On Sunday, May 3, scores of people turned up at the Tarrant Baptist Church to celebrate Father’s Day in May. Apostle Jeffrey Shuttleworth, the pastor of the church, said that the event, first observed in 2025 and initiated by Pastors Nigel and Nicole Holness (leaders of the church’s marriage enrichment ministry), is now entrenched on the church’s calendar.
It was a sobering message that he delivered to fathers as he taught how men actually represent God in the family, and this makes them the head of their household.
In part two of the programme, all married couples were called to the altar for a special renewal of vows ceremony, presided over by the Holnesses. An aerial view of the approximately 50 husbands and wives gathered at the platform, extending down a portion of the center aisle and to the right and left of the podium, would have given you the shape of the cross.
Challenging the men to step into their calling as priest, provider, and protector of their family, to pray more and play less, Pastor Nigel instructed them that they should be the ones leading family devotions with the children daily.
Wives did not escape attention. Pastor Nicole encouraged them to recite Psalm 1 over their husbands every morning and “let them pray how they are able to and stop expecting them to pray like we do!” she admonished.
After asking the men to speak Proverbs 31 over their wives each day, Pastor Nigel invited the couples to embrace each other and accept a package that contained a prayer for husbands, one for wives, and a declaration to be recited by both persons.
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