The ViSIT to FulfilMent- a DAiRY oF tHe WeeKEnd in O2C!

Do you know what my joy was yesterday?

Even though I had other things on my mind as we journeyed back to lagos,i couldn't rule out the fulfilment and joy that i had i felt yesterday!!

It was seeing the faces of young guys and girls whom I have worked with months ago...who i have been privileged to lead for but a few moments stand doing such wonderful things without my input...

Saturday! After the breakfast with papi! 

I couldn't stomach the joy that bubbled forth on my heart as i watched O2C Expression unit minister so wonderfully about *love:the tie that binds*

.....i just grrrrrrrrrrrred!!!!.....

I was Immediately thrown into ecstatic moment of nostalgia.
Memories of times in rehearsal....shouting....ahan..have you forgotten your lines?...why are you late?....where is your script...?...you didn't come with a pen?....afisuuru....!!

How time flies!

It was the generation sunday of the part 2 students of my church, Oracles Christain centre ,O2C. Their generation was named AGAPATHÊ ALLELOUS meaning celebration and culture of Love...

I had travelled back home(thats what I call O2C) for this purpose and also for other purposes....

I haven't been in abeokuta since I left in April to prepared for NYSC orientation camp....even after I returned from camp i had been busy....

But as God has so ordered my steps, the time I had chosen to come had tallied with the agapathes generation sunday.

I didn't go alone..i travelled with my friend and companion, Xerxes.

Travelling with xerxes is fun....

The kind where you are offered *will you eat this?...will you eat that ?*...and we chatted all the way...

We came in late Friday evening. It was the best and only time we could have arrived on friday,he had been busy till 5pm.

I wanted to make a very quiet entrance into the community...and that was what I got!...

2 months..huh??...i have been away...

It was by far the longest i have been away from abeokuta all through my stay in school.

even when there was strike, i always found a way back in school except for one time...

I.T days at LUTH,idi-araba .Lagos.

I couldn't do anything about that one!

Travelling to Abeokuta for me is like journeying back to so many things at the same time.

Its like journey into the past....at the same time journeying into the present...(well,not exactly the present, maybe a little part of it).

It's a journey back into so much memories...some of it good,some of it not-so-good, but most part of it was GREAT!!...

Life began for me at Abeokuta!

As we got closer...even xerxes could perceive i was drifting off and on in conversation....

One thing reminded me of another....

I wanted to just be quiet....so I could contain all the emotions i felt at the same time.....

As I sighted the Al-jihad building that was in metro garden, i knew we were home!...

I only prayed to see no one....i wasn't ready to see anyone yet...i just wanted to feel the place where life had began for me....

My prayer could have been answered...because it was night!

But I still saw two or three church folks...Street choir was having their overnight rehearsal in church..

Papi was asleep!

Bugsy gave quite a warm welcome to xerxes and i....
I was very quiet......it was my way of savouring the atmosphere of home after a while....

I had the night to prepare myself emotionally for seeing the faces of others on Saturday.

*Don't fuss on it...or try to force it, Do as the occasion present itself!*..

Xerxes had said that in our way when I had asked how I would respond to seeing others....

And that was what I would do!!!

I always struggled with how to act or respond to people I hadn't seen in a while ....its even worse if I didn't share fondness with the person....

Papi was the first person I saw on Saturday...

And that was one beautiful moment....

Except for his constant gestures and comments on what I wore and how I looked....it made me quite uneasy....xerxes wasn't enjoying the thrill of it all...he just laughed!....

That man and laugh ter!!

I had worn the pink long flair gown that osaro had given me in Abuja...

And it was beautiful on me...Xerxes confirmed it!!!!! 

And papi wouldn't stop teasing as we walked around the community

Sister seraph!!!!!!!

Ahhhhh....ehhhhh.....

Sister seraph!!!

I had to greet-hug-greet-hug-hug-hug-greet-greet-hugso many people...mostly agapathes...i was even carried by a one or two at some time....

I was home!!!!

Picture this..

It was like our-sister-has-come-back-home kinda scene!....

The African magic film type of scene..

Lol....jusy kidding!

The Agapathes!!!

The agapathes had their breakfast with Papi and I attended....

Papi gave me quite an entrance appraisal when I came in....

I spent a part of the day with brothers and friends.....

.......Sunday service was a beautiful one...it was agapathes generation sunday.....

I saw almost everyone.....

My heart was warmed up as I watched those young kids take charge of the sunday...it was their sunday!!!

Paul Johnson was leading the generation....and boy!was i joyful to see Him very active....putting things together...

Talking to the agapathes...
Where is tosin arowosegbe going?

I had chosen him amidst the agapathes to lead them....and he was doing such a great job without my input....

I can't explain the joy i felt seeing him up on stage addressing everyone...

But my heart exploded when I saw the O2C Expression minister.

Aaaaaw!!!

I could have screamed.....

The unit was functioning without me...it wasn't just functioning,it was flying.....

I was moved!!! Impressed!!!

Despite the fear of how they would fair without me....

Creativity had been activated in them....

Expression wasn't seraph....

Expression had been activated in those kids.

The O2C Expression ministering!!
It's only 5 out of the bunch!!
They blew me away!

That moment in church for me was an unforgettable one...

To see folks I had worked with do so well in my absence....

My work had been done!...Their heart was home!!!...and they were doing much more than I expected.

It was great denial to let go off them when I left!....but am glad I did!  

I wouldnt sell the look i saw on ife olowoyeye 's face for a million dollar. She was so happy to see me in the congregation....i felt like a mother!

Nor would i sell the hearty hug and shout of my omotayo for a treat in paris...just amazing!...i felt liquid love...

Or the cocky goofiness of tosin arowosegbe...tee bracs.....

Or the joy and steadfastness i could see in both the agapathes and the O2C expression...

I was being paid right at that moment for those times I had spent with them...

My heart tasted something that felt like fulfilment...seeing those who me you have worked with making such wonderful progress.i as well as som others had been concerned about how they would be fair in my absence. 

L-R: omotayo adeyeye, oyeniyi oyekunle,fabamise dupe,
Tosin arowosegbe, ife olowoyeye 

I had loved them like my own...

i had prayed with them

And I trusted God with them....

And He(God) had given me so much joy in return.....

I had been paid in a currency of CONFIDENCE...JOY.....and a knowing that I HAD been a blessing to their lives.
For this and much more, i am grateful to God!

My days in Abeokuta has been a very fulfilling one.

God and those kids were my fulfilment......