DC's Healing Hearts

It was another glorious Divine Connection (DC) event as mature spinsters and bachelors gathered for "Healing Hearts".

Members of the Organising Committee were on hand at 8:15am to pray and commit the event into God's able hands and ensure that everything was ready for the guests. Our registration table staff were ready when the first guest arrived. Guests were required to sign in with their details and pick conference materials which included the programme, newsletters and our life changing book - What is wrong with us? Nuggets about mature singles.

In matters of the heart, it is unfortunate that most believers, who should know about time and season, turn up late. As such the programme which was scheduled to start at 9am began at 10am. We had to apologise to the Guest Speaker who was already sitted; of course she put the time to great use by acquainting herself with the environment and praying.

Due to the lateness in starting we couldn't follow the order of the programme and ended up skipping two items (Living Single and Resource Management). But, we made it up to those that arrived early and went the extra mile by giving gifts. The first male and female to arrive received our book - What is wrong with us? Nuggets about mature singles and travel mugs. The two Organising Committee members who posted the flier and information on Facebook got in addition to the book, bread and buscuit bins respectively and the two guests who attended based solely on their contact with the flier received stainless food flasks. At DC, we share knowledge, counsel and prayers to enrich lives.

The President of RCCG Throne of Grace Singles' Fellowship, Abel Adeniji, set the ball rolling with the opening prayer after which the Singles' Fellowship Choir led us in melodious high praise. The environment was saturated with grace.

The host of DC, Omolola Omoteso Famuyiwa, stepped forward to cause a stir in the audience as she went straight into the Gender Cross activity for the day. Two females and males were randomly selected and given a slip each. It turned out they were to role play as couples. The first male was to try and get a date from the female while she was to play hard to get. The second female was to try and get her male acquaintance to attend a family event while he was to play uninterested. It was obvious to all that "toasting" or "chiking" is never as easy as it seems especially because often times folks trying to get a date meet as strangers.

The first couple had a lot of goofs while the second couple proved that it is possible for a lady to initiate friendship even with a seemingly uninterested male. In all, it was a learning experience and the exciting applause commended it as such.

Thereafter, the Singles' Fellowship Choir took to the stage for their special song. The rendition turned out to be another high praise as the audience couldn't remain seated.

There was musical interlude during which guests were encouraged to meet and greet. O'boy! It wasn't as easy as we expected. Instead of gravitating towards opposite sex, males were meeting males and females were meeting females. The DC host used this opportunity to create an interactive session were some guests were called out to talk about guests of the opposite gender they have met. These made more guests warm up to folks of the opposite gender to interact. If we must enter into straight monogamous relationships, interaction with the opposite sex is just the starting point.

"Alone in the Crowd" is the title of the drama ministration by The Nehemiah Company, the drama group of RCCG Throne of Grace, led by Lekan Olorunkunle. It is the story of a woman who grew up with bitterness because as a girl she returned home from running errand for her rich dad one day to find her entire family wiped out by armed robbers' bullets. She survived by turning into the streets, accepting the offer of prostitution and other ills. She soon became pregnant and decided to end it all via suicide. The timely intervention of a friend who connected her divinely via a DC flier saved her perilous life. Attending the DC event gave her hope as members of DC showed her love and care beyond human understanding. They pointed her to the  God who saves and heals. Whao! The ministration hit a chord and set the tone for the rest of the programme.

Before Pastor Grace Okonrende, the Resident Pastor of RCCG Pavillion of Redemption, Texas-USA was called to the podium, there was a solemn moment during which guests took in the drama ministration while they listened to The Prayer Song by Celine Dion and Josh Groban. The lyrics of the song spoke to some guests as others wondered what was coming next during the interlude which took about 5 minutes. Ms. Famuyiwa took to the podium thereafter and asked what guests have been doing with the wait period in their lives. She explained that the wait period in our lives is not scheduled by God to make us waste away or wait aimlessly. We are expected to plan and utilise our wait periods prayerfully so these wait periods can actually become spring boards to purposeful living and divine connections.

The environment fully spiritually charged, Pastor Grace Okonrende's was invited to minister on the theme - Healing Hearts. Before she commenced, she invited Pastor Dele to minister in songs. Her ministration was soul lifting.  Pastor Grace thereafter spoke about why singles' hurt, and how they can find healing. She used examples from the Bible and drew scenarious from her previous ministrations. Her approach was simple, understandable and inspiring.

After her ministration, many joined in the prayer of proclamation, others came out for the altar call; some wept, some hung over but as God's healing hands touched them via the anointing of the minister, they returned to their seats cheerful.

The healing, interaction, networking and transforming event ended with participants singing the theme song "Let There Be Love Shared Amongst Us" after which we had the closing prayer and shared the benediction.

  

But of course it didn't end there! We had a lot to eat and drink - yummy cup cakes, delicious meatpies and choice drinks to go with it. This went on as more and more guests warmed up to each other for the purpose of purposeful networking.

The Guest Minister continued to minister to participants one-on-one and gave access to those who wish to have further ministration by sharing her contact details through the DC Host. From attendign to the calls and scheduling appointments; I can tell you that many guests took advantage of the access to this woman of God who always go the extra mile in her ministration. Some guests met with her at her RCCG Camp residence for deliverance an counselling sessions.

It was indeed a great event. I definitely look forward already to next years event. To know more about DC, contact the DC host or visit our DC Facebook Group page. We minister to mature singles and connect them to purpose and partner. As we say, we connect singles, but God connect hearts.