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As part of its annual activities for the year, Daystar Christian Centre Lagos has held its ‘Love at Christmas’ event where several indigent persons and communities in Lagos and its environs benefited from the church’s food bank.

According to the church’s senior pastors, Sam and Nike Adeyemi, the annual event is part of the purposeful mandate of the church to ensure that “no member goes to bed hungry”.

“Our core hallmark is love, and we go all out to express it, in season and out of season. Jesus Christ modelled true love for us by giving Himself, and we also love others by giving at all times,” says Pastor Nike.

Every month, the benevolence unit of the Daystar Christian Centre coordinates the distribution of food items and medical support to indigent persons in the church and different communities. The Love at Christmas caps the church’s love outreach for the year, to ensure that no member of the church community goes hungry during the yuletide season.

A team of volunteers distributing gifts and food items to beneficiaries at the 2022 edition of the ‘Breakfast with Bros J’ event of Daystar Christian Centre.

The Christmas outreach took place across all the worship centres of the church at Oregun, Lekki, Ikorodu, Alimosho, and Badagry. The youth arm of the church, the Starhub, also had its version of the outreach. Together, all these reached hundreds of people across Lagos and its environs.

“Sequel to COVID-19, we have to comply with the crowd control rules of the Lagos State Government and do the food items distributions to specific beneficiaries through the districts, zones, and units of our church,” says Biodun Jagun, head of the benevolence unit of Daystar Christian Centre.

“In each gift pack, we have various food items that will ensure that all less privileged members have sufficient food to eat this season.”

In the same vein, the theatre/film unit of Daystar Christian Centre, known as the Reflexions, had the annual spectacular Christmas outreach tagged ‘Breakfast With Bros J’.

The unit members come together to reach out and celebrate Christmas with the needy across all races, ethnic backgrounds, and religions. This year, the unit reached out to about 3,500 persons with gift items such as clothes, shoes, raw foodstuff, cooked food, toys, school bags, and educational materials for kids.

One of the leaders of the small groups of the church, Eunice Amoo, affirmed that: “The difficult situation in the country makes this intervention of higher impact than can be imagined. This Love-at-Christmas is more organized and the crowd management tactics this year is highly commendable.”

Oladeji Olaniyi, one of the beneficiaries, noted that “as a person with visual impairment, I am most grateful for the excess love always expressed by the church to our community. I pray that the church will continue to grow in leaps and bounds”.

True to its mandate, Daystar Christian Centre continues to spread the gospel through giving and meeting the needs of people across various communities.

As the year winds down, the church is set to crossover into the New Year 2023 with remarkable praise and prophetic worship service.

In a special invitation message, one of the associate pastors, Boye Oloyede, noted that this year’s crossover service will hold from 6-9 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2022.

“Our New Year’s Eve service is a time we come together as a church family to thank and praise God, we share amazing testimonies, and our Senior Pastors, Sam & Nike Adeyemi will release the prophetic word for the new year and pray over our goals,” he said.

The New Year’s Eve service will be held at all the worship centres of the church across Lagos and streamed live on the official website and social media handles of the church.