This is the abridged story of what is now leading me to leave all I have to pursue this crusade( Rehabilitation for the mentally disabled) on the fulcrum of my agonizing experience( on my son's ordeal: DADA DODONDAWA) to which I am assigning spiritual value. This would not be my first time as I gave up my job and voluntarily resigned from the Punch in 2000 ( after the successful launching of Governor Lam Adesina's biography) to found an ngo ( Movement on Non-Violence in Africa MENVIA) which mission was first , to give value-reorientation to the media ( being agent of social communication, well-equipped to make crisis PUBLIC as well as making PEACE PUBLIC. ) as a strategy to reaching the whole society effectively and efficiently.
No wonder why our ngo ( a joint initiative between Governor Lam Adesina and I ) organised the first inter-faith workshop for journalists in Nigeria.
To start with, my son, Emmanuel Fagbola ( referred to as Dada Dodondawa in the nonfiction creatively approached and now with university of Ilorin press ) would this weekend be discharged from Unilorin teaching hospital, Behavioural department) and it is my plan to first take him to the Redemption Camp for the salvation of his spirit, having received psychological salvation at the hospital.
I have already booked an accommodation there and hopefully, some pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God ( at the camp) would join me in prayers during the short period of our family retreat there. This is why I want to tap on your strong connection and membership of the church to introduce me to them.
Many people who knew the agonizing experiences I have gone through in the past three years (2019/2022) since his mental illness began, and seeing me giving up all other activities towards this crusade, are uncomfortably askance as to whyfore of the first priority I have accorded his case ( when I have other children five of whom have received university education to be proud of )
It may not have occurred to them that Jesus Christ, the true Shepherd ( on the highest scale) has shown us and practicalised same when He gave us His Glory and wore humanity to touch humanity. Going into the root of words itself, as a lover of languages, it occurred to me that even the word shepherd, (rooted from the word herdsman ,as both of them are of same cognate family) is not a lone ranger as far as herding sheep or shepherding congregation is concerned. The word :" herd" is a COLLECTION of cattle or sheep when all are TOGETHER as ONE. The herdsman ceases to bear his name the moment one is missing from his fold, herd.
This explains why I am only a father when I leave the rest children to do my best to ensure he gains Christ Jesus while pursuing my mission to commit proceeds from my new book now in the press to raising an endowment for the rehabilitation of the media generation, most of whom are drowned in the media bathroom of insanity of different colours.
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