[size=28pt]Pastor, Wife Dedicate First Child ---After 22 yrs Of Marriage[/size]
By AUDY EGBON
By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR


BENIN CITY – It was a celebration of breakthrough, patience and abiding faith in God at the weekend when the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of the House of Christ Church, Benin City, Pastor Joseph Eribo and his wife, Mercy dedicated to God the first child of their 22 years old marriage, Baby Eloghosa.


The venue of the event was the Imaguero College Hall, Sapele Road, Benin City at a special dedication and testimony service organised in their honour by the church.


Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Egberanmwen Odubu with his wife, Deaconess Endurance said the birth of Baby Eloghosa “is a clear message to all married couples not to cast away their confidence in God as he will surely grant them their heart’s desires”.


According to him, the couple remained steadfast and united, despite the many trying moments they must have had while hoping for the blessing from God, should serve as a lesson for everyone to learn from.


While congratulating the couple over the blessing, the Deputy Governor expressed optimism that more babies would be born into the family.


In his testimony before the congregation, Pastor Eribo said he was unwavering in his faith in God.


The birth of Baby Eloghosa (female), he said, was a fulfilment, within a year of God’s promise at different times to himself and his wife to bless them with children through normal and natural process.


Pastor (Mrs.) Eribo, on her part, disclosed that due to the delay in seeing to the fulfilment of God’s blessings, she had at various times had the intention of seeing to the end of their marriage.


While appreciating God for his love, she also commended her husband’s abiding faith in God: She thanked the family members and religious ministers who identified with them while they waited for the fulfilment of God’s promise.


The marriage of Pastor Joseph Eribo and his wife, Mercy was solemnized in 1987 by the presiding Archbishop of Church of God Mission, Archbishop Benson Idahosa of blessed memory.


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Congrats and Praise God.

Goodluck to them.
What in the world does god have to do with bearing kids?

Tudór:

Goodluck to them.
What in the world does god have to do with bearing kids?

everything.

wow 22 long years    This is truly an example of endurance, I cannot begin to imagine what they both (and esp the woman) went through. Thank God for blessing them after all this while. . . I doubt 90% of Nigerian marriages in a similar situation would have survived.

GEW:

everything.

Means your god is as incompetent and wickedas ever. . . . what happened to the poor kids born with genetic deformities?

Tudór:

Means your god is as incompetent and wickedas ever. . . . what happened to the poor kids born with genetic deformities?

tell if you have not seen twenty somethings giving birth to your kind of kids. where did you get the info that people have a disabled child?

you get sillier [i]is there a word like that[/i]? every time you write.