Stella Damasus

Glorious Life Gospel Centre
a.k.a
Peculiar People’s Ministries Int’l


PRESENTS
ONE HEART ONE SOUND
IN WORSHIP


DATE:  November 4th 2012
VENUE: Savannah Suites, 8 Faskari Street, Garki, Area 3, Abuja
TIME:  9am Prompt


ADMISSION IS FREE


Come and join our nonstop grooving in Christ.

It continues with Sunday service on the 21st of Oct. (IN His Presence) - 8Am and a SINGLES' DINNER after by 4PM.

Call any of these numbers For Further Information: 08035086713, 08034776529, 08132697553, 08056510468.

See you there.

 

Lots of Love.

Hey guys,

After being an entertainer and performer for over 17 years, this is the first song I am releasing from all my studio recordings.

I hope it means as much to you as it means to me.

Click on the link to download


God bless you as you listen.

Befor the incident, I thought natural disasters like flood, volcanoes, storms, earthquakes etc, only happened overseas and not in Nigeria. As far as I was concerned that was the only consolation I believed we had about our dear country. In fact I used to say ‘all the problems we have in Nigeria are man made’. This statement to me was so true until a week ago when I found out that the state where I hail from ( Delta State) has experienced a natural disaster.

I am not sure how we can handle this disaster. I don’t think we are well prepared to handle this kind of natural disaster because it hardly happens in our part of the world.

The painful part is that it hit major villages with a large concentration of children and women. They lost their homes, schools, hospitals, community centres, churches, mosques, markets, banks, farms and every source of survival.

I cannot imagine what it would  be like to lose everything around me in one day. Some lives have been lost and the Delta State has quickly set up relief camps for all the displaced people.

We all know that the state cannot do this alone because we are not talking about hundreds but thousands of people who have lost everything.  No food, clothing, bed, water, books, blankets, buckets, plates, stove, gas, stationery, shoes, toiletries, provision and so many other things required to survive.

The governor of the state, his commissioners and all the liaison offices all over the country have been doing their best to take care of these people but it is not possible for them to do it on their own even if they spend all the money they have.

It is time for us to stand up now and help the displaced people, whether you are from Delta State or not. It can happen to any state or community. What I am asking everyone reading this now is to come out and help those that were displaced during the disaster. The same way we came out to help the affected people during Jos crises.

Please donate whatever you have to help these people. I don’t believe I have to play with your emotions by showing you pictures and videos for you to know how bad the situation is before you can help.

The Stella Damasus Arts Foundation And Lamboginny Say No To Crime are partnering with the Delta State Liaison Office and government to create awareness and solicit for help for the displaced people.

Please do not brush this aside because it is a matter of  life and death. We all know that when thousands of people are kept in the same place for a while without adequate care and food, they would be exposed to infections because of the things they share together. When this happens, the children are the most affected.

I am asking you to please save a life today and give our people hope. They have been through so much already, they cannot afford to lose hope too.

We just might have the future Stella Damasus, Kefee! Sammy Okposo's, the Amata's, Alibaba's, Gordons, Richard Mofe Damijo's, Justus Esiri's, Daniel Ademinokan's, Omawunmi's, Essence, in that place. We cannot sit by and allow our future to slip through our fingers.

To help these victims please contact Delta State Emergency Management Agency. Contact numbers and email addresses include:

Lagos : Tina: 08023270542, 07035010323
Daniel : 0802306344
tinaonokpise@yahoo.com
Saynotocrime@yahoo.com : 08120776757

 

Abuja: Apine: 08086661344
Nwabueze : 08086661378
Gloria : 08034534318
Delta pikin international : 08054709182
restoreinitiative@yahoo.com
Sdartsfoundation@gmail.com: 08053502515

 

Warri : Patrick: 08037107691
Patrickorigho@yahoo.com

Asaba : Tony: 08037230004
Julie : 08034016121
tonynwaka@yahoo.com
Julieyoung15@gmail.com

 

You can drop off items in Lagos at :

Delta Liaison Office: 19 Karimu Kotun Street Victoria Island.

Pink Pearl office: 5 Iyalla Street ,Alausa, Ikeja.

Oaken Events Office, 10b Ogidi Crescent, Lekki Phase One: Stella Damasus Arts Foundation Office, 1 Olatoye Ogundana Street, Off Toyin Amosun, Graceland Estate, Ajiweh,Ajah

 

Abuja:

Index Two Studios, Road 69, House 4, Gwarimpa Phase 2 Estate.

 

God bless you all.

Stella's quote of the day: Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.

I must tell you that what I saw was so heart wrenching that I broke down. The girls in the ward were between 10 and 14 and they were all mothers. Their kids had HIV, some of them had Vesico Vagina Fistula, VVF, and some had surgery to repair the effects of the abortions that had been done.

I came back to my own country and then felt like wool had been removed from my eyes because I started to meet little girls who were in so much trouble.

We are worrying about oil, business, aviation, power, government etc; meanwhile our future is fast going down the drain.

After I wrote down the idea, I left it and moved on to do other things but my spirit kept troubling me and my conscience would not stop pricking me. And so one day I decided to revisit the idea. Coincidentally, I met with the founder of Project Alert, Mrs Josephine Effah Chukwumah, who decided to make me an ambassador. Through this I was exposed to a lot of things happening to women that no one wanted to talk about. I was so moved and inspired that I decided to help fight the injustice.

In the course of all this, I also discovered that young girls have issues but they have no one to talk to, most cannot talk to their mothers, sisters or friends for fear of gossip. They can’t even talk to guidance counsellors because they believe counsellors are answerable to the head of school who will in turn tell their parents. Pastors are totally out of it.
At the end of the day, it turned out that they were going through a lot within their environment from their fathers, brothers, neighbours, teachers and house helps but can’t cry out.

Women who were also going through domestic violence did not even know they can be protected by the law, young girls in unhealthy relationships because of the promise of education don’t know they can get help and stand strong.
A lot of young women don’t know that they can learn and train to do any kind of work that they have the passion for without thinking it’s for the opposite sex only.

Most Teenagers don’t have parents who are bold enough to talk to them about sex before they hear it in school. When schools teach sex education, they talk about the parts of the body, what it can do and the fact that it will lead to pregnancy. They don’t tell them the psychological and emotional part of it, they don’t explain to the girls that they can say no and mean no, they don’t make them realise how important their bodies are. As the school depends on their parents to do the dirty job, the parents are too embarrassed to discuss it, so they wait for the school to do it. At the end of the day who is losing?

I finally gathered the courage to set up ADIVA which is a mentorship programme that helps women and young girls to rediscover themselves, unlock their potential, find their inner strength and become the best they can, also using God’s word.

I have seen different sides of life, from being married to being a mother and then a widow, a star, being judged and castigated, divorced, losing everything and starting all over again, running away from God out of anger and finding him again, from doubting myself to finding myself again and experiencing restoration.

It is tagged “Real Talk”. Let’s talk about God, men, sex, money and everything between. Admission is free and it is strictly for female folks who are 15 years and above.

Let us join hands and raise a generation of strong, beautiful, intelligent, decent, bold, industrious and courageous women.