Mrs Chioma Ibezim, President, Mother’s Union, Women’s Guild, Girls Guild, and Young Wives Fellowship of the Anglican Diocese of Awka, has warned the menfolk that the era of consigning their wives to the kitchen has expired.
Ibezim, wife of the Archbishop of the province of the Niger and Bishop of Awka Diocese, urged women to dismiss the notion that they are mere housewives.
Ibezim said this during her presidential address at the ongoing 37th Awka Diocesan women’s conference on Friday at St Stephen’s Parish, Ifitedunu, Dunkofia Local Government Area of Anambra.
She said instead wives and their husbands should pool resources together with the woman striving to build a happy, united and godly home.
“Women should invest in themselves, build credible characters with a view to acquiring education and other things that will enhance better lives in the family,” Ibezim admonished the women.
Ibezim urged the delegates to venture into businesses, saying “you should invest as a virtuous woman to become a shining example of how an ideal woman should handle the family.
She said that women should labour to build a useful society and give their husbands and children good living.
“You will eat the fruits of your labour” only when you live a fulfilling family life.
“God is interested in the labour of His people and rewards those who keep to the tenets of christian life.
“The theme of this conference is a timely divine expression of hope and encouragement for God’s people, especially women in the face of numerous problems,” she said.
She said that the following factors – love for money, sickness, hopelessness and treachery, among other vices – will deny women the fruits of their labour.
Ibezim said that women are expected to labour in their homes with their husbands in times of insecurity and hardship.
Ibezim advised the delegates to put their faith on God and work to bless their family.
Mrs Oby Okonkwo, Chairperson of the conference, said that she will continue to support the Diocese because of Ibezim’s brilliant ideas and programmes which have lifted the women spiritually and physically.
Also speaking, Mr Atinze Obasi, one of the officials at the event urged the delegates to hold tight to what they have learnt from the conference and put them to good use.
ThenNews Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that delegates from over 25 Dioceses attended the conference.
(NAN)
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