Pray For Those In Authority, Warri Queen Urges Children

Wife of the Olu of Warri, Olori Atuwatse III, has advised children to always  pray for those in positions of authority and help those in need as such pleases God.

The Warri queen consort gave the advice late Thursday during an interaction with children as part of activities for her birthday.

Storytime with Mama Iwere is a kids’ book and drama club with the objective of transformation through reading.

The plan for the initiative is to encourage and promote early literacy in children to foster creativity through drama and dance. It also seeks to teach children Godly traits and help them truly connect with God’s love for them.

It is an education based initiative to promote literacy,  creativity and innovation in children as well as promote godly character tagged “Story Time With Mama Iwere’’.

The highly entertaining and educative session had children between the ages  two and 10 who listened with rapt attention while the Olori took the first story titled: “story of the young boy that try to find God”.

The story focused on a young boy, Fredie who set out to find God by searching everywhere.

Fredie went into the bush hoping to meet God there but on the contrary, he  came across animals.

Olori said the young boy also met a man, James, who had no food to eat and Fredie offered him his lunch.

While Fredie continued his expedition, he met a woman called Ruth who had ankle challenges.

Fredie met a wheel chair at the premises of a hospital and with the usual magnanimity, used it to wheel Ruth to the hospital for medical attention.

The queen said at the end of the day, the somehow disappointed Fredie told his mother the people he met and offered help in the course of finding God.

She said Fredie’s mother said though he may not have found God physically, rendering help to people in the course of finding Him meant that he had seen God.

At the end of the story, Olori and the children shared ideas during the questions and answers session on how to help those around them.

Olori said the lesson in the story was that people should do good to others.

She took instances from the Bible where Jesus Christ told his disciples that truly, whatsoever they do for the least among their brothers and sisters they did it for him.

Olori also urged the children to always be ready to render help to whoever they meet, pray for those in authority and preach God to people, noting that such pleases God.