Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, has urged Nigerians to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for the 2023 general election.
   
Adefarasin, who was represented by the Director, African Mission of the church, Pastor Adegoke Coker said this during the church’s yearly programme, ‘Project Spread,’ a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative of House on The Rock under the auspices of the Rock Foundation.
  
The gesture was held at the Church’s headquarters in Lekki, Ikate and Awoyaya, targeting about 30,000 beneficiaries, who got food items, ranging from rice, vegetable oil, Chicken and noodles, among others.
   
Adefarasin admonished Nigerians to continue their prayers for the country, but also saying it’s important for the government to consider the plight of Nigerians and make things better.
   
He said: “There is a need for the people to keep praying for the country, because it’s important for us to pray as Christians. I believe Nigeria is a nation that God loves, otherwise, things would have gone worse. We believe, as a church and Christians that God is the only one that can help Nigeria, to direct our leaders in the way to go. Also, the B ible enjoins us to pray for those in authority.  
   
“Likewise, I urge people to expect better in 2023, our expectation can never be worse, it should always be for the better, because we are people of faith and we believe that when we pray God hears us. 
   
“It’s important that everyone collect their PVCs and come out to vote so that we can choose the leaders for the next dispensation. House on the rock does not have any candidate in mind; we encourage the people to vote their conscience.”

The Cleric added that Project Spread is also part of Rock Foundation’s mission to position the unexpected and the unlikely for the prolific move of God in the 21st Century and beyond through reaching out to the needy, especially during a time when festivities abound despite the fact that some have little or nothing to live on.
   
Beneficiaries of the gesture, Samson Adeola, lamented the high cost of living in the country, and urged the government to allay the sufferings of the people by making the cost living to be reduced.