2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4803,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/top-stories-of-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":3357,"position":1},"title":"Top Stories of 2018","author":"dtadmin","date":"December 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We praise God for another year of miracles, and challenges he has led us through as a church family.","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\/12\/mexicocitychurchofchristlatinamericanschoolofmissions.png?fit=860%2C645&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mexicocitychurchofchristlatinamericanschoolofmissions.png?fit=860%2C645&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mexicocitychurchofchristlatinamericanschoolofmissions.png?fit=860%2C645&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mexicocitychurchofchristlatinamericanschoolofmissions.png?fit=860%2C645&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4421,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/memorial-information-for-luis-mendez\/","url_meta":{"origin":3357,"position":2},"title":"Memorial for Luis Mendez, Beloved Elder and Evangelist in San Diego","author":"dtadmin","date":"May 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"On behalf of the San Diego Church of Christ, we are saddened by the sudden passing of our dear brother Luis Mendez. 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