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Ghana Church Holds Chelsea Thanksgiving Service by Teewhy2: 4:52pm On Jun 06, 2017
A church in Ghana's capital, Accra, has held a thanksgiving service for Chelsea following its recent success in the Premier League.
Long-time Chelsea fan Pastor Azigiza encouraged people to come wearing football tops of their favourite team.
Standing behind a Chelsea cake on a stage made to look like a football pitch he said: "Chelsea, by the grace of God, came first."
He told the BBC he wanted to use the power of football to talk about God.
Azigiza also led the congregation in a verse of the Chelsea anthem Blue is the Colour.
The pastor, who at one time was a radio DJ, was also teasing his immediate boss at the Living Streams International Church, Reverend Dr Ebenezer Markwei, who is an Arsenal fan.
In his sermon, Pastor Markwei talked about "the good, the bad and the ugly of rivalry" suggesting that football fans should engage in friendly rivalry.
He said there was fellowship in rejoicing in others' successes, so when it is your turn others would do the same.
The one blemish in Chelsea's domestic season was that they lost the FA Cup Final - 2-1 to Arsenal.
But during the service Azigiza thanked God for Arsenal's victory "because it means that [Arsenal manager] Arsene Wenger will stay" and they cannot win the league with him, he said.
Fans of all teams were welcome to the service and Azigiza told the BBC that he wanted to defuse rivalry between supporters of different clubs.
Although, he added, they were reminded that Chelsea had just been crowned Premier League champions.
Chelsea won the Premier League in May with 93 points, seven ahead of their nearest rivals Tottenham.
The English Premier League has a large and passionate following in Ghana.
Research carried out by Twitter in 2015 suggested that Chelsea is the most popular side in Ghana and much of the rest of West Africa.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40164369

Re: Ghana Church Holds Chelsea Thanksgiving Service by Teewhy2: 4:55pm On Jun 06, 2017
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Re: Ghana Church Holds Chelsea Thanksgiving Service by Teewhy2: 4:55pm On Jun 06, 2017
Africans like taking things to the extreme, he suppose start holding thanksgiving service for winner of the Ghanaian league or African champions league. i hope the Pastor is a DIE HARD FAN of CHRIST as he is of Chelsea. so why is he putting on an Arsenal jersey, thank GOD Arsenal won the FA cup or else we for no hear word again for Africa.
Re: Ghana Church Holds Chelsea Thanksgiving Service by emmaokw(m): 5:02pm On Jun 06, 2017
if not that I'm a Chelsea fan, I would av said this is nonsense... but for now Up Chelsea, Up Blues

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