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Pastor George Akhigbe revels in victory along with HOG soccer team

House of Glory was invited to a “friendly match” tournament along with other local parishes by House of Praise, Baltimore, a sister parish that had their annual picnic on Saturday, July 25, 2009. The House of Glory team was comprised of members of the dynamic, all-inclusive Synergy group of the church. A group that has being showing great potential this year!
The first match was House of Glory (HOG) vs. House of Praise (HOP), where the HOG team proved its mettle by scoring two points against their opponents – one in each half. Each half lasting for about 25mins. Both goals were secured by Tobi Onibatedo, in an adept display of skill.

Two other sister parishes, Christ Villa and Holy Ground, battled each other, with Holy Ground coming out victorious. The winning team, now a mixed team, faced off with HOG, in a battle for the tournament trophy.
They started off by scoring a goal in the first half against HOG, but the HOG players quickly got their acts together and scored a goal, thanks to the combination work of Tobi Onibatedo and Orlando (our strikers). Orlando placed the ball beautifully into the “net”.
Within the last ten minutes of the game, HOG’s Tobi Onibatedo did what he does best, and once tucked in another goal, that inevitably sealed HOG championship position.

HOG Soccer Team

I think I speak for Synergy when I say that the Synergy Conference (which took place July 11, 2009 from 3-7pm) turned out to be a pretty fun event – even if we didn’t meet our goals of filling the church. Those that were there enjoyed themselves immensely. The Synergy Conference was part of HOG’s Family Empowerment weekend.

Highlights

The skit was massively hilarious. There are definitely budding talents in the HOG – Tobi and Muyiwa definitely took us by surprise with their drive. The skit was set in one of Nigeria’s many cities, and was filled with humor and a positive message, of course.

For intermissions, there were special music presentations by Mayowa (singing) and Onuan (singing/keyboard) and a slew of funny videos/ comedic sequences projected to the audience – these were definite ice-breakers.

The rest of the time was spent in lunch, a financial presentation, “Financially Secure & Satisfied”, by Onuan Akhigbe; sumptuous lunch, provided by the Synergy ladies, and the feature presentation, “Investing for a Profitable Future”, by Pastor Albert “TopMan” Tope-Ojo. This presentation was upbeat, fun, and extremely relevant to the audience (typically between the age ranges of 18-30yrs). See highlighted clip below…

Family Empowerment/ Synergy Conference playlist can be seen here.

The created Facebook event (in the past) can be seen on the House of Glory page.

More of such clips can be seen on HouseOfGloryTV, the church’s YouTube channel.

Synergy is an energetic, all-inclusive group in House of Glory typically comprised of individuals from the age of 18-30, with a mission to stir up positive trends, and be a force to reckon with in House of Glory, and the surrounding community

Rev. Adeniyi Daniel

On Sunday June 21, 2009, fathers were celebrated all over the United States, and like most churches in the nation, the day wasn’t any different for House of Glory. I guess you can chalk this under one of the qualities of being a growing church – it makes it very easy for gifts to be presented to tall the men/fathers in the house. Once again The Daughters of Zion stepped up to the plate.

[Daughters of Zion (DOZ), is the coined name for the Women’s Ministry of House of Glory.]

Rev. Adeniyi Daniel, one of the more frequent guest pastors on the House of Glory roster, was the speaker for the day, and like always captured the HOG audience with his doggedness and passion of things relating to fathers and children, family inheritances, and destiny alignment – mixing in, every now and then animated illustrations to drive his point home.

Through his ministration, once again we are reminded the importance of a name, and how parents should seek God in determining names for their children – when looking at the patriarchs and other examples in the bible, their names were usually linked to their destinies. Do you remember the story of Jabez? Depending on our names, its meanings or destiny, do we need to cry out a prayer similar to his?

1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (New International Version)

⁹ Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

¹⁰ Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

Rev. Daniel and Deac. Bassey demonstrate how Jacob came out the womb grasping at Esau's heel.

Do we need to be adamant like Jacob, who wrestled with an angel at night (while others were sleeping) and got his name changed?

Genesis 32 (King James Version)

²⁷And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

²⁸And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Bottom line, we should live our lives with purpose and wisdom. Fathers, be the best dad you can be – mothers be the best you can be, and finally children/youth aspire to be greater and achieve the most out of your potential as you possibly can – God willing.