-Splashes N150,000/N100,000 to 15/10years served Staff
Divine Seeds Schools and Ministries has in the early hours of today celebrated Staff Long Service in commemoration with 15 years progressions of the Schools, in the School Auditorium at No.20 Ediam Street, Eket LGA, Akwa Ibom State.
The Director and The Founder of Divine Seed Schools and Ministries, Pastor (Dr.) Tobby Inyang while speaking about the inception of the School on September 6, 2008 said the School and it name, came to being through the revelation of the Almighty God, after having spent several years in a “Mind your own business kind of life”.
Pastor Tobby also emphatically stressed that God mandated him to touch lives and preach the gospel of Christ Jesus, which he explained that, in return , his response to God’s mandate has landed the School with a huge success, growth, expansion and positive impacts on Divine Seed Ambassadors (Graduands of the School) within and outside Nigeria.
The Parents Teacher Association (PTA) Chairman, Elder Emmanuel Eshiet who eulogized the mode of operations of the Schools, stated that the Director Pastor Tobby Inyang single-handedly foot a N450,000 medical bills of ‘ a once upon a time ailing teacher’ by name Rita James, without a deduction from salary or severe explanation of how illness started.
He added that it has always been the gesture of the Director over the years on his staff, without prejudice and a gesture that has never happened before in any School in that locality.
Speaking on the growth and expansion of the School, the Principal of Divine Seeds High School Ikot Oso Campus, Mr Akpan Uboho said that Pastor Tobby Inyang, who cares about the concerns of pupils, students, guardians/parents of students/pupils ; has always been a Man of his words with reflections on the transformed premises at Nursery/Primary School in 20 Ediam Street, where it got refurbished from the dusty/ watery state after heavy rains, to an interlocking tiles in response to complaints of the parents, as well as a huge expansion of an extended campus for Secondary Level.
The Event which had 19 Awardees of 2 categories, ranging from a N150,000 cash prize to 2 Staff of 15Years Services and N100,000 to 17 Staff of 10 years services; left many with excitement in the auditorium with some Teachers wiping the Director’s shoe, shouting for joy and dancing round the auditorium in reactions to the gestures.
Names of some beneficiaries were; Idorenyin Essien Fan, Mercy Udo Edemeka, Ekanem Ukpong Abraham, Esther Peniel Ekpuk, Umoh Tudor Eshiet, Akwaowo Idongesit William, Dorathy David Jack, Ekong Eno Timothy, and Joy Akpanumo Akpanumo.
Others are Glory Okon Brownson, Kelly Isioma Osakwe, Cecilia Akwaji Ogar, Idorenyin Francis Asuquo, Ruth John Akpanim, Patience Samuel Ekong, Elijah Friday, Rita James Gospel and Imo Akpan Willie.
In his remarks, the Regional Overseer Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry, Eket, Pastor Gideon Akinyemi, commended Divine Seeds Schools and Ministries for setting a pace that others should emulate by rewarding their years long staff, stressing that life is a marathon race and only those who remain focus will arrive at their destination.
High point of the event was the prayers,worship and testimony segments at the commencement of the event.
