Military & "Amba" Excesses Dramatised at C.W.F Meta Presbytery Rally
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| Dramatising Military Attacks |
Fortunately, despite the ongoing Anglophone crisis, almost all the groups in the presbytery answered present. Madam Tamanji Catherine is the C.W.F Meta Presbytery Chairperson. Assessing this year's edition of the annual religious rendezvous, she said "I believe the rally has been very successful. You know this is a transitional period as it's the first rally hosted by this new regime. I'm very delighted with the women who've left all the way from the suburbs to come here. You know we are in the real 'Amba' zone but the women braved the odds to be here to praise and worship God for what He's done in their lives.
The high point of the rally was during singing competition as the women dramatised the challenges they face in the hands of the military and Amba boys (restoration forces). Some even put on real military uniform holding a gun-like object made out of bamboo to better convey their message. As they stole the show, on lookers couldn't take their eyes off the amusing performances.
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| Staging Military Attack |
Madam Mayaba Florence is a member of C.W.F Njinibi Congregation. She dressed and acted like a soldier. Quizzed on the message they were sending across, she said "I was just trying to illustrate the suffering through which the 'Ground Zero' are going through and how the military people are maltreating those of us who are in the villages and so we are saying that they should stop because it is the ordinary man who's suffering not even the boys whom they are looking for"
Other activities to mark this year's C.W.F Meta Presbytery rally that was massively attended included exhibition, raising of funds for the completion of work at the Christian Women Centre Mbengwi and also to assist Nji Sandra, an 18 year old C.Y.F member of P.C Mbengwi Congregation suffering from brain turmoil following a childhood accident she had and is at moment in need of one point five million francs for an operation in a specialised hospital. Though a women rally, men were also present to grease the once in a year event.
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| Madam Fon Vivian, CWF Meta Presbytery President |
To Madam Fon Vivian, C.W.F Meta Presbytery President, she gives God the glory for the turnout at the rally. Hear her, "Looking at the present situation plaguing the English speaking regions of Cameroon, I didn't expect that women will come in this number. It proves that they hold firm to the Lord, it proves to the world that God is supreme." On challenges faced in the build up to the rally, she noted that going round the various zones of the presbytery to mobilise the women to come out wasn't easy but since with God everything is possible, success was still recorded.
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| College of Clergy at the Rally |
Asked to make meaning out of the artistic performances by the women, Madam Vivian said "The message was that despite what's happening in our country today, we should depend on God because when we go into our study material, we have lessons there that say in times of war, things like this happen and in the face of insecurity, rejection, withdrawal, to whom shall we go? Unto the Lord."
The Christian Women Centre Mbengwi is a mega structure that upon full completion will contain a hall, a storeyed building for lodging and space for other activities. The current presbytery EXCO intends to either complete or take the project a step further before their mandate ends in under five years from now.
The women expressed the need for the ongoing crisis to end so that peace returns. In under a fortnight, the Christian Men Fellowship (CMF) of the Meta Presbytery will also be holding their own annual come together.
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