Our annual conference for leaders is becoming an essential time of refreshing and recovery that church, community and business leaders look forward to, especially in these times of economic challenges.

Grace & Light has been hosting, each September, a conference for church, school, business, community and local government leaders in Jos. Last year we considered cancelling the conference because of the security situation. 

“Given the economic hardships and ethno-religious violence around Jos we were expecting 60 leaders, but two months out no one had registered, so we were going to skip a year,” said international coordinator Tassie Ghata.

“Our Nigerian board members and key supporters said no, they wanted to keep coming. They suggested inviting Dr Illiya Majam, who had just written a book on integrity in leadership, as our guest speaker.”

Their advice was vindicated as 120 leaders came to the conference, for a day of talking practically about how to put integrity back into their work and organisations.

Dr Majam spoke about building trust, overcoming corruption, dealing with frustration and disillusionment as leaders, and challenged delegates to lead with integrity.

He said: “I want leaders to change and move from where they are to know about integrity, maintain it, talk about it, model it and be propagators of good news.”

Dr Majam founded the Harvest Leadership Community in Africa, is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) and taught at ECWA Theological Seminary in Jos before retiring.

His book, Pursuit of Integrity in Leadership is available from the Grace & Light book shop.

Prayer Requests

Please pray for:

• Dr Marjam as he shares his call to integrity with leaders across Nigeria
• The many leaders who responded to Dr Majam’s message during our leaders' conference; that they will pursue, maintain, talk about and model integrity in the communities in which they work and live