Oshoffa’s 40th Memorial: $2,000,$1,500…Greater Tomorrow Group announces prize money for Bible quiz, choir competition winners

Forty years after the demise of the founder of the Celestial Church of Christ,Rev. SBJ Oshoffa, a youth organisation, Greater Tomorrow Group, is leaving no stone unturned to make his remembrance ceremony a grand event.

In a chat with Rifnote, the leader of the group, Brother Demola Bolaji, said this year’s event would be heralded by a press conference and would be followed by a string of events, including Bible quiz and music competition among Celestial Church choirs, adding that winners would get $1,500 and $2,000 respectively.

Earlier, Bolaji had in a Facebook post stated that there would be a 116-day testimony time in  honour of the good works of the founder of the church.

“ Papa Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa is 40 years in memorial this year and this house – Greater Tomorrow, BOLT(Bilewu Oshoffa Legacy Team in conjunction with True Word in Season platform have decided to come up with strategic programmes which will bless so many lives.One of it is juvenile musical concert and juvenile Bible quiz that is coming up May 23 and May 24 respectively. That is not changing. It is sacrosanct. The portal will be open, maybe next week. The first 20 parishes that will register will be qualified. You are not registering with money.

‘We are going on a 116-day testimony time. How did we come about 116 days? Papa was 76 years when he died and it is 40 years after his death. 76 + 40 is 116. It will begin from 18th May till 10th September. We are having 20 juvenile choirs and 20 adult choirs, separate times. It is an international competition( both Bible quiz and musical concert),” Bolaji explained.