By Oluwafemi Dosu
In a new month message which he simply tagged “Passionate Appeal”, the National President of All Nigeria Conference of Evangelical Drama Ministers, ANCEDRAM, Pastor Kingsley Nwachukwu, broke away from the norm of giving bible-based prophecy for the month to appeal to members to fill the ongoing biodata form for the National Directory project and also bring in non-committal gospel filmmakers to join the association.
This was contained in a Statement signed by the association Publicity Director, Pastor Abiodun Soretire and obtained by Gospel Film News.
The Statement reveals that the National Directory project has been going on for some time with members expected to fill a bio-data form from their state which shall then be transmitted by the state to the project’s online google form.
The result was still coming in in trickles as the September ending deadline approached. The president had to come in to extend the deadline to the ending of October. Although the turnout has drastically improved since then but there are still a lot of people from a lot of states who are yet to fill the form.
The president therefore used the occasion of his October new month message to appeal to all to “activate and/or reactivate their account with ANCEDRAM” and be part of the soon-to-be published first ANCEDRAM National Directory.
“Update of Bio-data is only an activation to prove our support for the association. We need the directory. We need to know our members who are still with us, spirit, soul and body,” the president said.
Nwachukwu submitted that the directory will solve seven challenges of the association and encouraged all to pick the form from their state chairmen.
Another passionate appeal of the President concerns proliferating number of gospel film makers and actors who are not committed to ANCEDRAM. He appealed to the swelling rank of members who are working with such people independently to use their influence to help bring them into the association.
He reiterated that: “Let’s keep encouraging drama ministers and gospel movie-makers into joining the train. It does not look good working with them independently and outside the fold.”
A point of appeal of the presidential message also bordered on a plea to all gospel film producers to use the ANCEDRAM Promotional Video in their films as it was becoming evident that people are beginning to join and re-join the association through it.
As he wrapped up his message, Pastor Kingsley seized the moment to hint ANCEDRAM members of the administration’s members’ products promotion project that is in the offing against next year, and the next year’s national congress that will be a hybrid meeting – both online and onsite.