Church members carry their pastor because his feet must not touch the floor during service

Another day! Another wonder!

 So according to Sidney
Sidney who shared this on Facebook,

 this Tanzanian
pastor must be carried by his church members
throughout service because

Tears in Enugu as Fr. Mbaka relocates to new parish

It was an exercise laced with emotions
yesterday as fiery catholic priest; Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka
was escorted by thousands of catholic faithful in
Enugu to his new parish at Emene, an outskirt of
Enugu urban.

The faithful gathered at the Christ the King,CKP, GRA,
Enugu as early as 7.00 am, preparatory for the
movement. Several lorry loads, buses and cars, all
line the street in what could be dubbed a triumphal
exit that halted economic and other activities along
major streets where the long convoy passed.

With several music provided by the various band
groups, the over four hours journey began, amid
wailing by members, who were apparently
unsatisfied with the transfer that has removed Mbaka
from the CKP, where he had been since 1996
Mbaka, had while addressing the crowd before the
movement, expressed reservations over the
transfer, which he said was calculated to make him
suffer by certain leader of the church.

He said:“I know we are going to suffer within now and
few months to come. I am going to suffer and suffer;
I know that.

I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my
head. I am going to suffer because I have no place to
keep the Adoration ministry’s assets. I know I’m going
to suffer.

Fortunately, it is going to happen in the month of
lent. So, I am going to use my exit here as a Lenten
observance but Jesus said it all in John 16:20 to his
apostles that you will be sorrowful and the world will
be rejoicing but very soon I
will turn your sorrow to joy.

But for now I know you are going to suffer. The
Adoration Ministry is passing through suffering right
now even though I’ve accepted that is the will of God.
Is the will of God through suffering? It is a mega
suffering

“The quantum of the assets of the Adoration Ministry
is the only thing I am bothered at for now. Where am
I going to keep them? I am going to stay in one small
room that has only one small bed, one small table,
little toilet and bathroom.

So where am I going to keep all the adoration assets?
My clothing and books I can keep in the car or
somebody’s house but where will I keep these assets
that I have given to the Catholic church of Enugu? But
I say may God take the glory and
whoever that has offended me, I have forgiven.
I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling
anybody.

If anybody allows the devil to use him, the
same that advised you to make a mistake will laugh
at you when you cry over the error. The baby is born,
there is no going back.

We are moving out. We have been doing it and we
will do it again.
Moses was going out with a rod in his hand, Mbaka is
moving out with his bible and this nobody can take
away from me”

Decrying what he described as “attempt by some
persons to politicize the church”, by feeding the
Bishop falsely, he noted: “ I am giving God the glory
and I welcome the church’s choice and action with
absolute acceptance and obedience. So there is no
negation to what God has approved and what the
church suggested.

Nobody should see me as a recalcitrant priest. I am
not. I have taken an oath of obedience and I stand on
it. I pray God to bless all of you who in one way or
the other have supported the work of God here and
those who have sincerely allowed God to use him or
her for the jobs we did here all these years.

God will bless the people of God here and reward
you according to your labours. The parish is not going
to collapse, it the church that will continue to grow”.
He told the members their journey to Our Lady
Parish, Umuchigbo

Njinike, Enugu where he has been posted as Resident
Priest serving fewer than two Priests should be seen
as the “journey of the Israelites out of Egypt”.

“God has planned a future and hope out of disaster
and where I am going, He will go before me to level
mountain. The bible says that He will deliver me
from all evil; He will keep my going out and coming
in both now and forever…

I am praying that God will keep his church and my
fellow adorers so that our journey to Umuchigbo will
be a journey of Israelites out of Egypt.

Some of them were grumbling leaving Egyptian soil
because they were having the phobia for the
unknown, but I am telling you people as a courageous
leader, do not be afraid. We are moving and in not
distant time, you people are going to smile’, he told
them.