Amazing Women Cooperative Celebrates 5 Years Anniversary

 

...reiterates commitment to women financial independence

An Eket based women cooperative organization, Amazing Women Cooperative, today 12th December, 2021, held a Thanksgiving Service at Word of Grace Bible Church, Eket to celebrate their 5 years in existence as a cooperative organization. 

Speaking at the Thanksgiving Service, the President of the group, Mrs. Ekanem Umoffia, said they are in church to thank God for His faithfulness and grace to keep the group united for the past five years.

Umofia who disclosed that the organization started with only 10 members with the sole aim to empower women entrepreneurs, have grown with more active and vibrant women and still counting.

Amazing Women Cooperative during Thanksgiving Service at Word of Grace Bible Church

According to Umoffia, "We thank God for his faithfulness and for his grace for bringing us this far. We are celebrating five years of unity and oneness, because when people see women, they don't give us a chance. We started small with 10 members, but to the glory of God, today we stand stronger than how we started."

She commended members of the group for their sacrifices of staying together, their time and resources, which have kept the group going. She further thanked them for keeping to the strong rules and regulations of the group, saying nothing will separate them, instead they will keep growing from strength to strength.

"God has kept us through arguments and  disagreement, but we have not fallen apart and will still remain stronger. Nothing will separate us rather, the group will keep growing from strength to strength," she stressed.

The President also thanked the leadership of Word of Grace Bible Church and members for the giving them the platform to celebrate grace.

"We thank the leadership of Word of Grace Bible Church and of course members for giving us this platform to celebrate Jesus and how faithful he has been to us. 

She mentioned that Amazing Women is a voluntary association of individuals with the common goals to pull resources together to empower the women folks through soft loans, saying "when you train a woman, you train a community. Likewise, when you empower a woman, you also empower a community."

She emphasized that the primary purpose of the group is to build the total woman, calling on every woman that have the desire to grow economically and financial strength by sacrificing the little she has to join the group. 

Umoffia further stated that though they haven't gotten any support from government or any other organizations but through the effort and commitment of members, Amazing Women Cooperative have grown in leaps and bounds.

"We are not a pressure group. We are not affiliated to any political party and we are not funded by any organization," she submitted. 

Speaking on the topic: Law of Gratitude, the Senior Pastor, Word of Grace Bible Church, Pastor George Umana, said that "Gratitude is a lifestyle in the kingdom. What you do not acknowledge, recognize and celebrate, cannot bless you."

He added that the cheapest way to forfeit the grace of God is ingratitude, calling on Christian to cultivate the act of showing gratitude to God always both in good times and in bad times.

The event featured songs ministration while prayers were offered to the group for accelerating growth.