The wife of the Olu of Warri, Olori Atuwatse 111 has admonished Nigerian children to always pray for those in positions of authority and also render help to those in need stressing that such pleases God.
The Warri Queen Consort gave the admonition at the royal palace on Thursday evening during a session with children between the ages of two and ten, to wrap up her birthday activities.
Aptly tagged ‘Storytime with Mama Iwere’, the session which featured the kids book and drama club had the objective of mind transformation through reading.
Palace sources disclosed that the plan for the initiative was to encourage and promote early literacy in children, to foster creativity through drama and dance. It also seeks to teach children Godly traits and help them truly connect with God’s love for them.
The highly entertaining and educative session saw participants listen with rapt attention while the Olori took the first story titled “Story of the young boy that tries to find God”.
The story focused on a young boy simply identified as Fredie who set out to find God by searching everywhere.
According to Olori, in the course of finding God, Fredie went into the bush hoping to meet God there but on the contrary, the young boy came across animals in the bush.
Olori explained further that the young boy also met a man identified as James who had no food to eat adding that the unrelenting Fredie offered James his lunch.
She said that while Fredie continued with his expedition, he met a lady called Ruth with ankle challenges.
Olori also said that Fredie met a wheelchair at the premises of a hospital stressing that with the usual magnanimity of the boy, he used it to wheel Ruth into the hospital for medical attention.
The Queen said that at the end of the day, the somehow disappointed Fredie told his mother the people he met and offered help in the course of finding God.
She said Fredie’s mother replied to her son that, though he may not have found God physically, rendering help to people in the course of finding God means that he has seen God.
At the end of the story, Olori Atuwatse III and the children shared ideas during the questions and answers session on how to help those around us.
Some of the ways the children suggested were sharing with others, rendering help to one another, praying for those in authority as well as teaching those who did not understand the ways of the Lord through evangelism, among others.
Olori Atuwatse III stated that the take-home lesson in the storyline was that, people should do good to one another.
She took instances from the Holy Bible where Jesus Christ told his disciples that truly, whatsoever they do for the least among their brothers and sisters, they did it for him.
Olori also urged the children to always be ready to render help to whoever they meet every day of their lives, pray for those in the authority as well as preach God to people, noting that such pleases God.
