SUBJECT:

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD DIVINITY SCHOOL OF NIGERIA (Dip.Th 1985-1987)

INTRODUCTION

We will continue the story of Rev. John O. Odum as I promise to bring all till date. The story comes every Wednesday. The story is in a book form. So, I break it series of posts as to contain the the platform. Today's series 3, we will see his education and his call into the ministry. Let's go please!

GOD'S WILL IN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD DIVINITY SCHOOL OF NIGERIA (Dip.Th 1985-1987

In the year 1985, he answered the call into full-time service as a gospel minister. There, in the Bible school, he narrated his contract with Late Rev. W. V. Grant, how the Late Reverend minister appointed him to represent the International Deliverance of Churches in Nigeria. But he turned down the offer. The fellow students blamed him for the lost opportunity. He later sought for it in tears, but could not get
it again, because he rejected it at first.

He joined the Bible School with an entrance examination which placed in division 'A' classes.
It happened so, because he over read the papers given to him for preparation of the examination. The examination which supposed to last for three hours, he finished it before one hour and scored "A". The result placed a "passing six, Night Primary School" student in division "A" class, where you have students from most prominent schools in Nigeria and outside Nigeria, with good certificates such as: Diploma; BSC; MA; and PhD Certificates. The least students in class were those fresh from secondary and commercial schools.

HIS FIRST SHOCK IN BIBLE SCHOOL

On the first day in class, the teacher asked students to introduce themselves. Students were showcasing their certificates to the class, seat after seat. And the young
pastor was the only unqualified person in their midst. He was scared of what to say when it was his turn. He fell intimidated with those certificates they were presenting. He thought of claiming what he did not possess, but that was a lie. He summoned courage to face the shame. He stood up in the midst of the class of academia (i.e. the considered intellectual giants), and said "well I am a trader from Aba". He sat down without anyone asking him the school he attended." And that was a good escaped.

SECOND SHOCKS IN THE BIBLE SCHOOL

The class was so tough on him.He was not coping up with the speed of the teachers because the teachers discovered the kind of student and updated their speed of teaching as to maintain their prestige. He decided to change to division 'B' with two other persons who were equally experiencing the same. On their way to the registrar's office for a change of class, they met a final year student who encouraged them to face it as a challenge.

They came back to their dormitories, and to face it as a
challenge. The young pastor said that what he did as to
makeup shortcomings, was when other students were playing, he always buried himself in the library, making
some researches.That helped him to overcome every other shock in the Bible school. He remained in the division 'A' classes for the three years in his diploma. The young pastor suffered the shock only within the first semester of the first year, which reflected on his result paper as 79% average score. He graduated with his classmates bagged with Diploma in Theology certificates in the year1987.

FIRST DEGREE IN 1994-1996 AT ASSEMBLIES OF

GOD DIVINITY SCHOOL OF NIGERIA, AND FRELANDIA BIBLE SEMINARY U.S.A.

The young minister returned to the same Bible School (Assemblies of God Divinity School of Nigeria "AGDSN") Old Umuahia, Abia State Nigeria, after nine years from the day he obtained his Dip.Th. After nine years in the valley fighting with beasts of so many villages. At the same time, he was doing correspondence with Frelandia Bible Seminary, USA where he obtained CCE and ACE certificates. He enrolled for GCE the same years and obtained his current GCE O'Level certificates

He graduated from Assemblies of God Divinity School of
Nigeria with B.A. in Bible -1996. By the grace of God he had acquired some other higher certificates than what he expected in some special skills and training.

Disclaimer:

This article is fully composed and written by me @revjohno. I wrote most of the contents in reported speech (indirect speech), and few other places in a direct speech.
It is nothing but style of writing