President hails Adeboye at 83, cleric shares parenting advice
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, congratulated the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, as clocked 83 years.
In a message by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President celebrated Adeboye’s enduring impact on millions of lives over the course of more than five decades.
“Pastor Adeboye’s teachings continue to shape lives across generations,” Tinubu noted, while also commending his contributions outside the pulpit, particularly in healthcare and education.
The President expressed gratitude for the “partnership Pastor Adeboye has fostered with Nigerians of all walks of life and prayed for his continued strength, good health, and divine guidance as he leads in the Lord’s vineyard.
Meanwhile, Adeboye has urged parents to be firm in parenting rather than leaving their children to be trained by the wild society.
Adeboye, who identified the fact that parenting had become more challenging due to the Internet, social media, and constantly evolving societal norms, said parents had a divine assignment to train their children in the “way of the Lord.”
The GO warned that parents run the risk of ruining the future of their children if they subscribed to the notion that the children should be left free to find their way in life.
Adeboye gave this admonition during the RCCG special monthly Thanksgiving service at the church’s headquarters in Ebutte Metta, Lagos.
“Parents, wake up! Train your children in the way of the Lord. If you allow them to do what they like, you are ruining your future. Be firm. Those parents who are highly sophisticated and highly educated would say that their children should be allowed to sow their wild oats when those children are doing wrong things that are only ruining their future,” he said.
The GO rendered special prayers for young adults, urging them to channel their energy towards positive ventures that would make them better persons.
They stressed that parents must be intentional in their prayers and teaching of their children for them to become responsible citizens.
Speaking further, Adeboye urged youths to be mindful of their actions as their past could affect them either in negative or positive ways.
Addressing newsmen in his office at the end of the service, Special Assistant to the General Overseer (Administration) and Pastor-in-Charge of Region 1, Dele Balogun, charged the youth to eschew the get-rich-quick syndrome prevailing among young people to the detriment of their future and destiny.
“We need to tell our young ones that cyber crime, prostitution, is not the pathway to greatness. If they are treading on that route, it will only cut their life short,” Balogun said.
