.Moses Dembo installed ECWA Trustee, makes case for rural pastors

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Moses Dembo and his wife

Moses Dembo installed ECWA Trustee, makes case for rural pastors

By Joseph A Adudu

June 01, 2019

Moses Yusuf Dembo has been installed Trustee of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA). The installation was performed by no other person than the President of ECWA Rev. Stephen Panya Baba at the ECWA international conference Hall, ECWA Headquarters compound Jos on Saturday and witnessed by personalities within and outside Nigeria.

Dembo

Delivering his message, Rev. Dr. Peter Korosi charged the new trustee member to be a father to all.

“As a trustee, you a father to all. God is calling you to see those that have been suppressed for no just reason”

According to Rev. Korosi, God is changing the course of history in ECWA and is selecting men and women who did not sought for leadership for that purpose, consequently, Korosi admonished Dembo to listen to God’s instruction and placed his confidence in him and He will be with him always.

“You may be the youngest trustee and may also have the crisis of confidence trust like Moses in the Bible, but I want you to know that you are God’s representative in ECWA.You are where you are to seek His glory not your power and Prestige. Whatever negative conversation you might have had with God just as Moses did, I call on you to conclude it now by being obedience to God”, he said.

Responding, Dembo acknowledge the enormity of responsibility saddled on him as trustee. According to Dembo, “Board of Trustee is not a policy making body. Their role is advisory and as the custodian of ECWA property”.

Rev. Panya Baba, ECWA President

He however, shared his great burden. “My greatest concern is the plight of an ECWA Pastor in rural areas. There are many pastors that are in arrears of Salaries for over 15 months. There are many pastors whose take-home pay salary is not up to N5,000, there are some pastors who don’t even get the salaries at all, there are many Pastors whose salaries are determined by the Board of Elders, there are equally Pastors whose salaries is over N300,000 per month. Remember, these less privilege ECWA Pastors attended the same Theological training like the ones that earn above N300,000 per month”.

The new Trustee stated that when he was the Director of Audit, he carried out an opinion poll and discovered that 95% of the church agreed with the centralization of Pastors’ salaries. He added that it was a situation whereby, the viable churches augment the salaries of Pastors working in weaker churches. Dembo believed that as the greatest challenge to ECWA leadership since a committee for the centralization of Pastor salaries was inaugurated stressing that his prayers to God was for the plight be accomplished in order to better the living condition of the pastors.

Rev Dr. Peter Korosi

Dembo succeeded Philip Usman who has been called to glory.

Born in 1959 in Alkaleri LG of Bauchi State Moses Yusuf Dembo is a graduate of the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi in Accounting are a Diploma in computer science from ECWA information and completion science institute. He is a certified National Accountant (CAN) and menson of the Nigerian institute of management as well as Fellow Certified National Accountants ((FCNA).

He worked in the Account and Audit Units in various organizations such as ECWA Production, ECWA Rural Development at various times.

Dignitaries at the occasion

Dembo has also been a board member of various Organizations such as; ECWA productions Ltd, ECWA Central Pharmacy, ECWA Evangel Hospital, ECWA Hospital Kano, ECWA Hospital Egbe, ECWA Theological College Kagoro, ECWA Finance Board, ECWA Rural Development Ltd, ECWA Theological Seminary Jos, ECWA Guest Houses, ECWA Scholarship Board among others. He has also received many awards to his credit.