Photo: Pastor Lawrence Fagbayi, middle and other leaders of the Ministry at the event
The GP Ministries aka Gospel Pentecostal Church, A United Kingdom based pentecostal mission, penultimate week organised a 2-Day Sharing & Caring Community Wellbeing & Mental Health Event between Saturday 12 April – Sunday 13 April 2025.
The outreach among other community oriented proframmes of the decades old ministry witnessed impressive turn out if both the young,not too young and old citizens atbthe ecent which took place in Luton.
There are approximately 317 local authorities in England out which the Luton Borough is one.
Some of these local authorities have got borough-wide or town-wide developmental visions which they promote and encourage residents, companies, charitable organisations including the Churches etc. to actively support in different ways they can.
According to lead Pastor, Lawrence Fagbayi,The GP Ministries “has always strived to make a tangible difference in any borough that we operate by introducing different initiatives that would empower the students, young people, parents and the elderly to mention few”. Notable among the initiatives are ‘say yes to sport and no to…’ reading together; police engagement surgery; and neighbours together, some of which have won us different recognitions and awards including Luton Best Awards in 2014.
Having played some parts in the Luton 2020 vision, and conscious of the new 2020 –
2040 vision, he disclosed that the ministry applied for a small participatory grant to deliver 3 events that would empower the people and promote the vision within a year and was successful.
This he told Newdawnngr.com resulted in the Sharing & Caring Community event to partner with the local government to address wellbeing and mental health on Saturday 12 April – Sunday 13 April 2025.
Pastor Fagbayi outlined the main 5 Luton 2040 vision viz:
Improving population wellbeing and tackling health inequalities to enable everyone to have a good quality of life and reach their full potential.
Supporting a strong and empowered community, built on fairness, local pride and a powerful voice for all our residents.
So on these two days, The GP Ministries partnered with the local government, local police, and other 2 charitable organisations to deliver Sharing & caring.
During the 2 -day event, meaningful presentation and discussions were organised to address wellbeing, health inequalities, and the responsibilities of individuals and the local government to enable everyone to have good quality of life and reach their full potential.
Scenes at the memorable event
Said he,” We invited the people, opened the Church up, created an enabling environment, provided foods, entertainments, professionals on wellbeing and mental health, and participants engaged in questions and answers sessions, networking, photographs, thereby brought down barriers or stigma and help to build a more informed cohesive and empowered community.
Those who attended described the event as engaging, educative, successful, and looking forward to The GP Ministries organising such impacting community event in the near future.
