"This is the type of things to which we are called. We do not need to keep doing something which will catch the eye of the public. If God gives us money what we need to concern ourselves with is how we are to spend the money. Those people in their time and age have sown their seed on the sea and they are surely going to reap it. It may be God endows you with some finance and you begin to wonder what you are going to do with the money. What about the work of the gospel?

"For many years now we have been receiving literature and tracts for distribution in our country here without paying for it. The people who are responsible for the production of these papers do it voluntarily. There are people in the printing department who voluntered their entire time, and how much hazards these people are made to go through. Sometimes there are accidents of may be, the guillotine cutting one or two fingers but inspite of this you still find these people carrying on this great work. What about financing the printing project, not that the money is forced out of the purses of people but people willingly give of their substance for the maintenance of this department hence we are able to get all these tracts and literatures for distribution.

"What about our Sunday School book? There was a man who came in contact with the Apostolic Faith in Portland Oregon. It happened that he came to town to hold a religious conference of his own organization. He has been a highly educated person with a University degree. He had studied the Bible in different languages but all to no avail. Incidentally at this time, he came to town, I mean in America, to hold a conference of his own organization and he ran into members of our church who were holding a street meeting. He heard them testifying that it was possible to live a life above sin. It appeared he could not believe his ears. He was told that if he would follow them to their church he would hear more of this. This man followed them to the service and he heard the details of the Gospel and God touched his heart.

"When he got back to his apartment, he told the leaders of his group that he was going back to relinquish his post in their midst. The leaders asked him why? He said he has found a better way of worshipping God and that he was not under any circumstances going back into his former employment. This was how this man decided - He left his former employment, he left his former location and came to America. When he came to America he did not present himself as being the leader of a group before and that he should be fixed up in such a position in the church. Rather he took a secular job in his house where he received a meagre amount to make up life for him and he was going in and coming out, coming to the services and after sometime he prayed through to Christian experiences. He was very familiar with the people of God - going in and out with them and the people of God started to wonder; "What type of man is this?" He was very zealous, very earnest, very interested in the things of God. By and by he became a worker, by and by he became a Sunday School teacher. He then dedicated his life to skilfully plan our Sunday School book which we are reading today, and it was through the work of his hands and dedication that we have all these Sunday School books which you and I are using now.

"This man is now dead and he has gone unto his reward. Neither you nor I know him but he has done a great thing for which he will be immortalized. But what are you doing with your money, what am I doing with my own money? What are you doing with your time? What are you doing with your education and what are you doing with your talent?

"We do not need to start writing tract now for distribution, we have quite many of this. We do not need to sit down and start writing Sunday School book, we have this in series. But we have many African language brethren amongst us and I do not know what they are doing with their education, I don't know what they are doing with their time. They cannot sit down and translate some of these gospel papers into their own language to make them available to their members who cannot read the English language.

For many years we have been contemplating having our own Printing Department and God has answered our prayers and we have started printing our own papers here in Nigeria. But we are not doing this on commercial basis but we want to print them for people's use in the spread of the Gospel without getting anything from any of these people. If you are not able to do this, I wonder what kind of christians you will be. It appears we are not cooperating with God and we are going to be judged for negligence.

"When a brother was leading in prayer he mentioned that God might empower us so that Africa might be won for Christ. 'Africa for Christ' is our emblem and it is registered as that. In 1956, we undertook an evangelistic campaign throughout Nigeria and it was since then we have had this emblem "Africa For Christ". We pasted it on our vehicles and it was with this that we went round the whole country. After that time we begin to realize the fact that God really wants to win Africa for Christ. AND IT SHOULD BE THE DESIRE AND THE GOAL SET FORTH BY EVERYONE WHO COMES INTO THIS ORGANIZATION, TO WIN AFRICA FOR CHRIST."

Extracts from Brother T's speeches during the Ministers & Workers Conferences