SETTLING IN AFTER RELOCATING!

 

Hello Reader,

It's been a minute and some!

I relocated from Lagos State to Enugu State with my family on Saturday, October 31st  2020.

Quite a though decision and a big change which involved a whole lot of planning, dialogues, packing, house search, unpacking, reorganizing and getting acquainted with the new environment!

The truth is one can't completely settle down after relocating, it is definitely going to take some time.

You may have settled into a new apartment or your home but routines might take a while to return back to normal and new discoveries about the city and immediate environment like places, friends, associates, food including the culture and lifestyle won't happen automatically.

Currently, I am at a phase where I need to resume my already existing routines and add new ones where necessary.

I will be updating this post with pictures of all I have been up to in the last seven weeks so look out for them. 

#EnuguLiving #VickyPRSHKevininEnugu

Until my next post, Choose You!

Vicky.

DKCCMasterminds...Read, Learn, Lead and Network!

Eleven years ago I had an experience in the place of prayer whilst taking a personal retreat to ask the Lord what next...

You see, I had just finished writing my exams in my extra year as a law student. And I felt the need to embark upon a five days fasting and prayer (I was praying for my future; I needed to choose my next step wisely #CalculatedSteps)

Three things happened thereafter:
1.) I had a life changing experience.
2.) I perceived that I needed to go for service (i.e NYSC_National Youth Service Corporation) first before Law School, and I did.
3.) DKCC as an initial was conceived. And I wrote down the vision.

"It's very essential to write down the vision but believing it enough for someone else to connect with it and see the possibilities is all on you."
~@vickyohaegbulam
Founder,
MumsBookClubng & Lead Coach The Packaged Life Network

Five years down the line, DKCC was dedicated and launched at my home church, truth be told it felt like I still needed to stay on my script but I can tell you now categorically that I missed out on two things (Staying Committed & Being Diligent).

Six years after the dedication and almost at the verge of letting it go, he aligns it together (my passion and his will), that's the power of Proverbs 16 vs 1-3. I apply that scripture to all my ideas so that alas it won't be just about me but about my father's business, #SurrenderedWill.

"God always gives a platform when we have an innate, skilled or honed leadership ability."
~@vickyohaegbulam

Now, the ability to create, conceive ideas, provide solutions, innovate and the passion to be a change agent is a gift. And staying inspired, motivated and committed to your script could be quite a challenge.

Hence the emergence of this amazing community - DKCCMasterminds!

DKCCMasterminds is a capacity building community for females in the creative industry to stay motivated and committed to their WHYs and WHATs.

Membership to the WhatsApp Group comes with a fee:
One Month Subscription_ N500.00 (Five Hundred Naira Only)
Five Months Subscription_ N2,000.00 (Two Thousand Naira Only)
One Year Subscription_ N5,000.00 (Five Thousand Naira Only)

Our Values: Read. Learn. Lead. Network.

If you have ever conceived an idea, ever executed an idea or if your idea is just at the conceptual stage. Then this community is for you!

Here's an outline of how engaged and focused your August will be on improving your capacity as a Creative Entrepreneur once you come on board.

"...but creativity itself isn't limited to specific crafts.
It's the ability to make your ideas manifest in the world.
It's problem solving. It's business and activism. It's raising a family. It's building connections, with others and with yourself, that make life worth living."
~Excerpt from Creative Calling by Chase Jarvis.

I do hope to see you come on board.

Choose you and shine your light brightly!

Vicky.

THE FUTURE OF CHURCH

As we await a time when we can all meet to fellowship in our local assembly for those who live in city where churches have not resumed services, let us (whether leader or member) begin to reflect on how this global pandemic should make us meditate deeply on Brother Paul's words in Philippians 3:14 (AMP), "I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward."

Enjoy some of my reflections and thoughts on the future of church :

🔅If you have to miss church because you need to rest your body, please do and don't let anyone make you feel guilty for not attending church.

🔅After all we have not all attended church in the past weeks and we haven't backslided.

🔅If someone misses church for any particular reason, don't see them and ask- why weren't you in church? Instead ask them- how are you working out your salvation with fear and trembling?

🔅People miss church attendance for several reasons: they have to work, they want to rest or they are having some financial challenges (that type where you don't even have transport fare), they are wavering in their faith, etc.

🔅How about we find out how someone is doing in general when they have not been in church for a while instead of giving them a personalized sermon on the importance and benefit of fellowshiping with the brethren, how about you understand whatever phase or season they are in and encourage accordingly.

🔅Church is simply the gathering of the saints where we come to worship in unity, in faith and in spirit. Where we encourage one another because iron sharpens iron. David said, "I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.” Psalm 122:1

🔅Church is a building. We are his Temple. 

🔅Knowing God is about having a personal relationship and revelational knowledge. That's why the scripture says, "Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall [a]corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits." (Daniel 11: 32) And also said in Psalm 91:1, "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

🔅Don't be a church goer only, abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

🔅Know God personally and be a Doer of his word- “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:" Matthew 7: 24

All scriptures are from the New King James Version. 

What is the future of church that you are seeing going forward?

I will like to hear your thoughts, inspiration or revelation on the matter.

Choose You and Shine Your Light Brightly,

Vicky.