There are visions and plans to establish many homes and other things that would help the believers and Christian communities in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. The new plans we have include the following things:-
SCRIPTURE VERSES FOR OUR ACTIONS
PROV. 19:17
BANK DETAILS
Account Name: Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre
Bank UBA
Account Number: 1026536300
PLEDGE OF FAITHFULNESS:
+2348039348660, +2347069351921
+2348064197608, +2348107843029
LOCATION:
UGWLGA - 4 Elgigo Zone Asa Nnentu, Abia State.
ABSOUTH - 17 Amankalu Street Aba, Abia State.
EKET - 12 Editung Street Eket, Akwa Ibom State.
THE 40 MAJOR FOCUS OF COMPASSIONATE WOMEN ORPHANAGE CENTRE (COWOM)
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre (Cowom) is Christ oriented gospel organization with a total focus to man and his daily and steady betterment and with spiritual attention to mans total victory in all areas of his struggling, still there are issues, matters, cases, needs, mans problems, mans worries and man’s steady enemies from where we face 40 of them to tackle, to face and to majorly focus in order to bring man to the table of happiness, joy, freedom, peace, victory and comfort. It is based on these that the 40 major focus of Cowom emerged.
Below are the 40 major focus of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre (Cowom).
Helping the Poor Citizens:
One of the major focus of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is to be helping the poor citizens and making sure they survive and die not in their poverty conditions with godly focus in keeping the poor alive, alert and sound also.
To eradicate poverty and to lift the oppressed the less privileged people in our society is among the major business of the Cowom and what God called this organization for, with higher focus on the sponsorship of the less privileged people.
To comfort the confused and all broken hearted people is a great business of Cowom in order to preserve lives and to save souls and this is done by helping the needy and all those in pains due to poverty.
Widows are among the major focus of the Cowom and stand as the pointing objects and important persons to care for, in the programs and ministries of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre Nigeria Incorporated.
Feeding, keeping, training and sponsoring the orphans, abandoned children, motherless babies and other children with sad life stories in life constitute what make this organization real and alive today and remains as the major focus of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre.
Helping and feeding the poor, sponsoring the indigent students in higher Institutions and helping the fatherless students in their studies and paying the tuition fees of the poor students are among our targets.
To save life and to rescue souls are our major mandate from God. Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre sees it as a mandated business from God to care, cater, treat and to pay the medical bills of the accident victims and to assure them of God’s presence in their painful conditions.
The confused people, those who don’t know what next to do, due to poverty, those at their cross road, the jobless, the isolated and all those in fear of their tomorrows are in daily thoughts and plans of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre, while their welfare is the steady burden of Cowom in order to help them.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre has no other business than to please God and to do that which the almighty God commanded the Cowom to do and to go where God directs the organization to go. Cowom vows not to offend God, nor to displease the almighty but to obey Him and to live for Him.
To raise up the poor from the dust, to clothe the naked and to clear tears out from the eyes of all those that weep often and all those that live in sorrow, in dust and those poor naked people that lack what to eat, what to drink and clothes to wear. Cowom is called and created to help them and to make them happy.
The helpless people, the isolated people, the despised people and all those poor and misfortune people that live in sorrows, in mourning and in weeping due to their frequent life of pains and tears are the major focus of Cowom who also are the beneficiaries of the Cowom blessings and shall continue to be the beneficiaries.
God did not create anyone to be poor, be sick, be begging, be useless or be misfortune, but the devil or one earthly thing or the other must have been the cause of such ugly conditions and experiences. Cowom is called to make such misfortune people to become what God has in mind when he created them. This is done by sponsoring and empowering them to be busy and to be diligent in order to be rich and be successful in life.
One of our major targets is to restore the senses, feelings and the reasoning of the oppressed, the sick, the poor and the senses of the helpless and hopeless people to be normal and to be calmed in order to hear from God and to live for God. This is done by Cowom through special helps and assistances to the victims.
Our target, focus and mandate from the almighty God is to empower the widows, the poor, the needy, the hopeless people and the isolated ones in order to keep them busy, establish them and to make them be more useful, diligent and productive. This is done by giving them cash to start businesses.
To create business oriented people, zealous men and women, craft motivated people, diligent men and women, independent workers and self employed citizens is our vision on these men and women who were sometimes regarded as poor men and women, as idle men and women, as beggars and as helpless individuals in our land. This is only achieved by supporting and sponsoring them.
Our zeal and business include visiting the hospitals, encouraging the sick, paying the medical bills of the poor citizens in the hospitals who cannot afford nor can pay their hospital or medical bills in order to assure their good health, sound reasoning and strong activities as healthy people who were totally discharged from the hospital beds, from sick bed, from death and from fear and sorrow of poverty.
It is our vision, mission and action to make the less privileged people to compete with the more privileged people after our empowerment to the less privileged people in order to trade, sell, work and to be involved in the meaningful business of their choice which shall make them eat very well, live very well, dress very well, speak very well and act very well. This is only actualized through proper empowerment.
Our supreme task, mission and mandate include total application to make the less regarded persons, the isolated persons, the despised people, misfortune people, the poor people and all those at the lowest standards whose presence worth nothing before their neighbours, before their relations, to live, to survive, to be sustained and to be changed from such bad and ugly conditions. This is done by total rehabilitations, total treatment, total caring and total sponsorship, empowerment, and to caring to make them to live and to be successful.
The spiritual aspect of our business is to make the victims to know Jesus, to accept Jesus, to believe Jesus, to follow Jesus and to believe the gospel of our Lord Jesus that leads to salvation. This means a total Christianization of the victims who never believed the gospel and to teach them the Bible that shall expose them to salvation.
It is our steady desire to help the victims to be saved, to follow Jesus and to follow Jesus examples, to know the true and only one God to obey the Bible, to live for Christ, to confess Christ and to represent Jesus and to know the truth that leads total freedom and to the salvation of the sinner.
It is a task, mandate and obligation for us to lead our clients, the victims, the poor, the less privileged, the worthless people, despised people, helpless people and all the isolated people to total liberation including spiritual and social librations. They are all libration from sin, from curses, from demonic bondages, from poverty, from fears, from abuses of men, from all forms of worthlessness before men and from general pains.
One of the languages of poverty, victimization and the languages of misfortune is “I AM NOTHING” Ï AM NOBODY” and “I CAN DO NOTHING” Having known these, one of our strongest weapons is to restore confidence, restore feelings and to establish self-worth in the heart, soul, spirit, life and mind of the person under such captivity and to make them feel free in order to understand his worth before God, God’s evaluation and God’s estimation of the person .
It is our plan, view and goal to make all our clients who are the poor, weak, the sick, the helpless, less privileged and all the poor people who depended and relied on what others shall give them before they shall eat and drink, to be free, self dependent, self reliant and self freedom from depending on others. We make them to be productive, fruitful and self confident after being empowered and supported by Cowom.
Our goal is to impart on those that we help with positive ideas, with positive influence, with workable vision that shall make them to survive, to live, to stand and to score their life goals. We create vision into the lives and hearts of the discouraged, the weak, poor and the less privileged people which makes them to be reasonable, business oriented, zealous for good works, diligent in every undertaking and fruitful in every business, after empowering them, helping them and after sponsoring them.
Our empowerment and sponsorship programs to the poor yield positive fruits of making their lives of poverty to change to prosperity and their downtrodden situations to upliftment situations, while their tears change to cheers. These are the products of selfless and liberal services of Cowom to the poor citizens that made them to be later rich after positive utilization of the amount given to them.
Our prayers, works, plans, efforts and our missions are to achieve sound health and bright activities of the sick, the accident victims and the hospitalized people who have no money to pay for their treatments. We pay the total bills of such people and often pray for their good health, sound health and strong health as well in order to become healthy which is the will of God concerning them.
Our prayers, works, plans, missions, ministries and efforts are to help the victims, the poor, the helpless and the less privileged people to actualize and to achieve sound life and good life that shall accompany boldness and full assurances. It is our mission and vision to clear the medical bills and other treatments of the poor, the oppressed and the helpless that shall assure them of good health and sound life of positive activities.
What brings sound reasoning is sound mind and sound health that came as a result of freedom. Our target is to achieve total man of man and the very man in man that shall produce sound and clean reasoning. Our sponsorship to the stranded and less regarded people whose minds are weakened and derailed leading to negative thoughts and to deadly reasoning, but our touch and help to such people coupled with our Biblical instructions lead such people to sound reasoning and sound imaginations.
Most of the poor, less regarded people, less privileged people, the isolated and the helpless people have no house, no wife, no children and no base also, due to their higher level of poverty, hunger and higher level of inferiority that hindered their marriages and cause them to feel unworthy that lingered their long bachelorhood in poverty. Our contacts and help to this class of people lead them to positive steps, marriages that resulted to become fathers of children and husbands of wives beyond their expectation.
Most of the poor isolated ladies and less privilege ladies, the helpless ladies, the inferior ladies and less regarded female citizens are not married due to self despisement, inferiority complex, self condemnation and self pity which led them to dress casually, dress poorly, dress beggarly, dress dirty and appear worthlessly in public and in private places due to their poor conditions they see themselves resulting to their non regardedness, worthlessness, permanent spinsterhood and total failure in all their pursuits, but our touch, sponsorship, helps, supports, empowerments and Biblical indoctrination on self worth cleared them from all inferiority complex and all low estimate of self but lead them to better dressing, fine attires, good public appearances that projected good and worthy before men, that most of them are now wives and mothers to children. This is the Lords doing.
Our most important focus on the poor, the weak, the orphans, abandoned babies and the less privileged citizens is to make them “to know Jesus and to make Him known” which is summarized in worshipping the true God who created the heavens and the earth. It is a great task for us to help all that come around us to worship the true God.
While we support, assist, empower and help the poor, the less privileged, helpless and the sick, we also make them and lead them to be diligent, self supportive and wise in order to control the businesses of their choice. As a result of our help and encouragement to them. We also teach them all business ethics, vision and diligence that shall make them real and face their tomorrow.
Poverty, cashlessness, sickness, disregardedness, isolation, accidents, misfortunes and other painful conditions produce mourning, mental distress, anger, discomfort, uneasiness, anxiety, peacelessness, sleeplessness and other sicknesses or body distresses, but our mission to such people produce peace, healing, deliverance, freedom, relaxation COMFORT , hope, faith and good health to the former victims, because our empowerment to such people change their situation and their conditions.
Our supreme target on the empowered and helped poor people, sick people, less privileged people, the orphans, abandoned children, motherless and fatherless children and others with such incapacitations is to make them be highly productive, greatly fruitful, socially reasonable and practically diligent with visible evidences of feeding well, living well, dressing well, appearing well and reasoning well. We teach them to be busy, diligent, visionary and totally productive.
We are deeply involved in making the victims to be sound in reasoning, in action and in all businesses. We plant moral influence in them that make them and compel them to be good citizens, law abiding citizens and good people of God, of the church and of the society.
Total restoration involves physical healing social healing, spiritual healing, psychological healing and mental healing that shall bring the man to whom God created him to become, where God called him to stay and what God called him to do, coupled with how God wants him to appear which shall result to man’s wholeness producing great confidence, therefore our empowerment to man generates self confidence and wholesomeness.
Empowerment and restoration of Cowom brings man to freedom from inferiority complex, freedom from fear, freedom from self bondage, freedom from pains of poverty and effects of hunger and hardship that took man to exile of loneliness, isolation and self separation, but our help and empowerment to man shall restore man and fix him to association with great people and deep relationship with those that matter.
It is our great joy and happiness to lead all former victims to true devotional life involving prayers, praises and deep Bible studies and these shall stand as our great achievement that connects the former victims with his creator.
Our undeniable vision and unshifted focus is to bring all we are helping to the true knowledge of God, true faith that accompany righteousness, faithfulness and steady fellowship with the people of God, to avoid the attacks and tricks of Satan. There is a need for every believer to belong to a real place of worship and fellowship centre where he hears the word of God.
One of our unforgettable focus, targets and mandates is making man to be reasonable, sensible, dutiful, diligent and to understand his obligations, mandatory services and to occupy his positions in his family, in his church, in his community, in the society and in the government and to be useful to his generation with unmeltable footprints. These are the dividends of our empowerment to him.
40 BENFITS AND GAINS OF THE FORMER VICTIMS OF POVERTY, HUNGER, MISFORTUNES AND ALL THE HELPLESSNESS, AFTER BEING CARED AND HELPED BY COWOM.
There are benefits, profits, gains and other blessings for the orphans, abandoned children, motherless babies, the fatherless, poor citizens, accident victims, helpless people, the destitute, less privileged people and all misfortune citizens after helping them, sponsoring them, keeping them, feeding them, supporting them and caring for them in our humanitarian home and in our charitable organization in Nigeria, Their benefits and blessings after passing through our charitable centres and great humanitarian organizations in our country. They have numerous blessings that are observable by the public. Their benefits include social benefits, spiritual benefits, financial benefits, economic benefits, material benefits, psychological benefits and other benefits not mentioned above.
Below are some of the observable benefits of the former victims who benefited from our humanitarian organizations:-
THE SCRIPTURAL PERSUATION OF OUR VISION AND MISSION
What do we mean by the scriptural persuasion of our vision and mission? This simply refers to why we are doing what we are doing and how our vision conviction, mission and action come from the scriptures, the word of God. We are doing all we are doing because they are scriptural based, they are instructions and persuasions from God who mandated us, directed us, persuaded us and guided us for humanitarian services. Below are God’s instruction in each of the works we do and all the service we render.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (visiting the widows and orphans).
Remember oh lord, what is come upon us (the orphans), consider and behold our reproach, our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, We are ORPHANS and fatherless, our mothers are widows, we have drunken our water for money, our woods is sold unto us (we are oppressed), We labour and have no rest.
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child, if thou afflict them in any wise and they cry unto me, I shall surely hear their cry and mu wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with sword and your wives shall become widows and your children become fatherless. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their afflictions. The Lord preserveth the strangers, he relieveth the fatherless and the widows, but the way of the wicked, he turned upside down.
Then, shall the king say unto them on the right side come ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, for I was hungry you gave me food, was thirsty you gave me drink, and was a stranger you took me in and was naked and you clothed me, and was sick and you visited me and was in prison and ye came unto me, then shall the righteous say unto him, Lord when saw we thee hungry and fed thee or the thirsty and gave thee drink, when saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee or saw thee sick and in prison and came unto thee? And the king shall say unto them, verily I say unto thee, in as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
Lo, children are the heritage of the lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. And Jesus called a little child and set him in the midst of them, And Jesus said, verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become like the little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, whosoever therefore shall humble himself like this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believeth in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the dept of the sea.
Whosoever mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker, and he that is glad at the calamities of the poor shall not be unpunished, children’s children are the crown of the old menm and the glory of children are their fathers Deut. 15:11, for the poor shall never case out of the land, therefore, I command you saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto they poor brother, to thy poor and to thy needy in thy land.
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days, give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. Eccl. 11:4-6. He that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the cloud shall not reap. As thou knoweth not what is the ways of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so, thou knowest not the works of God that maketh all. In the morning sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thy, for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that or whether both of them shall be alike good, therefore sow your seed (Give your help and supports).
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Withhold not correction from a child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. The rod and the reproof give wisdom but a child left to himself (without teaching) beingeth shame to his mother. The father of the righteous child shall greatly rejoice and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Then were there brought unto Him little children, that He should put His hand on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them, and Jesus said unto them suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven and he laid hands on them and departed thence.
And whatever ye do, do it heartily (free giving) as unto the Lord and not unto men (the needy), but as done to God, knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessings of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.
But this I say, but he which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully every man according as he prospereth in his heart so let him GIVE and not grudgingly or of or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful GIVER and God is able to make all grace abound towards you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound in every good work.
And Jesus said unto his disciples, give them to eat; Give every needy that request from you and whoever asketh of your goods never demand such back from the needy. This group of rough children need helps, caring, teaching, Bibles and the truth in their lives.
If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren, within any of your gates in the land which the lord thy God giveth you, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother, But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and must surely lend sufficiently for his needs in that which he wanted. He that hath pity on the poor lent to the Lord and that which he hath given shalt the Lord pay him back again. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their afflictions.
But whosoever hath this world’s good and seeth his brother hath needs and shuteth his bowels of compassion from him, how then dwelth the love of God in him. My little children let us not love in WORDs, neither in tongue but indeed and in truth, and hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him. For the poor shall never cease out of the land, therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thy hands wide unto thy poor brother, to thy poor brother and to thy needy in they land.
And Jesus answered and said, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead. Any by chance there came a certain priest that way, and when he saw the wounded man, passed on the other side, likewise a levite when he saw the wounded man also passed by the other side, but a certain Samaritan as he journeyed, came where the man was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an Inn and took care of him and the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto them, whatever thou spendeth more, when I came again, I will repay thee. Thinkest thou was a neighbor unto the wounded man that fell among the thieves? And they said, he that showeth mercy unto the man, And Jesus said Go and do thou like wise to others.
In the morning sow thy seed, in the evening withhold not thy hand for thou knowest not, whether shall prosper, either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good. Give to him that asketh thee and from whom that shall borrow of thee turn not thou away. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, in honour preferring one another.
And Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. Col. 3:23, 24, And for whatever you do, do it heartily as unto the Lord and not as unto men, knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHILDREN EDUCATION IN COMPASSIONATE WOMEN ORPHANAGE CENTRE (COWOM).
Education, Discipline and Training of the children, the orphans, abandoned children, motherless children, fatherless infants disabled children and education of children with sad stories of life are among the visions, missions, mandates and the concerns of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre. Apart from feeding, housing, caring and protecting the orphans, abandoned children and other children with sad stories of life, Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre has other methods, means and different systems to train, educate and to groom the children in its orphanage home with deepest aim of making them reasonable, sensible, capable and to be the best of their types and to fully become the person God created them to become.
Below are other godly systems, methods and means to build, equip, train and to educate the children in Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre. Here are such approved systems of Christian education in Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre for children.
Bible Education in this sense and in ecclesiastical view is to teach children all about Bible stories, Bible events, Bible Heros and Bible teachings and helping them to understand and to believe the Bible as the WORD OF GOD and to teach them the main character of the entire Bible, who is JESUS and what HE CAME INTO THE WORLD FOR. The foundation of the Bible education for the children is to help them to believe and to have the primary faith in Jesus Christ the son of God who died at Calvary, buried and resurrected after three days, whose blood was shed for the atonement of our sins.
Here Christian education means the hope faith, practice and rituals of the Christian world! Why do Christians baptize the converts? Why do Christians eat the Lord’s supper (Holy Communion)? Why do the Christians worship on Sundays? What is Easter Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas? Why do the Christians pray in Jesus name? What is the Bible and who wrote it? Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre has it as divine mandate and unshiftable obligation to educate the children on the total Christian conduct which they shall not depart from, when they grow old. Christian is a wide range of education aiming at making the children to fully become Christian believers in Jesus Christ our Lord. The above idea is our target in Christian education.
This education has to do with repentance, faith, forgiveness of God, Salvation of God, Childhood of the saved believer, regeneration (new birth), Peace with God, Peace with men, divine adoption and divine justification. It is spiritual education that also unveils the doctrines of heaven and hell fire, doctrines of demons and evil spirits, the rapture, life after death and the second coming of Christ. The children shall be taught and thoroughly be educated on spiritual matters that shall build their faith in Christ Jesus. The spiritual education for the children teaches them the dangers of sins and the benefits of righteousness and helps them to understand the necessity of confession of sins. This level of education is bible based and life changing.
In public and secular education, we mean where the children shall learn A, B, C, D or 1, 2, 3, 4. It is where the children shall learn words and figures, alphabets and numbers and interact with other children from different areas and from different families and listen to different teachers and different leaders for the betterment of the children. The secular or public schools Nursery school, Primary and secondary school. This idea is the vision of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre to build the children and to make them be secularly and publicly sound, great and bold to the glory of God. The children through this school and this system of education shall learn how to read and how to write also.
The domestic education among the orphans, motherless children and among the abandoned children is the system where these children shall be taught and truly trained on how to cook, how to sweep, how to wash their clothes, how to wash plates, cubs and puts and how to really manage homes, manage kitchens and manage self, such as the parents can teach their children to know and to understand other domestic businesses at homes. This type of education is the beginning of African child and the birth of usefulness in the African child. This is among the visions and targets of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre for the children in its orphanage home.
Social Education is an indoctrination of children to make them be sociable, friendly, associable, communicable and to involve them in the community of men, community of peer groups and community of other people. It is the system or method that make the children to belong and to assure them of the love and acceptance of others. It is an education that assures the children that they are free, good, loved and are accepted by others and help them also to join other groups and other arms in the churches, communities or in the society. This system of education is a tool to loose the children from the chains of fear, shyness, inferiority complex and from self isolation and fear of men and women. This is the system to help the children belong to the society and have ideas of the social happenings also.
This system of education may be different from the secular idea of health education. This system of education is to help the children to understand that God is our healer, that Jesus died for our healing, that both prayers and medicines are God’s instruments of healing and deliverance from sickness. This system of education also help the children to understand and report the symptoms of malaria, fever, headache and how to report such to orphanage authority for medical treatment, for preparation to reach the hospital for doctors consultation, for prayers and for first aid approach. The Health education in Cowom include thorough teaching on neatness, cleanliness, environmental sanitation, both neatness of proper washing of hands, teeth, plates and other things that can prevent germs into persons body. This is also a deep education on hygiene or cleanliness that can motivate good health and fight minor sickness and diseases around the children in the orphanage home.
Ecclesiastical education is the teachings and indoctrinations to the orphans, abandoned children, motherless and fatherless children and other children with sad life stories in order to become Christians, choose church of their own membership, belong to specific church denomination and always taking to church services and to see the church as the body of Christ, home for the weak, a place of worship and a place of prayers and comfort. This is the means through which Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre directs the children to understand and accept the Christian faith and confession and be saturated with church influence, church ideas, church confession and with the church spiritual systems, standards and methods. These therefore call for church membership and the necessity of being church members as the children begin to grow to their adulthood in the society.
The Moral Education in Cowom administration is thorough teachings and guidelines on moral life, good behaviour and hatred to sin and to misbehaviours. It is educational system that emphasizes on spirituality, moral standards, good behaviours, clean life, righteousness, hatred to unclean life activities. It is an education that tells the children “Do not steal, Do not cheat, Do not fornicate, Do not kill, Do not hate, Do not speak lies, Do not fight, Do not take alcoholic drinks, Do not join evil group and bad friends, Do not bear false witness against people, but be good person, be gentle, righteous, humble, truthful, sincere, faithful, lover and be heavenly conscious Christian on earth”. Moral Education is a means to make the orphans and other children in the orphanage home to be reasonable, good and responsible citizens as they grow. Moral education brings the children to have faith, behave well and be possessed with good characters and sound reasoning as they grow.
This is also called and known as skill development that deals with the children’s potential development and means to help them be more useful in the society. This is a system that trains the children in one good skill or the other, such as tailoring (sewing), automobile mechanic, electrical and electronics repairs, painting, Building engineering, Metal construction, artistic drawing, graphic business and other skills that the children may desire as their best choice in life. This is properly known as the skill acquisition education or skill acquisition department of the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre. This is the system or method used by Cowom to make the orphanage children to be useful, reasonable, sensible, diligent, mindful and godly domestic in order to contribute to the society, to the government, to their villages, communities and majorly to their own families and to plan ahead for their steady success.
Talent Education is quite different from skill acquisition and different from skill education as was discussed above. Talent education is more of spiritual hidden and undiscovered in man, thus talent education is to discover, excavate and uproot the hidden talent in a child and seek the possible means to upgrade it and to use it. Talent Education is to bring out the children natural talents and what God created each child to become through such talent which our orphanage home shall help to make it manifest or to be real in order to bless others in future as the children grow. These talents can be power to become judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers, soldiers, technicians, traders, administrators, leaders, managers, counselors, Planners, peace makers and other hidden talents in the children and seek for the possible means to help the children acquire such hidden talents in their lives. These hidden talents were what God saw in Moses, in Joshua, in David and in other Bible heroes before HE chose them and make such talents benefited others. Children in Cowom are often examined to know their talents in order to seek ways to help them develop such talents as well.
The psychological Education to children in this sense is not to teach psychology to children but a different issue all together. Psychological education in this sense is to teach the children on how to take care of their fears, control their anger, their emotions and shall be guided on how to conquer their inferiority complex, defeat their shyness and their self made slavery. The psychological education is a means through which the children are helped to understand that they are good citizens, that they are not cursed, not slaves, not inferior and not rejected by God, nor by men, but are also respected and honoured by people and loved by God and to assure them that God shall take care of their needs, this therefore brings joy and freedom to the children in our orphanage home.
Personal and Relational Education is the teaching method which the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre uses to help the children to know how to relate with others, be a friendly, be associable and also create deep rapport between each of the children and with other people, with the society, with the church, with Christians and with the gospel ministers. This is the means through which the Cowom heals the orphanage children from fear, discouragement, isolation and from weak thoughts of failures. This is an important means to make the children to be free in their minds and to have the sense of belongings, sense of being loved and power to associate with others freely.
This education has to do with diligent and the necessity of being busy and shun all forms of idleness, laziness and carelessness and become diligent in business, in craft work or in whatever one is engaged in. This area of education deals on the blessings of God through ones business and craft work or through one’s occupation. The children in our orphanage home through this chapter are taught on how to be busy, the necessity of being occupied in meaningful business, the necessity of being diligent and the necessity of being busy, have vision, set goals and have plans for future success in their lives which shall help them and also become a great blessing and benefits to others.
This education fights against idleness, laziness, stealing, cheating, duping, bad business and all forms of getting rich through bad methods and evil practices.
The Physical Education to the children in our orphanage home is a means to train the children in the physical exercise such as jumping, running, playing, joking and other body exercise that can make the children strong and healthy. It is also a practical means to develop and to train their talents and hidden potentials. This is an available strategy to train the children, make them to be strong and physically fit for any labourous work in future as they grow to adulthood. It is an education of power and of physical fitness of the children.
Vision Education or Vision Development is to discover the business, gift, mission, ministry, work, profession and the work which each of the children likes most and what and who each of the children in the orphanage home desires to be, wants to be, plans to be, prays to become and running to become in future as they grow. Each of the children like other children speaks or emphasizes on what she or he shall like to be in future. Some say “I shall be doctor, a nurse, a teacher, a lawyer, engineer, electrician, business man, business woman, administrator etc. This idea is built in the heart and spirit of every child under the sun even those in the orphanage homes, thus, we plan ways to make their dreams actualized and also be materialized through our special training to them and to train such dreams to grow with them in order to actualize all and become whom God created them to become and to achieve.
This is a special teaching to the orphans, abandoned children, to the motherless and fatherless children, to the deformed and disabled children in the orphanage home in order to make them understand that God loves them, that God knows them even when they were in their mother’s womb, that God created them for a purpose, that each of them was born to achieve one thing or the other in our society, that they are never inferior citizens, never neglected citizens and never second hand citizen and can never be ignored by God their maker. This is an education that makes the children to relax, to see and to realize their self worth and to believe that God has plan for each of them. This idea has always built the faith, hope, mind, sense and the idea of the children to believe God and to stand for God and continue believing that their tomorrows shall be better than their yesterday and better than their today, believing that they are great and good as others in our society.
Food and diet education to children in the orphanage home is special lesson for the orphans, abandoned children, motherless and fatherless children and other children with unfortunate life stories on earth. This level of education tells the children how to eat , what to eat, when to eat and what not to eat, dangers of dirty foods, dangers of dirty cups, dirty puts, dirty plates and dirty containers in the kitchen. This course goes further to reveal how to prepare snacks, Diets, local foods and other domestic edibles of the Africans. It is a teaching that controls when the children shall eat, how they shall eat and what they should not eat and time they should not eat to avoid stomach reactions and pains.
Management Education to these children in the orphanage home is solely refereed to domestic issues which include when to wash their shirts, dresses and clothes, how to dress their beds, how to spread their washed clothes, where to keep their clothes, where and how to keep the cups, spoons, puts, plates and how or where to keep each of the domestic property. Such education goes further to how and when to sweep the floor, how and when to wash the bathroom and the toilet. How to keep the table, chairs and cushions in order and how to set in order all domestic property in order to make the sitting room, bedroom and other rooms in the flat to look very nice, clean and always neat to attract visitors and other family members. This area of teaching is the fore runner of preparing the children on their future homes and on building them on whom they shall soon become in future.
Character Education to the orphans and other children without parents is a lesson to fill the gap of the parents to the children. It is a training that can build, shape, organize and direct the children on the way they should go and how they should behave, act and respond to people in public and in private places. It is a lesson for the children on how to greet people, how to receive people, how to respond to people, hoe to befriend people, how to accept people and how to dress the seat for visitors in the house. This lesson is character moulding lesson and character building lesson that shall make children to be good citizens and responsible people in future as they grow. This also include how to arrange parlour for visitors to sit.
Family Education is a thorough teaching to the orphans, abandoned children, motherless and fatherless children and other children in the orphanage home who never known nor seen their parents, nor ever had parental caring. This lesson is on the ethics of family relationship. System of family relationship, What the father does to his children, what the children owe their parents, what the mother owes her children, the relationship between siblings, brothers and sisters at home and how the family is being managed, the duties of the father, the duties of the mother, the duties of the children, the role of the first son, the role of the first daughter and need for family unity. This level of education is created to help the orphanage children to really understand fully what they did not experience where they were born, hence they did not meet parents or any family system as shown above.
Cultural Education to children in Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is fully hanged on the proper education, information and indoctrination to the orphans, abandoned children, fatherless and motherless children on the principles of life, ethics of public behaviour, the peoples culture and their philosophy, how to live, the way and methods of our people, how we live, how our people set their goals, how our people score their goals and our people’s general ways of living including our peoples own philosophy of life. The dos and don’ts of our people in comparison to Christianity our own faith.
We have many religions on earth with different ideas and different confessions. We are not really introducing religion or teaching religion here, but religious education in Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is based on how the children in our orphanage home should obey God’s word adhere to the worship of the only true God through Jesus Christ, the son of God. Religious education in Cowom is a condition and action to help the orphanage children to understand good and bad, heaven and hell, life and death and to understand the common principles of life as they are related to religious especially the full belief of the Christian community on earth.
Natural Education is as natural as it sounds. It is a natural disciple and training of children by the ancient African parents, especially the Igbo (Hebrews) tribe in Nigeria. This system of education or training does with adages, stories and proverbs. The stories may be traditional myth, oral tradition, current story or Bible story all with the aim to make the children better. The natural training in Igbo land for an example passes through stories, adages and proverbs which is also interpreted to the children back by lively illustrations and practical teaching of heart touching to the children. This type of cultural education also known as home training is hardly forgotten by the recipients even when they grow old. It is commonly known in Igboland as “WHAT MY FATHER TOLD ME”/ Every Igboman had this type of training from his father, no matter where he is brought up.
National Education here refers to what a nation, a people, tribe or ethnic group do, what they do to survive, their occupation, trade and their systems of agriculture, farming and businesses. In Igbo part of Nigeria, the emphasis are on palm produce, yams, cassava and on domestic trees. The children in Compassionate home in order to make them sensible, reasonable, business oriented and diligent with focus to becoming productive in all areas of local businesses as they grow to adulthood.
The children in our orphanage home are trained and educated in our traditional system void of sins and void of deception but based on the truth, still with the oldest foundation of godliness and Bible based. Our tradition is Bible based tradition, the scriptural tradition that emphasizes the word listed below:-
Children are trained in Bible tradition in order to make them to obey and fear God.
Why are these children trained and what are the purposes of sending them to public and secular schools? The children in Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre to secular and public school in other to achieve their visions and to be like others. We discovered among them, many lawyers, many professors, many managers, many engineers, many Directors, many rulers, many leaders and senators who can contribute greatly if properly trained and properly cared for. That is the reason we pay more attention to them and to make sure they become whom God created them to become and to achieve all that God destined them to become and to achieve all that God destined them to possess and to reach, thus, these and others become our specific philosophy of education.
The Anthropology of Education in the classes of these little children on our orphanage simply refers to the home and domestic teaching to the children on how to survive in our various communities. It is an introduction and education to the orphans and the abandoned children on how our people survive and what our people do to survive, our people’s means of survival, the trading system, farming system, fishing system, business system, character, behaviour and our people’s method of reasoning. All these shall be planted on the children in our orphanage home with sense of making them to become good citizens and self dependable citizens as they grow. This type of education shall make the children to hate all forms of stealing, covetousness, envy, idleness, laziness, cheating and all forms of avarice in their lives as they grow to adulthood and face real life.
African Traditional Education is a necessity to the African child, especially African child of nowadays and those of the current society. African Education is a system or condition where and when African thoughts, tradition, cultures and total philosophy are taught to the children in the orphanage centre and the purpose of such teaching is to make the African child to have the sense of belonging and to understand where he came from and who really he is.
Character Education in our Compassionate Orphanage home is very essential and demands steady attention of all the children. It is a lesson of hope and motivation to the orphans, abandoned children, fatherless and motherless children and strong faith to other children with sad life stories. The character studies, otherwise known as Character education has to do with the life characters and roles of the Bible heroes who in one way or the other faced what these children are facing today. These heroes include these listed below:-
JESUS REGARD AND DEFINITE INVITATION TO CHILDREN
Matt. 19:13, 14, 15. And there were brought unto Him, the little children, that He should put His hand on them and pray, but His disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, suffer the little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven, And He laid His hand on them and prayed for them.
Lk. 18:15, 16, 17. And they brought unto Him infants, tht He would touch them, but when His disciples saw it, they rebuked them, but Jesus called them unto Him and said, suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kibgdom of God. Verily I say unto you, whosoever that cannot receive the kingdom of God as the little children shall in no wise enter therein.
Jesus has great regard for the little children and place them as His first priority in His ministry and in His primary blessing to families and in the society at large. Jesus in His earthly ministry frequently blessed the little children and often invited them to come to Him. Jesus is presently inviting the little children and still need them for fatherly blessings and fatherly touching. Jesus steady request were “Bring the children to me and forbid them not to come to me Matt. 19:13-15, Lk. 18:15-17. The question comes, who shall bring these children to God and how shall these children met Christ who need them? This is where the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre plays a key role in bringing the children to Christ, for His salvation, protection and for His blessings. There is greater need now to help, care, protect and to train these little helpless children in our society who have no parents, no helpers and no sponsors, who can become leaders, officers, managers and good citizen in our country if they are cared for and helped also.
Watch in our streets, major roads, junctions and at times around market places, where the children of the destitute, poor citizens and the children of mad men and mad women roam about, begging and also stealing with higher profile of criminal activities because no one cares to train them.
Watch out to see the increase of stealing, increase of crimes, increase of destructions and increase of lawlessness in our society due to the activities of these parentless and uncultured children of the mad mothers and those of the harlots that were abandoned who became great criminals due to the absence of the caring parents and the absence of mentorship. You can see the great increase of motor accidents, destruction, fighting and other murderous activities in our society caused by uncultured, untrained, unparented and unmentored people who saw themselves in urban cities without any trace of origin or any identity of citizenship. These are the criminals that disturb our land nowadays due to the negligence of good citizen to their future in the days of their infancy.
Today there is great increase of stealing, touting, drunkenness, lawlessness, murderous activities, immoralities, disobedient to God. to elders and disobedient to the government authorities by these uncultured and unparented children who have filled our society and causing different types of problems, troubles, crises and other dangerous activities in our society due to lack of true guide and no leader, no father, no mother and no care taker or counselor to their lives and souls.
Our society is greatly affected by the activities of roughians, criminals and destroyers of lives due to their great in-taking of hard drugs, alcoholic drugs and other dangerous beverages which presently produced killings, motor accidents, armed robbery, kidnapping and other harmful activities due to lack of training, lack of parental guide, lack of home culture, lack of education and lack of domestic impartation by good spirited individuals around them or lack of proper indoctrination by the church or any charitable organization around. These children who are wandering and roaming our cities shall tomorrow become the wild criminals that shall disturb our people if nobody cares.
We have seen and recorded different crimes, murderous activities, fire outbreak in the markets and in commercial buildings, destruction of properties, killing of innocent citizens, public hostility, armed robbery, rough activities in our society that were done by unknown and by unnoticed individuals, still not done by spirits but by human beings, who are those? These evil acts are the handworks of criminals, majorly the children of mad ladies, abandoned children, unparented and undomesticated elements who were not sheltered and cultured at their infant ages who later become criminals without any home address nor any means of contacts, hence most of them are living and hiding in the bushes, forests, uncompleted buildings, under flyovers, inside abandoned houses, in open shades and inside a hidden environment. These people became criminals because nobody cared for them, nor trained them neither was attention given to their infant years, thus they grew to become criminals in our society, thus we call for the rescue of the children that shall tomorrow become good citizens and shall become useful to the society and to the government. Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is calling all to support in order to make the orphanage children useful.
These children that are roaming and wandering in our major cities today can be great, useful and sensible if cared for, protected, catered for, trained, helped, housed and be domesticated. There are great potentials among these children to become the future professors, pastors, lawyers, engineers, managers, leaders, directors and other important citizens if they are fully trained and be highly or properly domesticated in the system that shall make them become reasonable and useful to themselves, to the society, to the government and to our nation at large. The hope to make such children better is still high, therefore we call on all spirited and good individuals to work and to love these children and to contribute in making them useful and sensible. We also call on government authorities to create lively programs that shall affect the lives and fate of these children positively. We see the sufferings of these children and what they shall become if they shall be cared for, helped, trained, groomed and properly domesticated to the glory of our Lord.
Jesus is still calling and loving these children to come to Him and to be blessed by Him, therefore bring these children to Jesus by directing them to the appropriate quarters or to the government approved centre for their protection, safety, feeding and for their proper domestication – God bless you. The extreme pursuit of the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is to make the unfortunate children to become useful and reasonable.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is a nongovernmental organization born to cater, care, help, to feed and to house the orphans, the abandoned children, rejected babies, motherless babies, deformed children and other children with sad stories and unfortunate experiences in life. It is incorporated in Nigeria as an orphanage home. It is an orphanage centre established to carry on the love of Jesus for the afflicted children here on earth and to exemplify how important the children are to Christ, which we shall emulate today (see Matt. 18:1-6).
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is fully incorporated in Nigeria by the corporate affairs commission Abuja Nigeria. It is authorized by the Federal Government of Nigeria to operate in such category as an orphanage home to care, and to cater for the orphans and other pain gripped children. It is approved and fully registered by the Abia State and Akwa Ibom State government of Nigeria, which are the two states of its operation presently, It is purely established on the holiness foundation with the major focus on the love of Christ. It is an incorporated nongovernmental organization. The major focus of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is “THE CHILDREN” centre.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is one of the fourteen gospel ministries established by Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju and his wife Rev. Dr. (Mrs.) Alicezuriel Ononuju whose love and interest for children coupled with the call of God on that area which gave birth to the establishment of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre. Rev. Dr. (Mrs.) Alicezuriel Ononuju is the director of the compassionate home and all children centers under EL Group of International Gospel Organization (ELGIGO). It hs other gospel arms through which it can discharge other duties to the community of man and wherever man is found. Below are other arms of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre as other ministries established by the Ononuju’s has some other ministries to reach the world and influence the world also. Below are the other gospel arms to reach the world of men. Below are the other arms and other Outreach ministries of COWOM in Nigeria.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is also called and addressed as the Compassionate Women Outreach Ministry. This is the name it was known, called and addressed before it finally changed with the Compassionate Women and still acceptable orphanage centre and both names are accepted and also recognized nationwide. Compassionate Women Outreach ministry is the ministerial title of the orphanage home while Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is the benevolent title of the NGO
EL Emancipation Media Entertainment Services is a big Christian organization commonly called EL Emancipation Ministry. It is an extended arm of the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre to reach the world with gospel messages, with the true love of Christ and with the reality of redemption or total emancipation that took place at the Calvary mountain over 2000 years ago. EL Emancipation Media & Emtertainment services is fully registered with the federal Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja Nigeria. It is one of the fourteen Gospel Ministries established by Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju and his wife Rev. Dr. (Mrs.) Alicezuriel Ononuju under EL group of International Gospel Organizations (ELGIGO). The focus of EL Emancipation ministry is to counsel, build, equip and to pray for the clients in order to bring them back to God. It is the deliverance outreach and freedom output of Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju that deals with the spiritual cases of the afflicted.
This is the evangelistic arm of the orphanage home called Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre (Compassionate Women Outreach Ministry). Uju International Gospel Ministries stands as the combined efforts of all the gospel ministries founded by the Ononuju’s to reach the sinners for Christ alone. It is all about evangelism and evangelism alone.
Global Prayerlink is the prayer band that stands as the world intercessors that was founded by Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju and his wife Rev. Dr. Alicezuriel Ononuju which is also among the fourteen gospel units founded by Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju and his wife Rev. Dr. (Mrs.) Alicezuriel Ononuju under EL Group of international Gospel Organization (ELGIGO). The accepted members of Global Prayer link are only the gospel ministries, while no laymen is allowed. The focus of global prayer link is the church and the gospel ministers all over the world, but with great sympathy to the Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre as its home base. Global Prayer link is the general intercessors for the churches and gospel ministers all over the world. It is an international prayer band, paying for churches and all gospel ministers all over the world.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is a non-governmental organization that cares, feeds, clothes, helps, keeps and sponsors the orphans, motherless children, widows, abandoned children and the less privileged in the society. It is Christian and social organization aiming at fulfilling the caring ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ here on earth. It is incorporated in Nigeria as an orphanage centre where the children are cared for.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is the home of destitute, regarding those that were disregarded and comforting those that were discomforted, giving hope to hopeless and homes to homeless. The President and founder of Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre is a gospel minister, ordained and commissioned to preach and to reach the unsaved with the gospel of life. She is also the wife of a notable gospel minister, Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju, the president and founder of EL Group of International Gospel Organization (ELGIGO) Nigeria and also the founder of International Institute of Missions the only Bible College that trains gospel ministers free of charge with the aim of reaching the unreached through missionary activities. Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre exists through God’s leadership and supervision. It is nongovernmental organization but based on God’s providence only.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre has aims and seriously fights to accomplish all. Listed are the outstanding aims and objectives of the ministry (Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre).
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre had successful activities since many years ago, among which are these listed below.
Compassionate Women Orphanage Centre can be contacted through the underlisted addresses and other means of contact:-
Physical Contacts:
Block 4 6 Elgigo one, Asa Nnentu,
UGWLGA, Abia State Nigeria.