Cleric harps on importance of FATHERS DAY
The Senior Pastor of Family Worship Center, Pastor Sarah Omaku has stressed the significance of Fathers Day celebrated annually in One Hundred and Eleven Countries in the world in a sermon preached on her behalf by Rev. Christie Bature Ogbeifun on Sunday and beamed live from Abuja at Gomays Plaza Hotel, Atekong Drive in Calabar Cross River State.
The message titled “THE FOUR TYPES OF FATHERS in a family setting” referenced Proverbs 22:6 ‘Train up a child in the way he or she should go and when he or she is old will not depart from it’.
Omaku said that some fathers are inflicting pain on their children instead of father- hooding them and attributed the decadence in the society to the absence of fathers in the family because of work, distance, and other mundane reasons. She named the categories as Boundary Buster Dads, Emotional abandonment Dads who criticize every aspect of the family, and Shadow Dads who are in the habit of exhibiting aloofness resulting in a disconnect in family bonds.
Corroborating the discourse, the resident minister of Family Worship Center, Calabar, Pastor Peter Oko Ekaji cited the incidence of street children to high-handedness and crude discipline by fathers which manifest in physical or emotional abuse without love in the family. These abnormalities result in the rebellion of the child and the tendency to flee the home thus impacting the society with morally bankrupt children.
He sumed up the sermon by reminiscing that the celebration of fathers day emanates from the Catholic church and has been celebrated on March 19th globally as Saint Joseph’s day since the middle ages to commemorate Joseph the earthly father of Jesus Christ. He admonished children to show profound love to their fathers by honouring their vital roles in their lives.
By: Archibong Emmanuel
(Snr. Reporter)
