Adeboyes’ Mission to Touch 100 Million Lives Put them on Global Stage at UNGA

•They call me a dreamer, cleric says in New York as wife launches international education initiative

Pastor E.A Adeboye and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye were an important feature in New York at the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week.

According to Empowered Newswire, on Wednesday morning, a day after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu delivered Nigeria’s statement at the commencement of the General Debate, the Adeboyes stepped up at the Millennium Hilton right across from the UN head office building, where they launched Africa Missions Global’s (AMG) latest initiative named Horizon 2033.

Through the new initiative, the AMG plans to reach 10 million more people in Africa and around the world in the next 10 years with humanitarian support, an objective the organisation founded by Mrs. Adeboye had been pursuing since 1996.

“However, friends and collaborators of Africa Mission, aware of the tremendous impact the organisation has made since, decided it was time to bring the United Nations to the awareness of what it has been doing just as it was also aiming even higher in its outreach ambitions, with the new name Africa Missions Global,” the report added.

Pastor Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Life Patron of AMG was quoted to have said: “Gathering here today is to give us an opportunity to introduce ourselves to the world.”

According to the man fondly called Daddy G.O, the Africa Missions founded by his wife had been working, “silently we prefer not to make noise, but we are in almost all the nations in Africa. There you will find schools, boreholes, etc., done not by governments. But when the UN got notice, and they gave an honorary presentation to my wife, we felt its time to introduce ourselves to the world for more collaboration.”

Pastor Adeboye was referring to the conferment of the honorary award by the UN Global Women Foundation on his wife earlier in the year.

He had in March, announced the honour with pride to the glory of the LORD on his Social Media handles saying: “My wife @pastorfoluadeboye has been awarded the Woman of Distinction award as an outstanding global peace ambassador for change by the United Nations Global Women Foundation. @unitednations. Glory be to Jesus, Let somebody shout hallelujah!”

So last Wednesday’s event (where Horizon 2033 was launched at the UN) actually derived from that Global Recognition of Pastor Folu Adeboye, especially her work through the Africa Missions Global. (AMG)

Explaining its intent for the Horizon 2033, a statement from AMG also noted that “we are seeking to build new friendships across public and private sector organisations and individuals that share our vision and are open to supporting our ambition to reach 100 million people by 2033.”

AMG plans to help achieve some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals especially the SDG 4 focusing on Education.

According to AMG “quality education remains one of the most powerful and proven vehicles for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. It is also the 4th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) as adopted by the United Nations in 2015 which aims to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.

“In October 2021 as part of our strategic review, we set out our ambition – Horizon 2033 – which has at its heart the drive to touch and impact over 100 million lives globally in 10 years by 2033 predominantly through educational initiatives, building on the track record we have set, over the years, across several countries in Africa.”

In her remarks, the Nigerian First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu noted that the Adeboyes “have really inspired us a lot,” while commending the work of the AMG which she described as “overwhelming” adding that both Daddy G.O and Mummy G.O are leading examples of the ideal that “we are supposed to live beyond ourselves.”

In a similar vein, Pastor Folu Adeboye, the AMG Visionaire said “Horizon 2033 aims to impact the continent with its social intervention programmes in Africa and globally reaching out to the disadvantaged and the underserved.”

According to her, “we want to nurture leaders of tomorrow to make them citizens of the world with strong moral values and integrity, hardworking and entrepreneurial. The new media is filled with narratives of disaster. We can’t afford to sit back and not act.”