Brethen take you pick on the points raise below and let us know of your personal view

What is the actual impact of christainty in Nigeria today in real terms ?

How is it impacting the political life of Nigeria?

How is it impacting the ethical behaviors of the people in regards to business, community relations, family life as a whole?

Is it just another employment opportunity?

What contribution are the church making towards eradicating proverty ?

Where does all the billions of naira raised in these so call churches go?

Is there any regulatory body in Nigeria that audits the accounts of these churches ?

Abi na monkey dey work baboon dey chop


Please brethen elaborate on the above?

This is the example of one man, like the early Apostles, who followed Christ's teachings. Although not Nigerian, there are Nigerians like him though they may be very few.
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Millard Fuller: Compassionate life of the man who housed a million people
By Samuel Odia

After selling all he had and giving out the proceeds to the poor, Fuller, who, at one stage was the largest publisher of cookbooks in the United States, then took to a life of service to the lowly, starting the Christian house-building group Habitat for Humanity and later a similar organisation, The Fuller Centre for Housing. By the time he died recently at the age of 74, he had built more than 200,000 homes housing up to one million poor people in no fewer than 100 countries

ALREADY a self-made millionaire at 29, one young man named Millard Fuller did what very few people would do to save his home: he sold all he had and gave out the proceeds to the poor.

Not done yet, the man who, at one stage was the largest publisher of cookbooks in the United States, then took to a life of service to the lowly, such that by the time he died recently on February 3, 2009, at the age of 74, he had built more than 200,000 homes housing up to one million poor people in no fewer than 100 countries.

Saints are ordinarily known to be the preserve of the holy books, but in the context of the contemporary housing industry, the man Millard Fuller, who gave away his wealth to start the Christian house-building group Habitat for Humanity and later started a similar organization, The Fuller Centre for Housing, is rated as close to one as any man can be.

Born to a farming family in Lanett, Alabama, on January 3, 1935, Millard Fuller graduated from Auburn University in 1957 and enrolled in law school at the University of Alabama. Along with a fellow law student, Morris S. Dees Jr., he later became co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, where, in his own words, he also started a direct-mail business with the simple mission "to get rich."

The partners were making $15,000 a year before they even finished law school in 1960. After passing the bar, Mr. Fuller served in the Army and then returned to Alabama to open a law office with Dees. They also became publishers, starting with 'Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers' in 1963.

After two years, they stopped practicing law, becoming the largest publishers of cookbooks in the United States and by the age of 29, Mr. Fuller had become a millionaire.

But success brought along its own stress and tensions, particularly in his relationship with his wife, the former Linda Caldwell, whom he had married in 1959. At the peak of their travails, his wife left for New York and Mr. Fuller followed. After long discussions, they resolved their differences and decided to sell almost everything they owned and give away the proceeds to the poor.

In 1966, Mr. Fuller became a fundraiser for Tougaloo College, a small, church-funded and predominantly African-American school in Mississippi. He soon moved his family to Koinonia Farm, a 20-year-old multi-racial, religious commune in Americus and developed business plans for the group.

After some time, the Fullers travelled to Zaire now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in 1973. Mr. Fuller, as the Church of Christ 's Director of Development for the region, started a home-building program that built a total of 114 houses for local residents and raised money for prosthetic limbs and eyeglasses.

On their return to America in 1976, they founded Habitat for Humanity.

"We want to make shelter a matter of conscience," Mr. Fuller told the Chicago Tribune at the time. "We want to make it socially, politically, morally and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness."

Bsed in Americus, Ga., Habitat for Humanity has to date built more than 200,000 houses, housing more than a million people in 100 countries. Under Mr. Fuller's leadership, the organisation attracted thesupport of several prominent volunteers, notably former US President Jimmy Carter.

The Fuller Center for Housing, founded in 2005, raises money for the same purpose and is active in 24 states of America and 14 foreign countries including Nigeria.

Propelled by his strong Christian principles, Millard Fuller had developed a system of using donated money and material, and voluntary labour, to build homes for low-income families. The homes are sold without profit and buyers pay no interest.

Hundreds of thousands of families who lived in substandard housing and who did not earn enough to buy a home through conventional channels benefited from his policy of no-interest mortgages. Would-be homeowners had to make a small down payment and spend a certain number of hours building their home along with volunteers, in a concept Mr. Fuller called "sweat equity."

Fuller said his inspiration came from the Bible, starting with the injunction in Exodus 22:25 against charging interest to the poor. He spoke often of the "economics of Jesus" and insisted that providing shelter to all was "a matter of conscience." Indeed, the publication Christianity Today in 1999 called him "God's contractor."

Former President Jimmy Carter, in a statement called Fuller "one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known, He used his remarkable gifts as an entrepreneur for the benefit of millions of needy people around the world by providing them with decent housing.

"As the founder of Habitat for Humanity and later the Fuller Center, he was an inspiration to me, other members of our family and an untold number of volunteers who worked side-by-side under his leadership," Carter said.

Former President Bill Clinton has also volunteered on Habitat projects. When he presented Fuller with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America 's highest civilian honour in 1996, he said, "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Millard Fuller has literally revolutionized the concept of philanthropy."

In 2005, Millard and his wife, Linda, who co-founded The Fuller Center, were honored by former President George H.W. Bush and the Points of Light Foundation with a bronze medallion embedded in the Extra Mile volunteer pathway in Washington.

Mr. Fuller wrote numerous books about his experiences, including "Bokotola" (1977), "The Theology of the Hammer" (1994) and "A Simple, Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity" (1995).

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Fuller Center built a house in Shreveport, La., amongst others, for a mother and her daughters, one named Genesis, the other Serenity.

Mr. Fuller loved the religious connotations he saw in their names. "What will little Genesis become?" he asked at the time. "What will little Serenity become? We don't know, but we know one thing: if we give them a good place to live, they've got a better chance."

Millard Fuller is survived by his wife Linda as well as four children and eight grandchildren.

* Odia is of the Fuller Centre for Housing, Nigerial

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And the early missionaries to Nigeria were not very different from Fuller. They built schools, hospitals, vocational centres etc for subsidised fees and schorlarships.
Cannot say the same of today's churches though!

The Bible says thefore show Godly examples b4 unbelievers. It def. written if a Ch*
if u knw that politics wil not make u devote ur time to the service of God then quit.
Not because politics is evil or a sin, but because the Bible puts ; Do not follow multitude to do evil.